714412 - [ACR] Compatible-by-default exceptions can no longer be force-enabled

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Compatibility Tools, defect)

Description

[Dave Vasilevsky [:vasi]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_2) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7

Steps to reproduce:

- ACR is already installed, as well as my Dock Progress extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dock-progress/
- I upgraded to Aurora 11.0a.



Actual results:

Dock Progress was disabled, and marked as incompatible. This happens even with compatible-by-default, since the extension contains a binary component.


Expected results:

ACR should have provided some way to disable compatibility checking, so the extension could be tested.

A workaround is to manually add extensions.checkCompatibility.11.0a => false.

Comment 1

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

ACR is no longer disabling compatibility checking for DTC-enabled builds; if an add-on is not marked as compatible, there's a good reason and users who insist on overriding that will need to do so on their own.