DownThemAll Report and Discussion

[Sajadi]

If you want to take the change up with the DtA developer they can probably make sure their new version STAYS compatible, if they want to provide support, anyway.

Seems this is another add-on which will not provide further support for Pale Moon - as written in the http://www.downthemall.net/main/install-it/downthemall-3-0-beta-6/ beta blogpost:

"Old Firefox versions, such as Firefox 3.6 and ESR are NOT supported. Forcefully installing the add-on will NOT work, because of missing features in these ancient Firefox versions. Pale Moon is not supported because it is still using an old version code base."

So, it seems most likely a fork would be necessary if further support is wished. if i consider that Previous betas worked - have used them also for some time, while Beta 6 - even when forcefully installed is totally broken in Pale Moon. Guess they have decided to go Australis only now.

[Freezing Moon]

Pale Moon is not supported because it is still using an old version code base.

Very bad news.

[Lunix]

Pseudo-static or "DownThemAll Latitude", please.

[Sajadi]

Pseudo-static or "DownThemAll Latitude", please.

The last stable version on AMO would be a good one to preserve, works flawless in Pale Moon

[Tailszefox]

"Old Firefox versions, such as Firefox 3.6 and ESR are NOT supported. Forcefully installing the add-on will NOT work, because of missing features in these ancient Firefox versions. Pale Moon is not supported because it is still using an old version code base."

Feel free to move this post if it's offtopic, but I have to wonder: by "old version code base", do they just mean "Not supporting Australis"? Or is there some other old things in Pale Moon's code?

[Moonchild]

Off-topic:
"Old version code" means it's code that has not been arbitrarily renamed "refactored" or made Australis-only.
Considering the tight UI integration of DtA, I'd guess this is an Australis thing, or any of the other UI mangling changes (note: not necessarily improvements) Mozilla has been putting into their product.
Just to say that the easy assumption/pitfall in thought might be that "older" also means "worse" in some way. That is not necessarily true if you are talking about breaking changes in a front-end when redesigning it.

So, has anyone done a diff between beta5 and beta 6 to see what exactly was done to break it with the previous version of "code"?

[trava90]

Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror

List of commits since since b5: https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror/compare/3.0b5...master

Specifically, these appear to be the commits relating to Australis:

https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror/commit/bb71a12030393196fdb5c35c947594a20cc6950c
https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror/commit/6cbbfb39bc0319ed3ebe429c7e490c28c912a86c
https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror/commit/27b460a7b89755dd2430acd06d6bad69b934d0f1

[Lunix]

Pseudo-static or "DownThemAll Latitude", please.

The last stable version on AMO would be a good one to preserve, works flawless in Pale Moon

How does one save an extension's installation file, and how would one install it manually in the future? I've only ever installed extensions directly from AMO.

[Tailszefox]

On AMO, you can just right click on the "Add to Firefox" button and select "Save Link As" to save the XPI. To install it later, from the Add-ons Manager, click on the wrench icon and select "Install Add-ons From File". You can probably also drag and drop the file into Pale Moon's window.

[Lunix]

On AMO, you can just right click on the "Add to Firefox" button and select "Save Link As" to save the XPI. To install it later, from the Add-ons Manager, click on the wrench icon and select "Install Add-ons From File". You can probably also drag and drop the file into Pale Moon's window.

Thank you, friend.

[Sajadi]

Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror

List of commits since since b5: https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror/compare/3.0b5...master

Specifically, these appear to be the commits relating to Australis:

https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror/commit/bb71a12030393196fdb5c35c947594a20cc6950c
https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror/commit/6cbbfb39bc0319ed3ebe429c7e490c28c912a86c
https://github.com/downthemall/downthemall-mirror/commit/27b460a7b89755dd2430acd06d6bad69b934d0f1

Because of the fact that Downthemall is now in Version 3 a restart-less add-on, is it not more likely that the from Pale Moon used version of the Add-on SDK is just not supported anymore? I really do not believe that it is as simple as backing out that few changes?

[Moonchild]

Pale Moon supports restartless add-ons (both bootstrapped and jetpack), but obviously won't do anything "customizableUI" and neither will it support "promises" for a while yet (it's a very abstract concept that I'm having trouble understanding as well as seeing why people would preferably want to use it to begin with).

It could be any of the 50 commits in that frame, really.