Less Broken Than You Think
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Hey guys, we’ve been made aware through various channels that about two weeks ago Mozilla changed their policies on Extension Signing—something that we were never notified about, even given that we had reviews open at the time—and we were able to get our extension signed without re-writing it, contrary to what we had been told earlier by Mozilla volunteers.
Anyway, without further ado, we’re proud to present a version of New XKit that works with Firefox 43! Nothing else has changed, it’s literally exactly the same extension you have installed, but working. You’ll still have to download it directly from our github for now because Mozilla won’t show it on their store, but that’s a minor inconvenience in the long run, and we’re working on addressing it.
Anyway, let us know if you have any questions! And as always, if you got any trouble with XKit, you are welcome to join our support chat room. (hosted on gitter, if you want to join with a github account)
Afternoon reblog!
Hey guys, we’ve been made aware through various channels that about two weeks ago Mozilla changed their policies on Extension Signing—something that we were never notified about, even given that we had reviews open at the time—and we were able to get our extension signed without re-writing it, contrary to what we had been told earlier by Mozilla volunteers.
Anyway, without further ado, we’re proud to present a version of New XKit that works with Firefox 43! Nothing else has changed, it’s literally exactly the same extension you have installed, but working. You’ll still have to download it directly from our github for now because Mozilla won’t show it on their store, but that’s a minor inconvenience in the long run, and we’re working on addressing it.
Anyway, let us know if you have any questions! And as always, if you got any trouble with XKit, you are welcome to join our support chat room. (hosted on gitter, if you want to join with a github account)
A lot of you people using Firefox probably already realized: The update to Firefox 43 completely disables New XKit due to it not being signed/verified.
Let me begin by saying that all of us are truly sorry for this inconvenience.
We are trying our best to fix this but currently are unable to give an ETA on how soon this is going to happen.
Mozilla published their plan for extension verification in Feburary, so even when the New XKit project started in July we knew that it was something we were going to have to deal with eventually. We submitted our extension initially to Mozilla on July 20th, and did not hear back from them until November 16th, when Mozilla removed our extension from their online gallery, telling as that we do not meet their requirements to be a publicly listed extension. We then submitted as an “unlisted” extension, which was theoretically a more lenient process. This time they got back to us within about a week, but they would not still not accept the extension the way it was currently written.
There are a lot of technical details that go into the situation, but the bottom line is that we need to rewrite the core of how XKit handles extensions almost completely before getting signed. We’re currently about half-way through that process, and hope to have something to share with you as soon as we can pass validation. The biggest downside that comes with this rewrite though will be our reaction time—we will have to update the entire extension whenever we want to change one of the individual packaged extensions, and third-party (non-signed) XKit Extensions will no longer work.
Until signing happens though, we can offer you 3 workarounds:
WARNING! Signed extensions a security feature added by Mozilla. Disabling that feature may put you at risk of installing viruses and ad-ware!
Additionally, this fix only works until Firefox v44 hits and the switch gets removed.
If you still want to proceed, type “about:config” in your Address Bar, look for “xpinstall.signatures.required” and double click on it so it has the value “false”.
And as always, if you got any trouble with XKit, you are welcome to join our support chat room. (hosted on gitter, if you want to join with a github account)
Before we get to the week in review, we’d like to remind you that FixMyPosts is not an official New XKit extension. Please refer all bug reports to its developer, thetimeisneveright. There have been a lot of people having problems with posts lacking formatting, posts being all in a line, posts having weird blockquotes, and posts having text content disappearing. All of these issues have been known to be caused by FixMyPosts! If you have FixMyPosts installed, try using Reblog Display Options instead—RDO is an official New XKit extension that, in its “nested” format, restores the formatting of your dashboard, and is supported by the New XKit Team.
If you’re having any of the above issues, please check to see if you may have FixMyPosts installed first. Thanks!
Bug Fixes
New Features
Changes in Review
That’s it for this week! As always, you can get in touch with us by sending an ask to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion or visiting our live support chat. If no one responds in the live chat, it means the developers are currently busy/away/sleeping! Just wait a bit and someone will get back to you!
Hey all! You may or may not of noticed that tumblr is rolling out some backend changes to how the “in-blog controls” (the buttons at the top-right of blog.tumblr.com pages) work. This means that Go-To-Dash, One-Click Postage, Post Archiver and others have all been having a hard time working on post permalink pages.
We just released an update that fixes the two most popular, Go-To-Dash and One-Click Postage, and we’re working on the other extensions.
Let us know if you have any questions! If you already have New XKit, you should be seeing the update within a few hours (or you can go to the “Other” panel in your preferences and click “Update All” to get it immediately). If you don’t already have New XKit, you can grab it from the Chrome store or here for Firefox.
The holidays are steadily approaching, so we’d like to raise some hype by providing you the latest in bug fixes and features.
Bug Fixes
New Features
Changes in Review
That’s it for this week! As always, you can get in touch with us by sending an ask to @new-xkit-support or @new-xkit-discussion or visiting our live support chat. If no one responds in the live chat, it means the developers are currently busy/away/sleeping! Just wait a bit and someone will get back to you!