After installing and restarting, mintray doesn't show in the installed addons list (TB 60.2.1 64bit Linux)

[WPFilmmaker]

Describe the bug
Upon installing mintrayr and restarting TB, the addon is not listen in the installed addons and therefore is unusable (I am not even sure if it installed but not shown or not installed properly).

Please check if your problem is related to the issue #7.
I don't think it is related to #7, maybe to #14? He mentions too that mntrayr doesn't appear on the installed addons list but we have different systems and I am unable to verify whether the addons works or not (it was reported that it didn't).

To Reproduce
Go to TB addons website download the extension and then install it in TB from "install from file"

Expected behavior
I am able to install and use mntrayr

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Lubuntu 16.04.3
• Thunderbird Version 60.2.1 (64-bit)

[ysard]

hi thank you for your detailed report, in fact on some configurations (it's hard to say which today) the addon will not install and Thunderbird deletes critical files from launch.
Version 1.4.6 solves this problem by installing the addon in a non-standard folder. Which is not advisable.

[fxrb]

Hello and many thanks!
Version 1.4.6dev indeed does solve my problem. Now mintrayr behaves as expected, i.e. it always shows up in the list of installed extensions and the configuration dialog works.

For the records only, as it might help in further debugging: When I terminate the session (logout from or shutdown Ubuntu) while the extension is active and Thunderbird running, a message states that Thunderbird has crashed. But again: this does not bother me at all ;-).

regards, Felix

[ysard]

@fxrb:

When I terminate the session (logout from or shutdown Ubuntu) while the extension is active and Thunderbird running, a message states that Thunderbird has crashed.

Thank you for this last report, I also noticed this bug.

[meonwax]

Same for me.

• OS: Archlinux
• Kernel: 4.19.4-arch1-1-ARCH x86_64
• Thunderbird: 60.3.1 x86_64

[WPFilmmaker]

I don't know if it happens to someone but the weirdest part is that sometimes the addon shows in the addons list but doesn't minimize TB, sometimes it doesn't show up and sometimes the addon just works fine.

I am still on 1.4.4 I will be glad, once I get the update, to update you and see if it fixes the bug.

Thank you again for your work on this addon!

[ysard]

@WPFilmmaker
Version 1.4.6 is now on AMO. But for your specific problem i think you might test/install manually this version:
https://github.com/ysard/mintrayr/releases/tag/1.4.6dev
It is a workaround for this problem which seems to occur randomly on various platforms...

[qwertychouskie]

Maybe just make this the default behavior? The files only take ~100KB, it's not the end of the world if they get left sitting around. I imagine many users have this problem and just remove the addon thinking it's broken.

[WPFilmmaker]

I still havent received the 1.4.6 update on my TB, however now I can confirm that when the addon shows on the list it doesn't work, wheras when it is not shown it works as intended.

[ysard]

@WPFilmmaker :
As long as the addon is not reviewed by an official team, it is not listed/indexed on addons.thunderbird.net. You must download and install the .xpi manually via the site or via GitHub (https://github.com/ysard/mintrayr/releases). But by doing this, even if new versions are pushed to addons.thunderbird.net your Thunderbird will not be updated :/

@qwertychouskie :
I agree, but I do not really like programs that install data everywhere without uninstalling them after they leave ...
In the meantime I will put an alert on the page of the addon.

[bernhardh]

Not sure, but I have the same problem, even with 1.4.6-dev, on Kubuntu 18.04 with TB 60.3.0 (from snap).

As you can see, no settings/preferences option. And it doesn't minimize to tray.

[fxrb]

@bernhardh:
This Add-on has no settings/preferences button in the list of Add-ons. You configure it by its own menu entry found in the hamburger Add-ons -> Minimize To Tray Reanimated.

Once enabled there it should work fine.

[bernhardh]

Stupid me. Thank you. Now i found it.

[ysard]

@bernhardh :
Hi, it seems to be not related to this issue; Options are elsewhere, see: #10 (comment)

EDIT: sorry, i forgot to refresh the page before to post...

[qwertychouskie]

@ysard If you are really worried about leaving the files around, maybe extract them to /tmp? That way they will be deleted on every boot.