extensions. logging. enabled?

I am trying to help a Firebug user with some kind of install problem. I want to try installing while extensions. logging. enabled was true, but when I test it myself there is no logging information. Any hints? jjb

thunderbird: json-rpc

Hello, I'm working on a extension which has to access a web service with json-rpc. Since it doesn't seem be an integrated API with thunderbird, which library should I use? Do you know of any extension which solves the same problem ? code.google.com/p/json-xml-rpc/ => I need it cross-domain :( http://jabsorb.org/ https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Harthur/BugzillaRPC http://www.dojotoolkit.org/ http://trac.mochikit.com/wiki/MochiKitJsonRpc ... I'm not sure which libraries are recommended for a thunderbird extension, or if any of it are OK as long as use it with evalI

When did "install-global-extension" actually disappear?

According to the documentation, the "install-global-extension" command line flag was removed with Gecko 1.9.2, which would correspond to Firefox 3.6 in the Windows world. However, I've got a copy of Firefox 3.5.5 and that command line flag has already been removed (including it causes Firefox to not install anything). Is there any documentation about this flag, and exactly which versions of Firefox require it, and exactly which versions of Firefox require that it not be there? Thanks, Chris

Drag & Drop in Linux

Hello, In my extension the user can reorder toolbar buttons/tabs via drag and drop, works fine in all Mozilla Mail Apps (TB, SM, Postbox) under Windows, but its temperamental under Ubuntu. I realized the problem was when i clicked in the center of the button (the button label) it was behaving erratically but when (carfully) dragging the button from the area outside the label it behaves as expected (as in Windows). Is it possible to disable the (built in?) dragging for the labels contained in the buttons, so that the button itself is dragged, instead? thanks in advance Axel

Thunderbird: Changing Folder context menu per folder

I'm trying to implement a next context-menu item for the Thunderbird that only appears on specific folders. Basically, I would like to emulate the behavior of the "Empty Trash" or "Delete" context menu items that only appear for folders where they apply. I've been able to hide/show the menu item when the user left-clicks on a given folder by capturing the "select" event: window.document.getElementById('folderTree').addEventListener("select", gTestPlugin.hideShowMenu, false); but this doesn't work properly if the user only right-clicks on a given folder without selecting it firs

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Hi, Can I pass javascript object to xpcom c++ method? Consider this: I have defined this pure javascript object: var Obj={ hello:function(Hstring){ alert(Hstring); } } I would pass this object as, in parameter to a method of my xpcom component written in c++ and call, within, the method hello('prova'). How can I do this?,

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I need to overload one of the native functions in the download manager. If I open the DM in a new tab and use a Firefox console, I can overwrite the function with a test function and it works as expected. However, when I do the same thing from my overlay, it doesn't appear to overwrite anything. Is it a problem with load order? Is there a better way to go about this? I basically need to change how the native function works, or somehow disable it and replace it with my own.

Re: Installing extensions programmatically on FF3.6

Sorry, Forgot to CC to list :-( Best, Oliveiros ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliveiros" <oliveiros.cristina@marktest.pt> To: "Neil" <neil@parkwaycc.co.uk> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Installing extensions programmatically on FF3.6 > Howdy, Neil. > > Thank you for your e-mail. > > I always used that switch, so I am not aware of other methods. Could you > please kindly provide me a couple of pointers to documentation about them? > > I found https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Installing_extensions where is > said that an extension can be ins

Adding a column to urlbar's autocomplete popup

Hi Again - This group was helpful before, so I figured I'd send this one your way as well :) I see in "chrome://global/content/bindings/ autocomplete.xml#autocomplete-result-popup" that there is a method for adding a column to the urlbar's popup (called "addColumn", of course). I'm intrigued by this, and would like to know how to implement it - but can't really find much about it. I see (in the same file) that the image and comment columns are added using this method, but that implementation doesn't explain a few things: 1) Position of the column relative to the others 2)

Installing extensions programmatically on FF3.6

Dear List, To install an extension programmatically I used to have firefox run with = -install-global-extension switch plus the path to the .xpi file. It doesn't seem to be working on FireFox 3.6 Doesn't it work this way no longer? Actually, I've googled with -install-global-extension and couldn't find = no references to it. Could you please kindly help me on this? Many Thanks in advance Best, Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina

problem with addeventlistener in thunderbird

hi i'm using the function &lt;script > window.addEventListener("unload", autoExportOnClose, false); &lt;/script> in my xul overlay for thunderbird to start my automatic export from lightning. but it doesn't work with failure... Fehler: [Exception... "'[JavaScript Error: "autoExportPrefs is not defined" {file: "chrome://autoexport/content/autoExport.js" line: 116}]' when calling method: [calIOperationListener::onOperationComplete]" nsresult: "0x80570021 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JAVASCRIPT_ERROR_WITH_DETAILS)" location: "JS frame :: file:///D:/11%20AppData/Thunderbird/Steffen/extensions/

How to add help button into extension's preference window?

Hi there, how can I add help button into prefwindow? I have found "http:// groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.extensions/browse_thread/thread/ 91146e31b7978ab0/c96877fae1045894", but it doesn't work for me. Regards, Zbynek

XML filter is applied to non-XML value function import() {[native code]}

Hi all , I have a error : XML filter is applied to non-XML value function import() {[native code]} The error line is " Components.utils.import.('resource://jsModule/XPCOMUtils.js');" Anybody knows what's happening !! Cheers, Galuschka

How to signature the update.rdf

My plugin should update from custom server, for example, while from my localhost, I'm use next code in plugin install.rdf <em:updateURL>http://localhost/update.rdf</em:updateURL> <em:updateKey>MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDK426erD/ H3XtsjvaB5+PJqbhj Zc9EDI5OCJS8R3FIObJ9ZHJK1TXeaE7JWqt9WUmBWTEFvwS+FI9vWu8058N9CHhD NyeP6i4LuUYjTURnn7Yw/IgzyIJ2oKsYa32RuxAyteqAWqPT/J63wBixIeCxmysf awB/zH4KaPiY3vnrzQIDAQAB</em:updateKey> Next, fill out the 2 fields in the update.rdf placed on the server: em:updateHash Should be something like this "sha1:78fc1d2887eda35b4ad2e3a0b60120ca27

How to change text within mouse selection?

Dear newsgroup, I am dealing with little problem. I want this feature in my extension: when user selects text with mouse, I want to change some of words in that selection. First I've come with this solution: var odst = selObj.toString(); // get selection's text var range = selObj.getRangeAt(0); // get range range.deleteContents(); // delete range odst = convert_paragraph(odst); // replace some words // create new node var newNode = document.createTextNode(odst); range.insertNode(newNode); // add to the old place but this didn't work well (broke new lines and format

Track the URL

I am writing a firefox extension and one of its jobs is to track URLS requested by the user.How to do this?wats the event handler to be invoked to track each time the user visitsa a new page?

add new function in javascript

Hello to every one! I want to call my java code through javascript and these code as follows : // We are in the global Firefox script scope, so only use our own unique global names; best to have at most one // global in the global namespace var java_demo = { LiveConnect : {}, onMenuItemCommand : function () { Components.utils['import']('resource://javaDemo/LiveConnectUtils.js', this.LiveConnect); var jars = ['URLSetPolicy.jar', 'Test.jar','ServerTest.jar']; var [loader,urls] = this.LiveConnect.initWithPrivs(java, 'jav

Fial to compile "WebLock" (XPCOM component example): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `NS_GetServiceManager' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

I need to compile WebLock (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/ Creating_XPCOM_Components%3aStarting_WebLock) agaist xulrunner. I have already built xulrunner in success, while when I compile WebLock agaist it, I get the following error: ------- relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `NS_GetServiceManager' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value ------- The following part describe the platform I used, the xulrunner I used and so on. It's an instruction for you to get the same environment and built it with the same confi

Overlays: insert box around existing element / clone browser element

Hi anybody, I have a problem I can not resolve by my own but I need a solution. I am writing a thunderbird (version 2.0.0.23) add-on and for that I would like to have a box on the right-hand side of the browser element which is been used for displaying the content of the mail. Have a look at the thunderbird document tree: http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2459/messagepaned.png So I would like to have a hbox around the vbox (id=messagepanebox) the browser element is contained in but there is none ... that means I would need to insert a hbox around a existing element. In the XUL

Performance Issues with firefox 3.6 by using my extension

Hi, Anybody is testing your own extension with Firefox 3.6 ? Anyone is getting performance issues? In particular I'm getting lot's of lock during its usage. Also sometimes without any extension it seems to became locked some times. Any important changes in Firefox3.6 that can causes this ? Any help would be welcome. I'm using firefox 3.6 in ubuntu 10.04. Thanks. --=20 Felipe Frechiani de Oliveira Vit=F3ria - ES

where should I get started?

hi, all I want to build an extension which help user to extract information in a web page. User may select a td and mark it as author of the article and click on span and mark it as title... After "teach" it, my extension can "learn" some pattern and extract information from similar web page. To achieve this, I need to know how to capture mouse event, like inspect element in firebug. That is I need to know which element is clicked by mouse. Also I need to get postion information such as left top width of element which help me analyze the web page. firebug and dom inspector are sim

Getting HTML contents of active window messes up address bar?

Hi all, I'm developing an extension. It places a button on the toolbar, and when this button is clicked, the content of the active window (ie the tab which has focus) is parsed. That part works fine, but the address shown in the URL bar becomes 'stuck': when I switch to another tab, the URL from that previous tab shows in the address bar. If I switch to another tab, it still shows the URL from the tab I was in when I clicked the button in my toolbar. Similarly, if I open a new tab, the URL shows in the address bar. The contents of the tabs is fine, just the URL in the address bar

Overwriting native functions for documents

for example, window.alert() is easly overwritable. however, window.location.reload() can't be overwritten. if you do window.location.reload = function(){ } from chrome or the document itself, it has no effect. calling the function still reloads the page how is this "read-only" state of the function achieved? how can it be broken? the aim is to disable this function, so that calling it from the document has no effect.

Listening to document variable changes and possibly blocking them.

Is there a way to watch variable assignments from chrome code? I tried https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global_Objects/Object/watch win.watch("location", function(a, b, c){}) and all possible variations, but none of these watches seemed to ever fire. i attached the watches from chrome code before the location was changed. It is said on that page that JS debugger possesses similar functionality and refers one to the Venkman manual. i don't see anything related to that functionality in the jsdIDebuggerService IDL code. Am i missing something? Is there a w

Understanding PC, lineToPc, pcToLine and isLineExecutable (jsdIDebuggerService)

I attached a onScriptCreated hook to the debugger service to listen to scripts being compiled. I use this code to dump it to the console: http://pastebin.mozilla.org/704042 I tested it on this HTML: http://pastebin.mozilla.org/704043 And the result looks like this: http://pastebin.mozilla.org/704041 Why does the pretty printed source (script.functionSource) duplicate the function declaration of q()? Why, when function b() is compiled, does the output say that the 1st executable line is the 3rd line, whereas if you look at the pretty printed source of function b(), the 2nd li

jar files

A (hopefully simple) Question - I have some background images that I am attaching at runtime via javascript and a rule, like this: col = 1 .. 20 if (nTabStyle==0) sColFolder="striped"; else sColFolder="cols"; QuickFolders.Styles.setElementStyle(ss, '.toolbar-flat toolbarbutton[label*="' + folderLabel + '"]','background-image', 'url("' + sColFolder + '/tabcol-' + col + '.png")',true); The user has a choice of 20 colors and 2 styles which are represented by the folders striped & cols and 20 contained png files each. To cut down on file handles/ fragmentation I would li

Difference between TYPE_TOPLEVEL_START and TYPE_FUNCTION_CALL in jsdICallHook

I am not sure about what's the difference. I did some testing and it seems TOPLEVEL is only fired when the scripts in a document (external JS file or a JS written directly to a document's HTML) is first evaluated. The FUNCTION_CALL is fired when a function is called. That seems intuitive. if all the JS would be wrapped in a master function, say, main(), then the TOPLEVEL would account for a call to that function?

Names of components in Firefox GUI

I'm new to Firefox extension development. I want to add button in toolbar as well as menu items in Firefox menus. Where can I get the names of components in Firefox? For example, Tools menu in Firefox has name "menu_ToolsPopup" Where can I get a list of all such names for menus, toolbars, status bar etc.?

where can i find simple example of Mozilla plug-in that mimic firebug element inspection function

Hello all im interested to learn how does firebug implement the "element inspection function" i do not have experience in firefox development but i am experience developer . im trying to avoid divining into firebug source code . because im need only in this function . what will be the fastest way to learn how to do this ?

Objective C plugin sample?

I know that this is the extensions list, but I don't see a general Add- ons list or a Plugins list... If someone could point me in that direction, that would be helpful as well... I'm trying to re-write an old image-viewing plugin for the mac. The old version uses QuickDraw (I said it was old) and resources (really really old) and so it doesn't work in Firefox 3.6 (which is why I'm re- writing it) I know some Objective C, and so I figure I'm going co re-write this in that using new-fangled Mac routines and nibs, etc. However, I don't know how to start. I've got the BasicPlugin exa

How to block HTTP requests if they require authentication (401)

I tried listening to the http-on-examine-response and then calling nsIRequest::cancel and ::suspend, but neither worked the way i wanted. The problem is that those requests force the opening of the user/pass prompt. I want to cancel that chain of 401 -> prompt -> new request - before the prompt is created. Thus i need to cancel the HTTP request as soon as some data comes from the server indicating that they want authentication (error code 401). http-on-examine-response seems too late. Is there another way i could do it?

Smar Card and Firefox Extension

I have been trying to provide communication between a smart card reader and an extension,is it possible?I will be so glad if anybody gives me some advices.

jsdIDebuggerService onScriptCreated hook not firing for scripts in tab documents

i can see a lot of scripts from chrome:// being compiled in the hook, but for some reason, scripts compiled in the documents that users browse on the web do not go through the hook. i can see them being executed in the onCall hook. they are scripts like all others - each has a unique tag associated with them etc. interrupt and execution hooks fire for those scripts, the onScriptCreated doesnt, for some reason. any idea what could be wrong? are there any flags i might have incorrectly configured that could cause this?

Re: nsIXULAppInfo - Application Name Variations --- and versions also!??

[19.01.2010 05:56] �Philip Chee� wrote: ??? for what reason ever, my TB3 does show your answer .. I had to go to http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.extensions/browse_thread/thread/c04d712d5d5f9064 >:o OK, that's very much what I'm doing with Reminderfox. Here is the code, hope it helps the one or other: Comments/ suggestions very much welcomed ;-) G�nter /** * Checks for the messenger version (TB2, TB3, SM, PB) * and sets the global parameters 'gRmFx_Messenger' and 'gRmFx_AB3' * * @return gRmFx_Messenger */ rmFxMsg.whichMessenger = function () { // =

nsIXULAppInfo - Application Name Variations

Hi I found a peculiarity with some Linux users their APplication name was "Mozilla-Thunderbird". I have some code in my extension that branches to different code versions depending on the App it runs in, I am using this function Application: function() { if (null==this.mAppName) { var appInfo = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"] .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIXULAppInfo); this.mAppName=appInfo.name; } return this.mAppName; } and then compare the result to 'Thunderbird', 'SeaMonkey' and 'Postbox' Is there a list of Application name

Problem with prefwindow in TB3

Hello I have a pref window opened from a button on Account Settings \Copies&Folders Here is the XUL of the prefwindow <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?> <!DOCTYPE prefwindow SYSTEM "chrome://messagearchiveoptions/locale/ prefwindow.dtd"> <prefwindow id="messagearchiveoptionsPreferences" xmlns="http:// www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul" title="&prefwindow.title" style="height: 300px"> <prefpane id="pane1" label="&pane1.title;" onpaneload="granularitySwitch();"> <preferences> <preference id="pref_keepstructure" name="ext

Automatically upgrade mozilla extension

I can only upgrade my extension by selecting the 'find updates' button on the add-ons page and then running the upgrade. On my server I have my upgraded xpi file and update.rdf. Is it possible to have the upgrade\installation perform automatically without any user interaction. In reading other posts, they seem to mention using the mozilla AMO site, is this the only way to perform an automatic upgrade installation. Regards, EM

Returning an array to javascript from C++ XPCOM

Hi All, I have got an extension where I am instantiating a C++ XPCOM component and calling it from javascript in Firefox 3.0 and above. The goal is that I want to return an array of interfaces. Each interface contains a set of properties (atrributes) that I need to access from javascript. It seems that I am having problems with the return value (IDL out --- nsIArray) and I am not able to access this properly. I have provided a simple example of what I am trying to do. I am not sure I am creating the array properly and would appreciate any advise. I tried enumeration and that a

arguments.callee -- supported??

My understanding the 'arguments.callee' has been marked as deprecated since 1.4/1.5? Using it with current MOZ code wouldn't throw an error. I'm looking for how to get from within a JS function the information about 'who is the caller'. I was told that 'arguments.callee' could show/give it!?? Any advice? Or alternative ??

Connecting a listbox with preferences values

Hi I try to define the preferences of a firefox extensions with a listbox. If I understand the doc correctly that should be possible without having to add (build the listbox) or to store the values back in the prefences with javascript. I'm fiddling with <code> <prefpane label=3D"test"> <preferences> <preference id=3D"fcb" name=3D"extensions.filteredclipboard.list" type=3D"string"/> </preferences> <listbox id=3D"thelist" preference=3D"fcb"> <listhead> <listheader label=3D"Label"/> <listheader label=3D"Regex"/> <listheader label=3D"Substitute"/>

automatic updates at AMO

I'm trying to get automatic updates working for my extension hosted at addons.mozilla.org: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/45777 It appears that the only thing I am supposed to do is leave out the updateURL in install.rdf and use correct version strings: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Install_Manifests#updateURL However that doesn't work for me. I tried installing an old version and doing a manual update check. Firefox made a request to this URL: https://versioncheck.addons.mozilla.org/update/VersionCheck.php?reqVersion= =3D1&id=3Dgpxdown@geocaching.com&version=3D0.

Need help setting homepage and blocking plugin notifications for a kiosk extension

I have been developing a web kiosk extension for Firefox that suits our lab environment. After studying the developer documentation and other kiosk extensions I've been able to piece together a fairly solid kiosk environment that is secure while still being an accessible web browser. However, a few things just don't seem to work as desired and I could use some help: 1) Homepage and Welcome Page: I set "browser.startup.homepage" to our desired site via a JavaScript function, which shows in about:config but it does not apply until the browser has been restarted. Since the kiosk user p

Bug in selectFolder / ensureRowIsVisible found! :)

Hi fellow co-developers! I have found a bug in Thunderbird's folderPane.js which affects only TB3! When I try to select a folder that is a direct child of a collapsed Smart Folder (such as Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Junk, Trash etc.) then the toggle that ensures the folder is visible fails: selectFolder: function ftv_selectFolder(aFolder) { 274 // "this" inside the nested function refers to the function... 275 // Also note that openIfNot is recursive. B 276 let tree = this; - 277 function openIfNot(aFolderToOpen) { - 278 let index = tree.ge

get access to to toolbar

Hi, My extension contains one toolbar and one sidebar. I need to get access to the toolbar in my javascript codes. Can anyone show me how to do that? Thanks a lot! Pengyu

how does downloadhelper work?

Dear Firefox Users, I am wondering how Video DownloadHelper works: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 How does it know that an mp3 is playing in the browser? How does it know that I'm loading a youtube video? How does it know if a flash app (or maybe even an html 5 app) is playing an mp3? It would be most appreciated if someone could point me in the right direction. What should I be looking up? Thank you for your time. -Sean

Thunderbird 3 - tree column display/hide

Hi, I'm trying to display and hide a custom column in the threadTree of Thunderbird. With TB2 it worked as it did with the last beta and rc builds of TB3. Using the TB3 final, the column is hidden all the time - regardless of my manipulation of the hidden attribute of the treecol. Whenever I'm adding some blocking code (alerts) in the line after the removeAttribute('hidden') (or the setAttribute('hidden', 'false')), my column is shown - but immediately after that, the column is hidden again. I also tried to change the column id and manually examined the localstore.rdf in order t

Theme on Vista (menulist ugly)

Hi All, I have run into a rather ugly theme issue on Windows Vista (FF 3.0.17). I have a toolbar with several input controls (multiple textbox's and one menu list). The alignment and color combination look great on Windows XP; but the menulist looks absolutely horrible on Windows Vista. On Vista the alignment (height) of the menulist is bad and the color is gray instead of white. This looks really ugly because the other controls (textbox controls) are white and sized properly. The menulist on Vista just looks out of place and ugly. I notice that this is a common problem that I h

Use Weave in my extension

Hi, I'm trying to integrate the Weave sync functionality in my extension, but I can figure out how my extension can rely on another extension that I have to extend. How can I be sure that the Weave extension is loaded before mine ? I have understood how I can use the API to hook my datastore, but I'm missing the glue part between my extension and Weave. Is there any code I can look at ? Thanks Didier

Do we need extension dependencies?

Ever since Firefox 2 we have vaguely supported a form of extension dependency. That is marking an extension as requiring particular versions of another extension. The support is currently very limited and when a user tries to use an add-on that depends on something they don't have they are pretty much left in the cold. While we tell them it requires something we don't tell that what it requires or give them any easy way to download and install it. Given this poor implementation it is perhaps no surprise that very few extensions make use of the feature (something like 50 liste

drag/drop using titlebar broken in FF 3.6.5

We have developed an extension called gliider, based on a popup. We have created the ability to drag the popup by the tab, which is an invisible titlebar XUL element. In version 3.5.6 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)), the dragging works as expected. In Firefox 3.6b5, the popup follows the mouse, but when the mouse button is released, the popup jumps back to its original location. I will attach an xpi, as well as a few specific files where the relevant code is located. This also happens on Mac OS/X, w. v