Gran Paradiso Can't Install Addons From Mozilla's Addons Website

erythrocyte · 2008-12-10 16:52:41

After a recent 'pacman -Syu' upgrade, Firefox no longer seems to work with the Mozilla Addons website https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox . Clicking on 'Add to Firefox' doesn't seem to result in anything happening. Installing via the Tools>Addons menu entry also fails, with the dotted circle animation endlessly working without anything actually being downloaded/installed.

I tried using wget to download the addons to my /tmp directory. Pasting the terminal output below using Adblock Plus as an example ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo … +sm+tb.xpi ). I suspect Arch Linux's handling of SSL might be somehow related or something, because I can't seem to download the addons using Opera either. This seems to be specific with the addons website, as many other SSL websites work flawlessly. I have Firefox on Windows & Ubuntu and it works just fine on them, so I think this is a problem specific to Arch Linux.

wget https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/42123/adblock_plus-1.0-fx+sm+tb.xpi

--2008-12-10 22:08:43--  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/42123/adblock_plus-1.0-fx+sm+tb.xpi
Resolving addons.mozilla.org... 63.245.209.110
Connecting to addons.mozilla.org|63.245.209.110|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify addons.mozilla.org's certificate, issued by `/OU=Extended Validation CA/O=GlobalSign/CN=GlobalSign Extended Validation CA':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
To connect to addons.mozilla.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
Unable to establish SSL connection.

Then I tried wget with the --no-check-certificate option, and this time it just seems to time out!

wget https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/42123/adblock_plus-1.0-fx+sm+tb.xpi --no-check-certificate

--2008-12-10 22:08:53--  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/42123/adblock_plus-1.0-fx+sm+tb.xpi
Resolving addons.mozilla.org... 63.245.209.110
Connecting to addons.mozilla.org|63.245.209.110|:443... connected.
WARNING: cannot verify addons.mozilla.org's certificate, issued by `/OU=Extended Validation CA/O=GlobalSign/CN=GlobalSign Extended Validation CA':
  Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/1865/adblock_plus-1.0-fx+sm+tb.xpi [following]
--2008-12-10 22:08:54--  http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/1865/adblock_plus-1.0-fx+sm+tb.xpi
Resolving releases.mozilla.org... 32.1.6.176, 2001:6b0:e:2018::158, 2610:148:fd80:3d6f:209:3dff:fe12:7bf9, ...
Connecting to releases.mozilla.org|32.1.6.176|:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to releases.mozilla.org|2001:6b0:e:2018::158|:80... failed: Network is unreachable.
Connecting to releases.mozilla.org|2610:148:fd80:3d6f:209:3dff:fe12:7bf9|:80... failed: Network is unreachable.
Connecting to releases.mozilla.org|2001:4f8:0:2::1f|:80... failed: Network is unreachable.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I tried downloading using the CLI browser links-g and the SSL negotiation and download works just fine! So I'm totally at wits ends where the fault actually lies! Firefox and Opera fail while links-g works!

Last edited by erythrocyte (2008-12-10 17:02:38)

R00KIE · 2008-12-10 22:19:23

Try to do this:
Type about:config in the address bar, then search for agent, you should see something like "general.useragent.extra.firefox", I guess it will say "GranParadiso/3.0.4", change it to "Firefox/3.0.4" and give the addons page a try again.

erythrocyte · 2008-12-11 00:13:34

R00KIE wrote:

Try to do this:
Type about:config in the address bar, then search for agent, you should see something like "general.useragent.extra.firefox", I guess it will say "GranParadiso/3.0.4", change it to "Firefox/3.0.4" and give the addons page a try again.

I've done that and it's no use . Anything else I should try? Thanks for replying!

R00KIE · 2008-12-11 16:55:23

Not much else I remember except that the addon you are trying to use says it doesn't support the latest firefox, does it fail to install just one addon or all of them.
Maybe you can try to delete the firefox config folder and try again, maybe some setting is causing the problem. I can't remember anything else.

erythrocyte · 2008-12-13 00:04:11

R00KIE wrote:

Not much else I remember except that the addon you are trying to use says it doesn't support the latest firefox, does it fail to install just one addon or all of them.
Maybe you can try to delete the firefox config folder and try again, maybe some setting is causing the problem. I can't remember anything else.

I've installed this addon before and it seems to install just fine on Windows and Ubuntu. Besides, firefox fails to install all of them! I've tried deleting the firefox config folder (~/.mozilla) but it doesn't help.

Any Firefox gurus around care to share their input?

lldmer · 2008-12-13 01:59:34

Just a wild guess:
The wget output suggests you're using ipv6. Maybe something somewhere in the process is not fully compatible with that (Mozilla servers or whatever)?

Allan · 2008-12-13 02:01:28

This might help:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fir … plugins.3F

Solid1986Snake · 2008-12-13 10:34:14

Download them for the old version.... open the xpi file with your prefered packaging program and change the max version value in the install .rdf

package back to xpi....

or.... install nightly tester tools... download xpi... drop it to addons and "Overwrite compatibility" with nightly tester tools

erythrocyte · 2008-12-15 00:03:23

lldmer wrote:

Just a wild guess:
The wget output suggests you're using ipv6. Maybe something somewhere in the process is not fully compatible with that (Mozilla servers or whatever)?

Okay, I doubt this is an IPv6 problem. I'll try disabling IPv6 and test this out.

Allan wrote:

This might help:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fir … plugins.3F

I'll try this. Thanks.

Solid1986Snake wrote:

Download them for the old version.... open the xpi file with your prefered packaging program and change the max version value in the install .rdf
package back to xpi....
or.... install nightly tester tools... download xpi... drop it to addons and "Overwrite compatibility" with nightly tester tools

That sounds like a very roundabout way to do things, but it is an interesting solution.

Last edited by erythrocyte (2008-12-15 00:04:16)

erythrocyte · 2008-12-17 22:19:01

In the end Allan's link worked like a charm. Wonder why an entry in /etc/hosts is a must for this to work. Windows and Ubuntu don't seem to require anything special, so why should Arch?

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