NetBSD 9.2 (GENERIC) amd64 Firefox 91.6.0esr

puhaTek

Hi.

I'm having trouble installing extensions to "firefox91-91.6.0" according to pkgin.
I was trying to install "privacy badger" and "HTML editor Webstudio for webpages"

I tried it as normal user and as root.

Thanks

puhaTek

puhaTek grrh solved.
Finally got it working, can delete this thread

puhaTek What was the problem? Could it be useful for someone else?
If not, I can delete the thread but, let us know first if it might be useful to keep it.

puhaTek

pin
The problem was that I could not install any extensions in the Add extensions menu to firefox but I managed to somehow get "privacy badger" added to firefox as a user.

Just now I managed to get "privacy badger" added to my normal user account, I did that by

manually downloading the "privacy badger .xpi" file,
going to "Add-ons Manager",
Selecting the "Settings cog" in the right hand corner
Then selecting "Install Add-on from file" from the menu.
Selecting "Debug Add-ons" from the menu.

That managed to get "privacy badger" extension running on my normal user account on Firefox 91.6

Will try later with some html editor extensions with firefox

puhaTek maybe a good enough reason to keep the thread if you don't mind

puhaTek

@pin You have no problems installing extensions?

When I relogin into NetBSD after shutdown I have to reinstall the extensions again as somehow it doesn't save it. I better make a note not to use "crypto wallet" extensions 😆

puhaTek I'm using only two extensions and have no issues with them on Firefox-98.0.2

@puhaTek I've just added privacy badger and it's working too 🤔

rvp

No issue on -HEAD with Firefox 97.0.2 (from 2022Q1). Got 3 addons installed from the Add-on manager.

rvp I don't think there are issues on 9.2_STABLE either, else our friend @pfr would have already asked about it 😉

@pfr Can you confirm there are no issues on 9.2_STABLE ?
@puhaTek uname -a ?

rvp

pin I don't think there are issues on 9.2_STABLE either, else our friend @pfr would have already asked about it 😉

True, true. We would've heard loud yells from the southern hemisphere.

However, there is a problem with the ESR:

/root# pkgin -y install firefox-esr
calculating dependencies...done.

4 packages to install:
  firefox-esr-91 firefox91-91.7.0nb1 pciutils-3.7.0nb2 libv4l-1.22.1

0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 4 to install
49M to download, 186M to install

pciutils-3.7.0nb2.tgz                                                                                 100%  291KB 290.8KB/s   00:00    
libv4l-1.22.1.tgz                                                                                     100%  139KB 139.0KB/s   00:00    
firefox91-91.7.0nb1.tgz                                                                               100%   48MB   2.0MB/s   00:24    
firefox-esr-91.tgz                                                                                    100% 1320     1.3KB/s   00:00    
download error: firefox-esr-91 size does not match pkg_summary
installing firefox-esr-91...
installing firefox91-91.7.0nb1...
installing pciutils-3.7.0nb2...
installing libv4l-1.22.1...
pkg_install warnings: 0, errors: 1
pkg_install error log can be found in /var/db/pkgin/pkg_install-err.log
reading local summary...
processing local summary...
no such installed package firefox-esr-91

/root# tail /var/db/pkgin/pkg_install-err.log
---Apr 29 07:14:35: removing check-0.15.2...
---May 04 08:02:46: removing firefox-97.0.2nb1...
---May 04 08:03:08: removing pciutils-3.7.0nb2...
---May 04 08:03:09: removing libv4l-1.22.1...
---May 04 08:04:11: installing firefox-esr-91...
pkg_add: no pkg found for '/var/db/pkgin/cache/firefox-esr-91.tgz', sorry.
pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
---May 04 08:04:11: installing firefox91-91.7.0nb1...
---May 04 08:04:19: installing pciutils-3.7.0nb2...
---May 04 08:04:19: installing libv4l-1.22.1...

/root#

This is on 9.2_STABLE. Somebody please fix.

EDIT: No issues after downloading and installing 91.6.0esr using pkg_add. All 3 addons work.

pfr

pin I don't think there are issues on 9.2_STABLE either, else our friend @pfr would have already asked about it 😉

You know it! 😄

No issues on my end, I've hacked away at Firefox with some custom userChrome.css and mozilla.cfg settings, plus a shit-ton of extensions. It's still the only usable browser it seems.

puhaTek

pin uname -a ?

NetBSD 9.2 NetBSD 9.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed May 12 13:15:55 UTC 2021 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64

rvp

puhaTek Try this:

$ sudo chown -R my_user:my_group ~/.cache/mozilla ~/.mozilla
$ find ~/.cache/mozilla ~/.mozilla -type d -exec chmod 0750 {} +
$ find ~/.cache/mozilla ~/.mozilla -type f -exec chmod 0640 {} +

If that doesn't work, start afresh:

mv ~/.cache/mozilla ~/.cache/mozilla.0
mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla.0

puhaTek

Finally managed to get this installed. I've managed to get NetBSD updated to 9.3 and
pkgin install firefox-101.0.1

After searching on google today for bsd firefox extensions problem I found this link which suggested using ALT + A when selecting the EFF Privacy Badger extension when using twm as a window manager.

Thank you for all your help and support :)