Bug#537075: Iceweasel prevented this site (addons.mozilla.org) from asking you to install software on your computer.

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 12:29:58AM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 09:03:25AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:52:13PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:17:14PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:09:16PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > > > Package: iceweasel
> > > > > Version: 3.5-1
> > > > > Severity: normal
> > > > > 
> > > > > Since upgrading to iceweasel 3.5, attempting to install addons from
> > > > > addons.mozilla.org produces the yellow warning bar saying:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Iceweasel prevented this site (addons.mozilla.org) from asking you to install software on your computer.
> > > > > 
> > > > > with an "Allow" button on the right.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Previous versions of iceweasel allowed addons from addons.mozilla.org by
> > > > > default.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I can reproduce this with -safe-mode.
> > > > 
> > > > Does this still happen for you with the latest versions ?
> > > 
> > > Yes, it does.
> > 
> > Does it on a new profile ?
> 
> No, apparently not.  A new profile seems to have the proper exception
> entry for addons.mozilla.org.  However, I've never explicitly removed
> that entry from the list of sites allowed to install addons, so
> something must have caused it to disappear at some point.
> 
> Nevertheless, I realize "something must have caused it ..." doesn't
> make a particularly helpful bug report.  If you don't have any
> particular idea what might have caused this, feel free to close, and
> I'll manually fix my configuration.

Maybe something went wrong during a given upgrade, but it's hard to
tell. Or maybe your permissions.sqlite file ended up in bad shape for
$RANDOM reason. If you haven't manually fixed you configuration yet, or
have a backup of your broken configuration, maybe we could take a look
at that file.

Mike