Issue 440 Redux - Rikaichamp listed as an extension but does not do anything

[mjkarlin]

Brian: I had a problem which I reported in #440. The problem went away but it has recurred, apparently coinciding with the issue of a new release on April 9.

As before, I tried about:debugging and looking at This Firefox got:

Rikaichamp

Extension ID {59812185-ea92-4cca-8ab7-cfcacee81281} Manifest URL [this was blank]

No Internal UUID was listed.

[birtles]

Hi Marcus,

Thank you for this report. Unfortunately there's not much to go on here. I can't imagine why it is having problems. This sounds like an extension of #444 so would you mind adding any comments there instead?

I don't know that it will help, but could you try uninstalling and re-installing Rikaichamp?

Another thing to try would be to choose "Inspect" next to Rikaichamp in about:debugging (or press Ctrl+Shift+J) and see if there are any errors with rikaichamp-background.js or rikaichamp-content.js listed at the end of the line.

[ariskoutris]

I had a similar problem where I had two browser windows open (microsoft edge) and 10ten worked on one window but not on the other one (couldn't even activate the extension).

I believe it happened because I had a lot of tabs open for an extended period of time. Closing the older window that had most of the tabs fixed the problem for the other browser window.

This has happened in more than one occasion.

[birtles]

For Edge/Chrome, one possible cause of the symptoms described is that Edge/Chrome are not particularly good at updating extensions. An update can cause the part of the extension running in the Web page (the content script) to be orphaned from the extension background process until the page is refreshed. I wonder if you encountered this after an update?