FireFox Add-Ons

hndcvcboi · Feb 17, 2008

I've been trying for several days to download some add-ons for FireFox 3b3 with no success. Is it something wrong with the site or possibly this version of FireFox? One particular Add-On that I'm trying to get is Greasemonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748

Lifeisabeach · Feb 17, 2008

Well the problem is that the add-ons need to specifically be compatible with Firefox 3.0. Doesn't Firefox tell you this when you try to install an add-on unsuccessfully?

EDIT: Silly me... that add-on does say it's compatible. DOH!

hndcvcboi · Feb 17, 2008

lifeisabeach said:
Well the problem is that the add-ons need to specifically be compatible with Firefox 3.0. Doesn't Firefox tell you this when you try to install an add-on unsuccessfully?

EDIT: Silly me... that add-on does say it's compatible. DOH!

LOL, the specific problem I'm having is that the file will not download at all. It just sits there doing nothing. I have even tried to download the file through Safari and it gets stuck as well. :Grimmace:

Lifeisabeach · Feb 17, 2008

hndcvcboi said:
LOL, the specific problem I'm having is that the file will not download at all. It just sits there doing nothing. I have even tried to download the file through Safari and it gets stuck as well.

I just got home so I was able to test this myself. It downloaded and installed just fine here... no problems. Best I can suggest at the moment is to try it again... maybe the server was down earlier.

hndcvcboi · Feb 17, 2008

lifeisabeach said:
I just got home so I was able to test this myself. It downloaded and installed just fine here... no problems. Best I can suggest at the moment is to try it again... maybe the server was down earlier.

Thanks for checking for me. I still can't download anything with Firefox so there must be a problem on my end. It's strange that I can't download the files with Safari either. Maybe it's in the firewall, I'll have to check that out.

WolfsBane · Feb 18, 2008

Thats odd... I have a lot of disabled plug-ins and add-ons, but I still have them in the folder. I wonder if you have a corrupt download manager in your copy of beta 3. For what is worth, I think a lot of developers of add-ons and plug-ins are still sitting tight waiting for the roll out of the completed version of Firefox3 after beta4.

hndcvcboi · Feb 18, 2008

WolfsBane said:
Thats odd... I have a lot of disabled plug-ins and add-ons, but I still have them in the folder. I wonder if you have a corrupt download manager in your copy of beta 3. For what is worth, I think a lot of developers of add-ons and plug-ins are still sitting tight waiting for the roll out of the completed version of Firefox3 after beta4.

I removed FireFox 3b3 completely and reinstalled ver 2 and now everything is working again. I'll try again to install 3b3 to see if that fixed it.

hndcvcboi · Feb 18, 2008

This is weird, I just removed FF 3b3 and reinstalled FF 2. After doing that I was able to download and install any Add-On that I wanted. I then "upgraded" to FF 3b3 again and the Add-Ons that I installed on FF 2 were still there so then I tried to install another Add-On to 3b3 and it locked up again. I think the Download manager in FF 3b3 isn't working right just yet.

WolfsBane · Feb 18, 2008

They might have also put some limitations on the download manager while FF3 is still on it's beta stage. It cuts down on the number of things they need to track during the development. And Add-on and plug-ins are notorious sources for inconsistent behaviors on the browser.

tmorgan1689 · Feb 18, 2008

You have to remember that FF3 is in beta stage, so there might be bugs still in it with some thigns. Just give them a little bit of time to fix it.