Bug 376055 – www-client/firefox-5.0-r2: "You don't have any add-ons of this type installed"

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin von Gagern 2011-07-23 06:53:03 UTC]

Today I found that my firefox displays an empty list of Add-ons, although varioud add-ons are in fact installed and active. I think this might a result of a recent Gentoo revbump, although I'm not sure of this.

Unfortunately the original 5.0 ebuild is no longer in portage. If I find the time, I'll recreate it from CVS and see whether the problem was present there.

Upstream has a related report from Mac OS X for Aurora:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671907

[Comment 1 Martin von Gagern 2011-07-23 07:02:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Unfortunately the original 5.0 ebuild is no longer in portage. If I find the
> time, I'll recreate it from CVS and see whether the problem was present there.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~anarchy/mozilla/patchsets/firefox-5.0-patches-0.4.tar.bz2 is gone, so I can't emerge the 5.0 ebuild.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2011-07-25 09:07:01 UTC]

Try to run it from a terminal and look for errors, also post emerge --info output

[Comment 3 Martin von Gagern 2011-07-25 15:30:51 UTC]

Created attachment 280925 [details]
emerge --info

(In reply to comment #2)
> Try to run it from a terminal and look for errors, also post emerge --info
> output

No error messages on console.
emerge --info attached.

Tried to reproduce this issue with www-client/firefox-bin-5.0. There all add-ons are displayed as they should be. Next time I started firefox-5.0-r2, it displayed all add-ons, too. The "no messages on console" observation was before that, when the error still occurred.

As I didn't copy my FF profile directory before doing the test, I have no clue what setting exactly was changed by running the binary distribution. If anyone else encounters this same issue, please copy your profile before giving firefox-bin a try, and if you observe the same, diff those two directories.

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2011-07-25 18:17:12 UTC]

This is probably invalid then, but will let mozilla team decide as maybe they have some idea about what could occur in your case

[Comment 5 Martin von Gagern 2011-07-25 20:43:55 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This is probably invalid then

WORKSFORME I can understand, due to the lack of information, but INVALID I cannot, as this should not happen, thus it's a bug, thus not invalid. At least that's the way I read https://bugs.gentoo.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status

[Comment 6 Jory A. Pratt 2012-01-20 20:39:50 UTC]

If problems should show its face again please reopen.