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Ghostery 5.4.1 can't be installed on Firefox for Android > 29
It's only marked as compatible for 26-30.0a1. Please fix and re-upload to addons.mozilla.org
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You should be able to install from
Offline installation is broken due to AMO policy decisions over which we have no control. Once the .xpi is built, it's frozen. Raising maxVersion changes online metadata that supersedes what's contained within the package when you install from AMO. It's been this way for years, and looks like a WONTFIX on Mozilla's end. Re-uploading won't help; they'll just reject the submission. -
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Er, no, I can't install from there. That was my entire point.
By "re-upload", I meant "fix the problem and call it Ghostery 5.4.2 if you have to".- view 1 more comment
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My point was that it can't be installed from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... -- it has to be installed from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... (if you're aware of it), or you can of course install one of the clumsy and largely unsupported User-Agent modifying add-ons... which no one should have to.
The install button on AMO is disabled for incompatible Firefox releases if the developer doesn't update the maxVersion string at least once in a while. Which it hasn't been in... what, nine months? -
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It shouldn't make a difference which AMO page you start from, although my link is for the Android page, while yours are for the Desktop page. Try following Mozilla's official instructions:
Mozilla switched to "compatible by default" quite some time ago, so maxVersion is no longer relevant. Browsing through AMO's "most popular" Android Add-ons, I see many of them have maxVersion lower than 33 — so this would not be a Ghostery-specific issue.
Whatever is going on probably has something to do with your specific configuration and, so far, doesn't appear to affect anybody else. If there really was a problem, and it was what you claimed it to be, (1) I'd expect a lot more people to be reporting it (2) it would be easily reproducible. They aren't, and it isn't. I also checked support.mozilla.org, and the only related questions were from people who had been trying to install extensions that weren't marked as compatible with Android (which doesn't apply in this case) or had screwed with their User-Agent or other about:config settings. -
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I am unable to reproduce this. I tried a few minutes ago, and Ghostery 5.4.1 installed on Firefox for Android 33.0 just fine.
Open about:config and make sure extensions.strictCompatibility is set to [its default value of] false. -
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