Loading Profile...
Hi,
This is the version that Firefox releases for web-developers, yet it is two full versions ahead of the stable realease (currently v37.0a2 over v35). Our extension is directed towards the technical crowd, and we got feedback from a customer that many of their developers use this edition of Firefox pretty much exclusively.
On my extension (#68653) the problem is that JS doesn't seem to execute at all in the popup scope.
To test it, I created a simple extension #71696, and it works in Firefox Developer Edition without any problems. Yet even if I try to comment out all JS / CSS / HTML from my main extension's popup (and replace with simple $('p').text('JS works! :)');), JavaScript still doesn't run.
console.logs also don't work in the page scope of the main extension, and Crossrider IDE cannot detect that the extension is installed, so I suspect deeper issues than my code.
So either a) there is some faulty code in my main extension, or b) the framework was updated (so it works for newly created #71696), but hasn't propagated to #68653 yet.
Can you please take a look?
Help get this topic noticed by sharing it on
Twitter,
Facebook, or email.
Twitter,
Facebook, or email.
Popup JS issues in Firefox Developer Edition (v37.0a2)
-
Hello Anton,
Thank you for bringing these issues to our attention and I have forwarded the issue to the dev team.
In general, we support released versions of browsers. We also plan ahead and in between releases our dev team works on ensuring our framework is compatible with the next release. Hence, cannot guarantee extensions will work on developmental versions of browsers before their release as is the case here. -
-
Hello Shlomo,
Firefox is rolling out v36 now, and it has exactly the same issue as I described above. This has now become urgent for us since the extension simply doesn't run (from what I can tell, JS doesn't get executed in the popup context).
I would really appreciate quick support on this one. I guess you may only need to update the framework on our extension? This is needed for #57890 (and #57891 — staging), and #68654 (and #68653 — staging).- view 3 more comments
-
-
-
-
Anton,
How did you export extension for ff? -
-
Hi Vl4d0,
If you ask about putting it on the Addon directory — that's still not possible, as far as I know. So we simply provide our customers with the direct link to Crossrider's download of our extension for Firefox — and it works.
Actually, I would say Crossrider works the best on Firefox of all the four browsers (IE is the worst, Safari comes close, Chrome is fine but fiddly, and Firefox — just works!), so it is a shame we can't publish the extension on their directory. -
-
-
EMPLOYEE
Thanks, and this is what I expected, but it is strange that a small test extension works.
Also I have to point out that while "Developer Edition" is on alpha version, it does not mean "a version in development" (even though it is :)), instead a "version for developers", since it includes some very handy tools for webdevs.
So it is a awkward thing that Mozilla is doing, “released” but unreleased (I'd rather prefer them using a stable version for DevEd too), and I understand that you cannot chase them all the time, focusing on stable versions first.
Thank you for your help.
Anton