hensm/fx_cast

Bridge installer may be installing the wrong version of the bridge

Rouble opened this issue · 2 comments

Rouble commented

OS version: Windows 10
Browser version: Firefox 104.0.2
Extension version: 0.3.1
Bridge version: 0.3.0

Description
The bridge installer for 0.3.0 is either installing the a wrong or mislabeled version of the bridge. The extension is detecting the newly installed 0.3.0 bridge as version 0.1.0

Steps to reproduce

  1. install extension version 0.3.1 from https://hensm.github.io/fx_cast/
  2. install bridge version 0.3.0 from https://hensm.github.io/fx_cast/
  3. receive error message that the "Bridge version is older than expected, try updating bridge to latest version" because it's being detected as version 0.1.0

Troubleshooting steps taken
removed extension via the Firefox extensions page and reinstalled extension from website
deleted the contents of C:\Program Files\fx_cast and reinstalled bridge from website

Expected behaviour
fx_cast_bridge-0.3.0-x64.exe should be installing bridge version 0.3.0

Logs
I get the following error in the browser console when closing the casting popup and when opening the extension settings but it doesn't seem related to the versioning issue

WebExtension context not found! ExtensionParent.jsm:1255
getContextById resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:1255
recvRemoveListener resource://gre/modules/ExtensionParent.jsm:1234
recvRemoveListener self-hosted:1151
_recv resource://gre/modules/ConduitsChild.jsm:82
receiveMessage resource://gre/modules/ConduitsParent.jsm:450

hensm commented

Have you ever installed v0.1.0 before?

Just deleting the install folder doesn't remove everything, since there are registry keys set for the native manifest path and uninstall info, though I'd expect it to just overwrite it when reinstalling.

One thing that could cause this is if you've ever installed a custom user-local version via the install-manifest script, since that would override the installer version.

Some more info that would be helpful:

  • Values of these registry keys:
    • Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\NativeMessagingHosts\fx_cast_bridge
    • Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\NativeMessagingHosts\fx_cast_bridge
  • Output of calling the bridge executable with the version CLI argument:
    & 'C:\Program Files\fx_cast\fx_cast_bridge.exe' -v
  • Product version shown in the control panel / settings app.
Rouble commented

It looks like Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\NativeMessagingHosts\fx_cast_bridge was still pointing to where I'd built the bridge from source a while back, updating it to the correct location fixed the issue

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