Re: GWT Developer Plugin for Firefox not installing completely

Alan Leung <acleung@...> writes:

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> Hi Allyn:
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> Thanks for the report. It seems to be that the new
forward compatibility feature in the install-template.rdf is not
backward compatible (the irony) in FF3.6 and that version only.
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> I disabled the strict check that would fix it. Currently in
review: http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/1642803/
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> As far as I understand that part is not necessary. It might be if binary
extensions become forward compatible by default (not likely anyways). At that
point I might have to break 3.6 and you might have to use a special xpi for 3.6.
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> I'll try to file a bug to Mozilla people, I am not sure how willing they are
to going back to fix a bug in 3.6.
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> -Alan
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> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Alan Leung
<acleung@google.com> wrote:
> I am out of office at the moment and can't do much until Monday.
> You can download an older build from SVN to get around the problem:
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http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/browse/trunk/plugins/xpcom/prebuilt/gwt-dev-plugin.xpi?r=10837
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> -Alan
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Allyn
<allyn.hill@gmail.com> wrote:
> Up until yesterday I was using the GWT Developer Plugin for Firefox
> 3.6 without issue. Then, suddenly, when I started up Firefox yesterday
> it did not recognize the plugin as being installed. In the add-on
> list, the plugin stated that I had to restart Firefox to complete the
> installation. I tried this, many times, to no avail. I even
> reinstalled Firefox and downloaded the plugin again. Still didn't
> work. I have no idea what would cause it to not only stop working
> suddenly and also not to work when I reinstall everything from
> scratch. I selected the option to remove all profile and plugin data
> when I tried the re-install.
> I'm not really sure what additional information to provide, so if
> you're reading this thinking "I can't help there's too little
> information" then please let me know what else I can provide.
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Hi, I've been looking for a solution to this issue as well (Preferably some sort
of rebuild or older version of the plugin). I was wondering if there has been
any movement on this. I've found the related defect on this that Allyn reported.

http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=7184

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