Webclipper not working anymore

laurent · 2021-06-27T15:45:32.594Z

Unfortunately the newer version of Joplin doesn't work with the older version of the clipper, for security reasons. I've released the new clipper on the Firefox and Chrome store but it might take some time before they're available.

laurent · 2021-06-27T15:45:48.152Z

laurent · 2021-06-27T15:54:01.337Z

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JFTrudel · 2021-06-28T04:15:09.040Z

Same issue here.

I installed Joplin for the first time this morning..

Best,
Jean-François

JFTrudel · 2021-06-28T04:51:27.976Z

Hi Laurent,

Do you know if it will be a long process ?

Best,
Jean
New user

laurent · 2021-06-28T10:47:53.656Z

Should be fine on Chrome now, if not let me know. The Firefox one was buggy so I've published a fixed one which should be available soon.

dpoulton · 2021-06-28T13:43:38.066Z

laurent:

The Firefox one was buggy...

Was the buggy Firefox version 2.1.1? I ask as that one cannot be authorised using v2.1.7 desktop. It seems to ignore the authorisation.

EDIT: Ignore that. I just looked at Joplin releases and saw that there is a clipper 2.1.2 which seems to answer my question

whitewall · 2021-06-28T15:36:02.456Z

I have updated to 2.1.2 on Firefox 89.02 This is what I get when I try to clip:

I have restarted FireFox. I have restarted Joplin and it is running. I'm on Windows.

Joplin 2.0.11 (prod, win32)
Profile Version: 39
Revision: 981b1d845

Before upgrading to 2.1.2 it worked fine.

dpoulton · 2021-06-28T15:42:43.186Z

This was the Firefox message for clipper 2.1.1 (which it seems was buggy (but more informative))

message

Note that Joplin v2.1.x is needed.

auth

whitewall · 2021-06-28T16:00:02.961Z

dpoulton:

Note that Joplin v2.1.x is needed.

Oh, gosh. I just updated. I didn't realize that there was already another important upgrade.

I'm on limited data. Do we know for sure that upgrading to 2.1.x is going to work?

thelazyoxymoron · 2021-06-28T16:11:29.910Z

Confirming that it works on Joplin client v2.1.7

laurent · 2021-06-28T16:12:10.898Z

Anyone tried with Joplin desktop 2.1.7 and the Chrome extension? Is it working for you?

kartoo · 2021-06-28T17:41:50.993Z

Are we supposed to remove the old one and install the new one in Firefox?

Ricarda · 2021-06-28T18:16:49.099Z

yes! after updating joplin to 2.1.7 the clipper in Chrome works again.

tessus · 2021-06-28T18:18:51.298Z

There's anotehr issue, but I will open it on gh.

mzguy · 2021-06-28T18:27:30.357Z

It appears that the newest web clipper doesn't work if I'm still running Joplin 1.8.5. Is that expected?

laurent · 2021-06-28T18:33:17.077Z

Yes, for security reasons the clipper now requests permission to access Joplin data, and the old versions of Joplin don't have the API to authorise the clipper so they cannot work.

bryanwi · 2021-06-29T16:31:49.383Z

This happened to me but I DIDN"T CHANGE ANYTHING - has there been some kind of background update againast my wishes?
I generally need to keep my environment very static.

bryanwi · 2021-06-29T16:33:51.517Z

It appears that firefox may have auto-updated the web-clipper - how do I go back to the old one?

tessus · 2021-06-29T16:48:26.989Z

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/joplin-web-clipper/versions/

click on 1.6.1 - download and install from file. That should do it. And turn off the auto-update in FF

However, keep in mind that when you upgrade the desktop to 2.x you must upgrade the clipper as well!