801966 - Sync: addon disabled but not removed

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Sync, defect)

Description

[Federico Padua [:fedepad]]

Attachment: Log file

Saw the problem on

Firefox
Version: 19.0a1
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20121008170935

while running the MozTrap test case #2719  -> Oct. 9-15,2012 Sync Community test run of services-central.




prerequisites: 
1. Sync Account is setup and 2 clients are are connected to it. We'll call them client A and client B 
2. those two clients have at least one add-on synced

note: add-on sync support is currently for AMO supplied add-ons only and for desktop to desktop only.

STR:

1)   On client A, go to Add-ons Manager. uninstall one of the add-ons there. Sync Now via the menu item on client A

2)   go to client B and Sync Now via the menu item

Actual Results:
The addon is disabled on Client B and not removed.
 
Expected Results:   
The uninstalled add-on on client A should also be uninstalled in the Add-ons Manager of client B. (restart may be required to make it actually take)

Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Federico, does as restart of Client B uninstall the add-on in question?

Comment 2

[Federico Padua [:fedepad]]

No, I tried. Restarting Client B doesn't help.

Comment 3

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Ok, what is the extension?

Comment 4

[Federico Padua [:fedepad]]

Adblock Plus 2.1.2

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Interesting, that is a restartless add-on.  Please try with an add-on requiring a restart to install/uninstall.

Comment 6

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

I believe I figured this out.  Even though adblock is restartless, the removed state doesn't get synced until the browser has been restarted.  With standard addons, the removed state is also not synced unless the browser has actually been restarted, then synced.

The correct test case steps should be:

1) Remove addon from client A
2) Restart Client A
3) Sync Now Client A
4) Sync Now Client B
5) Restart Client B