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ashberry777
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Add-on manager not working on FF 6

Hi there,

Thanks very much for the fast work on making the new Firefox version available in Portable format, so soon after the main release !

At the moment I can find only one issue, but I'm not sure this is an issue for the portable version, or also for the main version.

When I open up the Add-on manager, it will permanently say "Loading", but it never finishes and doesn't show my installed add-ons. My add-ons are working fine, it is just the manager that seems not to.

I use it with the all-in-one sidebar extension.

Any suggestions on how to solve this ?

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Same here

I have this issue not only in FF6 portable, but also in TB6 portable.

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Discovered the following:
The add-ons manager seems to appear to load forever, however, this does not prevent me from switching from "Get Add-ons" (the default) to e.g. "Extensions" although the loading animation is still displayed.
The add-ons manger will switch to the Extensions tab and load the extensions.
Switching back to "Get Add-ons" will then display the corresponding screen more or less immediately.
After that the problem went away.
Leaving the Extension tab selected when closing the add-ons manager does load the extensions tab directly when calling up the add-ons manager again.

Same behaviour in TB6, hence this is not an issue for me anymore.

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John T. Haller
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local too

Both ff and tb local work the same way, at least after upgrading to 6. So it's a bug in the apps.

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strange?

so far yesterday my local FF on w7 x64 did update itself to 6 and all was as usual, did not notice any glitches around the addon manager so far.

Today I updated local FF on my still beautifully working w2k and did not notice any problems too. The addon manager did show the 'loading' for about 2-3 minutes after first start, but then it seemed to do what ever it was after and from there on all works normal.

Otto Sykora
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Database Cleanup?

Could be a slow database cleanup for extensions that are marked internally as incompatible but are said to be compatible by addons.mozilla.org. Both my installs are using such extensions.

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