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[resolved]Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informacti
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 6:06 pm
by barbaz
(sent in PM to Giorgio on 25 Aug 2014, but since I haven't heard back yet & the issue is still there, let's try again to post this publicly like I originally wanted to...)
I always (whenever possible) update NoScript by downloading from
http://noscript.net/getit#devel. The last several updates, I've noticed that I have to request the NoScript XPI several times in order for it to start downloading. I thought I had narrowed some of the issue to my user-agent string being faked, but even using my real UA on all informaction.com I'm having to request it at least twice.
This was the only thing of note in the Error Console, not sure if it's relevant or just the result of me cancelling the first download attempt:
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Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [nsIHttpChannel.requestSucceeded]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm :: AI_onStopRequest :: line 5302" data: no]
Source File: resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm
Line: 5302
This issue doesn't happen on AMO anymore...
I'm using SeaMonkey 2.28 (but the issue still happens with 2.29.1 and 2.30). Is this a site bug or a SeaMonkey bug?
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:45 pm
by Giorgio Maone
Did you try on a clean
profile?
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:55 pm
by barbaz
Giorgio Maone wrote:Did you try on a clean
profile?
Nope, that didn't occur to me... and it does work there... off to figure the cause now
will post back with the results
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:52 pm
by barbaz
OK, I'm clueless. It does not work in my main profile even disabling all extensions, but it works in a new profile with
prefs.js, user.js, and permissions.sqlite copied from my main profile.
Main profile also fails in safe mode.
Apparently it's enough to reproduce the issue if I copy only:
- extensions
-
prefs.js
- user.js
but don't enable any extensions.
Yet, copying ONLY extensions or ONLY
prefs.js & user.js, it works as expected.
Furthermore, uninstalling all my extensions does not get it working either - but unisntalling extensions, followed by deleting
prefs.js AND user.js, does.
???
I'm starting to feel like
this guy 
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 10:10 pm
by barbaz
OK, I'm fairly sure now that the issue is SOMETHING in my
prefs.js. If I remove
prefs.js from my profile (making no other changes) it works - put it back, broken.
But I've no idea how to isolate the bad pref(s?), because it only seems to be bad under very specific circumstances
I've been able to narrow the responsible prefs down to extensions.(something) ... but I can't narrow it further than that nope, apparently not
Think I'm just gonna have to look at what's going on in Firefox's remote debugger, see exactly where this is borking.
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 2:28 am
by barbaz
*sigh* it's not even a bug in SeaMonkey 2.28 - SM 2.27a2 reproduces it now, and it didn't before when I used it for everyday browsing...
Removing all extensions.* prefs doesn't get it working anymore
but deleting
prefs.js still does.
Running the debugger isn't informative here - but seems that if it fails once, it works for the rest of the browser session *for that site*
Tried hosting one of my custom xpis on my own server... and same problem there, so I'll move this thread to Web Tech and use my local server for further debugging.
Not sure what to do at this point...
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:17 am
by therube
> by downloading from
http://noscript.net/getit#devel
So you're actually download first, then install separately?
(That is as I do.)
In my case, I always use my Download Manager & can't say I've run into the circumstances as you describe.
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:26 am
by therube
My thought would be "SSL" (Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security).
And if not there, perhaps something with "preloading" (Edit | Preferences | Advanced -> HTTP Networking)?
How about bisecting (your "bad") prefs.js?
Now I understand that some Prefs may be written back automatically, but still could be worth a shot.
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:45 am
by barbaz
therube wrote:So you're actually download first, then install separately?
Nope... I click the link, it says 'Add-on Downloading' but it just sits there indeterminate not doing anything, so I Cancel that, then click the link again, and it downloads and installs as expected.
therube wrote:My thought would be "SSL" (Edit | Preferences | Privacy & Security).
It wouldn't be SSL because then it would never work.
therube wrote:And if not there, perhaps something with "preloading" (Edit | Preferences | Advanced -> HTTP Networking)?
I disable preloading, and have for a long time, so that wouldn't be a likely culprit either...
therube wrote:How about bisecting (your "bad")
prefs.js?
Now I understand that some Prefs may be written back automatically, but still could be worth a shot.
Thanks for the bisection suggestion, guess that's my best shot of getting this.
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 1:46 am
by barbaz
therube wrote:How about bisecting (your "bad")
prefs.js?
Seems that's not gonna get it, because the following happens:
1) Delete a section of prefs
2) Observe it works
3) Copy back old
prefs.js, try to narrow it down
4) Observe that nothing works
5) Restore
prefs.js, repeat exactly step 1
6) Check again, but it shou... Wait, it's still not working...?
7) Delete
prefs.js completely
8) Observe it works
any other ideas?
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 3:24 am
by barbaz
Well, it's not present in my PaleMoon 24.6.2 profile... and
that prefs.js is fine, even when copied to SeaMonkey (EDIT it's only sort of fine in SM - see below). So I'll start with a diff of the two
prefs.js - and worst case scenario, I have a fallback it looks like...
It's at least one of those changes ^ ^ causing this, at least in part...
(submitting now, because this is getting kinda long)
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 3:31 am
by barbaz
Argh, not quite
The PaleMoon
prefs.js *as saved in the snapshot of the VM I'm testing with* is good. Put it in SeaMonkey, try to use it, restart SeaMonkey, nope it's back not working again.
PaleMoon still unaffected, even after leaving the good
prefs.js, restarting, and trying again..
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 3:40 am
by barbaz
Extensions I have in SeaMonkey but not in PaleMoon:
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about:robots 1.3
About startup 0.1.12
ChatZilla 0.9.91
[DOM Inspector 2.0.15pre in SM vs 2.0.14 in PM]
Duplicate This Tab 1.3.2
Firebug 2.0.4
Firefox Developer Tools 0.1a6 [<-- self port of Fx 15's Web Console to SM]
[JSView (Remake) 2.1.1 in SM vs 2.1 in PM]
Nightly Tester Tools 3.7
[PDF Viewer unknown (later) dev version in SM vs 1.0.277 in PM]
resize search bar 1.0 [<-- custom addon to dump a splitter between URL bar and search bar]
[Scriptish 0.1.12 in SM vs 0.1.11 in PM]
SeaMonkey Debug and QA UI 1.0pre
(I've got a few extensions in PaleMoon that aren't in SeaMonkey, but don't think those are relevant here.)
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 3:52 am
by barbaz
Here's a diff between
prefs.js straight from PaleMoon and
prefs.js copied from PaleMoon to SeaMonkey, then borked by SeaMonkey:
Re: Need to request NoScript xpi twice from informaction.com
Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 4:27 am
by therube
Quick browse & no idea, but this did stood out, for whatever reason:
> user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature.location", true);
(And there is a "seer" Pref in there that I'm pretty sure is deprecated.)