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 Efreak15 on Fri, 01/01/2016 - 12:07

After looking at other addons version history, most others have the exact same structure, where the lower versions have a signed tag, and the higher versions don't (though they are signed and enabled). It must be a design choice on Mozilla's part. So the only problem we have is people who downloaded earlier versions of fast dial using userlogos or github.

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Fri, 01/01/2016 - 13:18

@EF

After looking at other addons version history, most others have the exact same structure, where the lower versions have a signed tag, and the higher versions don't (though they are signed and enabled). It must be a design choice on Mozilla's part. So the only problem we have is people who downloaded earlier versions of fast dial using userlogos or github.

I feel there is something still missing here

Why are versions not marked as signed, plus users having problems

Perhaps AMO are just being slow in getting extensions being signed

This is inappropriate if recent Firefox Versions are being very picky about signed Versions

I still think Jorge should be able to give a clear explanation of what exactly is going on

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Sat, 01/02/2016 - 17:25

@EF

Out of interest what is your setting in about:config for the line

xpinstall.signatures.required

If you enable this line can you still download/install and run FD from AMO ?

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by Efreak15 on Sat, 01/02/2016 - 19:28

This line was enabled for my firefox, so I had changed nothing. Fast Dial worked in other words without changing anything on my part. I am thinking that many people are using the .xpi that is loaded on the userlogos site.

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Sat, 01/02/2016 - 21:45

This line was enabled for my firefox, so I had changed nothing. Fast Dial worked in other words without changing anything on my part. I am thinking that many people are using the .xpi that is loaded on the userlogos site.

Thanks

I understand the reason for your present conclusion

There are a number of variables here
It would be good to get further user feedbacck

Should one then in the light of of FF43 remove all xpi's from Userlogos to avoid further confusion

Or should all xpi's on UL have the xpinstall line disabled in fastdial.js and would that then avoid this problem reoccuring

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by Efreak15 on Sat, 01/02/2016 - 22:13

We could put a note saying that if you download an xpi from userlogos,org, use Firefox 42 or lower.

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Sun, 01/03/2016 - 20:12

We could put a note saying that if you download an xpi from userlogos,org, use Firefox 42 or lower.

Yes I was thinking the same
A health warning of some sort

Could mention also the about:cofig fix

Maybe just link to this thread :-)

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by badtrip on Tue, 01/05/2016 - 13:55

@Deva:

I was the op of this thread.

As i did the "xpinstall.signatures.required preference to "false"" the third day i already forgot that i had that problem!

Well its working that way but still we have to find another way to work it out!
As i'm not a addon installer/uninstaller much i saw no harm from this action.
But some guys could.

What if someone of us gets a format to his/her PC and try to install FASTDIAL.
Would that let us install the add-on ?

I can't think myself using anothir thing as i'm so used to use this one.
After losing this addon ( for 2 days) i found out that firefox's own manager was too hard to use and not customisable.

Regards...

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by chiaroscuro on Tue, 01/05/2016 - 15:49

@badtrip

Thank you so much for responding

What would be good to know from you is from where did you downloaded your Fast Dial Version
Was it from AMO (Mozilla Addons) or from Userlogos

I think what is unclear at the moment is that EF suggests there is no problem with downloads from AMO and yet some uesrs are speaking of a problem
It would be good to understand why and under what conditions this problem occurs

Your present feedback for that reason in this situation is most important to us on this issue as EF is unable to reproduce on his computer

Re: Fast Dial died on my Firefox 43.0.1

Submitted by badtrip on Wed, 01/06/2016 - 05:53

Hi everyone.

I believe i downloaded the add-on from here!
Not from the AMO.

I have the link stored in a "browser related folder" in the bookmarks so, i dont have to remember all of the add-on names and if something happens i can easily set them up!

So the add ons that are downloaded here , are never verified.
This is what i started to think.

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