I'm trying to set up Copper on Firefox version 53.0.3 and I am aware that the extension/plugin is not available anymore for Firefox 56+. I followed the instructions on how to set it up (https://github.com/mkovatsc/Copper) and I'm stuck at creating the text file copper#vs.inf.ethz.ch in the extensions directory of my Firefox profile. I noticed that the extensions file should be an .xpi file. Do I need to write anything in the file like any other Firefox extension to make it work?. I'm pretty new at this and I could use some help from more experienced people. Thank you and have a nice day.
Try in chrome browser!It perfectly works for me.Firefox in Cu4r is a little complex.
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I want to build a Firefox extension that will need to change the configurations (about:config). It is not obvious whether I can change the configurations (about:config) in webextension?
If not, is there any way to do this in the old development environment?
This is covered in the webextensions FAQ (the answer is no):
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/FAQ#Will_I_have_access_to_about:config_or_the_preferences.3F
I'm not sure about your second question, if you're asking about the add-on SDK, it has a module for accessing preferences but extensions written with the SDK will stop working in Firefox 57:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Low-Level_APIs/preferences_service
I am working on a few addons on Mozilla since this easier than manually editing the source code.
The bigger picture is to have a customized browser that I can share with my fellow geeks and friends.
Question:Is there a simple way to add an addon to a Mozilla build so that my users don't have to manually install the addons on their computer.Something like a pre-packaged Setup.exe. The Setup.exe needs to be fully independent and not requiring to have Mozilla pre-installed.
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Another reason is I do not want them to have access to the addons ,
the addons shouuld be in the core of the browser.Hence, a user should
not be able to turn off or even know it is an addon but barely the
functionality of their browser X.
You may want to use Portable Firefox, make your customizations and share the folder with your friends.
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
This could be the motivation I need to move to Chrome for development. Working on an application with PouchDB (syncing with a CouchDB instance). I see everywhere that there are links to a Firefox add-on called PouchDB-Inspector which is meant to join the developer tools arsenal. True for Chrome - which does install and work. Firefox - the link is dead - Not found.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pouchdb-inspector/
Does anyone know where it is? Is it discontinued? Done with? Never to be found again?
Any help would be great? Thanks.
This add-on seems to be currently unavailable from addons.mozilla.org, but you can get it from it's github project page. The creator also provides a link to the current xpi file that you can install manually.
I'm making a windows app for a client using Chrome in kiosk mode. They'd like to burn the project to CD. While this works fine with chrome portable on a read access device it doesn't with a read only device. A warning pops up asking to temporarily copy it to the local drive to run from there. Clicking yes allows the program to work but i'd like to suppress this as they won't want to see it every time. Is there a way for me suppress the warning or cache to the cd before it's burned?
I need to use chrome, not another portable browser. I could be being naive and they're may be a better option than using Portable apps chrome download.
I asked the same question on the Portable apps website and got this response. It worked great although take note of the distribution license.
Add a text file called GoogleChromePortable.ini in your GoogleChromePortable folder that says
[GoogleChromePortable]
RunLocally=true
this will make it copy the profile to the temp folder on the computer and run from there whether it's in read only place or not.
also notice Johns reminder in Pyromaniac's thread (http://portableapps.com/node/37168#comment-207403) - giving someone, especially a "customer" a copy of Google Chrome, Portable or otherwise, is illegal, don't do it.
Link to forum
http://portableapps.com/node/37164#comment-207482
I've investigated the license agreement and found this
21.2 Subject to the Terms, and in addition to the license grant in Section 9, Google grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to reproduce, distribute, install, and use Google Chrome solely on machines intended for use by your employees, officers, representatives, and agents in connection with your business entity, and provided that their use of Google Chrome will be subject to the Terms.
So legal as long as it's kept internal. Works great if anyone ever stumbles on this question. Chrome makes an awesome portabl app.
To get around user policies you can try a pretty software does what you want.
http://codecanyon.net/item/html5-2-desktop-app-converter/4527199
This uses chrome engine and creates kiosk like portable engine for your given URL or local files. It makes pages looking like windows application. Hope helps.
Note: I'm not the author :)
Here's a link to where I got something that worked for me.
In the Support section, there is a performance note that advices copying GoogleChromePortable.ini from the GoogleChromePortable\Other\Source directory to the GoogleChromePortable directory and editing it to set RunLocally=true in order to increase performance, well this sorts out the warning that pops up.
However take note of the privacy implications of doing this as also stated in the same section.
Hope this helps someone.
You could try Chromium (portable) which also includes chromedriver from chromium snapshots page. Pick one with the biggest number (scroll down):
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Win_x64/
I recently started using the Dojo firebug extension. I had gotten used to it since it had some nice features (letting you see dojo on the widget level). This was good for me because I am in the process of trying to learn dojo so this really let me see how stuff worked together.
My question is, has anyone found any solutions to get the Dojo firebug extension working in Firefox 6 or should I just try downgrading to FF5?
Thanks
UPDATE:
I tried a workaround I found somewhere else. It said to use the Firefox nightly build add-on, and that add-on would allow me to override the version compatibility. I tried that and it still didn't work.
I recommend trying the Add-on Compatibility Reporter extension from Mozilla. This extension (besides letting you report incompatible add-ons) lets you completely disable version checking.
It's a great way to ensure that older extensions still work when Firefox upgrades the browser every week. Now, this assumes that the issue is with version compatibility, and not that the plugin is actually broken! If it's the latter, there's not much else you can do.
(Also, that's an awesome plugin. I'm definitely going to try it out myself here shortly!)