uBlock Origin Updater Obsolete

Started by Corrine, February 15, 2020, 02:45:38 PM

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techie

My version on Firefox is 1.24.4 dated 5 FEB 2020

It still shows automatic updates, set as default.

Corrine

techie, Firefox didn't use the uBlock Origin Updater.  Rather, it had been needed only for Firefox legacy-based browsers.


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plodr

Palemoon just updated uBO to 1.16.4.18 with a date of 18 Feb. 2020.
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plodr

Two computers (32 bit) updated fine.

The other two (64 bit) still showed an update for uBO updater and uBO. The updater updated but uBO stalls at the 1.16.4.16 version and shoots up an error. The uBO updater did not disappear even though I closed the browser and opened it again. It probably will not disappear until I move away from 1.16.4.16 because the page the computer that worked sent me to said it isn't needed after 1.16.4.17 which I don't have and can't seem to get.

Now I'm not sure if it is because I updated Palemoon before I chose to update the addons or is it because the computers are 64 bit running a 32 bit browser. Unfortunately on my laptop, I manually removed uBO updater so I guess I'll need to re-install it.

Or, can I download 1.16.4.18 and manually install it?
I guess I'll check notes and see how to do that.
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Ssherjj

I am showing uBlock Origin v1.24.4 in Firefox and v1.23.0 in Edge.
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plodr

One computer fixed itself. The one that I removed the updater stalled at ...16.
I went here
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases

downloaded it and it installed with no problem. All four Windows 7 computers are up to date.

Sherry, the legacy versions for old FF and Palemoon are numbered differently than modern Firefox
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Ssherjj

Quote from: plodr on February 18, 2020, 07:03:26 PM
One computer fixed itself. The one that I removed the updater stalled at ...16.
I went here
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-firefox-legacy/releases

downloaded it and it installed with no problem. All four Windows 7 computers are up to date.

Sherry, the legacy versions for old FF and Palemoon are numbered differently than modern Firefox

Oh Thank you for that! I must be off within this thread conversation. Sorry about that.
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plodr

No problem. It gets confusing when older browsers needed an updater and now no longer do. Add to that, the fact that the version number is very different in the old browsers compared to the modern browsers.

Perhaps in the future he'll fix that so every browser uses the same version number.
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Ssherjj

Yes I imagine it does get confusing. It would be nice if the software versions could be the same. But I do not think that will ever happen do you? It is one way to decipher an old version to a new version when different OS's are being used? Again thank you for waking me up. ;)
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Corrine

It doesn't have anything to do with different operating systems.  Rather, current versions of Firefox use WebExtensions and Pale Moon did not go that route.  Using Pale Moon means that I can continue using legacy extensions that are no longer supported by Firefox but are long-time favorites and make posts on forums so much easier.  With Colt, for example, I can select text and right-click and use the option to copy text and location as BBCode, saving having to manually format.


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Ssherjj

Quote from: Corrine on February 18, 2020, 09:01:25 PM
It doesn't have anything to do with different operating systems.  Rather, current versions of Firefox use WebExtensions and Pale Moon did not go that route.  Using Pale Moon means that I can continue using legacy extensions that are no longer supported by Firefox but are long-time favorites and make posts on forums so much easier.  With Colt, for example, I can select text and right-click and use the option to copy text and location as BBCode, saving having to manually format.

Thank you for clarification Corrine... :)
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