New Glitch?

r0lZ · Post by **r0lZ** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:17 pm

I suppose that the problem is specific to Windows, as it's Windows that issues the error message.

brianWE · Post by **brianWE** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:03 am

Changed back, too!

Problem solved.
Wonder when Moz will address the issue.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:32 am

Ares wrote:I also had to switch back to 0.7.5.1. I'm wondering if this is just a windows problem. Anybody on Linux experienced the same?

I'm on Linux, and I'm having no problems.

FWIW, I'm using the en-US version of ABP, not the all-langs one.

brianWE wrote:Wonder when Moz will address the issue.

Hopefully Wladimir didn't go on a three-week vacation or anything!

I guess if it's really bad, we could get the addons.mozilla.org people to take it down. But we don't know for how many people 0.7.5.2 is working fine.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:22 am

Edit: Actually, I was able to reproduce the problem now. It seems that this only happens if you install the update manually rather than using the automatic update (some issue with the Extension Manager). I am looking into it.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:29 am

Hah! I always install manually, because in the past, auto-updating occasionally caused problems. Now, the one time I auto-update, it saves me from breaking everything!

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:35 am

I fixed the issue, you should be able to download Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3 shortly.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:51 am

Great! Out of my usual curiosity, what was the issue?

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:57 am

One more thing you should never do during Firefox application startup - synchronous XMLHttpRequests (even if the request goes to your own disk). I am not sure how exactly this request confuses Firefox but it obviously does.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:05 pm

Frenik · Post by **Frenik** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:35 pm

Thanks, good to hear its fixed

Just FYI, I didn't manually install, I just allowed Firefox to update during its auto checks for new versions.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 12:51 pm

Yes, my first suspicion about what caused it was wrong - the extension manager wasn't at fault here.

brianWE · Post by **brianWE** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:48 pm

Good news!
Thanks for the quick action.

Cymrubeats · Post by **Cymrubeats** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:13 am

Updated to 0.7.5.3 and all is well again. Thank you for the fast fix wladimir.

Frenik · Post by **Frenik** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:08 am

I now remember the other extension that had the same problem.. FoxyProxy.

So how did you fix the problem? I'd like to share the information with the FoxyProxy developers as well.

Was it synchronous XMLHttpRequests during startup that caused the problem?

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:20 am

I guess this is some kind of generic problem - just about anything unusual that you do during Firefox startup can get you there.