Closed Dioxaz closed 9 years ago
Just updated mine. Indeed, it just keeps loading in FF36.
As a Nightly user, I've seen this for a lot longer. It affects all plugins that request external filesystem access due to a patch made to an obscure bit of legacy code within Firefox. It has broken DownThemAll, Video Downloadhelper and Nicofox. VDH just updated today to fix the bug but so far it's not been fixed in anything else.
For exact details of the problem, please see: https://github.com/AndrewNeo/faextender/issues/32 and https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/01/13/compatibility-for-firefox-36/ and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIWebBrowserPersist#saveURI%28%29
If you want to fix it yourself, it's stupid simple. Go into the folder you're using for the development version in your Firefox profile, go to the modules folder, then open DownloadUtils.jsm in notepad (or whatever you use for plaintext editing). Find the line this._persist.saveURI(URI, null, refURI, postData, null, options.file, null) and replace it with this._persist.saveURI(URI, null, refURI, null, postData, null, options.file, null) and restart Firefox if you had it open.
Boom, Nicofox works again.
Thanks for finding the problems :angel: I am busy at other projects, but I still plan to fix it and release ASAP.
There are a lot more to fix in the future (e.g. E10S) so the total refactor will be needed later :(
我做了一個臨時的緊急修正版本,歡迎大家測試看看有沒有其他問題,沒有的話我會儘快送到 addons.mozilla.org 上
I made a quick hotfix prerelease, please test it and report any issues you encountered. If none, I will send the release to the AMO soon.
https://github.com/littlebtc/nicofox/releases/tag/1.0b6pre-hotfix
Great. Thank you very much for your quick feedbacks. I confirm the plugin seems to work again with Firefox 36.0.1 with the fix. However, I only tested it on one video for now.
According to my quick web searches, it seems like the problem I'm currently having (videos don't download, they just never pass the "Loading..." step) are really caused by the migration to Firefox 36.
When rolling back to Firefox 35, the plugin works again.
I found no other feedback or reports of this problems other than obscure 2ch threads and a topic in a German forum. It seems like no other English-speaking person on the earth uses this plugin ( :rolleyes: ).
Hoping the "issues" page is not abandoned.