Firefox / GWT plugin troubles

[koma]

Hi

Firefox updated to 25.0.1 today and GWT plugin got reinstalled. After re-installation of the GWT plugin, the browser needs restarting. But after restart, I still see the 'Update plugin'  screen.

I reinstalled - restarted - reinstalled - restarted  -reinstalled .... no luck.

Then I completely removed the GWT plugin and reinstalled it. No luck.

Anybody else seeing this ?

thx

Koen

[Pablo Nussembaum]

Hi,
I'm experiencing the same problem. Were you able to solve it?

Regards,
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[Pablo Nussembaum]

Hi,
I forgot to mention my environment:
Ubuntu 13.10
Java 1.7.0_45
GWT 2.6.0-rc1

[koma]

fixed it by rollilng back the upgrade. 

> sudo apt-get purge firefox*

> ls /var/cache/apt/archives/ | grep -i firefox

firefox_25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1_amd64.deb

firefox_25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1_amd64.deb

firefox-globalmenu_25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1_amd64.deb

firefox-globalmenu_25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1_amd64.deb

firefox-locale-en_25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1_amd64.deb

firefox-locale-en_25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1_amd64.deb

> sudo dpkg -i firefox_25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1_amd64.deb

and prevent future updates : 

> echo "firefox" hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections 

I am on Xubuntu 13.04

Linux ns53sv 3.8.0-33-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 23 09:16:58 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Thomas Broyer]

This is a known issue: https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=8452

[Stefan Brozinski]

Is this known issue ever going to be fixed?

I wouldn't call rolling back Firefox from 25.0.1 to 25 a "fix". Sounds more like a workaround.

[Clay Ferguson]

The way I worked around this was uninstalling existing firefox like this:

sudo apt-get purge firefox*

And then getting Firefox version 23 from here:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

(no installation required, just unzip it and run firefox app in the folder)

Now, however I have to remember to use Chrome (or some other browser) for browsing the web because the FF23 is a huge security risk for any general web access, because the security in it is all outdated.

[Thomas Broyer]

Have you tried one of the plugin's release candidates?

[Clay Ferguson]

No Thomas, I haven't tried a GWT plugin release candidate.  If you know of a RC that works please share with the group.

[Thomas Broyer]

On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:05:24 PM UTC+1, Clay Ferguson wrote:

No Thomas, I haven't tried a GWT plugin release candidate.  If you know of a RC that works please share with the group.

I shared a link to the issue tracker, and following links from there you'll find both downloads and comments from people who tried them (and IIRC it worked for every one of them) 

[Clay Ferguson]

Thomas, nobody (including me) is gonna know what link you are talking about.  However I'm sure everyone would appreciate you clarifying where it is.

-Clay

[Thomas Broyer]

That message in this very same thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/mI-tYmKBBSw/vD0DL8hMqREJ

[Clay Ferguson]

Thanks for your persistence Thomas!  I was afraid of that XPI file at first because I was unsure of it's security...but then I decided to trust it since it's on a Google domain (https://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/files/gwt-dev-plugin-1-25-1-rc1.xpi), I tried installing it into FF25.0.1, and it works perfectly as you said.  Thanks. 

Right then FF26 became available however (lol), so I downloaded that, and it still works, but it looked like FF26 may have gone out and grabbed a different plugin than the XPI, but who cares, it works now.

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[Thomas Broyer]

On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 7:39:08 PM UTC+1, Clay Ferguson wrote:

Thanks for your persistence Thomas!  I was afraid of that XPI file at first because I was unsure of it's security...but then I decided to trust it since it's on a Google domain (https://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/files/gwt-dev-plugin-1-25-1-rc1.xpi), I tried installing it into FF25.0.1, and it works perfectly as you said.  Thanks. 

Right then FF26 became available however (lol), so I downloaded that, and it still works, but it looked like FF26 may have gone out and grabbed a different plugin than the XPI, but who cares, it works now.

The XPI for Firefox 26 has been deployed (officially, signed et al), and contains the fix for Firefox 25.0.1 (though not for the Firefox ESRs 24 and 17, because Mozilla still hasn't published the SDKs!)