Add-on hotfix

Summary

Firefox will have a hardcoded add-on id. When checking for add-on updates (every 24 hours), it will always check for a specific add-on id and install it if an update is found.

Use Cases to Test

• We ship a new feature (like http:// hiding) and the user response is extremely negative. We issue an update to the add-on that flips a pref back to old behavior
• We need to distrust a CA. We ship an update to the add-on that makes Firefox distrust it and users are silently updated within 24 hours
• We have a problem with add-ons that require a rebuild of add-on metadata. We issue an empty add-on
• We have an issue that only affects Italian builds. Rather than issue a new Firefox update to everyone, we ship an update to the add-on which only acts when the locale is set to Italian
• We want to blocklist a widely used plugin. We turn on crude click-to-play and whitelist it for known good websites
• We know that Netflix/Hulu/etc does bad user sniffing for a particular Firefox version. We issue an update that drops down a infobar telling users what is happening and to contact the site, or we ship the add-on that changes the user agent on the site while they work on a fix
• We want to speak directly to our users with a one-time marketing message / news flash. We ship an update to the add-on that pops up an infobar with the message and then never shows again
• We want to A/B test a UI pref on beta. We ship the add-on to x% of our population or ship it to all Beta users and have the add-on enable functionality x% of the time

New Bugs

Test Case 1 - installing the add-on

Steps to reproduce

• Start Firefox with a new profile
• In about:config set the following prefs:
  • set extensions.hotfix.id to test-hotfix@mozilla.org
  • set extensions.update.interval to 10
• Restart Firefox

Expected Results

• After restart, navigate randomly over 10 seconds
• Open Add-ons Manager and Firefox Hotfix Test 1 should be installed

Firefox 10 Beta 4

• [DONE] MacOS X 10.6.7 - PASS - 2012-01-13
• [DONE] Windows 7 x86 - PASS - 2012-01-13
• [DONE] Ubuntu 11.10 x64 - PASS - 2012-01-13
• [DONE] Windows XP - PASS - 2012-01-13

Test Case 2

• This test checks that none of the four test add-ons are installed.
• You will have to run the steps from below for four times, changing the extension's ID accordingly:
  • Hotfix Test Broken's ID: test-hotfix-broken@mozilla.org
  • Hotfix Test Incompatible's ID: test-hotfix-incompatible@mozilla.org
  • Hotfix Test Self Signed's ID: test-hotfix-selfsigned@mozilla.org
  • Hotfix Test Unsigned's ID: test-hotfix-unsigned@mozilla.org
• Do not install manually.

Steps to reproduce

• Start Firefox with a new profile
• In about:config set the following prefs:
  • set extensions.hotfix.id to test-hotfix-"extension's ID"@mozilla.org
  • set extensions.update.interval to 10
• Restart Firefox

Expected Results

• After restart, navigate randomly over 10 seconds
• None of the add-on should be installed

Firefox 10 Beta 4

• [DONE] MacOS X 10.6.7 - PASS - 2012-01-16
• [DONE] Windows 7 x86 - PASS - 2012-01-16
• [DONE] Ubuntu 11.10 x64 - PASS - 2012-01-16
• [DONE] Windows XP - PASS - 2012-01-16

Test Case 3 - removing and reinstalling the add-on

Steps to reproduce 1

• Start Firefox with a new profile
• In about:config set the following prefs:
  • set extensions.hotfix.id to test-hotfix@mozilla.org
  • set extensions.update.interval to 10
• Restart Firefox
• After Firefox Hotfix Test 1 is installed, remove it from the Add-ons Manager. Do not restart the browser yet.

Expected Results

• The Add-on should get removed with the "undo" function active.
  • Pressing the "undo" should keep the add-on installed.
• After Firefox restarts, the add-on should be deleted.

Steps to reproduce 2

• Start Firefox with a new profile
• In about:config set the following prefs:
  • set extensions.hotfix.id to test-hotfix@mozilla.org
  • set extensions.update.interval to 10
• Restart Firefox
• After Firefox Hotfix Test 1 is installed, remove it from the Add-ons Manager and restart Firefox.
• In about:config, reset the pref extensions.hotfix.lastVersion
• Restart Firefox

Expected Results

• After restart, navigate randomly over 10 seconds
• Open Add-ons Manager and Firefox Hotfix Test 1 should be installed

Steps to reproduce 3

• Start Firefox 10b5 with a new profile.
• Manually add to Firefox the Hotfix Test Add-on 1
• Set the folowing prefs in about:config:
  • set extensions.update.interval to 10
  • in extensions.update.url replace versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org from the string with addons-dev.allizom.org
• Restart Firefox and wait for about 90 sec

Expected Results

• After ~90 sec the test add-on should be removed.

Firefox 10b5:

• [DONE] MacOS X 10.6.7 - PASS - 2012-01-20
• [DONE] Windows 7 x86 - PASS - 2012-01-20
• [DONE] Ubuntu 11.10 x64 - PASS - 2012-01-20
• [DONE] Windows XP - PASS - 2012-01-20

Test Case 4 - removing Hotfix1 test add-on

Steps to reproduce

• Install the Hotfix v1 in Firefox 10 beta
• Change the update channel to "releasetest" and perform an update to Firefox 11 beta
• In about:config set the following prefs:
  • set extensions.update.interval to 10
  • in extensions.update.url replace versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org from the string with addons-dev.allizom.org
• Restart and browse for several minutes

Expected results

After browsing for several minutes, the Hotfix v1 add-on that was previously installed should be automatically deleted.

Firefox 11b2:

• [DONE] MacOS X 10.6.7 - PASS - 2012-02-13
• [DONE] Windows 7 x86 - PASS - 2012-02-13
• [DONE] Ubuntu 11.10 x32 - PASS - 2012-02-13
• [DONE] Windows XP - PASS - 2012-02-13