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Doesn't work?

Open aditsu opened this issue 7 years ago • 8 comments

I followed the steps and restarted firefox, but ChatZilla is still disabled. I'm using firefox 60.2.2esr

aditsu avatar Oct 12 '18 06:10 aditsu

The autoconfig hack has been patched (around Firefox 60). The tutorial on the master branch of this repository does not work any more and should not be used.

This tutorial was meant to help users to temporarily use legacy add-ons at the release of Firefox 57. With so many releases ahead of 56, the odds of running an unsupported legacy extension without problems are slim, even if you manage to re-enable legacy extensions.

Rob--W avatar Oct 12 '18 21:10 Rob--W

Hi @Rob--W , I think you may add this information on README.md , would be useful thanks , meanwhile I'm still using Firefox 56 and don't plan update it Thanks

sergiomb2 avatar Nov 02 '18 03:11 sergiomb2

I have just installed 60.3.0esr - I had to enable all three options from README to enable Tab mix plus, otherwise it was disabled (all legacy addons were disabled).

marius-klimantavicius avatar Nov 15 '18 17:11 marius-klimantavicius

So it works for you ?

sergiomb2 avatar Nov 15 '18 18:11 sergiomb2

Yes, instructions from master branch worked for me (60.3.0esr (64-bit) both Windows 10 and Windows 7) - my legacy addons were enabled.

  • I added .cfg and -prefs.js
  • Set extensions.legacy.enabled to true and extensions.update.autoUpdateDefault to false
  • After restart my legacy add-ons were still disabled
  • Set xpinstall.signatures.required to false
  • After restart my legacy add-ons were enabled (I only care about Tab Mix Plus so I only made sure that it works).

I noticed that I needed xpinstall.signatures.required because on one pc where I simply modified all of the parameters it worked like a charm. But on the other I had only set extensions.legacy.enabled to true and extensions.update.autoUpdateDefault to false and it failed. I even tried modifying omni.ja from patcher branch to no avail. And only once I set xpinstall.signatures.required to false it worked like a charm.

marius-klimantavicius avatar Nov 16 '18 04:11 marius-klimantavicius

cool it working here also :

cp enablelegacy.cfg  /usr/lib64/firefox/
cp enablelegacy-prefs.js /usr/lib64/firefox/defaults/preferences/

I used preferences directory instead pref directory just because will be easier to packaging . It works in both options.

  • about:config
  • extensions.legacy.enabled to true
  • xpinstall.signatures.required to false

After restart my legacy are working (saved passwords and tab mix plus and his sections manager )

Thanks.

sergiomb2 avatar Nov 21 '18 19:11 sergiomb2

tab mix plus and his sections manager at the end doen't start up , but at least other things works

sergiomb2 avatar Nov 22 '18 01:11 sergiomb2

saved-password-editor also have some problem feature of editing entry doesn't work . Skype extension also is not fully functional , I'm writing just in case someone want try it

sergiomb2 avatar Dec 07 '18 19:12 sergiomb2