949509 - disable strict compatibility for addons in metrofx

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?string=strictCompatibility

Comment 1

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Attachment: patch

Comment 2

[Marco Mucci [:MarcoM]]

Hey Jim, can you provide a point estimate for IT#21.

Comment 3

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/198791af9456

Comment 4

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

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/198791af9456

Comment 5

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Could you please provide some guidance for the QA to verify this? Thanks!

Comment 6

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Manuela Muntean [:Manuela] [QA] from comment #5)
> Could you please provide some guidance for the QA to verify this? Thanks!

You can follow the steps at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Windows_8_Integration#Enable_Add-ons to install the crashme add-on from https://code.google.com/p/crashme/ -- without the fix it will work only in Metro Firefox 26 and earlier, but with the fix it should work in any version of Metro Firefox.  (When it's working, it will add a "Crash Now!" command to the Settings charm.)

Comment 7

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

> You can follow the steps at
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Windows_8_Integration#Enable_Add-ons to
> install the crashme add-on from https://code.google.com/p/crashme/ --
> without the fix it will work only in Metro Firefox 26 and earlier, but with
> the fix it should work in any version of Metro Firefox.  (When it's working,
> it will add a "Crash Now!" command to the Settings charm.)

This doesn't work for me with the latest Nightly on Win 8.1 Pro 64-bit MSDN.

These are the steps I followed:

1. Open Firefox for Metro.
2. Go to "about:config" and set "extensions.defaultProviders.enabled" to "true".
3. Restart Firefox for Metro.
4. Hit "Relaunch in Desktop"
5. While in Desktop mode, install the crashme add-on from https://code.google.com/p/crashme/
6. Switch to Metro mode.

After step 6, the "Crash Now!" command isn't added to the Settings charm.

Any suggestions?

Comment 8

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

(In reply to Manuela Muntean [:Manuela] [QA] from comment #7)
> 5. While in Desktop mode, install the crashme add-on from
> https://code.google.com/p/crashme/

Oops, sorry -- I didn't realize the version there was out of date.  You will need to use the newer version of crashme available at:
http://people.mozilla.org/~tmielczarek/crashme/

Comment 9

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

> Oops, sorry -- I didn't realize the version there was out of date.  You will
> need to use the newer version of crashme available at:
> http://people.mozilla.org/~tmielczarek/crashme/

Thanks Matt!

Verified as fixed, for iteration #21, with latest Nightly on Win 8.1 64-bit: after following the steps from comment 7, the "Crash Now!" command is added to the Settings charm.