[Browser Extension] MTurk Suite no longer supported?

Yeah, we're not at that point yet with AI.

 

FWIW, this function still works correctly in Firefox. It's a long story, but I was using Firefox briefly a month ago because I had an issue with Chrome, but then it was fixed and I was back to Chrome. But it later occurred to me, maybe I could export on there, so I tried it and I was able to get the popup to save unlike in Chrome now, so that's what I do now to backup the HIT Tracker. It's the only thing I'm doing on Firefox, just syncing and saving the history. It's not as easy as just downloading the extension on there to set it up, it takes a little bit of time, but not that bad and it was worth it so that I can have the peace of mind of having my history backed up.

 

Did you import data from Chrome to Firefox? Or have you been running MTS in parallel on both browsers?

 

Imported. What I had previously saved in Chrome, I imported. Then re-synced and exported the most current one.

Basically the same process I did when I got a new laptop a year ago. Set up Tampermonkey, MTurk Suite, and TurkerView on Firefox. Imported my backups from Chrome for those, input anything asked for (like the TurkerView API code) and it seems to be working okay.

 

How do I transfer the settings from one browser to another?

 

Settings? Or your HIT Tracker data?

If you actually mean "settings", then I don't think there's an easy way of moving them over to a new browser, you'll just have to change them manually, but it shouldn't take more than a few minutes, there aren't that many settings.

If you mean HIT Tracker data or your HIT Finder include / block lists, then you can totally transfer those, you'll just have to do the export / import thing. This post goes into more detail on how you can do it: https://forum.turkerview.com/posts/21902717/

 

I meant the block list.

 

So Chrome finally decided to hit me with the "This extension was turned off because it's no longer supported". After enabling legacy extension manifests, I can't find any of the other 3 flags on search. What should I try now?

 

Just checked and you're right, Google has now disabled Manifest V2 in Chrome and the workaround in my post no longer works. RIP MTurk Suite

MTS still works in Edge, but that will likely get nuked too in the coming weeks.

 

What is the suggested replacement for MTS? Is there one? Does it even matter at this point?

 

Firefox, however, has no plans to deprecate MV2 and will continue to support MV2 extensions for the foreseeable future.

 

Just had the same issue hit me for FicLab Extension, where I download Fanfiction!

 

Me at Chrome:

 

Now I don't want to click this.

 

@Ducky and anyone else: apparently if you enable the "Temporarily unexpire M137 flags" flag before you follow the rest of my post, it still works. But that will likely last less than a month, so probably smart to start moving over to something else anyways.

No idea, man, I haven't actually turked in years, so very out of the loop.

Probably this:

or this (the Firefox version of MTS is very old and janky, though, so don't expect too much):

 

I have been talking to ChatGPT, and it says the only thing we can do is panic.

 

Mine is still working in an old version of Chrome on the very old laptop which runs on Windows 7. Chrome won't update on that OS. I have no idea if this will keep working, though.

My Layout Manager extension also went kaput today.

 

I feel so lost right now. I have installed PandaCrazyMax and it's okay until i get a captcha then the link doesn't work that pops up and I have to manually close that browser, go the hit page and select a hit so a captcha will pop up, then I can go back to open PCM again. It's killing my batches.
But anyway, it sucks for more than just the lack of a hit catcher. I miss everything about the Suite setup. What are the working scripts these days that help with productivity? Are there any good ones?

I also still have it working on Firefox but the old issue of "header too large/cookies blah blah" thing popped up immediately and won't even let me go to the hits page on the Mturk website after two or three hits. I looked up the workaround and it's not workingaround. I cleared cookies but that's not the real problem because I got them from the start, when I had almost no cookies on a new clean install of FF. It must be an issue with the script.

 

For Firefox, I saw some lady on the other forum made an extension to fix that cookie issue - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mturk-hit-cookie-blocker/

 

So, I have a little hacky version of MTS 3.3.2, converted for Firefox. Sort of.

You should use Firefox Developer Edition, or FIrefox ESR. I'm using the developer edition; this will allow you to permanently (maybe) install the script. Included in the zip file is the converted xpi file, and the converted folder. JUST USE ONE, NOT BOTH. The xpi file is easiest. Check out the README to allow unsigned scripts, then load it up. Sign in with your TV account and it mostly works. The biggest reason for me to keep using this is because I like the workspace QOL improvements that aren't a part of the native Firefox version of MTS.

Caveats:

- The "Today's Activity" part doesn't show up on the dashboard. I think this is because of how Kads programmed the changes to happen on the "self" page, in this case the dashboard, but Firefox doesn't seem to allow this, which is probably why it was never really finished on Firefox. However, if you click on the MTS icon on the browser toolbar on either the Finder, Tracker or Catcher pages, the "floaty" part will work on these pages, and I think it will still track the hourly.

- I was able to reload my blocks and favorites from Finder, and my most recent tracker data loaded and is updated. But, because this is all kind of hacky, I don't know if it will persist between upgrades to the browser. It should, but I don't know.

- If any of this breaks or causes your PC to burn up in flames, I'll point and laugh.

Here's the zip file:

Have fun! Or don't. Whatevs.