MozBar Login Change Update + Firefox Temporarily Disabled

[Roxana_Nelson]

Hello!

I wanted to give you all a heads up about some changes we will be making to the MozBar very soon.

We will be making an update to the MozBar that will require you to log in with either a free Community account or with your Moz subscription to access link metrics. Don’t worry! We will never charge you for link metrics in the MozBar.

Why are we making this change?
The MozBar has historically made use of a free endpoint in our Mozscape API. Unfortunately, over time, we have been experiencing increasing levels of abuse on this endpoint. For a long time, we were able to manage this mis-use but recently we have reached a tipping point whereby this malicious traffic is starting to degrade other legitimate API traffic and cause performance issues within our products.

By asking you to log in to the MozBar with either a free Community account or a Moz subscription, we can ensure only authenticated users are able to use the MozBar. Also, if you don’t need link metrics, you can still use the MozBar. Logged out users will still be able to access on-page information.

A note to Firefox users
With this change, we will temporarily disable the Firefox version of the MozBar. You may have noticed that the Firefox and Chrome versions of the MozBar are not the same. This is due to Mozilla’s review process, and us being unable to get new versions approved despite multiple attempts.

Good news on the horizon! Firefox will start accepting Chrome-based extensions with the release of Firefox v48, which means soon there will be one version of the MozBar. When v48 is released, we will re-enable the MozBar in Firefox. In the meantime you can use the free Google Chrome version.

Thank you for your understanding while we make these changes in the MozBar! Please feel free to let us know what you think, or ask questions, in the comments below.

Thanks!
Roxana

[mtmitchel1]

An update on this topic would be nice! Thanks in advance!

[RamonK]

Can you all please respond to the question so that we can know if this was permanently abandoned?

[btreloar]

"A note to Firefox users
With this change, we will temporarily disable the Firefox version of the MozBar. You may have noticed that the Firefox and Chrome versions of the MozBar are not the same. This is due to Mozilla’s review process, and us being unable to get new versions approved despite multiple attempts.

Good news on the horizon! Firefox will start accepting Chrome-based extensions with the release of Firefox v48, which means soon there will be one version of the MozBar. When v48 is released, we will re-enable the MozBar in Firefox. In the meantime you can use the free Google Chrome version."

Two and a half years later, this still appears to have not been  fixed. Am I wrong? If not, have you abandoned Firefox permanently?

[scott.thomason.scott8035]

It's a year later. What is the latest thinking on Mozbar for FF?

[RamonK]

Is this issue fixed yet?

[EllieWilkinson]

Thank you for letting me know, Andrew, and I'm so sorry to disappoint. We've had to weigh this work against other priorities, so still no ETA on getting MozBar into Firefox. I appreciate your feedback and will bring it up again with product and engineering. Thanks again!

[RRoginator]

Firefox just upped its game in a huge way - it's now super fast and I'm switching away from Chrome. But really disappointed to see that there is no Moz plugin after all this time

[EllieWilkinson]

Hi there! Thanks so much for looking out for us and bringing this to our attention! I've brought this up with the product and engineering teams and we're going to look into it and see if we'd be able to resolve the issue easily. We need to get a good sense of how much work it'll take before we can prioritize it.

Thanks again for letting us know!

[hoosteeno]

Hi!

Mozilla put together a tool to help test Chrome web extensions for compatibility with Firefox. I took the liberty of running the Mozbar extension through this tool, and there is only one issue to be resolved before the existing Chrome extension will run on Firefox. Check it out:

https://www.extensiontest.com/test/857d5700-a855-11e7-9c3d-35e0bb5262dd

app.runtime is not supported

found in the following locations:
        scripts/browser_button.js:46697
        scripts/content_page.js:60933

Just a couple changes and this will work on Firefox! Any chance we'll see it soon?

[Roxana_Nelson]

Hi Alan,

So sorry for the frustration. We know this is important to many MozBar users and hate to keep you waiting on this. At the moment, we are unable to give an ETA, but it is on our roadmap. I know I sound like a broken record but we had to prioritize this project against other big projects. Sorry, I know this is not the news you wanted to hear.

Thanks,

Roxana

[seoimage]

Going on 1 year and still not working? Not happy to switch to chrome as my other add-ons work better in Firefox Mac. Have to assume at this point FF will be unsupported? Any news would be great.

Also, you need to consider whether or not a site is indexed in Google an effect on DA. Seems odd that a 50+ DA site is de-indexed in Google but still showing great DA in Moz.

[hoosteeno]

Near as I can tell, the biggest technical blocker to porting the Chrome WebExtension to Firefox will disappear in Firefox 53[0], which lands in the general release channel on 2017-04-18[1]. In other words, now is a good time to start porting, since it can be tested in nightly today.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330100

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

[cbizzle]

Me, too.

[btreloar]

Please do what you can about this. Many of us are waiting somewhat impatiently. Because all of my SEO plugins are on Firefox, I need to open a separate Chrome browser just to use the MozBar. I really need it back on Firefox./

[Roxana_Nelson]

Hi Maarten!

Thanks for your question. Re-enabling MozBar in Firefox is on our roadmap, but we don't yet have an ETA.

[Guapa_zwolle]

Hi, now we already have Version V49. Still The MOZ Toolbar is not working.When do you expect it will be working again? Thanks Maarten

[GPainter]

You may find you get a better response with help@moz.com. Did you try a refresh on that page after you've logged in? Sometimes with an error turning the Moz bar on and off again ("Have you tried turning it off and on again?") resolves many issues.

Hope some of those help!

[DazzaM]

I am not able to see any Link Metrics - even though I'm logged into the Moz website.

Is there a current issue?

Background:

1. Using Mozbar in Chrome

2. Click the blue "Log In" link which takes me to the Moz website and I log in (I have a Moz Pro subscription).

3. Then I go back to the tab for the website I'm reviewing - Link Metrics still displays nothing.

[Roxana_Nelson]

Hi Abhishek - The Firefox version is temporarily disabled until v48 is released this Fall. In the meantime, MozBar is available in the Google Chrome store! 

[Abhi-Budholiya]

still not working in Firefox.......

[grayson_powerdigitalmarketingi]

Are  you planning on keeping the export function for the Firefox version? Will you add the export function to the Chrome version?

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[Mohaned]

Thanks for sharing this.

I think Moz bar is the best item to use for SEO workers.

It present's to you a lot of services in one package, you can find Keyword difficulty, keyword explorer and other vary items.

[94501]

Thanks for the heads up. Please let me know when Firefox is working again.

Best... Mike

[Robin_Jennings]

The new Chrome browser add-on is a huge improvement.

[Ria_]

Ah, this makes so much more sense now! I hadn't read this announcement and have been wondering why Firefox Mozbar was acting all screwy the past few weeks. Finally decided to just try re-installing it this morning, but after I uninstalled I couldn't find it in Firefox's Extensions library!

Looking forward to being able to use it in Firefox again. Unfortunate though that it'll be the current Chrome flavour one. Always seemed to work a lot faster in Firefox than in Chrome, so I tried to push all my Mozbar usage to my "Firefox monitor" rather than my Chrome one when working.

[IsaCleanse]

Thanks Rand! That makes sense, I was under impression they will all show up eventually but it makes sense that they arent as comprehensive!

[randfish]

Hi Sandi - Moz won't know about all the links to your site. We don't crawl as fast or comprehensively as Google, so Open Site Explorer will always be showing a sample set rather than a complete picture of every link.

[IsaCleanse]

Just to add to Nicholas' question above about Site Explorer, I know some of the links to my website that have been around for over 12 months (ie from my personal blog) and show up in Google Webmaster tools are not flowing through to Moz

Any ideas?

[GPainter]

As a Firefox user I'm looking forward to the update. Understandable why you've done what you've done though.

[siteBaNa]

Its not fixed yet . I couldn't see the metrics stats,

[randfish]

Should be all fixed now. Sorry about that - we're launching a new index, and there seems to be some hardware issues. We're trying to reverse engineer the source of the problem. On the plus side, a new index should be out soon.

[EricaMcGillivray]

Hi Nicholas,

We're currently having some errors in OSE that are due to a slow down in processing as we're preparing to release a new index. You can see the status on the Health Page. Sorry about the troubles!

[Bigb06]

Is there a technical problem with OpenSiteExplorer ? (https://moz.com/researchtools/ose)

Since this morning I'v got many errors like this "There was an error getting your data". Try to refresh but doesn't look to work like before...