Re: add-ons for firefox

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 07:46, Jörn Clausen <joernc%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Over the weekend I compiled www/firefox (72.0.1) on NetBSD 8.1/amd64,
> just to find out that I cannot install any add-ons. Does anybody have
> a work-around for this?
>
> The add-on page returns "invalid platform", and even a manually
> downloaded xpi file won't install any longer. I need at least ublock
> to actually use Firefox.
>
> There is some talk in the Mozilla fora, folks on other BSDs seem to
> have the same problem:
>
> https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/708
> https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/4610
>
> The list of supported platforms seems to be shortened to "Linux",
> "Windows", "Mac" and "Android":
>
> https://addons-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/api/addons.html#addon-detail-platform

Set "general.useragent.override" to "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT; rv:72.0)
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0" and see if that works.

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Ottavio Caruso