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Instantfox Quick Search » Firefox Add-On for a smart address bar
http://www.instantfox.net
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Suggestions don't work in FF 49.0 #127

Open bbBowser opened 7 years ago

bbBowser commented 7 years ago

There are no suggestions shown, when typing something into the adressbar. No history-suggestions from firefox and no search-suggestions from instantfox.

Disabling instantfox fixes the problem. I'd love to use this addon in the future, but functionality is declining with every FF release. Missing suggestions almost make this addon unusable :( .

FeBe95 commented 7 years ago

I continuously updated InstantFox for my own use to better suit my requirements (both UI-wise and "suggestion"-wise) and I can say, yes you are right. Firefox incrementally changed its API to a new standard and InstantFox got some "dirty" fixes for each one of them (letters cut off, ...). Apparently Firefox 49 disables some part of the old API that is used by InstantFox which I couldn't fix myself either (but I didn't really dove into the new APIs until now). The error log shows "Cc[aContract] is undefined" which has something to do with the AutoComplete Service of Firefox. InstantFox fails to load this essential part for injecting your personal suggestions... As far as I know the new API doesn't allow to easily modify the suggestions for now. Unfortunately we have to disable InstantFox for now until someone rewrites its code from scratch.

cfoellmann commented 7 years ago

@FeBe95 I am a long time user and we all see that there are/were a lot of fans of the plugin (see the reviews on the addons page). I would love to fix this up but I have not idea how to start. Let's dicuss this in a new issue: #129