Re: First tutorial in Firefox Add-on SDK "Getting Started" guide fails

Hi Mark,

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Georg

On 22 Aug 2014, at 17:04, Mark Ballard <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Mozilla "Getting Started" guide to Firefox Add-ons:
> 
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/Getting_started
> 
> It doesn't work.
> 
> It is the page you go to if you are a nobby user making your first
> brave steps to modify your Linux environment so you can work more
> productively. You have been plucking up your courage and waiting for a
> space in your busy diary. This is a big deal. It's daunting. But this
> was the Linux promise: power users given unimaginable power. The geeky
> brags you heard about Linux being better than Windows have echoed in
> your mind down the years. And Mozilla makes it look *so possible* for
> nobby users to get stuck in. Its tutorial is even written in something
> close to plain English. Yes, you still believe in Linux! Even after
> all these years of incessant bugs - you still believe! It is still
> possible! You go for it!
> 
> And your SDK prompt vomits up a horrible looking error, like the devil
> himself had possessed your machine and was taunting you for being such
> a feeble user with such vain hopes that you might just skip daintily
> through the Mozilla programming guide. Ha ha! You wretched little
> worm! Hear me now! Hear my words of gibber and you tell me then where
> are your dreams of man-machine harmony!
> 
> $ cfx run
> Using binary at '/usr/bin/firefox'.
> 
> (process:10645): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
> 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
> Using profile at '/tmp/tmp1DQcLw.mozrunner'.
> 
> (process:10650): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion
> 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
> [10650] WARNING: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::sm-connect
> after class was initialised: 'glib warning', file
> /build/buildd/firefox-31.0+build1/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp, line
> 127
> 
> (firefox:10650): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property
> GnomeProgram::sm-connect after class was initialised
> [10650] WARNING: Attempt to add property
> GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised: 'glib
> warning', file /build/buildd/firefox-31.0+build1/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp,
> line 127
> 
> (firefox:10650): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property
> GnomeProgram::show-crash-dialog after class was initialised
> [10650] WARNING: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::display after
> class was initialised: 'glib warning', file
> /build/buildd/firefox-31.0+build1/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp, line
> 127
> 
> (firefox:10650): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property
> GnomeProgram::display after class was initialised
> [10650] WARNING: Attempt to add property GnomeProgram::default-icon
> after class was initialised: 'glib warning', file
> /build/buildd/firefox-31.0+build1/toolkit/xre/nsSigHandlers.cpp, line
> 127
> 
> (firefox:10650): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property
> GnomeProgram::default-icon after class was initialised
> console.error: file_page:
>  DEPRECATED: The widget module is deprecated.  Please consider using
> the sdk/ui module instead.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/addon/runner.js", line
> 113, in startup/<
>    run(options);
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/addon/runner.js", line 149, in run
>    let program = main(options.loader, options.main);
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js", line 647, in main
>    return loader.load(loader, module).exports;
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/loader/cuddlefish.js",
> line 129, in CuddlefishLoader/options<.load
>    result = load(loader, module);
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js", line 299, in load
>    evaluate(sandbox, module.uri);
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js", line 262,
> in evaluate
>    : loadSubScript(uri, sandbox, encoding);
>  File "resource://jid1-slbvnwmdfgpala-at-jetpack/file_page/lib/main.js",
> line 1, in null
>    var widgets = require("sdk/widget");
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js", line 621, in require
>    freeze(load(loader, module));
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/loader/cuddlefish.js",
> line 129, in CuddlefishLoader/options<.load
>    result = load(loader, module);
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js", line 299, in load
>    evaluate(sandbox, module.uri);
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/loader.js", line 262,
> in evaluate
>    : loadSubScript(uri, sandbox, encoding);
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/widget.js", line 59, in null
>    "The widget module is deprecated.  " +
>  File "resource://gre/modules/commonjs/sdk/util/deprecate.js", line
> 18, in deprecateUsage
>    let stack = get().slice(2);
> System JS : ERROR chrome://browser/content/browser.js:14479 -
> TypeError: value is not a non-null object
> System JS : ERROR chrome://browser/content/content-sessionStore.js:230
> - TypeError: docShell.QueryInterface(...).sessionHistory is null
> JavaScript error: chrome://browser/content/urlbarBindings.xml, line
> 674: aUrl is undefined
> JavaScript error: chrome://browser/content/urlbarBindings.xml, line
> 674: aUrl is undefined
> ^CTraceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/media/mark/139ee454-8a6e-47db-83eb-2eaaa684022e/Work
> annat/Work/Data/pgs./Firefox Add-ons/Firefox
> SDK/addon-sdk-1.17/bin/cfx", line 33, in <module>
>    cuddlefish.run()
>  File "/media/mark/139ee454-8a6e-47db-83eb-2eaaa684022e/Work
> annat/Work/Data/pgs./Firefox Add-ons/Firefox
> SDK/addon-sdk-1.17/python-lib/cuddlefish/__init__.py", line 933, in
> run
>    pkgdir=options.pkgdir)
>  File "/media/mark/139ee454-8a6e-47db-83eb-2eaaa684022e/Work
> annat/Work/Data/pgs./Firefox Add-ons/Firefox
> SDK/addon-sdk-1.17/python-lib/cuddlefish/runner.py", line 724, in
> run_app
>    time.sleep(0.05)
> KeyboardInterrupt
> 
> 
> p.s.
> 
> I filed this as a bug as well:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1057336
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