688049 - Reports that adblock plus doesn't work for Firefox 8

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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The Aurora add-on compat bump happened but there are a couple reports that Adblock plus doesn't work:

http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/opinion/2386997
http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/opinion/2383038
http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/opinion/2378727

As this is one of our top extensions, we should make sure that nothing's wrong before uplifting to beta

Comment 1

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

Wladimir, have you heard any complaints from your users?

Comment 2

[Wladimir Palant]

No real complains. There are (as always) some people complaining that Adblock Plus doesn't work with Firefox 6 - typically due to some kind of profile brokenness. From all I know, the only issue with the current release is nsIJSON.encode() being gone - but that doesn't have any functional consequences, it merely slows down startup. So this issue wasn't reason enough for a new release. Adblock Plus 1.3.10 should be released today or tomorrow however, it will fix that issue.

Note that Adblock Plus 1.3.9 only has 7.0a1 as maxVersion in its install.rdf. Of course the maxVersion on AMO has been set to 9.0a1 by now but people trying to install it with JavaScript disabled still have a problem.

Comment 3

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

Thank you, Wladimir. Closing as Invalid.