Stopping the background process once bricks the extension forever

brandon1024 / find

A find-in-page extension for Chrome and Firefox that supports regular expressions.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/find%2B-regex-find-in-page/fddffkdncgkkdjobemgbpojjeffmmofb

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Stopping the background process once bricks the extension forever #341

Closed Shulcare closed 3 years ago

Shulcare commented 3 years ago

Issue Description

I was playing around a bit and stopped the background process that find+ needs. Obviously it didn't work anymore. But now I'm stuck as there is no way to activate this process again. De- and reinstalling find+ did not start it. Even if I close the brower and reboot Windows in between, installing it did not start the process anew. I couldn't find anything about manually starting this in the internet. The find+ documentation does not mention this process in any way, either. It seems this extension is now bricked on my machine for all eternity... Which is a pity because it got much better search results than any other extension I've tried!

Steps to Reproduce

Deactivate the background browser process that has been started by installing find+.

Tasks

Please add a description how to activate the process if it has been closed by whatever reason.

Screenshots and Documentation

brandon1024 commented 3 years ago

@Shulcare how do you stop the background process? I've never seen that happen before. Can you provide specific steps to reproduce?

Thanks!

Shulcare commented 3 years ago

Hi, Well, I can only describe it roughly from my memory as I obviously cannot reproduce it now... :-)

Installation of find+ added a tray icon of my browser to the taskbar. (BTW: I'm using Vivaldi, Chromium-based.) When I clicked on this, I saw a few menu items. One was something about find+, one was an Autostart option, and then something else (can't remember exactly). I think I clicked on the Autostart item which probably disabled the Browser process autostart entry in Windows. Then this tray icon vanished, the Vivaldi autostart entry was removed (checked with Task-Manager Autostart tab), and no way to get it back. The browser preferences don't show anything about an autostart or background. Maybe this is a Vivaldi-specific problem, I don't know...

brandon1024 commented 3 years ago

@Shulcare, this is an odd one and I'm not sure I can be of much help. This sounds more like an issue with the browser you're using than the extension itself. There's not much I can do from a development point of view. You might want to log a defect with Vivaldi.

Shulcare commented 3 years ago

OK, strange... Thanks anyway for your time! Maybe I'll try a complete browser un&reinstall some time when I'm motivated enough.

brandon1024 commented 3 years ago

Thanks for using Find+!