835682 - Blocklist Widgi Toolbar Platform add-on

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

Description

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #835680 +++

No idea what it does. Comes as a drive-by install with the linked bug. Seems to cause a fair amount of user consternation, based on forum chatter.

One of these add-ons changes the search engine and keyword URL on install and does not change them back.

ID: [e-mail] ~2.2M users

Comment 1

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

Contacted Spigot (apparently its developers) through their contact form. Will revisit this bug in 2 weeks.

Comment 2

[dan]

Hi Jorge,

I emailed you regarding this issue and bug 835680 on January 31st. We would like to move forward with resolving the issue, but we haven't received a response yet. The email was titled "Spigot Follow Up."

Thanks!
Dan

(In reply to Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] from comment #1)
> Contacted Spigot (apparently its developers) through their contact form.
> Will revisit this bug in 2 weeks.

Comment 3

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

We're following up with Spigot on this issue.

Comment 4

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Any updates? this also apparently caused Bug 846286.

Comment 5

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

Pinged back the developer. A partial fix was created during our discussions, but the conversation dropped off.

Comment 6

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

According to the developers, the opt-in screen issue was resolved with a new version roughly 2 months ago. Are there any recent issues related to Widgi, other than the potential crashing bug?

Comment 7

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

Other than that, I think the only issue was settings not being reverted on uninstall.

Comment 8

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

This should have been fixed by Spigot by now.