873119 - Stand-alone SDK must be at same patch level than Firefox 21 one

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Marc Chevrier]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

I am packing my add-on using latest SDK available (1.14) with private browsing activated (attribute permissions of package.json has value {"private-browsing": true}).

My add-on is using panel SDK feature 


Actual results:

On is perfect on firefox 21 and upper because the add-on is using integration SDK stuff as part of Firefox.
On Firefox 20, an exception is raised on panel allocation because bug 816257 is not fixed.

So it is not possible to support private browsing, panels and Firefox version 20 at the same time...


Expected results:

By back-porting fixes from SDK Firefox 21 in a version 1.14.1 of stand-alone SDK it will be possible to have a uniform behavior regardless Firefox version.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I thought we'd taken that patch in 1.14 already. Wes?

Comment 2

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

(In reply to Dave Townsend (:Mossop) from comment #1)
> I thought we'd taken that patch in 1.14 already. Wes?

We got that patch uplifted to Aurora (22 at the time) and Beta (21 at the time), but I don't think it ever got uplifted to 1.14. I seem to recall that we were just going to ship it with whatever 1.15 turned out to be, but maybe I'm remembering things wrong?

Comment 3

[Marc Chevrier]

The problem is that, according to information published here (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2013/02/23/jetpack-the-road-ahead/), it is not planned to deliver a version 1.15 in sync with Firefox 21.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to Marc Chevrier from comment #3)
> The problem is that, according to information published here
> (https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2013/02/23/jetpack-the-road-ahead/), it is
> not planned to deliver a version 1.15 in sync with Firefox 21.

That is correct, because version 1.14 is the version that is meant to be in sync with Firefox 21.

Since Firefox 21 has now shipped we don't have any plans to issues any releases just to support Firefox 20 which will rapidly become obsolete.

Comment 5

[Marc Chevrier]

The problem is that version 1.14 is NOT in sync with Firefox 21!

Comment 6

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

(In reply to Marc Chevrier from comment #5)
> The problem is that version 1.14 is NOT in sync with Firefox 21!

In comment 1 you explicitly called out that it was Firefox 20 you were having problems with: 

"So it is not possible to support private browsing, panels and Firefox version 20 at the same time..."

Am I misunderstanding the issue?

Comment 7

[Marc Chevrier]

NO, you are right.
The problem is that SDK 1.14 (latest stand-alone SDK) contains bug 816257 which is fixed in Firefox 21.