Update Check Failed

[perfect7gentleman]

When pressed extensions shows "Update Check Failed"
https://i.imgur.com/Yr70Qwo.png

[NeverDecaf]

You may have blocked requests to google in your firewall or elsewhere, which are unfortunately required in order to check for extension updates. Otherwise, try unchecking Check for updates to non-web store extensions in chromium web store's options and see if the check still fails.

[OothecaPickle]

I've also been getting this error as of late and, as you suggested, unchecking "Check for updates to non-web store extensions" fixes it, however if I keep it checked and manually select all my extensions to be ignored, the error still appears. Can you explain this? I can send a list of my installed extensions if you'd like. Thanks for any assistance you might be able to provide. :)

[NeverDecaf]

Good find @OothecaPickle, this is a legitimate bug. The code is in dire need of a rewrite anyway so I will fix this issue in the process.

[NeverDecaf]

Please let me know if you are still experiencing this in 0.9.0, and if so, it would be very helpful if you can pinpoint the exact non-webstore extension that is failing to update. (Non-webstore extensions should specify a valid "update_url" in manifest.json, or none at all. One that fails indicates either an invalid update url, or a bug in chromium web store.)

[OothecaPickle]

WIth the latest update I was able to determine that the culprit was Bypass Paywalls by manually selecting all extensions to be ignored, unchecking them one by one, and checking for updates in between. Thanks!

[OothecaPickle]

and this probably isn't the place for this but the fix for bypass paywalls is to change the update_url to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/master/src/updates/updates.xml

[calvinbui]

Updating bypass-paywalls and then enabled site access on this extension fixed the problem for me

[Rohaq]

Still having this issue when non-web store extensions is ticked - it wouldn't be so bad if the error actually let me know which extension wasn't able to update properly!

[Rohaq]

Just saw the release, updated, and it showed me what was failing to update, and it's uh, interesting.

Which... I can only see because the extension had successfully updated? 🤔

I'm guessing that there needs to be something done to make CWS aware of its own update? 😄

[NeverDecaf]

If the update is failing you should see something like this:

What you are seeing implies the update was not installed and you are still on 0.9.0. Check chrome://extensions and ensure it shows version 0.9.1 for chromium web store.

[Rohaq]

It does, but only after a full browser restart.

[NeverDecaf]

Do you no longer see any red "update failed" message?

[perfect7gentleman]

it is still here
https://i.imgur.com/vrI0mAH.png

I've wanted to report it to bypass dev, but he is such an asshole.

An owner of this repository has limited the ability to open an issue to users that have contributed to this repository in the past.

So I removed it.

So the issue can be closed if you want to.

[OothecaPickle]

You'll have to install the latest version of Bypass Paywalls manually for the update_url fix to be implemented.

[perfect7gentleman]

I've installed 1.7.1, the bug is still present.

[alexolog]

I am getting this on 1.4.4

[NeverDecaf]

Is there any output in the console? (right click the badge => inspect popup)

[Leoniels]

I am experiencing the same issue as @alexolog with 1.4.4.2.

The console output in the inspector is Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

[Leoniels]

Well, after some usage, the error dissappeared. I guess it is working correctly right now.