BBO Alert on Firefox OSX stopped updating

[mkazmac]

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?

[stanmaz]

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)

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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? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#11>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AM6K6JKDOJHLGS4DGWFL7Z3W4LVKZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[mkazmac]

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/ 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? > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#11>, or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AM6K6JKDOJHLGS4DGWFL7Z3W4LVKZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M> > . > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message > ID: ***@***.***> > — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#11 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A6Q4JDVBZDW7SYUFESFQPX3W4MFWZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread. 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? > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#11>, or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AM6K6JKDOJHLGS4DGWFL7Z3W4LVKZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M> > . > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message > ID: ***@***.***> > — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#11 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A6Q4JDVBZDW7SYUFESFQPX3W4MFWZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[mkazmac]

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

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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 <PastedGraphic-3.png> 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? > > > > — > > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > > <#11>, or unsubscribe > > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AM6K6JKDOJHLGS4DGWFL7Z3W4LVKZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M> > > . > > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message > > ID: ***@***.***> > > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#11 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A6Q4JDVBZDW7SYUFESFQPX3W4MFWZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M>. > You are receiving this because you authored the thread. > > 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? > > > > — > > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > > <#11 <#11>>, or unsubscribe > > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AM6K6JKDOJHLGS4DGWFL7Z3W4LVKZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AM6K6JKDOJHLGS4DGWFL7Z3W4LVKZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M>> > > . > > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message > > ID: ***@***.***> > > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#11 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A6Q4JDVBZDW7SYUFESFQPX3W4MFWZANCNFSM6AAAAAAV5A4K7M>. > You are receiving this because you authored the thread. >