762586 - Firefox disabled GWT

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120601175215

Steps to reproduce:

I restarted Firefox.


Actual results:

Firefox automatically without permission installed an updated although it broke the GWT plugin.


Expected results:

Firefox should never install updates that break extensions without explicitly asking for permissions and telling the users about the consequences.

Security updates must not break extensions, unless the security issue is directly related to it.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Could you be more specific about what version you updated from and what version you updated to and what version of the GWT extension you have?

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

See also:
* bug 468072, bug 468072 comment 7 for more related bugs;
* bug 791485 - Allow marking add-ons "must have" to avoid incompatible updates

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This is most likely due to bug 692664 or GWT incorrectly reporting its compatibility information.

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

No other reports since bug 692664 landed. Resolving wfm. If you can still reproduce please reopen.