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#1 2009-08-27 23:09:54

syntaxvorlon
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Registered: 2008-08-13
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Firefox Shiretoko Issues: Add-ons do not download

I have two issues with Firefox Shiretoko that have come up.

The first is that every time I attempt to update my extensions Firefox gives an error message reading:
Could not download from [download URL] because: download error -228

Searching for this error message I found the following page and have checked that I do infact have a sizable cache, 50 MB. I cleared the cache and even extended it to 100 MB. Also I removed the extension files that might have become corrupted and lead to odd behavior.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_ins … _-_Firefox

Furthermore I've started recently having the odd issue that I cannot view Youtube video, it always attempts to download but never starts playing or gives any indication that anything has downloaded. I doubt that this is at all related and it isn't that annoying as I rarely use Youtube in the first place. Oddly, Hulu video works fine.

I am using the latest version of firefox shiretoko from the main repos, 3.5.2

Thanks.

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#2 2009-08-27 23:22:00

sfabius
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Registered: 2007-07-07
Posts: 153

Re: Firefox Shiretoko Issues: Add-ons do not download

This is a totally wild guess, but are you using 64-bit? Sometimes that screws things up...

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#3 2009-08-28 00:10:21

syntaxvorlon
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Registered: 2008-08-13
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Re: Firefox Shiretoko Issues: Add-ons do not download

I am running 64-bit but I feel that it ought to be unrelated.

Though I note that running firefox from a terminal gives an ELFCLASS error for the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

I doubt that this is somehow related.

Last edited by syntaxvorlon (2009-08-28 00:10:41)

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#4 2009-08-28 01:15:20

mcmillan
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Registered: 2006-04-06
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Re: Firefox Shiretoko Issues: Add-ons do not download

I had a similar problem that gets fixed by adding this line to /etc/hosts:

64.50.236.214           releases.mozilla.org

as told in the wiki

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#5 2009-08-28 02:05:14

syntaxvorlon
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Registered: 2008-08-13
Posts: 62

Re: Firefox Shiretoko Issues: Add-ons do not download

Thanks, I didn't think to look at that page since this behavior is new and when I looked at that last I didn't have the problem.
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