[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#971734: webext-ublock-origin-firefox: after startup, doesn't work until disabled and reenabled

[Markus Koschany]

Hello,

Am 10.10.20 um 07:54 schrieb Christopher Cramer:
[...]
> OK, I didn't think anything really valuable was there, so I just deleted
> ~/.mozilla/ entirely. uBlock Origin loaded fine after that.
> 
> The bad news is that after I again added the only other add-on that I
> use, Vim Vixen, uBlock Origin did the same thing again, dying on startup.
> So it's obviously due to a bad interaction with Vim Vixen.
> 
> I don't know who to blame for this. Vim Vixen itself is working fine.
> I guess there are other people using uBlock Origin with different
> add-ons, and if no one else complains about uBlock Origin failing,
> then the problem is with Vim Vixen, or perhaps with Firefox.
> 
> I can't stand to be without either add-on. So in the meantime I will
> continue with the workaround of disabling and then reenabling uBlock
> Origin whenever I start Firefox.

I really want to make ublock-origin work for everyone in Debian but I'm
not sure where else I can improve the current packaging. The only
logical explanations are a) it's a Firefox bug and system-wide addons
are not correctly detected, b) the packaging is wrong (missing files or
files installed into wrong locations, c) custom user settings in $HOME
interfere with the Debian package of uBo.

From my point of view it doesn't seem to be a general problem because
most people are able to use the addon without problems at the moment.
For me it works in Firefox 78.3 ESR, the version in stable, and the
latest Firefox in unstable. However I have also seen this behavior when
I upgraded ublock-origin in the past. Disabling and re-enabling the
addon or a fresh profile have always fixed the issue for me. Not really
a satisfactory solution, but you could also try Chromium and the
webext-ublock-origin-chromium package. I have never seen this kind of
bug there, so probably it is really related more to Firefox than to uBo.

Markus

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