Broken about:addons page.

[Marc05]

The about:addons page on FireFox 50.1.0 is broken. The log shows that the origin about:addons to destination mozilla.org is blocked. I tried adding a rule with the origin of about:addons, but it did not work.

[myrdd]

The about:addons page on FireFox 50.1.0 is broken. The log shows that the origin about:addons to destination mozilla.org is blocked.

You're talking about RPC 1.0.x?

I tried adding a rule with the origin of about:addons, but it did not work.

Be sure to enter "about" in the "scheme" field, and leaving the "host" of the origin empty. "addons" is the_ path_ part of the uri.

[metadings]

I did git clone github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy... and I was going to do make which is like make nightly-xpi and I also did make beta-xpi!

(In about:config I've also set xpinstall.signatures.required and xpinstall.whitelist.required to false.)

The nightly didn't work, as in about:addons the click on Einstellungen was about to redirect to about:requestpolicy, which didn't work...

The beta actually worked, however, there are two versions of RequestPolicy... There was one with a default menu and a nice dialog for settings. There was another one with a nice menu and bullshit settings.

Now which RequestPolicy should I make ? I didn't find the one with the "nice dialog"...
On which RequestPolicy do you actually work?

[metadings]

OHA, you're using git checkout A LOT, but no one uses master or dev-1.0...

Well, now I'm going to look into your CODE ...

[metadings]

Now I'm on dev-1.0-releases ... however I couldn't succeed.

I've found the one version with a nice menu, I couldn't find the one with the nice dialog ...

[myrdd]

@metadings This is very off-topic. Please create a new issue.

I'm working on the dev-1.0 branch. The master branch is RP Legacy.
If you just want to use RP, please install RP from AMO.
If you want to develop RP, I suggest you to run make run. Be sure to disable e10s.
You can also use other Firefox versions, e.g. use make run app_branch=esr.
If you just want to get the xpi, make nightly-xpi is correct. Again, e10s must be disabled.
No idea what you mean by "nice menu/dialog". There's v0.5 and v1.0.
If you've got further questions, please create a new issue!

[metadings]

What is "AMO" and what "e10s"?

[Marc05]

@myrdd

Be sure to enter "about" in the "scheme" field, and leaving the "host" of the origin empty.

This worked, thank you. I suppose the question now is why did it break, or at least, should this not be allowed by default?

@metadings

What is "AMO" and what "e10s"?

https://www.google.com/search?q=mozilla+amo&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
https://www.google.com/search?q=e10s&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

[metadings]

Yes, thank you. I'm now diving deeper into RequestPolicy :-)

Looks like you're using a lot of dependencies, so just downloading, makeing and then running RequestPolicy isn't that easy.

EDIT: I also did sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv. However, I don't want to install some Firefox-nightly, just to edit the RequestPolicy addon...

Look, I don't want to sign the addon every time I want to try a new feature on RequestPolicy.

You may also use a default Firefox installation, having an unsigned RequestPolicy-beta,
where you can work on...

I'm currently using Firefox 50.0 on Linux Mint. (You just have to reset xpinstall.* in about:config.)

[metadings]

Ya, this looks very well... You're working on the one with the nice menu :-)

[myrdd]

I suppose the question now is why did it break, or at least, should this not be allowed by default?

It should. What is the exact destination hostname? RP currently allows requests from "about:addons" to "https://services.addons.mozilla.org/": https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy/blob/5dc9768405420037a1324a1a73a05390ec7b9e9f/src/content/lib/request-processor.compat.js#L243

[myrdd]

I don't want to install some Firefox-nightly, just to edit the RequestPolicy addon...

To use a custom firefox (or seamonkey, or palemoon), just use:
make run app_binary=/path/to/my/firefox.exe
@metadings please continue your questions here: #826

[Marc05]

The destination is https://discovery.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/discovery/pane/50.1.0/WINNT/normal.

The rule needs to be updated I suppose, instead of adding a new one. I think the last FF version that used the old addons page was like 48.