Is "Check for updates" on the "about:addons" page broken in Firefox 107?

Add-ons Development
#1

Can you try to visit “about:addons” and click the “Check for updates” in the gear icon menu to see if it works?

For me it’s checking for like 30 seconds and then it says no updates found.
Not only the check should take only a second, but there are also updates I expect.

Plus it works fine in my ESR, so it feels like a bug in 107.

#2

I have noticed similar behavior many times recently, though I haven’t checked if there are any updates I am missing.
Also just saw it working with 106.0.2. Then I updated to Firefox 106.0.3 and next time it failed!?! So maybe just a bit unstable?..

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#3

In the browser console I see all requests are timing out, for example:

20:49:27.326 1667245767325	addons.update-checker	WARN	Request for https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id={16cbd87c-eb99-4f5c-9825-83cf13ab7ff8}&version=2.1&maxAppVersion=*&status=userEnabled&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=107.0&appOS=WINNT&appABI=x86_64-msvc&locale=en-US&currentAppVersion=107.0&updateType=97&compatMode=normal timed out
20:49:27.327 1667245767327	addons.update-checker	WARN	Request for https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id=admin@fastaddons.com_Ctrl_GroupSpeedDial&version=2.6&maxAppVersion=*&status=userEnabled&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=107.0&appOS=WINNT&appABI=x86_64-msvc&locale=en-US&currentAppVersion=107.0&updateType=97&compatMode=normal timed out
20:49:27.328 1667245767328	addons.update-checker	WARN	Request for https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id=steam-context-menu@skylark95.com&version=1.2.2&maxAppVersion=*&status=userDisabled&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=107.0&appOS=WINNT&appABI=x86_64-msvc&locale=en-US&currentAppVersion=107.0&updateType=97&compatMode=normal timed out
20:49:27.328 1667245767328	addons.update-checker	WARN	Request for https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id={9ea6f004-dfa1-4d80-8cb0-b3f8bfe9004d}&version=1.1.0&maxAppVersion=*&status=userEnabled&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=107.0&appOS=WINNT&appABI=x86_64-msvc&locale=en-US&currentAppVersion=107.0&updateType=97&compatMode=normal timed out
20:49:27.328 1667245767328	addons.update-checker	WARN	Request for https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id=admin@fastaddons.com_SendNoteToDevice&version=2.6&maxAppVersion=*&status=userEnabled&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=107.0&appOS=WINNT&appABI=x86_64-msvc&locale=en-US&currentAppVersion=107.0&updateType=97&compatMode=normal timed out
20:49:27.328 1667245767328	addons.update-checker	WARN	Request for https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion=2&id=display-anchors@robwu.nl&version=1.3&maxAppVersion=*&status=userEnabled&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=107.0&appOS=WINNT&appABI=x86_64-msvc&locale=en-US&currentAppVersion=107.0&updateType=97&compatMode=normal timed out

There was a similar issue not long ago, but I can’t remember where, it was some GitHub repo that serves these updates and it had a wrong URL or something…

Edit: reported here.

#4

Hey!

We are currently experiencing issues with add-on updates when the user has a relatively large amount of add-ons installed. We’re investigating the root cause of the issue and can hopefully fix it soon.

Thanks @juraj.masiar for bringing this to our attention and reporting the issue.

For anyone ending up here after seeing issues, you can follow the case in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server/issues/19837

Update: This problem has been fixed now and the updates should work as usual.

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