Privacybadger: "An unexpected error occurred" in Firefox 71

[okias]

Only this message appear after disabling & enabling extension:

1570472797925   addons.webextension.jid1-MnnxcxisBPnSXQ-eff@jetpack WARN    Loading extension 'jid1-MnnxcxisBPnSXQ-eff@jetpack': Reading manifest: Warning processing storage: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.

[ghostwords]

Hello! I'm unable to reproduce the problem in the latest Nightly (2019-10-07). The "unexpected property" message is a harmless warning, it doesn't really mean anything.

[okias]

I get this for every page

it's ongoing already for few compiled nightlies, but I'll try recompile today.

[ghostwords]

According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555491#c18, "An unexpected error occurred" has to do with failing to write to extension storage (powered by IndexedDB). This is probably not a Privacy Badger-specific problem, and it may be particular to your environment (is your Firefox partition out of space?).

[Teuniz]

I have exactly the same problem after installing FF 71 on Linux.
I tried disabling my other addons and restarted FF but the problem persists.
It worked fine with FF 70. The FF partition has 16GB of freespace.

[grdryn]

I have exactly the same problem after installing FF 71 on Linux.

Same, specifically Fedora 31, with the latest upgrade: firefox-71.0-8.npgo.fc31.x86_64. I haven't tried any other distributions. Is that the same as you @Teuniz? I doubt it's an issue with the Fedora build of Firefox, but if that happens to be the same for both of us, then it's maybe worth not ruling out.

I've also noticed other extensions broken, such as simple-tab-groups, which I've reported here: https://github.com/Drive4ik/simple-tab-groups/issues/501

[Teuniz]

I have exactly the same problem after installing FF 71 on Linux.

Same, specifically Fedora 31, with the latest upgrade: firefox-71.0-8.npgo.fc31.x86_64. I haven't tried any other distributions. Is that the same as you @Teuniz? I doubt it's an issue with the Fedora build of Firefox, but if that happens to be the same for both of us, then it's maybe worth not ruling out.

I've also noticed other extensions broken, such as simple-tab-groups, which I've reported here: Drive4ik/simple-tab-groups#501

I'm using openSUSE Leap 15.1 and FF is installed from the openSUSE Mozilla repo.
So, It doesn't look like a specific build issue from just one distro...

[ghostwords]

Could you file a Mozilla Bugzilla bug and link to it here? Thank you!

[ghost]

Same, specifically Fedora 31, with the latest upgrade: firefox-71.0-8.npgo.fc31.x86_64. I haven't tried any other distributions. Is that the same as you @Teuniz? I doubt it's an issue with the Fedora build of Firefox, but if that happens to be the same for both of us, then it's maybe worth not ruling out.

I've also noticed other extensions broken, such as simple-tab-groups, which I've reported here: Drive4ik/simple-tab-groups#501

Also experiencing this error on Fedora 31, along with some other weird behavior (such as extensions not saving settings). I reinstalled FF71 and it seems to have fixed the settings problem, but still getting "An unexpected error occurred" in Privacy Badger.

Edit: spoke too soon about fixing the settings not being saved problem. Guessing this is more of an issue with Firefox.

[ghostwords]

still getting "An unexpected error occurred" in Privacy Badger

Privacy Badger reports browser errors that come up when trying to write to extension storage, other extensions probably do not (and fail silently).

[linkp]

keepassxreboot/keepassxc-browser is experiencing similar issues and throws an error to the console: "Error: Cannot load extension settings"

I noticed both immediately following the upgrade to Firefox 71 on OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 yesterday.

[ghost]

keepassxreboot/keepassxc-browser is experiencing similar issues and throws an error to the console: "Error: Cannot load extension settings"

I noticed both immediately following the upgrade to Firefox 71 on OpenSUSE Leap 15.1 yesterday.

Yea same problem here. The settings panel doesn't load so I can't connect to my database. Also, uBlock Origin deletes its filters and settings whenever I close Firefox. I'm guessing this is a problem with Firefox.

[ghost]

I submitted a report on Mozilla Bugzilla for those with the same problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601424

[alex65536]

Just upgraded to 71.0 from Debian unstable and got the same problem.

[antistress]

Just upgraded to 71.0 from Debian unstable and got the same problem.

Just like me

[Stupendoussteve]

Seems to work fine in the Firefox 71.0 build provided by Mozilla, on Fedora. The Fedora-built one does appear to be broken (Fedora bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1779570).

[bcl]

Downgrading Fedora 31 to firefox-69.0.1-3.fc31.x86_64 also works fine.

[xfix]

Also happens for me on NixOS 19.09. KeepassXC Browser extension doesn't show settings page. uBlock Origin shows suspiciously low number of blocked advertisements since installing it (that lowers when restarting a web browser), Decentraleyes always shows 1 locally injected resource.

I think everything is broken in Firefox 71.

[Teuniz]

For me the problem seems to be resolved after upgrading FF to 71.0-lp151.5.1 from the openSUSE repo.

[alex65536]

Debian also fixed the bug in firefox 71.0-2.
Maybe the issue can be closed, because it's not a bug of the extension itself?

[ghostwords]

Great news! I'll close this once new reports stop coming in.

[das-g]

Also happens for me on NixOS 19.09. KeepassXC Browser extension doesn't show settings page. uBlock Origin shows suspiciously low number of blocked advertisements since installing it (that lowers when restarting a web browser), Decentraleyes always shows 1 locally injected resource.

I think everything is broken in Firefox 71.

I had this problem, too and just now upgraded to nixos-19.09.1549.45ea6092203 and the problem seems to be gone. :tada:

[LorbusChris]

Fixed on Fedora with firefox-71.0-15.fc31 as well

[renatobellotti]

Also fixed on Fedora 30.

[go2null]

fixed with firefox-71.0_2 on Void Linux

[ghostwords]

Haven't gotten any new reports in a while, resolving.