Can anyone point me at an example of a customized Google Chrome Frame install dialog?
It looks like GCF allows you to hide the default dialog as a parameter to CFInstall.check() (onmissing, preventPrompt) but I haven't been able to find an example of what the expected structure of onmissing is.
I can have onmissing launch a custom dialog of my own, with jQuery or similar, but don't know exactly where to link to in order to start the install process correctly. Whenever I redirect to the installer directly, I get prompted for an admin password, unlike when I use the default GCF install dialog.
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I have installed JComments on my site, installation went fine but can't post any comment. Send button has no respond. I tried some solutions from other forums but no help. If I change template it is working. Also working on my local machine.
Can someone help me with this please?
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Typically, this is caused by a JavaScript conflict somewhere, you should be able to see the error by clicking on F12 and then clicking on "Console" in Google Chrome.
Having said that, it is probably a better idea to use Disqus instead of JComments because many users are already on the platform and because Disqus automatically filters out the spam for you.
More specifically, the idea is to allow the user to open Firefox, highlight a word on a web page, right click on it, and have an additional option that, when selected, calls c++ code that does something with the input string (must call C++ code, unfortunately), and displays a dialog box showing the result.
I'm still not sure if in order to implement this functionality I need to create a Firefox plugin or an extension. Can someone point me in the right direction?
Also, if someone can show me sample code in order to get me started that would be appreciated. (XPCOM, which I'm not even sure is what I should be using, seems a bit complicated for this seemingly simple project.)
You need a regular Firefox extension. It can add an item to the context menu, NPAPI plugins cannot do this. When it is clicked it can get the selected text and send it to your binary library. The best way to call functions in this library is js-ctypes, XPCOM is not required.
I'd like to be able to add an option to the download dialog that pops-up in Firefox when starting a file download. Is it possible to do so using the new add-on SDK or do I have to do it the old way?
edit: Obviously, if the new option is selected, I need a way to know it and execute code based on it.
That's something you would use XUL overlays for. I guess that the dialog you are talking about is chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.xul - the download manager. AFAIK doing this isn't possible with the Add-on SDK, it only provides the most common UI integration points. You could create a traditional extension however, it can overlay any dialog.
There is no existing module that will help you that I know of, so you would have to create one, or wait for one to be made by someone else. But the main idea to extending browser UI is simple, and goes like this:
When the addon is loaded, scan for open windows of the type that you wish to extend.
extend the open windows by adding xul elements and javascript to the page.
listen for newly opened windows, and test that they are the type that you are looking for once they open
extend newly opened windows while your addon is active
Clean up after yourself when windows close or when your addon is disabled/uninstalled.
The last step is the most important and never matter with old school extensions which were not restartless.
Some for the built-in modules that you can look at that do this are the widget module, the context menu module, and the hotkeys module, all of which you can find here.
I've made a couple myself which are the toolbar button module, the xulkeys module, the menuitems module, and a few others, all of which you can find here.
Recently I wrote an extension do the same things. A bootstrap extension, not using addon-sdk.
I already submit it on AMO, but wait for review
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-dialog-tweak/
And the source code
https://github.com/muzuiget/download_dialog_tweak
I am trying to add a browser using GtkMozEmbed into a gui I am designing using Glade. I want the browser to take up a tab in a notebook widget, but I cannot figure out how to actually do this. I am wondering what container to use to put the browser in, and the associated ruby code to actually embed the browser in this container. Any help would be appreciated thanks!
What I ended up doing eventually was to insert a window element into the tab, and in the ruby code associated with the glade file configure the GTKMozEmbed there. I do not think it is possible to get it setup using the Glade GUI, so you will have to get down into the code for this.
To add a new tab with any widget use this.
During web development work, I need to be able to quickly switch various config settings in Firefox. In particular I need to be able to:
1) Switch off cookies
2) Switch off javascript
3) Switch my user agent (I have the user-agent switcher add-on installed)
and then back again.
Instead of doing this manually, it would be great if i could add a "macro" button to my toolbar that I could simply click to toggle the three settings above.
Anyone know if this is possible?
Btw - Firefox Profiles doesn't really cut it. You can't dynamically switch profiles within a specific Firefox instance, which I need to be able to do.
Btw2 - I got excited when i saw Greasemonkey, Chicken Foot, but it looks like these can only automate browsing/DOM tasks, and not with firefox configuration settings.
Thanks Richard.
Because of your requirements, it'd probably best for you to make a simple add-on yourself. You could even have it add a button that goes back and forth between things.
You can disable cookies by setting the preference "network.cookie.cookieBehavior" to 2, you can turn off JavaScript by setting the preference "javascript.enabled" to false, and you can modify the user agent by changing the preference "general.useragent.extra.firefox".
To do these things, you'll need to use the preference API, which is documented here.
There are other add-ons that I think will get all the functionality you're looking for (albeit, not all in one tool).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2497
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6527
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
If you wanted to extend the functionality of any of these Add-ons, XPI files are just .zip files with a different extension. You can rename them and unpack them and find out how they do what they do, extending them, install your own customized version, etc.
The web-developer toolbar will do all the things you requested except switching the user-agent string, which can be accomplished through the UA switcher addon you already use. However it can't be macroed as far as I know, but it can be accomplished with a few mouse click.
Try iMacros.
From their site:
"Whatever you do with Firefox, iMacros can automate it."