Can I delete files when an XPI is installed?

I have written a Firefox toolbar that is installed using an NSIS installer. The toolbar includes a DLL that implements a custom protocol, and also an XPCOM object that can be accessed from JavaScript. The NSIS installer used to manually copy the extension DLL into C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components which is how Firefox used to recommend this kind of thing be done. But now with FF 3.6 I've updated my installer so the NSIS installer contains an XPI that it passes to Firefox to be loaded, and my DLL is inside the XPI in the Components folder, and so now the DLL is (properl

Bookmarks toolbar icon issue

There is a bug in the Bookmark Toolbar. To produce the bug, delete at least 2 of the Default Bookmarks in the Bookmark Toolbar. For example: Last Visited Sites, Latest News etc. Then proceed to add your own bookmarks without names, once you have several there you cannot click or hover the mouse over many of the icons in the Bookmarks Toolbar. Windows 7 x64

Re: browserconfig.properties

Hi Robert, Thanks for the clarification. As you mentioned the only file location (for browserconfig.properties) that= Mozilla Firefox 3.5 differs from Mozilla Firefox 3.6 is "browser/base/content/browserconfig.properties (in mozilla firefox 3.5) to = browser/branding/nightly/locales/browserconfig.properties (in mozilla firef= ox 3.6)" With Mozilla Firefox 3.5 ( and for earlier versions of Mozilla Firefox), I = used to modify browser/base/content/browserconfig.properties to set the new= URL for the browser.startup.homepage, Does it mean I should refer to (or modify) the fi

browserconfig.properties

Hi, With Mozilla Firefox 3.5, there used to be file called browserconfig.properties under /browser/base/content/. Looks like this file has been removed for Mozilla Firefox 3.6. Is there any alternative file or option available to set the browser.startup.homepage for Mozilla Firefox 3.6 ? Thanks, Shailendra

Yahoo mail not opening

looks like mozilla 3.7 alpha 2 is not compatible with the new version of the yahoo mail... Thanks, Prasanth

RE: Development environment for developing firefox UI

Try to do an incremental build: Make -C /path/to/your/buildfolder/ -----Original Message----- From: balachandar muruganantham Sent: 3/3/2010 6:12:13 AM To: dev-apps-firefox@lists.mozilla.org Subject: Development environment for developing firefox UI Hi, As of now, i am working on one bug. ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D470628) when ever i make changes to UI or XBL or css, it seems that i have to do make -f client.mk without cleaning and that takes lot of time. how can i prevent this? what is the development environment setup you guys are following? any

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and Freetype2

Hi, With Mozilla Firefox 3.6, there is freetype2 ( version 2.3.7) found under modules/ directory. Questions. 1. Why is this placed under modules directory ? 2. What if the browser is already using pre-requisite rpm freetype2 (outside firefox) ? Is there be any build option ( such as system --enable system cairo) to specify which one to be used? 3. What will happen if the directory freetype2 (under modules directory)is excluded ? Regards, Shailendra

Status 301 handling for the awesome bar

If a server returns a 301 (permanently moved) status for a URL accessed via the awesome bar dropdown, the now obsolete URL persists in that database with its relatively high priority, and the replacement URL is added with a low ('first access") priority. Wouldn't it be better to have the new URL completely replace the obsolete one and inherit its priority, i.e., isn't that the logical extension of 301 handling for that situation? Fote --

certificate manager doesn't show up personal certificates

I'm wondering how Firefox certificate manager differentiate different type of certificates? I'm have few certificates which used for site authentication and these doesn't showing up in "Your certificates" tab instead in "Other" tab therefore Firefox doesn't offer these when site request certificate. In same time Internet Explorer working fine with these certificates, what could be wrong? My certificates are stored in Aladdin e-token if that matters.

My new Firefox menu. Definitely a better idea for the context menu !!!

Hello, Recently I presented my ideas of vision for the Firefox menu. The idea was not completely good. But now it is really better. I improved a lot. My presentation is definitely better. Now the menu is run from one button. In short, the idea is good, better (for me is the best) and I put into this "a little" work. So please divide with me what you think about. You all will be satisfied. I promise. Check my blog : http://davidpohl.wordpress.com/ Thank You

Get the native window handles for Firefox dialogs

Hello to everyone! I do really apologize if this is not a right place to ask, but I didn't find a solution across the Web so I'm asking here. I need to create a testing application for firefox which logs any dialogs approaching. The problem is that Firefox seems to draw dialogs with MozillaWindowClass thus obscuring any child items from being explored with WinAPI. Is there any way to get those controls except write an extension? Maybe compiler options? about:config? Thanks in advance.

Recommended Addon performance testing

Apart from checking addons for security, are recommended addons tested for performance regression and compatibility with vanilla Firefox? The most common cause of Firefox slowdown is a badly-coded plugin, addon or inter-addon compatibility. I know it is very difficult to test all addons for performance or compatibility, but having the recommended addons tested separately or together with other addons will help the user avoid installing faulty addons. Also commonly installed plugins like flash, acrobat, real player, foxit, WMP, etc can be tested likewise and warn the user. Some

How to read/insert/delete data in firefox bookmark by using C++?

Hello All, Currently I develop with firefox bookmarks, Can anybody tell me how to read/insert/delete data in firefox bookmark by using C++? Thank you, grynffidor

send some data to firefox extension

hi, how can I send some argument to my firefox extension from another pc without firewall ? any idea ? Any help will be appreciated !! cheers, Galuschka

Re: Navigation buttons

Please don't call me Shirley. cheers, mike ----- Original Message ----- From: dev-apps-firefox-bounces+beltzner=mozilla.com@lists.mozilla.org <dev-apps-firefox-bounces+beltzner=mozilla.com@lists.mozilla.org> To: dev-apps-firefox@lists.mozilla.org <dev-apps-firefox@lists.mozilla.org> Sent: Sat Feb 20 21:19:24 2010 Subject: Re: Navigation buttons On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:45:39 -0800 (PST), Mike Beltzner wrote: > Themes are the way to go. There is really no other choice, no. Perhaps you > are, in fact, the first. > > cheers, > mike Shirley you are mistaken? I would think tha

v3.6 "Choose User Profile" problem

I installed Firefox v3.6 on WinXP in a new directory with a new profile, and invoke it via a shortcut which uses -P "Firefox3.6" -no-remote so that I can simultaneously run other versions with their profiles. When I start v3.6 I get the "Choose User Profile" popup with the "Firefox3.6" profile highlighted. I have "Don't ask at startup" checked in the popup, but it keeps popping up on startup of v3.6. I don't have this problem when I start up other versions with their profiles indicated in the shortcut. Is this a configuration issue I need to deal with in v3.6, or is thi

FF 3.5 to 3.6 upgrade removes my search engine - why?

I install a search engine on my user's machines (after asking first, of course) by creating the appropriate XML file in their "c:\program files\mozilla firefox\searchplugins" folder. That works fine if the user installs my search engine on FF 3.5 or FF 3.6, but if they install it on FF 3.5 and then upgrade to FF 3.6, the upgrade process removes my XML file. Is there something additional I need to do, in order to convince Firefox to not delete my search engine during the upgrade process? Thanks, Chris

installer and migration proposal

I'm interested in whether or not others think that integrating profile migration with the installer would be a) possible b) desirable. Right now, the first time Firefox experience requires a lot of steps and there are too many places where a user can get confused and either do the wrong thing or fail out of the process all together. Users have to: 1. find and download the full set of install bits. 2. Then they have to locate the installer and run it. 3. Then they're confronted UAC confirmation. 4. Then they have to click through several screens of a wizard that ask at least

Support for TB2

Hello. What happened: I just had to uninstall TB3 because it didn't read one of the messages I got from my linux-server. That's usual plain text message, nothing weird in it. I had similar problems before for some other messages, but usually they resolved by jumping back and forth several times from message it didn't read to message it did. Today, no such luck. So I uninstalled TB3 and re-installed TB2. Startup-times got smaller, reading messages got fixed, no stupid "smart folders", offline settings are correct ones etc. Rant begins. However apparently there is no suppo

some rumors about 3.7 being dropped in roadmap

I just saw news about 3.7 is being dropped in firefox roadmap. Is it true? If not where can i follow the correct information and latest news about Firefox development?

Tab aware component

I have implemented a new protocol. I want that my component to have access to something unique to every tab in firefox. Is there some data that my component can read when my protocol is used, unique to every tab?

Block/modify a particular favicon?

Is it possible to block a particular favicon, or at least modify the graphic that is stored as a favicon for a particular site? My wife is spooked by having her banking site so readily identifiable in her bookmarks. She doesn't want that bookmark to be so obviously of financial significance. So.. I'm trying to come with a way that that particular graphic isn't visible. I assume that AdBlock Plus would do the job, but seems overkill as I only care about a single file. Any thoughts on this? Thanks.

How to read DNS configuration?

Hi, is there any way how to read DNS configuration from Firefox? I am developing an extension and I would like to get DNS server addresses that browser uses. Thanks Zbynek

firefox design document

can any one forward me the design document of firefox. I want to write a service on top of the firefox (without rendering engine). Anyone ?

Help required on printing web page in firefox

Hello All, I have written a new customized print widget and I want to use it instead of gtk_unix_dialog. I have written my own key bindings for it and my widget fires up when that key combination is pressed. Now as the front end part of it is over i want to do actual printing support for it. I digged through the code of firefox n found out they use gtk_print_job_new for printing, which takes a pdf file as a parameter. But how was that PDF file created from the HTML page is not yet clear to me. Please tell me how to create that PDF file from the HTML content of the web page. Than

bug in FF download "time left" counter

There is small, probably easy to fix, bug in how FF counts down for download times. When FF says that there is 1 min left there is in fact two minutes left. After that one minute is gone seconds start to go down from 59 seconds. Tiny error, but that bugs me every time I download something that takes more than few minutes to download. Timo Pietil�

Updating/Removing AddOn Preferences

This message has been copied from mozilla.support.firefox due to higher relevance. Hello Guys, I have developed a little AddOn that creates a few entries in the Firefox preference system. This all works fine. But now I've developed a new version of this AddOn and in this version, I need to change the default setting of one, of the mentioned entries. I haven't found any way to do this, while surfing the mozilla developer pages, so your help would be greatly apreciated! Another way could be (correct me if I'm wrong) to make sure that those preferences are removed from the system

Cookies that expire at end of session and cookies.sqlite,

Hi, I was looking at extracting cookies from cookies.sqlite in FF 3.0.14 and I noticed that it contains less cookies than when using FF GUI. It seems like the ones that have "expiry" set to "at end of session" are not stored in the database. Do you know if there is any way of changing it or accessing these cookies? cheers, Tomek

Win7 + "Pin to Taskbar" = off behavior

On Windows 7, I have both Thunderbird and Firefox nightly builds "pinned" to the Taskbar. But when I load Firefox, it opens a *separate* icon on the Taskbar. No other pinned programs do this. Is this a bug or feature? Screen-shots for comparison: http://picasaweb.google.com/PeterLairo/Miscellaneous#5419181734624204210 http://picasaweb.google.com/PeterLairo/Miscellaneous#5419181740821888370 -- Regards, Peter Lairo The browser you can trust: www.Firefox.com Reclaim Your Inbox: www.GetThunderbird.com Islam: http://www.jihadwatch.org/islam101/ Israel: http://

Re: Experimental Theme Builds

Good suggestion! We plan on either doing this, or more likely experimenting on try server with regular merges over to trunk. More plans for the implementation of the new theme will be finalized in the new year. cheers, mike ----- Original Message ----- From: dev-apps-firefox-bounces+beltzner=mozilla.com@lists.mozilla.org <dev-apps-firefox-bounces+beltzner=mozilla.com@lists.mozilla.org> To: dev-apps-firefox@lists.mozilla.org <dev-apps-firefox@lists.mozilla.org> Sent: Mon Dec 21 01:15:52 2009 Subject: Experimental Theme Builds Considering the fact that the Firefox UI is

Experimental Theme Builds

Considering the fact that the Firefox UI is set to undergo a massive overhaul, wouldn't it be better if the UX team have a separate branch like Electrolysis, Tracemonkey, etc. In my opinion this will help the UX team to experiment more and implement new ideas while eliciting more worthwhile feedback. Firefox UI usually lands near the middle-to-end of the development cycle and has lesser priority than other core components, which invariably has show-stopping bugs requiring more manpower and attention. I am neither a developer nor a designer, this is not a critique just a suggestion

regarding first good bug

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Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and 3.7 final release date

Hi, Can someone please let me know the final release dates (expected release dates) of Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and 3.7 ? Thanks, Shailen

does firefox take account of Same Origin Policy when doing Save As Webpage???

Hi, Q1 - Does firefox do something special for it's Save As Webpage feature in terms of Same Origin Policy? That is, does it take any steps to security issues that might arise from the fact that web items from different web-sites would be saved to the same location? (ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy ) I'm also thinking of the case where I was to take the various files downloaded by firefox in a Save As Webpage, and then moving these to under a local webserver. So my question is kind of both in relation to (a) accessing the downloaded webpage from file system

mozilla-central is open again

Hi everyone, We're down to the last few bugs for mozilla1.9.2/Firefox 3.6, and = they're localized enough that we've decided to re-open the = mozilla-central tree for checkins. Since we expect that there might be a = backlog, Ted's (been) volunteered to help co-ordinate landings today. = He's in #developers. cheers, mike=

Transparent browser xul element on toolbar

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Automatic Session Restore - Improvements [UX]

I have now finished my patch for bug 347680 which adds the improvement that Firefox starts itself into Safe Mode after [max_resumed_crashes + 2] crashes. Unfortunately this doesn't solve all our crashes, since Safe Mode doesn't fix the problem. Because of this we need to improve it. In this discussion I'd like to hear and discuss some ideas how we can detect different kind of crashes and how we can differentiate them. In the other thread a lot of ideas have already come up, but it's good to discuss them again. Firefox, AFAIK, crashes mostly in following conditions: * in

What happens to old Firefox versions?

I'm not that computer savvy, so this may seem like a dumb question. I'm now downloading the latest version of Firefox. It will add 9.4 MB to my older hard drive. Does the latest version automatically replace earlier versions, or does the hard drive just fill up with updates like this?

Google pages goes Blank in IE7, Mozilla & Chrome

Hi I cannot able to access www.google.com in any of the browsers. But I can able to access other sites. When I try to access google.com I get a blank page. Its so frustating. Can abybody help me.

TB 3.0, TB2.0, Fx3.5, Fx3.6 and the default browser hijacks of firefox

I has installed TB3.0 and Fx3.6 for testing, both with their respective profile(3.0 and 3.6), TB2.0 and Fx3.5(2.0 and 3.5) Initially i set Fx3.6 the default browser, made a batch of testing and then revert the default browser to 3.5. My keyboard have multimedia keys, between them a [Mail] and [Home](not the other home) to start the default email and browser client. After to revert to 3.5 the home keyboard stop responding(stating the browser) i start Fx3.5 and again setup how the default browser, try again but the [HomeM] dont respond. After a lot of searching i find the

Fx3.6 HIJACKS the default browser of windows

I have installed Fx3.6 to made a serie of tests, one of them was set Fx3.6 the default browser, start once with the 3.0 profile for made the default profile to use and star using the home key(multimedia keyboard, not the other home key) from the keyboard. After that in Fx3.6 i unselect the item to test Fx3.6 the default browser, start Fx3.5 with their profile and set Fx3.5 the default browser. The "home key"(HK)(multimedia) dont do anything, if i set, opera, IE, KMeleon, Seamonkey the default browser they are not showed when i press HK nothing happen, if i set Fx3.6 the defa

Windows command structure thoughts: app button versus page/tools

After spending a few weeks mulling over the mockups showing an IE/ Chrome/Safari style command structure of having a Page button and a Tools button, we are now considering ignoring what the rest of the browser marketplace is doing and going with a single app button on Windows. Stephen just posted a very initial sketch: http://blog.stephenhorlander.com/2009/11/20/sketch-day/ (note that the organization of commands is still pretty rough, as is the exact placement of the button, this is just to show the general idea). While this move would limit our external consistency wi

Beginner - Which one..

Hi, I sucessfully built the firefox (mozilla-1.9.2). It's time to take look at the source code to figure out how it works. There are so many folder, and files under that folder. Which one should I look at first? Where is main entry function located? (Is that located under browser folder?) Thanks,

Beginner - simple question.

Hi I just downloaded source solution of mozilla-1.9.1. Just would like to start playing around the source code to research.... I understand that there is no MS Visual Studio project file to build Mozilla.. For window user,what kind of IDE tool is generally being used to work on this Firefox mozilla source code?.. I meant...when people modifies source code, do they simply use like Notepad? Any way I can load up this mozilla solution onto MS Visual Studio 2008 for easy navigation and coding/editing, though I need mozilla-build for build process? Thank you in advance.

Link from themes manager to personas gallery - Theme discrimination

Hi, this is a follow up to Bug 522571 - Link from themes manager to personas gallery https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522571 The developer want the diccussion here. Ok, here we go again ;-) > It is intended to have a page that is primarily personas, as you said. Hi, Why, please tell me why ;-) I think a lot of themer are interested to know, why their stuff should be hidden and why this limited background image change system should be highlighted. Why? Is it then as well intended to hide the normal extensions, when Jetpack is later a part of the default

Reinstall user experience problem with Firefox

One of the most common things I have to tell Firebug users is "Install Firebug in a clean Firefox profile". Very often these users have already uninstalled Firebug and it did not fix their problem. Then they uninstall Firefox, and that did not work either. If they did not give up, then they ask. The whole time the problem was in their profile. Maybe we can't fix that, but at least once they decide to 'reinstall' they should have a solution that really does 'reinstall' rather than 'uninstall but not really' followed by 'install but use old data'. I think almost all users expect

mozilla-central to be closed to Firefox 3.6/mozilla-1.9.2 blockers until code freeze

Hey everyone, As discussed at yesterday's development meeting, we'll be restricting the mozilla-central tree to: - fixes for Firefox 3.6 or mozilla-1.9.2 blockers [1], - patches marked with approval1.9.2+ [2], - patches that are not part of the Firefox build (including tests) This is to keep the tree as quiet as possible so that our final blockers can land for the Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate code freeze which was originally scheduled for end of day today. Based on estimates from yesterday, we expect the freeze will slip to the end of day tomorrow, November 19th. If

Ability to change the application's update channel

To increase the participation in and awareness of application's beta programs and specifically Firefox's beta program we will be providing the ability to change the application update channel within the application. This will be an opt-in for each application. The details in the wiki are by no means complete but they should provide a place to start from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Application_Update:Channel_Change https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410639 Feedback / comments welcome with followups in dev-apps-firefox or the wiki page's discussion page. cc'd to dev

Making browsers faster: Resource Packages

Hi, I have published the first public draft on Resource Packages, and would like to hear your feedback: http://limi.net/articles/resource-packages/ Summary: What if there was a backwards compatible way to transfer all of the resources that are used on every single page in your site =E2=80=94 CSS, JS= , images, anything else =E2=80=94 in a single HTTP request at the start of th= e first visit to the page? This is what Resource Package support in browsers will let you do. --=20 Alexander Limi =C2=B7 Firefox User Experience =C2=B7 http://limi.net

Re: (@ux-team, ui-r?) Need feedback on "bug 347680: Add Safe Mode option to Session Restore dialogue"

Hi, I have now done some work on this bug. Now I stand before a big decision. The current situation is: Firefox has crashed once more than specified in browser.sessionstore.max_resumed_crashes and the about:sessionrestore page is shown. Now the browser crashes again and should start in Safe Mode. Do we either want to: - restart Firefox, check if it needs to load in Safe Mode when about:sessionrestore is loading and if it needs to, restart again - or already test if it needs to load in Safe Mode (means recentCrashes > max_resumed_crashes + 1) when it's startup up (this wo