782414 - Upgrade to Firefox 15 beta prompts to confirm all existing add-ons

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 671894

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

Upon restart after updating to Firefox 15.0 (beta channel), I was greeted with a new tab for *every single one* of my add-ons, describing it as "installed by a third party" and asking me to reconfirm that I wanted it.

All of the add-ons were in fact deliberately installed by me from within the add-on manager.

This was doubly irritating because each tab for a restart-required add-on asked me to restart Firefox.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Can you attach copies of extensions.ini, extensions.log and extensions.sqlite from the profile folder.

Comment 2

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

Attachment: extensions.ini

Sure thing.

Comment 3

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

Attachment: extensions.log

Comment 4

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

Attachment: extensions.sqlite

Comment 5

[Blair McBride [:Unfocused] (UNAVAILABLE)]

Based on extensions.log, this is bug 671894.

(In reply to Zack Weinberg (:zwol) from comment #0)
> This was doubly irritating because each tab for a restart-required add-on
> asked me to restart Firefox.

You only need to restart once for all those add-ons. Bug 769494 would clarify the messaging for that.

Comment 6

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

(In reply to Blair McBride (:Unfocused) from comment #5)
> (In reply to Zack Weinberg (:zwol) from comment #0)
> > This was doubly irritating because each tab for a restart-required add-on
> > asked me to restart Firefox.
> 
> You only need to restart once for all those add-ons. Bug 769494 would
> clarify the messaging for that.

I thought so, but I don't think a naive user would realize that.