[β] BPIP Extension: user info & extra features add-on/extension, Firefox/Chrome

[acroman08]

hi, just a question, how does the "inactive" status work? I mean, how long does someone need to be offline to get that status or how does someone need to be active in order for the status to disappear? is it a bug? I am just curious because I saw someone(grumpygit) having the "inactive" status even though the guy has been posting since Feb 21, 2023.

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[ibminer]

hi, just a question, how does the "inactive" status work? I mean, how long does someone need to be offline to get that status or how does someone need to be active in order for the status to disappear? is it a bug?

I am just curious because I saw someone(grumpygit) having the "inactive" status even though the guy has been posting since Feb 21, 2023.

The status should have probably been removed (and the profile auto-refreshed) when BPIP logged the account waking up, but in this case the main reason it was still showing inactive was because the profile had last been parsed/refreshed '4 days' ago.. before I hit 'Refresh Profile' a few minutes ago, which removed the inactive status.

[TheBeardedBaby]

Here's the case.

TOR browser restarted after update. Current version is 12.0.3 ( see below)



I had the BPIP add-on installed on THE browser for a very long time now and never had issues.
Now when I go to add-ons options and toggle something after refresh it toggles back to "disabled": here's some shots.



And after F5 >



Tested everything on Firefox. All is good, here are the default options enabled after the add-on installation.




At the end I trashed the old TOR and downloaded a fresh one>



Again, after I installed the BPIP add-on, all the options are disabled.



And after you make a change, it goes back to disabled.

[ibminer]

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So after testing, this is the issue:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Please set webextensions.storage.sync.enabled to true in about:config

This is disabled because Tor tries to avoid anything writing to the disk, so it's not letting the extension save the settings, enabling this setting allows all extensions to do this. I don't think there is a way to only allow the BPIP extension, but this settings adjustment got things saving again for me.

[TheBeardedBaby]

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So after testing, this is the issue:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Please set webextensions.storage.sync.enabled to true in about:config

This is disabled because Tor tries to avoid anything writing to the disk, so it's not letting the extension save the settings, enabling this setting allows all extensions to do this. I don't think there is a way to only allow the BPIP extension, but this settings adjustment got things saving again for me.

Thank you, I'll test it and let you know the outcome

Edit: it works

[Timelord2067]

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So after testing, this is the issue:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Please set webextensions.storage.sync.enabled to true in about:config

This is disabled because Tor tries to avoid anything writing to the disk, so it's not letting the extension save the settings, enabling this setting allows all extensions to do this. I don't think there is a way to only allow the BPIP extension, but this settings adjustment got things saving again for me.

Just to let you know my TOR browser just updated to version 12.0.5 ^{(from an older version 11.X - without being prompted to do so)} and like TheBeardedBaby all of my BPIP choices had toggled to OFF and wouldn't remain toggled ON.

May I suggest you add a screen shot such as this to the first post to alert other users when their browsers update and they find their instance of BPIP ^{(mine is ver 2.2.5)} also grinding to a halt.





Thanks.

[fillippone]

I have been using Bpip extension successfully in Safari via Tampermonkey.
Since the last Apple OS Update 13.4, the extension has stopped working.
It works regularly on Chrome instead.

Any suggestion on where I can head, to have this fixed?

[ibminer]

I have been using Bpip extension successfully in Safari via Tampermonkey.
Since the last Apple OS Update 13.4, the extension has stopped working.
It works regularly on Chrome instead.

Any suggestion on where I can head, to have this fixed?

Are you using tampermonkey with anything else? Curious if it is tampermonkey itself or the BPIP extension, I don't use tampermonkey myself so I'm not as familiar with it.

Make sure Safari updated correctly with MacOS update and isn't being packaged separately, check the version number under Safari / About Safari, then check for any potential software updates that may be lingering after 13.4 by going back to the updates area in system settings. With Apple, things usually break because of security changes where it may not trust tampermonkey and/or the BPIP extension anymore and will stop it from executing correctly.

[dkbit98]

Any suggestion on where I can head, to have this fixed?

I don't know if Safari have any available alternatives for Tampermonkey, but you should check for Greasemonkey, Violentmonkey or something similar.
You can also always use Firefiox and Brave browser instead of Safari.

[fillippone]

Any suggestion on where I can head, to have this fixed?

I don't know if Safari have any available alternatives for Tampermonkey, but you should check for Greasemonkey, Violentmonkey or something similar.
You can also always use Firefiox and Brave browser instead of Safari.

Well, Some updates disabled Tampermopnkey. With a couple of clicks, it is now up and running. I thought the red X on the Greasemonkey menu was an effect of the disabled, not the cause! Clicking it converted to a green check mark, and the extension started working again.

[erep]

Well, Some updates disabled Tampermopnkey. With a couple of clicks, it is now up and running. I thought the red X on the Greasemonkey menu was an effect of the disabled, not the cause! Clicking it converted to a green check mark, and the extension started working again.

I think there are settings that have changed automatically since the Tampermopnkey update on the Safari browser, so make sure the enable/disabled script that has been added to Greasemonkey so that the extension is working and running normally.

Even though I don't use the Safari browser, every extension that has been installed must pay attention to the small X icon which means the extension is disabled on the Google Chrome menu bar, for example the Internet Download Manager (IDM) extension can be disabled automatically with just 1 click on the IDM icon, and click again to enable again.

[Flexystar]

Very thoughtful project and visiting this thread for very first time. I am not sure how is it different from the actual website but isn’t there should be feature such as notifying the user about live merit sending and receipts. For example, giving chrome/Firefox notification if I receive the merit even after let’s say I am not using the bitcointalk but the my browser is on. Since BPIP anyway shows the merit status on their web version I am sure this can be added in the browser extension itself.

(I know it shows on the display, I am talking about being notified by browser itself).

The tool is already amazing but just little thought to put in.

[Learn Bitcoin]

Hi, suchmoon!
I don't know if you have noticed, but the Bpip bot seems interrupted due to the Cloudflare issues. While Loycebot and TryninjaBot started working yesterday.

As a result, the BPIP extension shows an incorrect number of earned merits in the user's profile. The BPIP website couldn't scrap data, and it's almost two days back (If I am not wrong).

For your info, the Merits page from the user profile still shows the correct data. I am not sure how it shows the correct data.

[examplens]

Another strange bug I noticed, I don't know if it's the same with others.
In the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5459386 there is no BPIP Rank and Earned Merit data, while in several others that I checked, this data appears normally  

Op for example

[Zoomic]

Hi, suchmoon!
I don't know if you have noticed, but the Bpip bot seems interrupted due to the Cloudflare issues. While Loycebot and TryninjaBot started working yesterday.

The cloudfare issue disrupted many things in the forum and those scraping the forum data. I know everything hasn't normalised yet, if it does all the data would be fine. Those data are not inputed manually, so if there is breach during the fetch time, it will either not return a result or it will return an incorrect result.
I just got to know that the BPIP extension is still in the beta version.

[salad daging]

Another strange bug I noticed, I don't know if it's the same with others.
In the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5459386 there is no BPIP Rank and Earned Merit data, while in several others that I checked, this data appears normally  

I see the same thing, maybe it's a bug that hasn't been fixed yet or is still loading.

I also saw in the merit record thread some pages "BPIP Rank and Earned Merit" did not appear, I checked several times it was the same and just realized a few hours ago. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5251894.1220

[LTU_btc]

Another strange bug I noticed, I don't know if it's the same with others.
In the thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5459386 there is no BPIP Rank and Earned Merit data, while in several others that I checked, this data appears normally  

Op for example
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/07/11/ZNflc.png

There is another strange thing I noticed and I guess it's also related with last downtime. User is shown inactive, despite that he logged in last time just few days ago. After refreshing profile on BPIP everything is OK again.

[Bureau]

I have a few noob questions about this extension. You guys might have discussed about it on this thread. As it is not that easy to scroll through so many pages to find an answer. Here is what I want to know.

• How to add this extension on my Safari Browser?
• I did not find it on app store. Does that mean I need a thrid party to add it?
• Why the developers are not interested in getting out a Safari based extension

I am new to MAC OS and I have been struggling to find an answer to my query. I hope someone helps me with the process of getting it activated on my Safari Browser. I am aware I can download Chrome and Firefox and get it installed. I can do that but I don't like them and that is why I am asking this question.

Thanks.

[suchmoon]

Why the developers are not interested in getting out a Safari based extension

When this extension was being developed Apple had their own proprietary web extension system what was not compatible with what Firefox and Chrome (and now Edge) use. I know things have changed since then and porting the extension to Safari now may be easier but I don't have the time to look into that. I don't own any Apple products and AFAIK Safari is no longer available on Windows so I have no way of testing it anyway even if I tried to port it.

[dkbit98]

I am new to MAC OS and I have been struggling to find an answer to my query. I hope someone helps me with the process of getting it activated on my Safari Browser. I am aware I can download Chrome and Firefox and get it installed. I can do that but I don't like them and that is why I am asking this question.

You dont like Firefox and Chrome, and you just started using MacOS and Safari browser?? Yeah right  

Anyway, if you ''love'' Safari browser so much than you can just use some theme to make Firefox look more like Safari, and install BPIP extension.
For example this one is with MIT source, but there are other options available:
https://github.com/AdamXweb/WhiteSurFirefoxThemeMacOS