Stopped working on Firefox (until reinstall)

[NicoWeio]

In the timeline and raw views, there was no browser activity from Firefox since the last day or so. The aw-watcher-web extension said Enabled and Connected, but the Last sync was a while back. Restarting the browser did not help, neither did disabling and re-enabling.
What finally solved my problem was uninstalling and reinstalling the extension, after which I was prompted to agree to AW's data collection.
I suspect this happened because of the now-live consent update discussed in https://github.com/orgs/ActivityWatch/discussions/818, but haven't had time to dig deeper.

[eskoONE]

is it really working for you? because it did for me for a minute and then stopped recording again. im not sure whats causing this.

[cachedout]

I can confirm this behavior though in my case it appears that all tracking has stopped. I did remove and then re-install the browser plugin and it worked briefly before stopping again.

[NicoWeio]

@eskoONE Yes, it's still working as expected since the reinstall. Did you see the new data collection prompt upon reinstallation? What does your browser extension say when you click it (Enabled / Connected / Last Sync)?
Since you and @cachedout describe the same phenomenon, it might be worth pointing out that I use activitywatch-bin from the AUR on Manjaro Linux and since the extension's reinstall, I run aw-server in a terminal ($ aw-server --verbose). You could try to do the same; maybe it tells you what the problem is.

[isle9]

Seems like the background script doesn't seem to start until you manually re-enable it every time you open the browser.

[NicoWeio]

Thanks, @isle9!
I rarely restart my browser, so that might be the reason it kept working for me so far.

[ErikBjare]

Asked ChatGPT4 by feeding it the source file and @isle9's description:

Making a PR and new release now.

[ErikBjare]

Reopening until new version has been approved by Mozilla

[ErikBjare]

New version should be out now. Let me know if you find any issues!

[isle9]

Unfortunately, it seems like the Mozilla version still doesn't work properly. The background script still doesn't run automatically.

This issues seems like it might be connected too.

[ArgonBeryllium]

Bump, having this issue using the recently re-released addons.mozilla.org version.
I've verified using the Query Explorer that there is indeed no data being received by the server beyond the last sync until restart(unchecking and re-checking the Enabled box), after which point logging seems to continue normally. The data in between is either lost or was never logged to begin with.

I'm running AW v0.12.2 (rust) and Firefox v111.0(64-bit) on Arch Linux.

[maestromac]

Similar to others, I have to uncheck-recheck "enabled" every time I launch my Firefox to get it working.

Firefox 102.0.1 Fedora 38

[isle9]

Any chance this gets fixed any time soon or should I just switch to Chromium?

[ErikBjare]

I released an updated version 6 days ago that should have fixed the bug: #107 (comment)