dictextension / Tickets / #11 Adblock Plus 2.8.2 closes Dict popup

David Costanzo - 2016-11-29

Thanks for opening a ticket on this, Cean. The other user on mozilla's add-on page (Motsobu) was talking about Firefox 5, not Firefox 50 (the post is from 2011). I fixed that long ago. As far as I know, you're the only one to report a problem with FF50. It might be you're the first to upgrade to FF50, or there might be something special about your environment/configuration.

At some point, Firefox is going to enable Multiprocess Firefox, but the only incompatibility that I'm aware of is that the popup box doesn't resize itself to fit the content. However the default size is pretty good and there's a bug on this in the Mozilla database. I don't think there's anything Dict can do about the resize problem without a major rewrite.

Anyway, I'll see if I can reproduce this using the information you provided. In the meantime, you might try temporarily disabling some of your other addons. You can also try enabling logging and checking for error messages that are logged in the console.

And just to be sure, you are using Dict 0.8.5, right?

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- Cean Conrad - 2016-11-29
  
  Hi
  
  Yeah, I'm using 0.8.5.
  
  I'll run thru the other addons to see what is causing the issue. Almost
  looks like something is blocking popup windows, but I don't think I have
  anything that does that. It's odd.
  
  Anyway, thanks.
  
  C.
  
  On 29 November 2016 at 08:17, David Costanzo david_costanzo@users.sf.net
  wrote:
  
  Thanks for opening a ticket on this, Cean. The other user on mozilla's
  add-on page (Motsobu) was talking about Firefox 5, not Firefox 50 (the post
  is from 2011). I fixed that long ago. As far as I know, you're the only one
  to report a problem with FF50. It might be you're the first to upgrade to
  FF50, or there might be something special about your
  environment/configuration.
  
  At some point, Firefox is going to enable Multiprocess Firefox, but the
  only incompatibility that I'm aware of is that the popup box doesn't resize
  itself to fit the content. However the default size is pretty good and
  there's a bug on this in the Mozilla database. I don't think there's
  anything Dict can do about the resize problem without a major rewrite.
  
  Anyway, I'll see if I can reproduce this using the information you
  provided. In the meantime, you might try temporarily disabling some of your
  other addons. You can also try enabling logging and checking for error
  messages that are logged in the console.
  
  And just to be sure, you are using Dict 0.8.5, right?
  
  [tickets:#11] https://sourceforge.net/p/dictextension/tickets/11/ Dict
  popup window not opening in firefox 50.0*
  
  Status: open
  Milestone: 1.0
  Created: Mon Nov 28, 2016 05:10 AM UTC by Cean Conrad
  Last Updated: Mon Nov 28, 2016 05:10 AM UTC
  Owner: David Costanzo
  
  Dict not working with the new firefox update. Dict window will open
  momentarily then instantly close. May be a conflict with other add-ons,
  however it is noted by other users on the mozilla add-on page
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dict/.
  
  Add-on list:
  Adblock Plus 2.8.2
  Forecast Fox (fix version) 2.4.8
  Gmail Manager-community 0.7.1.2
  Greasemonkey 3.9
  Makelink 11.03.1
  Moderator Toolbox for Reddit 3.5.0
  NoScript 2.9.5.1
  Reddit Enhancement Suite 5.1.5beta
  Search by Image for Google 1.2.0.1
  Session Manager 0.8.1.12
  ShareMeNot 2.3.3.1
  Word Count Tool 3.0.2
  YesScript 2.2
  
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Michael Cox - 2016-11-30

I can confirm the same behavior (blank Dict window opens, then closes). Using FF 50.0 and Dict 0.8.5 on Kubuntu 16.04.2.

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David Costanzo - 2016-12-01

summary: Dict popup window not opening in firefox 50.0 --> Dict popup window not opening in firefox 50.0 and Adblock Plus 2.8.2
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David Costanzo - 2016-12-01

I was able to reproduce this by installing AdBlock Plus 2.8.2. If I enable AdBlock Plus, the popup comes and goes. If I disable AdBlock Plus, the Dict popup remains visible.

I don't know if this has anything at all do to with Firefox 50.0.

Over the years, opening a window got harder and harder in Firefox. At some point, I had to resort to opening a window with a "data:" URI. The URI encodes the entire HTML of the page. It doesn't surprise me that AdBlock Plus would consider this to be an ad. I don't know of any other way to open a popup, though.

As a temporary work-around, you can use AdBlock Ultimate. I don't know anything about ad blocking extensions, but AdBlock Ultimate seems to be compatible with Dict.

I'll try to reach out ot the AdBlock Plus maintainers to determine if there's a way for the two extensions to co-exist.

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David Costanzo - 2016-12-01

I have posted this to the AdBlock Plus forum

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=49924

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Michael Cox - 2016-12-01

Cool. Thanks!

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David Costanzo - 2016-12-02

summary: Dict popup window not opening in firefox 50.0 and Adblock Plus 2.8.2 --> Adblock Plus 2.8.2 closes Dict popup
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David Costanzo - 2016-12-02

I was able to reproduce this on FF 39 using AdBlock Plus 2.8.2 on SUSE Linux. I don't think it's related to the version of Firefox and instead it's entirely that AdBlock Plus is closing the window that Dict opens.

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David Costanzo - 2016-12-03

I got a tip from the AdBlock Plus Forum on how to work around the issue. Go to AdBlock's preferences and view the individual filters in "EasyList" and uncheck the following filter

|data:text$popup

This will leave most of AdBlock Plus in-tact and let it permit the Dict popups.
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David Costanzo - 2016-12-25

For the sake of cross-referencing, the bug on AdBlock Plus is

https://issues.adblockplus.org/ticket/4696

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David Costanzo - 2017-04-08

The end result of all of the discussion on the adblockplus site and the easyfilter site is that it's possible for an extension to add an exception to the filter, effectively disabling the filter that's causing the problem. There's an extension VeeHD that has done this, although I don't know if it's done programmatically by the extension itself.

The filter to add is something like

@@|data:text^$popup,domain=|

or perhaps even more narrowly

@@|data:text/html;charset=UTF-8^$popup,domain=|
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And just to be sure, you are using Dict 0.8.5, right?

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