613246 - Moonlight is not compatible with Firefox 4

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Underpass]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101118 Firefox/4.0b8pre

It is impossible to install any version of Moonlight on Firefox 4.
The compatibility of the "standard" version of the plugin

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx

stops to Firefox 3.6.*

For the "preview" version

http://go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx

the compatibility stops to 3.7

Disabling the extension compatibility check makes the it installable, but the associated plugin does not work.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That needs to be fixed by the authors of the add-on. It's them who have set the max version to 3.6.*, not Mozilla. After testing they can decide to change that, or create a new version if necessary.

3.7 doesn't exists anymore, it's now Firefox 4.0 (3.7 was the beta 1)

Comment 2

[Underpass]

I do not agree with your point of view. 

If the idea was to let non-technical users test all the Firefox Betas, I think they should have a functional set of plugins.

I'm not saying that it's up to Mozilla to solve the problem, but I do not have the necessary contacts and/or authority to talk to the GNOME guys.

Have a nice day.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Mozilla has no control about what other developers do. Especially when the add-on is not stored on the standard download location <https://addons.mozilla.org/> where there's some control (add-ons are checked before they're added to the list). All developers have been notified that a new version is coming, and they're probably working on a new version right now.

Comment 4

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Hey Jo, is there a list of Add-ons tho whose authors we are reaching out for the beta period?

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

All of them which are registered on addons.mozilla.org I think (is a working email address mandatory ?). But developers which are not on that website (like go-mono) would not receive anything, and would need to subscribe themselves to a mailing list, or visit the developers website regularly or something. I'm pretty sure that Mono is working on newer versions, even though their website only claims compatibility with 3.5

Comment 6

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Thanks for the info, Jo