• Registered: 2009-03-06
  • Posts: 2

Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

OK, I have uninstalled FireFTP as I do not use it that often.  Then I reinstalled FireGPG.  I am still having the problem with the path not being found to the gpg executable.

The path is set in both the FireGPG options and the about:config extensions.firegpg.gpg_path key.

I just recently reinstalled GnuPG and the stupid Windows part.  It seems to me that for a short while FireGPG worked just fine with only the GnuPG gpg executable on the hard drive.  I am not sure why I need a Windows key manager, but OK, that is what the instructions say.

Additionally gpg is in my PATH on Windows ... not that Firefox or FireGPG seem to care about this.  In other words, I can run the gpg executable at the command line from anywhere.

This is what I am running:

WinXP SP3
gpg 1.4.9 with gpg4win 1.1.4
Firefox 3.0.7
FireGPG 0.7.4

I would love to be able to use this application and teach my non-techie friends how to use it as well,  but I have never had a stable version (even when it did kinda work before, it may work once and then I would go to encrypt again and Firefox would freeze).

Does anyone have anything they could suggest for me to try?  It was pointed out previously that there are conflicting libraries.  Was uninstalling FireFTP and reinstalling FireGPG sufficient?  Is there a certain place that I need to go to make sure I have the right library?

gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.9 (Gpg4win 1.1.4)
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: C:/Documents and Settings/crustytapioca/Application Data/gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
  • Registered: 2009-03-06
  • Posts: 2

Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

Well, I seem to have fixed my own problem after doing the uninstall of FireFTP and reinstall of FireGPG.  I went to about:config and turned off extensions.firegpg.specify_gpg_path key (set to false).  Now it works.  Did not work with the value set.  Interesting.

  • Registered: 2009-02-04
  • Posts: 8

Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

I get this to work by doing the following:
1) Install GPG in a directory called GnuPG under the Firefox directory
2) Set the GPG path to: {$FXFolder}\..\..\..\FirefoxPortable\GnuPG\gpg.exe
3) Set the GPG user options to: --home {$FXFolder}\..\..\..\FirefoxPortable\GnuPG

As you can see I'm using Portable Apps Firefox which is installed on a USB key - this configuration allows me to carry my config around with me.

  • Registered: 2009-12-03
  • Posts: 1

Re: Firegpg can't find gpg

I know I'm digging up an old thread, but it took me a little while to install this plugin on Windows. The problem for me was that it kept asking for the path to the GPG executable. There are so many EXE's that I didn't know which one it was looking for. When I finally clicked gpg2.exe then it worked.

Sounds stupid after the fact, but I just wanted to mention that it could be a bit clearer to the novice user installing it. Maybe you could set a filter in the browse window?