Cannot install add-ons on recent Firefox on Dell laptop
This is happening (or not, I guess) on a fairly fresh re-install of 15.3+updates on my older Dell laptop. I do not have this problem on the same releases running on my primary desktop system.
The desktop system that is successfully installing add-ons is using a wired network connection to local switch where the LAN firewall is connected. The laptop is accessing the 'net via a WiFi router connected to the same switch. (Offered for completeness; I do not suspect the network is the culprit.) In both cases, I'm using a downloaded copy of FF (100.0.2) from the Mozilla web site. (Coped from my desktop system---same architecure: x86_64.) These are installed under '/opt/app/firefox' and a symbolic link in '/usr/local/bin' points to '/opt/app/firefox/firefox'. I can get to the Add-On 'store' and select an add-on but when I click to proceed with the install, a 'busy' icon simply spins and spins and spins (well, not exactly spins---it's more like an old Cylon eye). Eventually, after several minutes of doing nothing, I have to kill the tab running the add-on install process. It doesn't matter which add-on I try, the end result is always the same: the web page looks busy but nothing is ever installed. The few suggestions I've found on the 'net (from a few years ago) tell the reader to go into about:config and ensure that 'javascript.enabled' is 'True'. Which it already is. Other things I've tried:
It appears to me that the Add-Ons management function is broken in some way. Missing library perhaps? I would expect this to cause either a spectacular failure or log an error message somewhere, though, and not just go catatonic. Has anyone got anything else I ought to look into? I'm stumped at this point. TIA... |
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Why not using Firefox from openSUSE OSS- or -Mozilla-Repo? |
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You can put profiles anywhere you want them. What controls profile names and locations is ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini.
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Use the Mozilla Repo and you get the newest one:
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The other reason for using Mozilla's builds is it makes possible installing as many different versions at once as you choose, and running them all at once if that's your pleasure, and you're capable of corresponding profile management. If in the website construction and/or maintenance business, this can be a crucial capability. It's also pretty important to those who alpha/beta test Mozilla products.
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I can try something like that on the laptop this evening. I'm still wondering, though, why the same OS and the same Firefox download would behave so differently on two systems that aren't all that different architecturally (Celeron vs G3440 ... both 64-bit). If nothing improves by the end of this weekend, I may bite the bullet and do a re-install on the laptop (ugh... the Broadcom firmware hassle again) though I have doubts that that will do much. |
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But... bottom line: having the latest and greatest Firefox is not the problem. The difference in the way the same version is working on the two systems is the problem. Thanks, though. I'll look into changing the way I get FF on the laptop to use the Mozilla repository to see if that changes anything. |
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