Add-on doesn't seem to work on the current version.

evilpie / add-custom-search-engine

Add a custom search engine to the list of available search engines in Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-custom-search-engine/

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Add-on doesn't seem to work on the current version. #41

Closed ericrbg closed 2 years ago

ericrbg commented 3 years ago

Currently on FF91, the addon tends to fail whenever you try to install anything, with "download error Firefox could not download the search plugin from: " and then your paste.mozilla.com URL.

As usually helpful from Mozilla, there's no further information, and the relevant source seems to suggest this is just a general catch-all for failures, so it's pretty much impossible to see what's really causing this.

I have a feeling the XML may be making firefox throw a hissy fit, though - I'm trying to use features like search suggestions, and searching on a localhost url.

evilpie commented 3 years ago

I couldn't reproduce this. Is it possible that there was a temporary server or connection issue?

kekkc commented 3 years ago

Got the same problem currently. It worked for 3 submits, then at the 4th I got the same error. If I open the paste.mozilla.com link manually it shows me that the snippet cannot be found.

Fount it:

create some search engine with the addon (don't close the dialog)
delete the serach engine in FF
go back to the addon dialog and click back
change sth and try to create it again

This will always produce this error.

jhgit commented 2 years ago

I also am getting this today (I haven't tried this in a while - probably more than 6 months):

"Firefox could not install the search engine from: https://file.io/wbnBrnPnpLK2"

evilpie commented 2 years ago

The extension hasn't used file.io since June 2020, try updating.

jhgit commented 2 years ago

I can manually download the file from file.io. If I could convince firefox to load a search engine from a local file, I could work around this bug. Maybe the file is trying to read back the file from file.io before it's fully uploaded (or something like that).

jhgit commented 2 years ago

The extension hasn't used file.io since June 2020, try updating.

When I "check for updates", it says no updates found. My version is 2.0 from June 2020. I'll remove it and reinstall.

jhgit commented 2 years ago

When I "check for updates", it says no updates found. My version is 2.0 from June 2020. I'll remove it and reinstall.

After removing and re-installing, I now have version 4.2, and it works fine. Thanks.

nicbou commented 2 years ago

This issue happens with the latest version.