1256002 - ioService.newChannel errors with Social Fixed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[B.J. Herbison]

Using Social Fixed on Facebook today I get the following messages:

getUrlContents:TypeError: ioService.newChannel is not a function
contentLoad:TypeError: ioService.newChannel is not a function

(Two separate alerts.)

This didn't happen with yesterday's Nightly build and doesn't happen when I disable Social Fixer. Social Fixer can be downloaded from http://socialfixer.com/download.html .

Comment 1

[dolphinling]

I get a similar error in the browser console when attempting to open Bamboo Feed Reader, and the page that gets opened is blank.

Looks like the function was removed in http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ce60f4cc495a from bug 1254752.

Comment 2

[noitidart]

This is breaking custom about pages -

Please see line 9 - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Custom_about:_URLs 

Most of them use Services.io.newChannel which seems to no longer exist


Should they switch to Services.io.newChannel2 without any issues?

Comment 3

[noitidart]

Ah fix is mentioend here - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254752#c16

Addons need to switch to - Services.io.newURI

Comment 4

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mass-closing bugs that relate to legacy versions of add-ons or are otherwise no longer worth tracking. Please comment if you think this bug should be reopened.

Sorry for the bugspam. Made you look, though!