Closed Bug 705205 Opened 13 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Add-ons Manager strangeness, and lots of warnings about:newaddon

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(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 671894

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(Reporter: 326374, Unassigned)

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This bug might actually have two parts which might be related. Since I'm not sure I'm putting them both together here.

Stuff which might be relevant to my setup:
* I use the Stylish add-on
* The add-on compatibility checking is disabled
* I have ~35 extensions, of which about half are/were disabled
* I have installed Aurora in a custom folder (in my home folder), not using the package manager

A few days (?) back the add-ons tab (about:addons) started acting weird:
The "Extensions" view (below "Get Add-ons", above "Appearance") didn't show my extensions, but what seemed to be some default page of Stylish (I don't remember which one). The "User Styles" view still worked as expected.
It felt like an obvious bug, so I tried updating extensions, and waited a few days with nothing happening.

Today I re-installed Stylish, and after restarting Firefox (as well as applying the latest update) it opened 34 new tabs, all "about:newaddon?id=..." (while also restoring my previous tabs), all claiming that another program would like to modify Aurora with an add-on.

I don't know why it's claiming that - I've installed every single one of those add-ons via addons.mozilla.org.

On the positive side, now the previous bug has disappeared: The "Extensions" view in the Add-ons manager works fine, except all add-ons are disabled...


I have two UI suggestions, apart from the bugs:

* As you might understand, I was shocked by the never-ending opening of new
  tabs. If a user has huge amount of add-ons installed by a third-party, it
  would be good to have it all in one single tab, much like 
  about:sessionrestore. I'd suggest: More than 3 add-ons --> in one tab.

* The wording in about:newaddon is unclear to an experienced user: I can't
  figure out what will happen.
  *  If I don't check "Allow installation", will the extension be removed 
     completely, or just disabled?
  *  If I do check "Allow installation", will the extension disabled and kept,
     or will it also be enabled?
  It was the part about always being able to change your mind which made me 
  understand that checked=enabled, unchecked=disabled, and that it won't be 
  removed whatever I do, but it'd be much clearer if there was something about 
  enabling, since that's the term used in the Add-ons manager. Something along 
  the lines of "You can always change your mind at any time by going to the 
  Add-ons Manager and enable this add-on."
Another about:newaddon annoyance:

0. (pre-requisite) There are several about:newaddon tabs.
1. Go to the first about:newaddon tab
2. Check "Allow this installation", click "Continue" button

Current behavior:
Aurora suggests that I restart the browser to finish installing the add-on.

Expected behavior:
Aurora tells me that I'll have to restart the browser to finish installing the add-on, but recommends that I assess the other add-ons that need my attention first.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Extension Compatibility → Add-ons Manager
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
QA Contact: extension.compatibility → add-ons.manager
This is most probably Bug 671894. There have been other reports recently related to this: Bug 705115.

The main problem is that the extensions vanish at one point from Add-ons Manager. 

The second part, the warnings you received are related to third party warnings. These are displayed when an application installs a third party add-on. After you re-installed Stylish, as you had 34 extensions listed in your profile directory, Firefox considered all of them as third party when all of them were re-listed in Extensions. 

Can you remember the exact operation that triggered the extensions to vanish from Addons Manager? Or if it was one at all.
Unfortunately I don't remember what triggered them to disappear. I don't even remember for how long it was that way (though as I said, probably a few days/a week max).
I distinctly remember something about Stylish being written there (which is why I chose to re-install that extensions).

Why would Firefox consider them third party? That's Bug 671894?
Can you attach a copy of extensions.log and extensions.sqlite from your profile folder.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles
Attached file extensions.log
Attached file extensions.sqlite
What version of Firefox did you see this with?
Aurora 10.0a2, the version that was available at 2011-11-24 16:10:48 PST. (maybe upgrading to that version?)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
(In reply to Dan Wolff from comment #0)
< after restarting Firefox (as well as
> applying the latest update) it opened 34 new tabs, all
> "about:newaddon?id=..." (while also restoring my previous tabs), all
> claiming that another program would like to modify Aurora with an add-on.

I just hit this exact same symptom today, btw. (with Nightly, auto-updating from a few-days-old version to today's version)

My most recent entry in extensions.log is from 5 days ago.
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