MyPal 68

[AstroSkipper]

4 minutes ago, feodor2 said:

Bad idea then, I only take what see fit, who knows how many other 78 things missed.

So comment just that only one line mentioned

Just for clarification. Editing the bootstrap.js in the way I described above makes the Custom Buttons extension working again. All my self-created custom buttons and the button editor are working as it should be. Only the list of all installed custom buttons inside the Add-ons Manager is broken as already in Mypal 74.1.0.

[AstroSkipper]

On 8/6/2025 at 9:09 PM, AstroSkipper said:

On 8/6/2025 at 8:56 PM, feodor2 said:

Bad idea then, I only take what see fit, who knows how many other 78 things missed.

So comment just that only one line mentioned

Just for clarification. Editing the bootstrap.js in the way I described above makes the Custom Buttons extension working again. All my self-created custom buttons and the button editor are working as it should be. Only the list of all installed custom buttons inside the Add-ons Manager is broken as already in Mypal 74.1.0.

@feodor2 To avoid a general setting to appVersion 78 the fix can also be done in the line you referred to:

In line 782 of the bootstrap.js file:

- if (!FOX85 && appVersion >= 78 && url == "chrome://custombuttons/content/overlay.xul")
+ if (!FOX85 && appVersion >= 74 && url == "chrome://custombuttons/content/overlay.xul")

This is working too, and even the icon of the custom buttons list appears again.



However, the list itself is still empty. But this is caused by one of the changes you did in Mypal 74.1.0.  Maybe a CSS related change?  One thing is clear. Nobody but you will be able to answer that, because only you know exactly what has been changed since Mypal 68.14.8b. And your provided changelog for Mypal 74.1.0 is unfortunately too common and unspecific (marked red) to get an idea what's going wrong:

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74.1.0

New features added, some sites will be fixed
New version number is 74 because addons like custumbuttons check it and breaks expecting xul things from 68 which has been removed.

UPDATE 14.07.2025 Fixed bug about privace settings not shown

P.S. 1: Alternatively, another theory. You changed in Mypal 74.1.0 the appVersion from 68 to 74. Maybe, the Custom Buttons extension expects further features of an FF74 browser elsewhere, which are unfortunately not available in Mypal 74.1.0, which is why the list of all installed custom buttons in the Add-ons Manager cannot be built.  Has, for example, Bug 1525175 - [about:addons] Move header into HTML views (Firefox 72+) (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525175) already been fixed in Mypal 74.1.0? I found this in the addons-html.js file, which is involved in building the list in the Add-ons Manager, located inside the Custom Buttons extension.

P.S. 2: When clicking onto the entry Custom Buttons in the Add-ons Manager for opening its list, I get each time this error message in Mypal 74.1.0:



Unfortunately, a very unspecific error message that usually refers to an unhandled exception in JavaScript code causing a script called up to stop executing and potentially break the functionality of the corresponding page which in this case is the Add-ons page. That would fit in well with my theory in P.S. 1 I put forward earlier. But maybe, you can find out the exact cause for it. What I can say for sure is that I don't get this error message in Mypal 68.14.8b. 

Edited 12 hours ago by AstroSkipper
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[Monroe]

I have decided to try this new version of mypal just released a few days ago. I had not used it for awhile. I can't find the right version of uBlock to use with this new version. Have tried a couple downloads and it won't install ... message say ' was not installed, appears to be corrupt.' Also, some websites have ads popping up that never happened before. Is there anything else or another program also to wipe out ads.

I've always read (I think) that uBlock should be all that is really needed on a browser. Does everyone agree with this or is there also another program that could be added for ads to also work with uBlock?

I had a version of uBlock working on an older version of mypal but I lost all that information.

thanks

[AstroSkipper]

On 8/6/2025 at 9:37 PM, AstroSkipper said:

To avoid a general setting to appversion 78 the fix can also be done in the line you referred to:

In line 782 of the bootstrap.js file:

- if (!FOX85 && appVersion >= 78 && url == "chrome://custombuttons/content/overlay.xul")
+ if (!FOX85 && appVersion >= 74 && url == "chrome://custombuttons/content/overlay.xul")

This is working too, and even the icon of the custom buttons list appears again.



However, the list itself is still empty. But this is caused by one of the changes you did in Mypal 74.1.0.  Maybe a CSS related change? 

@feodor2 This is how the list of all installed custom buttons should look like inside the Add-ons Manager if all is fine. This screenshot comes from Mypal 68.14.8b, the last version where the Custom Buttons extension is fully working and the Add-ons Manager seems to be more stable:



P.S.: BTW, clicking extension entries in the Add-ons Manager does not work in single-process mode of Mypal 74.1.1 and leads to the well-known message that the address is not understood. OTOH, in multi-process mode, it seems to be working.

Edited 16 hours ago by AstroSkipper
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[AstroSkipper]

2 hours ago, Monroe said:

I have decided to try this new version of mypal just released a few days ago. I had not used it for awhile. I can't find the right version of uBlock to use with this new version. Have tried a couple downloads and it won't install ... message say ' was not installed, appears to be corrupt.' Also, some websites have ads popping up that never happened before. Is there anything else or another program also to wipe out ads.

I've always read (I think) that uBlock should be all that is really needed on a browser. Does everyone agree with this or is there also another program that could be added for ads to also work with uBlock?

I had a version of uBlock working on an older version of mypal but I lost all that information.

thanks

uBO can be installed in Mypal 74.1.1 and is working there. Here is a screenshot showing that uBO 1.62 is installed:



I was also able to install the latest version 1.65. And TBH, there are no other adblocker extensions comparable with uBO. 

Edited Thursday at 01:26 PM by AstroSkipper

[Monroe]

3 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

uBO can be installed in Mypal 74.1.1 and is working there. Here is a screenshot showing that uBO 1.62 is installed:

Thanks AstroSkipper ... got the link and it installed with no problem. I don't why I had problems earlier ... just kept saying it was 'corrupt'. All is well again.

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[AstroSkipper]

@Monroe Actually, uBO 1.62 is compatible with FF78 and up. And uBO 1.65 is compatible with FF92 and up. But as @feodor2 wrote, one can't rely on version numbers in Mypal anymore,  it is now a mix of different ones. So, only trial and error is the game.   Personally, I prefer uBO 1.62 at the moment since I don't want to go too far away from FF68 or FF74.  Who knows what would be missing if you moved too far away from FF68 in terms of compatibility.  OTOH, do not think if something is compatible with FF68, it has to work in Mypal. That's water under the bridge.   Think, for example, of the Nuchi-Sporif script loading method which no longer works in Mypal! 

P.S.: This and the last few posts are an exception. Everything concerning extensions, custom buttons, CSS stylesheets or UC.JS scripts and their loaders in Mypal will be dealt by me with in this dedicated thread: 

I personally consider this thread here for the Mypal browser itself. At the moment, my favourite version of Mypal is 68.14.8b. 

Edited Friday at 05:45 PM by AstroSkipper
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[feodor2]

Ublock 65 is fine, I use it for some two weeks

 

The list of installed custom buttons may be fixed too

https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/426#issuecomment-3172415836