No editing of texts and no new shapes on new document

[Olli]

Since update to Firefox 45.0 its not possible to edit texts or drag-n-drop new elements in an existing or new document. I assume this is caused by the update of Firefox.

[Olli]

Ok Update - this works ...in case you urgently need pencil for work. firefox --app Outputs/Linux/application.ini

[itchybalaclava]

Olli, I had the same issue and got around it by simply downgrading Firefox. Please can you provide more detail about your suggested workaround? Thanks

[Olli]

git clone https://github.com/prikhi/pencil cd pencil/build ./build.sh linux cd Outputs/Linux firefox -app application.ini Enough detail? :) Thats all I can provide. Take a look at the description - it's provided here https://github.com/prikhi/pencil/ (just scroll down)

[prikhi]

Interesting, thanks for the report. Were no breaking changes in FF45 according to mozilla... Will investigate.

[devvv4ever]

I'm affected by this too... Can I somehow help debugging this?

[prikhi]

I'm pretty sure it's a bug in Firefox. There's nothing relevant in the release notes for FFv45.

I made a bug: https://bugzil.la/1259385

[prikhi]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1259385#c13

Gonna have to go through the nightlies & figure out which one breaks Pencil.

[Mannshoch]

I got only one significant change in the same Firefox Upgrade who break Pencil. Since this upgrade my Firefox contain his original Firefox Logo again. Until this tile I had the Pencil Logo instead of the Firefox Logo in the Running Firefox.

[dmiro]

I've the same problem. I cannot drag items to page. Firefox 46.0.1

[Olli]

@prikhi any news on this issue?

[Mannshoch]

I installed Pencil native (not as addon) and it works.

[Olli]

Yes - if it's not an add-on it works as expected (I'd mention it here https://github.com/prikhi/pencil/issues/802#issuecomment-196254215 )

[piedgogo]

drag problem happens in my ff47.0 too.

[piedgogo]

build and run is not working too.

$ firefox -app application.ini Error: Platform version '47.0' is not compatible with minVersion >= 36.0 maxVersion <= 46.*

[DeepSilence]

Same problem with FF ESR 45.2.0, except for the shapes of my private collection that are still drageable. Are the default and private collections handled differently by pencil?

[prikhi]

I don't really have the time to figure this out, sorry guys. If you're getting this bug, I suggest moving on to http://github.com/evolus/pencil.

I'll keep bumping maxVersion hoping it'll be fixed in the future but if you want to continue using v2 either use an older firefox, or use xulrunner/palemoon. I'm using this repo, mostly with xulrunner but also with palemoon.

[gabrielrincon]

Confirm on firefox 50.0. Dont work, i cant drag and drop the shapes on the document.

[lofidevops]

@prikhi Thanks so much for all your maintenance effort, it really makes a difference. Based on your feedback on this ticket, I downloaded Pencil-2.0.21-win32.installer.exe from the releases page and it works perfectly. I'm now using it rather than the XPI, and eagerly watching progress on Pencil 3.0 :)

[umiphos]

base answer

If you are currently on Ubuntu 16.04 maybe the default mozilla will not allow you to run this, but you can always run it with xulrunner. Ollie teach us how build from source

FFVER=grep -Po "\d{2}\.\d+" /usr/lib/firefox/platform.ini ARCH=uname -p XURL=https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/$FFVER/runtimes/xulrunner-$FFVER.en-US.linux-$ARCH.tar.bz2 cd /opt sudo sh -c "wget -O- $XURL | tar -xj" sudo ln -s /opt/xulrunner/xulrunner /usr/bin/xulrunner sudo ln -s /opt/xulrunner/xpcshell /usr/bin/xpcshell

If the package fails use this on XURL=

[paulewetzel]

Does not work for me either on Ubuntu 16.04. Starts but cannot drag elements.