Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

badtrip —Mon, 12/21/2015 - 03:28

It happened on my windows tablet, afterwards my work pc.

There's something on it.
There is a label, "could not be verified for use on firefox and been disabled"
Yet it was such a great add-on.

Thanks.

Fast Dial

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Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by Deva on Tue, 12/22/2015 - 07:59

Still works for me on 43.0.1
Are you using the latest Fast Dial version? Try to install it again.
If the "could not be verified.." popup appears, try clicking on it, maybe there's some kind of allow/igoner option to click.
If nothing else works, try going to about:confing, search for xpinstall.signatures.required and change it with double click. This is set to true on my firefox...

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:39

I think this is possibly also related to the problem

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Wed, 12/23/2015 - 16:55

@deva
@gumanov
@EF
@telega

Can we get round this problem by modifying deva's line in FastDial.js ?

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by Efreak15 on Tue, 12/29/2015 - 12:04

Strange, the latest version on AMO should already be signed, no need to do anything, but I looked and all the previous versions are signed for some reason and the latest isn't:

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Wed, 12/30/2015 - 01:44

@EF

Well spotted

What does the signed refer to, do you know

Why should the last version be any different

Why do you say no need to anything if users can not install in FF 43

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by Carlos Valente on Wed, 12/30/2015 - 07:23

I use Ubuntu 14.4 and had to downgrade firefox version 43 to 42

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Wed, 12/30/2015 - 21:36

@CV

Thanks for the feedback

The cause of this problem is I think documented here

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing

quote:

To disable signature checks, you will need to set the xpinstall.signatures.required preference to "false".

type about:config into the URL bar in Firefox
in the Search box type xpinstall.signatures.required
double-click the preference, or right-click and selected "Toggle", to set it to false.

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by Efreak15 on Thu, 12/31/2015 - 12:11

@chiaroscuro What I was saying is that there should have been no problem with the upgrade to Firefox 43, as AMO automatically signs all addons hosted on AMO, but for some reason they didn't sign the latest version, hence all the people who are reporting it not working/disabled on Firefox 43.

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by Efreak15 on Thu, 12/31/2015 - 12:28

UPDATE:

The version on AMO must be signed (despite the lack of a signed tag on the version name), I have just updated to Firefox 43 on my pc, and Fast Dial remained enabled. Only versions that have been installed via Userlogos have been affected, since they haven't been signed by AMO.

In this case, @ Carlos Valente try installing the latest version on AMO and see if that fixes the problem.

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Fri, 01/01/2016 - 00:35

It would seem this question of signing is controlled by AMO

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing-safer-exper...

@EF

Maybe a note to Jorge Villalobos might be in order, asking him why the most recent Fast Dial on AMO is marked unsigned ?

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