Comment 19 for bug 861664

(In reply to Giorgio Maone from comment #17)
> (In reply to Dave Townsend (:Mossop) from comment #15)
>
> > I have a hack that sort of solves the problem but I have a strong feeling
> > that it may break things. The better solution is probably to do a better job
> > of passing the data between Firefox instances and I have a few ideas of how
> > to do that that I need to investigate further.
>
> "Solve" and "solution" like in just "this won't happen again on next major
> update" or also "next minor update will complete broken
> installation/updates"?

The code changes would mean that it won't happen again the next time we introduce new fields to install.rdf. I suspect that the next update to Firefox would make it re-detect the present XPI in the profile already.