Bug#894750: Checking compatibility of add-ons takes forever

W. Martin Borgert debacle at debian.org
Tue Apr 3 20:52:10 UTC 2018


Package: firefox-esr
Version: 52.7.3esr-1

This happens with every new Firefox version since a long time:

A window "Firefox Update" appears saying:

    Checking Compatibility of Add-ons
    ----
    Checking your add-ons for compatibility with this version of
    Firefox.
    [ animation of underground train ]
    [ circle animation] This may take a few minutes...

    Cancel (active) | Next (greyed out)

This goes on until I click on "Cancel", and then everything is
fine, no matter how much time I wait before clicking the
"Cancel" button.

Not a big deal, but still a little bit annoying and confusing.
Why does Firefox check things, that are hopefully already done
by dpkg? I don't have non-Debian plugins installed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages firefox-esr depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.8.4
ii  fontconfig                2.12.6-0.1
ii  libasound2                1.1.3-5
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.28.1-1
ii  libc6                     2.27-2
ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.15.10-1
ii  libcairo2                 1.15.10-1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.12.6-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.110-2
ii  libevent-2.1-6            2.1.8-stable-4
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-8
ii  libfontconfig1            2.12.6-0.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.8.1-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:8-20180321-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.36.11-2
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.56.0-4
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.22.29-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.32-1
ii  libhunspell-1.6-0         1.6.2-1
ii  libjsoncpp1               1.7.4-3
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.18-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.35-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.42.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.22.0-2
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-5
ii  libstdc++6                8-20180321-1
ii  libvpx5                   1.7.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.5-1
ii  libx11-xcb1               2:1.6.5-1
ii  libxcb-shm0               1.13-1
ii  libxcb1                   1.13-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.12-4
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

firefox-esr recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firefox-esr suggests:
ii  fonts-lmodern          2.004.5-3
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-4
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-6
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.16-2
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information

-- Package-specific info:


-- Addons package information

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages firefox-esr depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.8.4
ii  fontconfig                2.12.6-0.1
ii  libasound2                1.1.3-5
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.28.1-1
ii  libc6                     2.27-2
ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.15.10-1
ii  libcairo2                 1.15.10-1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.12.6-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.110-2
ii  libevent-2.1-6            2.1.8-stable-4
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-8
ii  libfontconfig1            2.12.6-0.1
ii  libfreetype6              2.8.1-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:8-20180321-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.36.11-2
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.56.0-4
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.22.29-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.32-1
ii  libhunspell-1.6-0         1.6.2-1
ii  libjsoncpp1               1.7.4-3
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.18-1
ii  libnss3                   2:3.35-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.42.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.22.0-2
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-5
ii  libstdc++6                8-20180321-1
ii  libvpx5                   1.7.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.5-1
ii  libx11-xcb1               2:1.6.5-1
ii  libxcb-shm0               1.13-1
ii  libxcb1                   1.13-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-2
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.12-4
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

firefox-esr recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firefox-esr suggests:
ii  fonts-lmodern          2.004.5-3
ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-4
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-6
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.16-2
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information



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