Doesn't work in firefox quantum

[seunlanlege]

What the title says

[slgobinath]

Hi, Could you please share your operating system and the architecture of both Firefox and OS (64 bit or 32 bit) because I am already using it with my Firefox Quantum on Linux Mint and Arch.

Thanks

[seunlanlege]

Ubuntu 16.04, Firefox Nightly 59.0a1(2017-11-15)

[slgobinath]

Is your Firefox 32 bit or 64 bit? (You can check this in the Help --> About Firefox dialog)

[seunlanlege]

64bit

[slgobinath]

Then it seems to be a new issue. I will have a look at it and let you know.

Thanks

[perfectcream]

Hi! I'm using Firefox Quantum (57.0) x64 on Microsoft Windows [version 10.0.16299.64] (a.k.a. Windows 10 Fall Creators Update 1709) with the same problem.

I think this problem may be related to these issues below:

• pip issues UnicodeDecodeError on Windows 10 for Russian language #4251 https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/4251

• Add one more fail-safe when decoding console to str in Py3 by sakurai-youhei · Pull Request #4310 https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/4310

• How to fix: “UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte” https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21129020/how-to-fix-unicodedecodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-decode-byte

[prpdesigns]

Kubuntu 14.04 64bit, Firefox 57.0 64bit doesn't work either

[MichaelTunnell]

It works fine for me in KDE Neon using Extension v2.1.0 and uGet 2.0.10

Here is what I think the issue is.

@SeunLanLege I think your issue is the usage of Firefox Nightly, try it in a different version of Firefox please so we can get more data on the issue.

@perfectcream I think your issue is the usage of Windows 10. I am not sure how the extension locates uGet on Windows. @slgobinath could you clarify how it detects it?

@prpdesigns your issue could be the Kubuntu 14.04 part as there has been a ton of changes in KDE Plasma since that release. What version of uGet are you using on your system?

[DanaMW]

It works on windows 10. In chrome Firefox and Vivaldi. I use wrapper 206. the uget extension and the beta Uget 2.1.6

[prpdesigns]

@MichaelTunnell uGet 2.0.10, extension 2.1.0

[seunlanlege]

More details on it though - Right clicking and selecting Download with uget works fine.

but it doesn't intercept downloads.

[slgobinath]

Hi @MichaelTunnell and @perfectcream, In Windows uget bin directory must be added to the PATH variable. See the installation guide for Windows and this screenshot.

@SeunLanLege if Download with uget is working the problem is with the extension. However, I couldn't reproduce it in my system with Firefox Nightly 59.0a1 (2017-11-17) (64-bit). I will investigate further and let you know. One more question. Do you get the Info: Found uGet and uget-chrome-wrapper message in the extension dialog(Click on the extension icon)? Also double check the extension setings. (I would recommend delete all the input fields except the minimum file size to interrupt. Set the minimum file size to interrupt to -1 and see what happens)

[perfectcream]

Hi! @slgobinath, @MichaelTunnell and @DanaMW,

After I add the path of uGet (C:\Program Files (x86)\uGet\bin\) to System Environment Variables PATH, I can download files with right click on context menu, thank you so much :)

But I can't replaces default download manager by uGet Download Manager (namely intercept downloads) yet.

As you can see in screenshot: uGet Integration

It can found uGet and uget-chrome-wrapper, but when I click link to download file (HWiNFO for example), Firefox 57.0 still uses default download manager to download files. (I had try to set the minimum file size to interrupt to -1, and got the same result.)

Thank you for all your assistance.

[perfectcream]

Hi @slgobinath,

I had try another PATH setting, it works! I can replaces default download manager by uGet Download Manager now (by clicking download link, but It can't intercept Google Drive download).

How to reproduce it?

1. extra and copy uGet files in C:\uGet not in C:\Program Files (x86)\uGet\
2. set the path of uGet in System Environment Variables PATH to C:\uGet\bin
3. install Python 3.4 or latest
4. download and install uget-chrome-wrapper_2.0.6.0.exe
5. install the uGet Integration extension and restart Firefox 57.0
6. run uGet before download files! Let uGet stay in system tray.

I think this problem may origins in how the program deal with " (x86)" string in the path.

[slgobinath]

Hi @perfectcream, Thanks for the update. I will update the webpage soon including your steps to follow.

[DanaMW]

When I first started using this fine setup I had to delete handlers.json in the Firefox profile folder to get a fresh start. After that uget started (for the most part) catching downloads. Firefox will recreate handlers.json on start up but if you have custom download handling in Firefox make notes of it before you delete. Maybe this will help you as it did me.

[seunlanlege]

@slgobinath just tried setting the minimum download size to -1. Still didn't work.

yes i can see info: found uget and uget-chrome-wrapper

[prpdesigns]

@DanaMW @slgobinath @MichaelTunnell deleting the handlers.json file worked for me.

Thanks!

[slgobinath]

Hi @perfectcream, Could you please share the location of handlers.json.

@SeunLanLege could you please try this solution.

Thanks.

[seunlanlege]

@slgobinath just deleted my handlers.json in home/.mozilla/firefox-trunk/(some wierd folder name)/handlers.json

and it works perfectly, thanks everyone :raised_hands:

[slgobinath]

Thanks to all. I will update the README it as a known issue.

[DanaMW]

handlers.json is in the users FF profile folder for the record. And thank YOU for your work.

[perfectcream]

Hi @slgobinath,

My handlers.json can be located at: c:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\handlers.json

USER_NAME may include unicode characters. xxxxxxxx is random string.

Thanks a lot :)