Unable to install Add-Ons; Linux Machine

[CaptainMidnite]

Binary package hint: firefox

Am completely baffled by this. Can install Firefox add-ons fine on Windows Machine and Mac Machine on same LAN. However, about 2 months ago (May?), updates to Firefox 1.5 Extensions, under SLED 10.1 (Suse Linux), stopped working. Process(es) became stuck during download phase. De-installation of all extensions successful EXCEPT for DOM. Worked on this intermittently for two months (the Linux machine is a play machine) with no success.

A few days ago, Installed Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty. Same or similar problem. Unable to install extensions; usually won't download at all (link acts as if it is dead / defective) or (about 1 time in 10) long delays; process fails claiming not compatible with this version of Firefox (2.0.0.5). (And, I know that is not true because I have the same extension(s) installed on the Mac & Windows machines.)

My only guess is that I have some kind of weird and obscure hardware failure or that the Firefox website doesn't correctly identify these Linux machines and either refuses to download the extension (typical, described above) or hangs in the download (atypical, described above).

Anybody have any idea how to solve this? (Obviously installing radically different versions of Linux didn't solve the problem.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 23 17:03:02 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.5+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

what extensions are you trying to install?

[CaptainMidnite (captainmidnitestumbleupon)]

Simple ones: NoScript, TabMix, none of those or any others I've tried
will install....
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what extensions are you trying to install?

** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 127235
   MASTER Add-ons are broken after 2.0.0.5 upgrade

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mozilla Bugs
       Status: New => Incomplete

-- Unable to install Add-Ons; Linux Machine
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[M. Salivar (mfsalivar)]

I have the same problem. Arch Linux and Windows versions of Firefox work fine, but in Ubuntu I have the exact same symptoms. A feeling of a dead link and long delays when installing any extensions or themes. That includes Qute, Adblock Plus, Open Book, Fasterfox, and Flashblock.

This has also occurred on two separate systems, first with a Beta 3 installation on one, and now with the official release on a client's machine. This has me thinking it's a network glitch of some sort, maybe I'll try Suse 10.3 tomorrow and take a machine to work on Saturday. My network is pretty simple, but maybe there's a patch being used by Novell and Canonical that's not getting along with my router. A Feisty install works fine on a third machine on the same network.

[M. Salivar (mfsalivar)]

Problem solved, I just had to disable ipv6. Is there a good reason it's enabled by default?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Not firefox bug.