CoApp not recognized in linuxserver/firefox docker container running on Synology NAS

[ambell7]

Your question

Sorry in advance if the CoApp is simply not supported on this environment but here goes:

Hardware: Synology DS-918+ NAS
NAS O/S: DSM 7.1.1-42962 Update 6
Synology Docker Package Version: 20.10.3-1308
Container Image: linuxserver/firefox:latest
Firefox Version in container: 128.0.3 (64 bit) for Alpine Linux (Alpine Linux - 1.0)

VdhCoApp install script:
https://github.com/aclap-dev/vdhcoapp/releases/latest/download/install.sh
BUT I had to comment out the “file $tmpfile” line in the script as the Linux “file” command is not implemented on a Synology NAS

Output from running script on container startup:

Downloading https://github.com/aclap-dev/vdhcoapp/releases/latest/download/install.sh
Extracting tarball…
Registering CoApp
Installing…
VdhCoApp : VdhCoApp is ready to be used
CoApp successfully installed under ‘~/.local/share/vdhcoapp’.

Output from ~/.local/share/vdhcoapp —info

{
"id": "net.downloadhelper.coapp",
"name": "VdhCoApp",
"version": "2.0.19",
"binary": "/config/.local/share/vdhcoapp/vdhcoapp",
"displayName": "VdhCoApp",
"description": "Video DownloadHelper companion app",
"target": {
"os": "linux",
"arch": "x86_64",
"node": "18"
},
"home": "/config",
"converterBinary": "/config/.local/share/vdhcoapp/ffmpeg",
"converterBase": "ffmpeg",
"converterBaseVersion": "c30f360"
}

Symptom:
On the More settings display of the Video Download Helper extension in Firefox is says “Companion App not installed” and “No such native application net.downloadhelper.coapp”

Diagnosis to date:
The contents of the ~/.local/share/vdhcoapp folder look ok but there appears to be no VdhCoApp.json” file in the ~/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts directory and even when I create one there manually containing the output from the “vdhcoapp —info” command above and then restart Firefox via the “Restart normally…” button on firefox’s “about:profiles” screen this does not fix the problem.

So …
Any help would be gratefully appreciated. It would be great to be able to get this working not just for myself but for annyone else wanting to use this great Firefox extension in this way. Thanks in advance.

Addon & CoApp version and details

version: 9.1.0.42
target: mozilla
channel: stable
lang: en-US
coapp: {"found":false,"error":"No such native application net.downloadhelper.coapp"}
license: {"unneeded":true}
platform: x86-64 linux
UA: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
{
"view_options": {
"all_tabs": false,
"low_quality": false,
"sort_by_status": true,
"sort_reverse": false,
"show_button_clean": true,
"show_button_clean_all": false,
"show_button_convert_local": false,
"hide_downloaded": false
},
"open_count_store": 6
}

[Mattmjs]

This is out of my depth with this setup you have. What type of app is Firefox running as ?

[ambell7]

I have firefox running in a docker container as described here:
https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-firefox

[Mattmjs]

I'm a user like you, the dev @paulrouget would have more insight on this.

[Verwundert]

Same here, Qnap and Firefox Docker...

apk add curl
apk add bash
apk add file

Firefox3:/tmp# curl -sSLf https://github.com/aclap-dev/vdhcoapp/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bash
Downloading: https://github.com/aclap-dev/vdhcoapp/releases/latest/download/vdhcoapp-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 52.8M 100 52.8M 0 0 8307k 0 0:00:06 0:00:06 --:--:-- 9085k
Extracting tarball…
/tmp/vdhcoapp-GjdHjh: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k
Registering CoApp
bash: line 76: /root/.local/share/vdhcoapp/vdhcoapp: cannot execute: required file not found
Firefox3:/tmp#

Video Downloader Prime Addon working for me as alternative.

[CalvinNg-git]

Same. How to resolve that?