Can't get the latest X-Notifier to log in to any accounts

Submitted by JH on Sat, 06/24/2017 - 00:56

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Just upgraded to the latest Firefox 54 (for Mac) after using an ancient version for years. X-Notifier still worked great at first but then must have auto-upgraded to the latest version, which I can’t get to work at all.

• Cleared all cookies for x-notifier and yahoo (the only email host I use).
• Re-entered each account and password info.

X-notifier will work on an account in which I am currently signed-in, but no other. (All other addresses are greyed out.) After logging out, the last account I used turns red.

If I am not already signed in, clicking on any account will lead to a blank yahoo login page.

When I try to log in manually to yahoo after a failed x-notifier attempt, I’ll get a "We can’t sign you in from this device. Please try again from the device you use most often" message that makes me start over. (I only use this one desktop.)

Unfortunately, I don’t remember the last version of X-Notifier I used successfully, so I’d rather fix this problem than hunt around for the right  older one.

Any suggestions about what I’m doing wrong?

(Also, it took forever, but I accidentally found a list of previous versions of X-notifier, but I can’t find it again on purpose. Can someone post a link to that please?)

RpD

Sat, 06/24/2017 - 03:08

If you go to the Firefox addons webpage for X-Notifier...  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xnotifier  ...and look down the page a little bit, there's a white box, and in small print in the white box,  you'll see "View other versions"... click that and you can download whatever you want.
ALSO... There is a post discussing a possible (yet another) newer version of Yahoo mail... which may not be working with the latest X-Notifier, but not everyone may have access to the newer version of Yahoo mail... yet. But apparently there is a link to return to an earlier version of Yahoo mail.
See:  http://xnotifier.tobwithu.com/dp/node/3583

JH

Sat, 06/24/2017 - 06:53

Thanks for the quick reply and the links.

All but one of my yahoo accounts are already set to the classic, no-frills versions so I don’t think that’s the issue.

As a test, I added a gmail account to the list, but X-Notifier behaves the same way it does with yahoo. (Except the Gmail listing doesn’t turn red. Still won’t connect though.) I don’t know if it’s important, but the Gmail listing has an icon in front of it but the yahoo addresses do not.

I disabled all other addons, but that didn’t help either.

I installed X-Notifier on a new laptop on a fresh Firefox install and it behaves the same way. Maybe it doesn’t like Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5?

I wasn't actually planning to upgrade Firefox just to keep X-Notifier working on my desktop, but that pesky autoupdate kicked in once I upgraded the OS.

RpD

Sat, 06/24/2017 - 08:19

Op sys upgrades break apps less often than other things.  
One can install older versions of applications, like Firefox... but it can be a security risk and then you have to turn off auto-updating.  For add-ons, you can turn off auto-update for just a specific add-on or 'globally' for all add-ons.  If you run ancient software, it's more likely to need to disable auto-update globally.  Mozilla has some commentary about how to try to fix problems, before they offer links to older versions of Firefox... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-older-version-of-firefox
I would make a real effort to fix the problems rather than run outdated software... there are a lot of users successfully running the new versions of software.

JH

Sat, 06/24/2017 - 08:33

Thanks. That's my inclination too. Hopefully someone will recognize my troubles and let me know what I'm doing wrong.

The one thing this experience has taught me is how much better X-Notifier is than any available alternative. I would have skipped the hassle and moved on to another notifier, but none of the others have comparable features.

 

RpD

Sat, 06/24/2017 - 09:56

It may be that yahoo has changed and another X-Notifier update may be necessary to fix that.
Yes, there isn't a comparable competitor for X-Notifier unless you only use a single email provider for which there is a good notifier, like gmail, perhaps.

popsy

Sun, 06/25/2017 - 22:31

There are posts elsewhere about this. X Notifier no longer works with Yahoo. So far as I am aware this applies to all versions of Yahoo - including the basic interface and all versions of X Notifier including Neo. It stopped working around the 23rd June.

JH

Mon, 06/26/2017 - 03:05

Thanks for the head's up. I didn't recognize my symptoms described elsewhere, so I figured it was only me :)

That gives me hope it will be fixed.