Comments on: Firefox 1.5 Fixtensions http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/12/02/firefox-15-fixtensions/ Jonathan Fenocchi's personal weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:15:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/12/02/firefox-15-fixtensions/comment-page-1/#comment-808 Andrew Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:56:17 +0000 http://www.slightlyremarkable.com/?p=141#comment-808 To make things easier try the InfoLister extension, it just lists your installed extensions and themes, very useful. To make things easier try the InfoLister extension, it just lists your installed extensions and themes, very useful.

]]> By: Neuroxik http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/12/02/firefox-15-fixtensions/comment-page-1/#comment-799 Neuroxik Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:39:26 +0000 http://www.slightlyremarkable.com/?p=141#comment-799 Yeh, I've had a couple of bugs. The worst, which has happenned 3 times (in less than a month) is losing my bookmarks every time I create a new profile to test my theme (I'm working on a theme). And I know, with 1.5 you got a folder called bookmarksbackup, but somehow that had been corrupted too. So I resorted to NOT creating any more profiles for now, and making my own bookmarks backup. And by the way, I too had to do that when I wanted to fix an FF problem, re-install and deleting all (I just deleted the whole profile, hehe) but another way to not having to re-download your extensions (and this is particularly great for dial-up users, especially if you've got alot of ext's or themes) is to open each {AE761....} wierd folder names, and select all the content, compress it (zip/rar/whatever) then renaming it with .xpi as file extension or .jar extension if it's a theme, then once you've done it with each one, having copied them elsewhere, then deleting that whole extensions folder, you can open them through Firefox (File -> Open File) and there you go! Just make sure you don't zip the folder with the wierd name itself, but as I said, open it, select all, compress, etc.. or else, Firefox will alert you it hasn't found the install file. Yeh, I’ve had a couple of bugs. The worst, which has happenned 3 times (in less than a month) is losing my bookmarks every time I create a new profile to test my theme (I’m working on a theme). And I know, with 1.5 you got a folder called bookmarksbackup, but somehow that had been corrupted too. So I resorted to NOT creating any more profiles for now, and making my own bookmarks backup.
And by the way, I too had to do that when I wanted to fix an FF problem, re-install and deleting all (I just deleted the whole profile, hehe) but another way to not having to re-download your extensions (and this is particularly great for dial-up users, especially if you’ve got alot of ext’s or themes) is to open each {AE761….} wierd folder names, and select all the content, compress it (zip/rar/whatever) then renaming it with .xpi as file extension or .jar extension if it’s a theme, then once you’ve done it with each one, having copied them elsewhere, then deleting that whole extensions folder, you can open them through Firefox (File -> Open File) and there you go! Just make sure you don’t zip the folder with the wierd name itself, but as I said, open it, select all, compress, etc.. or else, Firefox will alert you it hasn’t found the install file.

]]> By: Mike Cherim http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/12/02/firefox-15-fixtensions/comment-page-1/#comment-765 Mike Cherim Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:51:04 +0000 http://www.slightlyremarkable.com/?p=141#comment-765 Very cool. Good write-up. I will do two things when I get around to upgrading: 1) Re-read this and copy my profile (that was good, I will start backing that up) and, 2) be scared, be very scared :D Very cool. Good write-up. I will do two things when I get around to upgrading: 1) Re-read this and copy my profile (that was good, I will start backing that up) and, 2) be scared, be very scared :D

]]> By: Mike Purvis http://slightlyremarkable.com/blog/2005/12/02/firefox-15-fixtensions/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Mike Purvis Sat, 03 Dec 2005 22:25:30 +0000 http://www.slightlyremarkable.com/?p=141#comment-763 I'm totally psyched about Canvas. Not so much for actually using it on sites, but for the possibilities it opens up in extension-land. The tab-preview extension is just a <em>taste</em> of what's possible. On the other hand, there's also the notion of implementing a canvas emulator in Flash... that would prop up IE and actually let us use it on webpages. Haven't seen too much interest in such a project, unfortunately. I’m totally psyched about Canvas. Not so much for actually using it on sites, but for the possibilities it opens up in extension-land. The tab-preview extension is just a taste of what’s possible.

On the other hand, there’s also the notion of implementing a canvas emulator in Flash… that would prop up IE and actually let us use it on webpages. Haven’t seen too much interest in such a project, unfortunately.

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