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Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by indietalk » 2018-08-09, 16:29

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... indscribe/
This add-on requires a newer version of Firefox (at least version 57.0a1). You are using Firefox 27.0.
is there a way to bypass and install it please?
if not, any other browser based VPN add-on works with Palemoon ?

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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by doofy » 2018-08-09, 16:34

If it requires FF 57+ then it is a web extension and PM doesn't support webext.

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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by Moonchild » 2018-08-09, 16:49

Any true VPN would not need an extension.
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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by hujan86 » 2018-08-10, 12:40

indietalk wrote:is there a way to bypass and install it please?
It probably is installable on Basilisk.
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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by Michaell » 2018-08-11, 05:07

I'm using Windscribe extension 0.1.43 on Basilisk Apr 27 build on Win10. Not using the Windows program, just the extension. It works, but the service itself is not nearly as good as it used to be.

I gave up on getting it working with Pale Moon 27.
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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by indietalk » 2018-08-11, 12:11

NotWorthKnowing wrote:I'm using Windscribe extension 0.1.43 on Basilisk Apr 27 build on Win10. Not using the Windows program, just the extension. It works, but the service itself is not nearly as good as it used to be.

I gave up on getting it working with Pale Moon 27.
I have tried the current Windscribe extension 2.3.9 on the current Basilisks 2018.07.18 . Not installable as an extension on W10

any suggestions to get it done if it can be done
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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by Galaxy » 2018-08-11, 23:37

indietalk wrote:I have tried the current Windscribe extension 2.3.9 on the current Basilisks 2018.07.18 . Not installable as an extension on W10
The most recent version that can be installed in Basilisk is version 0.1.61. If interested, get it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /versions/

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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by indietalk » 2018-08-12, 11:36

Galaxy wrote:
indietalk wrote:I have tried the current Windscribe extension 2.3.9 on the current Basilisks 2018.07.18 . Not installable as an extension on W10
The most recent version that can be installed in Basilisk is version 0.1.61. If interested, get it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... /versions/
As I mentioned I have tried the latest version of the windscribe add on with the latest version of basilisk

Please feel free to share your experience with the the latest version of the windscribe add on with the latest version of basilisk

I have already mentioned the version numbers earlier above

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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by Nightbird » 2018-08-12, 12:07

The latest version 2.3.9 needs Firefox 57.0a1 and later.

Check also your user-Agent (something like that) : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/4.1 Firefox/52.9 Basilisk/20180718
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Basilisk support for a webextension is limited and probably too old now

I doubt that it can be done
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Re: Windscribe VPN Add-ON not installable

Unread post by indietalk » 2018-08-12, 12:31

Nightbird wrote:The latest version 2.3.9 needs Firefox 57.0a1 and later.

Check also your user-Agent (something like that) : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:52.9) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/4.1 Firefox/52.9 Basilisk/20180718
and
Basilisk support for a webextension is limited and probably too old now

I doubt that it can be done
In the latest versions of them, I cannot do it although it might have been done with the earlier versions.

I wish it can be done on either for palemoon or basilisk sooner ( I have contacted Windscribe and they response was not doable for palemoon with the current restrictions palemoon has.

If I remember right, in the old days, some not compatible add-ons were still install-able by another add-on which removes the checks & balances, so that not compatible add-on bypasses the restriction to be added on

any thoughts on that please

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