"Download failed. Please check your connection." with older Firefox
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(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)
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(Reporter: srpen6, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0
Steps to reproduce:
Using files from here:
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
If you try to install this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ublock-origin
with "Firefox Setup 60.0.exe" or later everything works fine.
Actual results:
However if you try to install with "Firefox Setup 59.0.3.exe" or earlier you get:
Download failed. Please check your connection.
Expected results:
Note this worked fine with even older versions before "Bug 1548973 (armagadd-on-2.0)". Note also that changing user agent via "general.useragent.override" does not resolve the problem either.
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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Note further that with Firefox 60 and higher you can also install from XPI with
"Open File", while with Firefox 59.0.3 and lower you get:
This add-on could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt.
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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Note further that the file here does not fix the issue either:
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Comment 3•6 years ago
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I found a fix here:
https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkspmk/addons_fix_for_5602_older
I have this issue as well on Firefox 59.0.3
I am not sure but this bug might be related to or caused by this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549078
I was hit with this bug and 1549078 at the same time. So I personally think one is caused by the other.
Its too bad the fix they list for 56X may not or won't work on 59X.
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Comment 5•6 years ago
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Here is a better fix
https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1258165#answer-1218833
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Updated•6 years ago
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