Comments on: Experimental Add-ons, Logins, and You

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:22:43 +0000

Note: don’t know if this is exactly the right place to make this comment, but…

It appears that when you try to sort the Thunderbird themes (website above) with the “experimental” box checked, it will not sort correctly. (At least if you use the date “updated xxx xx, xxxx” shown beneath each theme.) I have several screenshots, but can’t send them over this messaging system. Maybe this can be fixed ??

– TJ

By: vivek

vivek — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:34:18 +0000

why my addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13826 is still in experimental phase???

By: jgabios

jgabios — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:37:48 +0000

As Phil pointed out very well, automatically updates are not working with experimental addons. can you please enable it. the users running it trust it, that is why they have it installed, and I also think they want to keep up with the latest version. you could also alert them when they update it with a message “beware, experimental addon update…!!!” or something.

cheers

By: Dominic

Dominic — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:26:34 +0000

Great idea!

Too bad I still have to login to download “incompatible” add-ons though :p

By: Frank Angus

Frank Angus — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:51:25 +0000

Does anyone know the add on that looks up the meaning of a word you alt + right click?

By: jim

jim — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:54:31 +0000

this is great, it was annoying to login just for a quick download. I’ll login when I actually have useful feedback. They do color experimentals red for a warning, but maybe there could be a yellow for like “works well enough so far” and red would be like “who knows ? this is so new it might eat you in your sleep and kill your whole family!” and green comes about when your addon is one of the “generally recognized as safe and awsome” set. heck, there are plenty of addons that I can’t use firefox without. Could give them a special star for, say, “if it weren’t for this I’d be using Opera”.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:54:00 +0000

I think this change is a good idea. However, are there any plans to allow Firefox to automatically pick up upgrades for experimental extensions?

Judging by the statistics for my extension, the majority of users have an out of date version installed and will not therefore be getting the best user experience. Unless they manually go back and check the addons page, they won’t know that there is an update available.

By: guions

guions — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:18:40 +0000

hello,
It seems that the download problem occurs also with :
Go2 proxy 0.1.0
gWebs MailCloak 1.0.0b39
Herdict Web 0.8.0
…etc
In fact, the common point of all these addons is the accepting of the “End-User License Agreement”,
The “Accept and Install” button downloads the authentication form instead of the xpi, but with the ‘addon’.xpi name (and mime-type), so the navigator try to install and HTML page ….
Hope It helps.
Guions.

By: guions

guions — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:54:00 +0000

Hello,
Big problem with this new feature with my addon.

With SeaMonkey the user is redirected to the “User login” page before installation. (every thing is OK).

But with Firefox, there is no redirection to the auth page, the download/install starts and the download ends with the message.
”
Firefox could not install the file at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/50336/firewebsso-0.9.8.71-fx+sm.xpi
because: Invalid file hash (possible download corruption)
-261
”
It seems that the package is not downloaded at all.

The donwload/install is OK when I am authenticated.

As it seems that all my users use the “let me install …” checkbox, and don’t register, all the installations are failed.
Did I do something wrong ?

By: another_sam

another_sam — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:44:54 +0000

“we feel this change will help add-on developers get feedback and reviews”

and me too!

lovely changes guys.