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When I try to install Stop the Madness Pro, I am unable to follow the installation instructions.

To reproduce:

  • Install StopTheMadness Pro from the Mac App Store
  • Launch it
  • Click on the "Google Chrome" button
  • Navigate to Orion's NativeMessagingHosts folder and click Save
  • A window appears saying to enable Developer Mode in the Extension Manager window and then drag an item to that window

It should be possible to enable Developer Mode in the Manage Extensions window, but there is no such control.

Even if Developer Mode is already enabled, when I drag the item to the Manage Extensions window, Orion rejects the drag rather than installing StopTheMadness Pro.

(If I try the same thing with the Firefox version of the extension instead, I can't even get that far, but this seems to be StopTheMadness at fault as it claims Firefox is not installed, despite Firefox Developer Edition being installed and actually running. That's hardly Orion's fault, though 🙂

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Sonoma (14)

    Hey,

    We are trying to make as many browser extensions as possible compatible. However, we are a small team, and it is not always possible to keep up with the technological choices of developers.

    We will add this plugin to our list of extensions to fix, but don't expect an immediate resolution either 🙁

      Thanks — I was actually able to install it by using Install From Disk and selecting the folder /Applications/StopTheMadness\ Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/StopTheMadness\ Chrome.app/Contents/Resources/chromium — I thought I deleted this after I worked that out, actually 😄 — but I get an error from within the extension.

      I've contacted the extension developer in case there's a workaround I can apply — but it may be that it's not yet compatible, of course.

      (The Firefox version of the extension does give a file:// URL that loads a page with a link to the XPI of the Firefox version, but when I click it, Orion displays the extension as plain text rather than offering to install it. That feels like a security feature to me, though, so it probably should do that!)

      We secretly dream that application developers will start creating applications that are immediately compatible with Orion 😉

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