799961 - Error: The Components object is deprecated. It will soon be removed.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[alex_mayorga]

On Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0 ID:20121010030605 many of these errors appear in "Error Console" when using Dietrich Ayala's Wallflower[1]:

Error: The Components object is deprecated. It will soon be removed.
Source File: resource://jid1-ub4sjepvr2m4qq-at-jetpack/api-utils/lib/loader.js -> resource://jid1-ub4sjepvr2m4qq-at-jetpack/api-utils/lib/sandbox.js -> resource://jid1-ub4sjepvr2m4qq-at-jetpack/api-utils/lib/content/content-proxy.js
Line: 13

Filing this bug per KWierso's request on mozillaZine[2].

1| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wallflower-1
2| http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=12355853#p12355853

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This is actually a warning from the platform that we're using Components in a place where it might not exist in the future.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Ok I was confused by another add-on in my profile. This is just a bug in the content-proxy code that is no longer used if the SDK version and Firefox version are new enough. So we should be good here, Wallflower just needs to be repacked.

Comment 3

[alex_mayorga]

Please pardon the ignorance, but what's a user to do to get an add-on "repacked"?

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to alex_mayorga from comment #3)
> Please pardon the ignorance, but what's a user to do to get an add-on
> "repacked"?

Until we roll out auto-repacking you have to bug the add-on developer. As it stands this warning is just that, a warning that something will break in the future.

Comment 5

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Already repacked and waiting for review. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wallflower-1/versions/