Convergence Addon Breaking in Firefox 18

[ghost]

When running Firefox 18, along with Convergence enabled, pages that are supposed to load over SSL to have their certificates validated, fail to do so because proxyService.resolve is “not a function”. (Thanks, IonMonkey)

Obviously, sites loading over the clear via HTTP aren’t affected.

From the error console:

Timestamp: 01/10/2013 03:40:47 AM

Error: proxyService.resolve is not a function

Source File: file:///home/dotbind/.mozilla/firefox/yqcmb5k4.default/extensions/[email protected]/components/Convergence.js -> file:///home/dotbind/.mozilla/firefox/yqcmb5k4.default/extensions/[email protected]/chrome/content/ssl/PhysicalNotary.js

Line: 93

[HolgerV]

Some workarounds might be better than the original solution.
I changed to FF 17 ESR and killed two birds with one stone.
Convergence 0.09 keeps working and I got rid of this endless nail-biter "... there is a new version of Firefox".
No technical solution, but very handy.
Downgrade from 18.0.1 worked smoothly (backuped all Mozilla folders first).

[nsapa]

Firefox 18 is now the default version on Fedora 18.