BBO Alert on Firefox OSX stopped updating #11
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6.6.1.7 is very old. The current BBOalert version in the Firefox repository
is 8.0.3
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bboalert/versions/
The simplest solution : remove 6.6.1.7 and install the current release.
I hope that Firefox under MacOS uses the same repository. Personally I have
no experience with Mac PC's.
Note : Installation of BBOalert under Firefox requires supplementary
browser setup to enable clipboard operations. (see the project page on
Github)
…On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:45 AM mkazmac ***@***.***> wrote:
I've been using BBOAlert on Firefox under Mac OS X for a while I and just
noticed the BBOAlert version is at 6.6.1.7. It seems to work OK, but no
updates can be found in the add-ons manager. I see that the current version
is over 8.0. Any ideas on how I can update this? If I could, would it work?
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Hello!
First, thank you for this wonderful plugin for BBO. My partner and I play a tweaked version of the Schenken club system and it has saved us from a lot of typing!
Second, thanks for responding so quickly.
After a little checking, I figured out the problem was on my end. Here’s what I found.
On my Mac, I run a network connection tool called “Little Snitch” which can let the user create rules for enabling/disabling network calls at the OS level. It is quite powerful. FYI (https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html <https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html>)
When I started using BBO on Firefox I noticed it was making *a lot* of network connections to ad sites and other unknown (by me) IP4 and IP6 addresses. I gradually built a series of blocking rules to allow only the minimum connections to let BBO work. I disabled the IP6 addresses globally and locations like 1e100.net <http://1e100.net/> and anything from google it didn’t need to work. All was well. Then I added BBOAlert, still no problem. When I just recently noticed my version was way behind, I updated to the 803 version and it broke BBOAlert. Apparently, starting with 701, the plugin was trying to access locations I had previously blocked. After some testing I found the locations that Firefox and BBOAlert need to work and reenabled only those sites. 803 is loading now! Voila!
I had to add the first 3 sites listed with green dots from the screen shot from Little Snitch below. You can see all the sites that are blocked. Where it says bazillions blocked it is a huge IP6 block of addresses. The block of IP6 addresses I had to renable (unchecked) is 2607:f8b0:4002::-2607:f8b0:4002:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff if you are curious.
Thanks,
Mike
…On Mar 16, 2023, at 9:04 , stanmaz ***@***.***> wrote:
6.6.1.7 is very old. The current BBOalert version in the Firefox repository
is 8.0.3
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bboalert/versions/
The simplest solution : remove 6.6.1.7 and install the current release.
I hope that Firefox under MacOS uses the same repository. Personally I have
no experience with Mac PC's.
Note : Installation of BBOalert under Firefox requires supplementary
browser setup to enable clipboard operations. (see the project page on
Github)
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:45 AM mkazmac ***@***.***> wrote:
> I've been using BBOAlert on Firefox under Mac OS X for a while I and just
> noticed the BBOAlert version is at 6.6.1.7. It seems to work OK, but no
> updates can be found in the add-ons manager. I see that the current version
> is over 8.0. Any ideas on how I can update this? If I could, would it work?
>
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On Mar 16, 2023, at 9:04 , stanmaz ***@***.***> wrote:
6.6.1.7 is very old. The current BBOalert version in the Firefox repository
is 8.0.3
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bboalert/versions/
The simplest solution : remove 6.6.1.7 and install the current release.
I hope that Firefox under MacOS uses the same repository. Personally I have
no experience with Mac PC's.
Note : Installation of BBOalert under Firefox requires supplementary
browser setup to enable clipboard operations. (see the project page on
Github)
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:45 AM mkazmac ***@***.***> wrote:
> I've been using BBOAlert on Firefox under Mac OS X for a while I and just
> noticed the BBOAlert version is at 6.6.1.7. It seems to work OK, but no
> updates can be found in the add-ons manager. I see that the current version
> is over 8.0. Any ideas on how I can update this? If I could, would it work?
>
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Hi Stanmaz,
BBOalert is acting up again. The old notes are below. I just updated Firefox to the latest version (114.0.1) and it stopped working. It worked fine last week. All the records are in there. Any ideas where I can look? Or how I can help you troubleshoot?
Thanks,
Mike
… On Mar 17, 2023, at 7:15 , Mike Kazmierczak ***@***.***> wrote:
Hello!
First, thank you for this wonderful plugin for BBO. My partner and I play a tweaked version of the Schenken club system and it has saved us from a lot of typing!
Second, thanks for responding so quickly.
After a little checking, I figured out the problem was on my end. Here’s what I found.
On my Mac, I run a network connection tool called “Little Snitch” which can let the user create rules for enabling/disabling network calls at the OS level. It is quite powerful. FYI (https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html <https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html>)
When I started using BBO on Firefox I noticed it was making *a lot* of network connections to ad sites and other unknown (by me) IP4 and IP6 addresses. I gradually built a series of blocking rules to allow only the minimum connections to let BBO work. I disabled the IP6 addresses globally and locations like 1e100.net <http://1e100.net/> and anything from google it didn’t need to work. All was well. Then I added BBOAlert, still no problem. When I just recently noticed my version was way behind, I updated to the 803 version and it broke BBOAlert. Apparently, starting with 701, the plugin was trying to access locations I had previously blocked. After some testing I found the locations that Firefox and BBOAlert need to work and reenabled only those sites. 803 is loading now! Voila!
I had to add the first 3 sites listed with green dots from the screen shot from Little Snitch below. You can see all the sites that are blocked. Where it says bazillions blocked it is a huge IP6 block of addresses. The block of IP6 addresses I had to renable (unchecked) is 2607:f8b0:4002::-2607:f8b0:4002:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff if you are curious.
Thanks,
Mike
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On Mar 16, 2023, at 9:04 , stanmaz ***@***.*** ***@***.***>> wrote:
>
>
> 6.6.1.7 is very old. The current BBOalert version in the Firefox repository
> is 8.0.3
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bboalert/versions/ <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bboalert/versions/>
>
> The simplest solution : remove 6.6.1.7 and install the current release.
>
> I hope that Firefox under MacOS uses the same repository. Personally I have
> no experience with Mac PC's.
>
> Note : Installation of BBOalert under Firefox requires supplementary
> browser setup to enable clipboard operations. (see the project page on
> Github)
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:45 AM mkazmac ***@***.***> wrote:
>
> > I've been using BBOAlert on Firefox under Mac OS X for a while I and just
> > noticed the BBOAlert version is at 6.6.1.7. It seems to work OK, but no
> > updates can be found in the add-ons manager. I see that the current version
> > is over 8.0. Any ideas on how I can update this? If I could, would it work?
> >
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> On Mar 16, 2023, at 9:04 , stanmaz ***@***.*** ***@***.***>> wrote:
>
>
> 6.6.1.7 is very old. The current BBOalert version in the Firefox repository
> is 8.0.3
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bboalert/versions/ <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bboalert/versions/>
>
> The simplest solution : remove 6.6.1.7 and install the current release.
>
> I hope that Firefox under MacOS uses the same repository. Personally I have
> no experience with Mac PC's.
>
> Note : Installation of BBOalert under Firefox requires supplementary
> browser setup to enable clipboard operations. (see the project page on
> Github)
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:45 AM mkazmac ***@***.***> wrote:
>
> > I've been using BBOAlert on Firefox under Mac OS X for a while I and just
> > noticed the BBOAlert version is at 6.6.1.7. It seems to work OK, but no
> > updates can be found in the add-ons manager. I see that the current version
> > is over 8.0. Any ideas on how I can update this? If I could, would it work?
> >
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I've been using BBOAlert on Firefox under Mac OS X for a while I and just noticed the BBOAlert version is at 6.6.1.7. It seems to work OK, but no updates can be found in the add-ons manager. I see that the current version is over 8.0. Any ideas on how I can update this? If I could, would it work?
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