FEBE 7.0beta7, CLEO 5.0beta2, and OPIE 3.0beta - bug reports

[cbaker_admin]

Thanks for the info, but I have to question whether it is really productive to debug FEBE against early alpha releases. In this particular case, the error stems from the Gecko 7.0 removal of the nsIJSON xpcom interface in favor of a native JSON object.

There are bound to be other changes before Fx 7 is released so I'll wait until the betas settle in before I start changing code.

[RohitK]

Fair enough. But then I guess us alpha users are stuck without FEBE.

[RohitK]

Never mind. I fixed the problem for myself. It's working perfectly fine now.

Thanks!

[cbaker_admin]

What did you do?

[American_Jesus]

FEBE wont respect schedule if ntpd is initiated.

I'm on Arch Linux, if i start ntpd FEBE will create a new backup on every new linux boot.
is scheduled to make a backup once a week, but does not respect the schedule if the ntpd is started.


Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
FEBE 7.0beta7

[cbaker_admin]

FEBE relies extensively on the javascript Date() object and the native functions setTimeout() and setInterval() to do its backup scheduling. Perhaps the ntpd (the Network Time Protocol daemon for those reading that aren't familiar) is breaking these.

Take a look in about:config for the preferences extensions.febe.schedule.description (holds the next scheduled backup time) and extensions.febe.lastbackup. Do the entries contain sensible values?

[RohitK]

What did you do?

What I had to. Extracted the jar, opened the files, edited them to use the native JSON functions and re-packaged and replaced.

[American_Jesus]

Take a look in about:config for the preferences extensions.febe.schedule.description (holds the next scheduled backup time) and extensions.febe.lastbackup. Do the entries contain sensible values?

extensions.febe.schedule.description;25-07-2011 18:00:00
extensions.febe.lastbackup;

extensions.febe.lastbackup have no value

[Fatman]

Fair enough. But then I guess us alpha users are stuck without FEBE.

(snicker)

What do you expect, we alpha users are the guinea pigs!

(/snicker)

[I_ROUTE]

MACBook Pro / MAC Mini
OS X 10.6 and/or 10.7 / OS X 10.6 Server
FireFox 4 or 5 (currently 5.0.1)
FEBE 7.0 (Issue seen in past beta releases as well)

Issue: When trying to restore a full profile (I.e. "ProfileFX4{default}.fbu"), the a fore mentioned file is "greyed out" and not selectable. My only guess is that FEBE is looking for some other file extension as if I go into finder and remove ".fbu" file extension form the file, it is then selectable and restore works fine.

Profile not selectable with FBU extension on file.



Thanks,
Jeff

[cbaker_admin]

There is a known problem with Macs and the filePicker (see bug 444423). While I have written code to bypass this bug, it is likely that FEBE does not recognize you are using a Mac.

Try this: Install the Console² extension if you do not already have it. Once installed, go to Tools > Error console. Click the "Clear" button to start a clean slate. Copy/paste navigator.platform.toLowerCase(); into the "Evaluate" box. What value is displayed?

FEBE currently checks this value against

1. "darwin"
2. "macintel"
3. "macppc"

to determine a Mac platform.

[I_ROUTE]

.... What value is displayed?

FEBE currently checks this value against

1. "darwin"
2. "macintel"
3. "macppc"

to determine a Mac platform.

Returns this:
macintel


Thanks,
Jeff

[cbaker_admin]

Problem found and fixed. Will be available in FEBE v7.0.1 submitted to AMO yesterday. Preliminary review should take a few days and (if no problems are found) should be released within a week.

[I_ROUTE]

Many Thanks Chuck!

[AMG]

Hi

FEBE make no Backup when installed mafiaafire-gee-no-evil https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/mafiaafire-gee-no-evil/ can you help me please ???