techno_sam87 wrote on Apr 19^th, 2021 at 6:37am:
Yes, that is correct.  I got upset one day when I discovered that Apple's developer tool (Xcode) does not properly preprocess Info.plist files for command-line tools.  (Chromessenger is a command-line tool.)  So instead of the version number placeholder which Xcode would fail to replace with the actual version number, or writing a script to patch over Apple's failure, I put in that rude remark.  To my knowledge, the version number in the embedded Info.plist of a command line tool is only read manually, if one is interested, by tools such as `otool`, which is probably what is used by Apparency.  There is no matter with what it says or does not.

just wanted to say i appreciate the amount of time you've spent helping me with this. sorry for the hassle, had no idea this would turn out to be such a doozy. i will report back when i get a sec to try bookmacster on a new admin account.

i believe im running the most recent version of opera as i have it set to autoupdate, and im running 10.15.7 on a mid2012 unibody macbook pro

here's a list of all my other extensions installed in Opera

Bitwarden - Free Password Manager

Black Menu for Google™

Bookmark Sidebar

Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans

buylow

Bypass Paywalls

CheaperThan

ClearURLs

Disconnect

Extensity

Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers

FasterChrome

Flowbar

Fonts Ninja

Git Up

Google Translate

Google Unlocked

Image Search Options

Install Chrome Extensions

Just Read

Lustre

minerBlock

NextPage - auto load next page

NooBoss

Privacy Pass

Raindrop.io

Recipe Filter

Reddit Enhancement Suite

Smart HTTPS

Tampermonkey

uBlock Origin

Universal Bypass

Unseen for Facebook

Wayback Machine

YAAW for Chrome


i suppose its also worth mentioning that i have Adguard running as a menu bar app filtering all apps as well. i think adguard does some user agent spoofing, not sure if this would have any effect on things but figured i'd throw it out there

Thank you for running the test, techno.  So the port is opened without error, but our native messaging tool Chromessenger is never launched and the port is then reportedly "disconnected".  Very strange.

I shall need some time to think about this.

techno_sam87 wrote on Apr 1^st, 2021 at 7:29pm:
Sorry, I hope you did not copy and type all of that text because only the top part was interesting.

Specifically, Native host has exited is the problem.  I don't recall this ever being an issue.  Please do this:

• Quit Opera if it is running.
• Open an Activity Monitor window and filter for "Chromess".  Presumably there will be no such processes.
• Open a Console window.  If messages do not start streaming into the window, click the "Start Streaming" button in the middle of the window.  Enter "Chromess" into Console's filter field and hit return.  The messages should all disappear.
• Now launch Opera.

A Chromessenger process  should appear in Actvity Monitor, and several messages from Chromessenger should appear in Console.  If both of these occur, maybe the problem has fixed itself.

More likely, neither will appear.  In that case, look at our Developer Console in Opera again.  I've attached a screenshot of how it should look (in Dark Mode).  Tell me how yours is different.  Or email a screenshot to support@sheepsystems.com.  (Sorry it's cumbersome to attach screenshots to this forum.)

Hello again, techno.  Thank you for the follow-up.  We are getting closer.

techno_sam87 wrote on Mar 30^th, 2021 at 1:04am:
Well, at least 1 is closer to the correct answer than 3.  Maybe we shall return to this ancillary issue later.

techno_sam87 wrote on Mar 30^th, 2021 at 1:04am:
Good idea, but as you found it won't work.  To function for a browser, Chromesssenger must be launched by the browser, which tells it the name of the port it should open.  That is why you are still getting this message:

techno_sam87 wrote on Mar 30^th, 2021 at 1:04am:


So Chromessenger can run, but the browser is not launching it.

Let's look at your Native Messaging Hosts file.  Please look in this folder:

~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/NativeMessagingHosts

If that folder does not exist, that's a problem.  BookMacster should create that folder if it does not exist, when you click the Install button for Opera in BookMacster's Manage Browser Extensions window.  (Yes, it is weird that Opera requires a file which is in Google Chrome's Application Support library, but that's how the Opera developers wrote their app.  You need that folder path for Opera even if you do not have Chrome installed.)

In that folder should be a file named com.sheepsystems.chromessenger.json.  BookMacster should also write that file as part of the Opera extension installation.  Do you see that?

Also, please look again in Opera in the console log for BookMacster Sync, as you explained you did in your first message.  Are there any more messages after profileName: "SORRY-NULL-PROFILE".

Finally, although I think you've already tried this, uninstall and then reinstall our extension into Opera, but this time doing so while watching that NativeMessagingHosts folder.  Before doing so, delete that com.sheepsystems.chromessenger.json file if it is present.  It should reappear as soon as you click the Install button.  After you are done with all of the OK's in Opera, be sure to immediately return to BookMacster and click the Test button.  If the Test fails, look for messages in Opera in the console log for BookMacster Sync again.

Hello, techno.

Thank you for running the tests and contacting us.

Regarding "0" Opera profiles, I get that too.  Although that is a bit confusing, it is correct in the sense that Opera does not support multiple profiles and does not consider the single data folder that it supports to be a profile.

Regarding those 3 Firefox profiles, maybe you did have Firefox installed at one time.  See if you have a directory ~/Application Support/Firefox.  If you delete that folder (which you should, to save disk space, if you are sure you'd never want to use Firefox with your old Firefox data), then the number of Firefox profiles reported by "More Tests…" should be 0.

Regarding what you see in the logs of background.html in Opera, yes that SORRY-NULL-EXTORE should be ExtoreOpera and SORRY-NULL-PROFILE should be Default (although Opera does not have profiles, we need one for our data structure, so we fake this Default).  Syncing will not work until this is fixed.  It is however,  another symptom of the problem which is…

That Chromessenger is not running after you launch Opera with one of our extenions installed.  Yes, this is the issue.

Tell me if you can launch Chromessenger manually.  To do that,

• Activate Finder.
• Click in the menu: Go > Utilities.  A window will open.
• In that window, find and double-click to launch Activity Monitor.  It will open a window.
• In the filter filed in the upper right corner of the window, enter "Chromess".  The list should empty since you have no Chromessengers running.
• In that Finder window, also launch and open a window in the Terminal application.
• Copy and paste this command into the Terminal window.
    ~/Library/Application\ Support/BookMacster/Chromessenger
• Hit return.  A Chromessenger process should appear in Activity Monitor.  Does it?

Also see if you have any crash reports for Chromessenger.  To do that,

• Activate Finder.
• Click in the menu: Go > Go to folder….  A sheet with a small text field will appear.
• Copy and paste the following "path" into the text field

~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/

• Click button "Go".  A Finder window will open.
• Click in the menu: View > As list.
• Each item in the list is the name of a file which contains a particular crash report.  Each name begins with the name of the process that did something bad, followed by the date and time in the format _YYYY-MM-DD-HHmmss.  There be crash reports (.crash) spin reports (non-responsive applications, .spin), and/or other reports (.diag, .panic).
• Select any files whose name contains "XXXXXXXXX".
• Email any such files (or some representative files if there are too many) to support@sheepsystems.com and we shall have a look.