I couldn't download any of add-on. Got error message "The add-on could not be downloaded because of a connection failure on services.addons.mozilla.org."
I couldn't download any of add-on. Got error message "The add-on could not be downloaded because of a connection failure on services.addons.mozilla.org."
Please help in ASAP. :(
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Tried that, but no luck :( Started happening on Firefox 7.0, on both WinVista and Win7.
Go to answer 2I replied to an older post, but since this is new and fresh i'll reply here too:
I am using Windows XP and Firefox 7 and I am getting this. I added the xpinstall:enabled line into the about:config but that's not helping. I still get the same error. Would really like to fix this soon.
It should also be noted that I was able to successfully install adblock and Lastpass. Since then I have not been able to install anything else.
Go to answer 2Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- ActiveTouch General Plugin Container Version 105
- Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
- 04.0000.0002
- getplusplusadobe16248
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 8.3.0
- NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
- Shockwave Flash 10.3 r181
- Google Update
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_26 for Mozilla browsers
- 4.0.60310.0
- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
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Guys i think i solved this issue :D All what you have to do is go to about:config then click "I'll be careful i promise" now right click somewhere then click New>String and name it: xpinstall.enabled and set the value to true
All the downloads should work now
Question owner
Where is about:config? Didn't find it. Please help. Thanks!
Type it in adress o-o
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Tried that, but no luck :( Started happening on Firefox 7.0, on both WinVista and Win7.
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I replied to an older post, but since this is new and fresh i'll reply here too:
I am using Windows XP and Firefox 7 and I am getting this. I added the xpinstall:enabled line into the about:config but that's not helping. I still get the same error. Would really like to fix this soon.
It should also be noted that I was able to successfully install adblock and Lastpass. Since then I have not been able to install anything else.
Modified by mjulian211
Like mjulian211, I am also replying to a duplicate post.
Also getting this error. Running Ff 7.0 in Windows XP Home SP3. PartyPengy's solution did not work for me. I even tried restarting Ff after the about:config edit, even though it didn't say you had to. No joy.
Edit: Okay, mha007's workaround from this thread:
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/855759#answer-253445
worked for me, except in Ff7 the link says, "+ Add to Firefox." Also, to open it, you have to click on the Ff menu button, hover over "New Tab," and then click "Open File...."
Modified by jemrkr