Fix global extension and theme installation by making sure the path to the

XPI file does no contain a leading "file://" when passed to the extension
manager.

See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250847 for more details.

Reported by:	ale

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/www/firefox/files/patch-toolkit_mozapps_extensions_src_nsExtensionManager.js.in b/www/firefox/files/patch-toolkit_mozapps_extensions_src_nsExtensionManager.js.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..feffd2c6344f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/firefox/files/patch-toolkit_mozapps_extensions_src_nsExtensionManager.js.in
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+--- toolkit/mozapps/extensions/src/nsExtensionManager.js.in.orig	Tue Jul 27 15:35:12 2004
++++ toolkit/mozapps/extensions/src/nsExtensionManager.js.in	Tue Jul 27 15:36:02 2004
+@@ -1568,9 +1568,14 @@
+   
+   _checkForGlobalInstalls: function (aPath, aItemType)
+   {
++    var fPrefix = "file://";
+     // First see if the path supplied is a file path
+     var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"]
+                          .createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
++    if (aPath.substr(0, fPrefix.length) == fPrefix) {
++	// Strip out the file:// prefix if it exists
++	aPath = aPath.substr(fPrefix.length, aPath.length);
++    }
+     try {
+       file.initWithPath(aPath);
+     }