[wp-forums] A bit of Firefox fun

[Les Bessant]

On PCs, WinZip will happily open an xpi file.

I wrote this up when persuading some other extensions to play nicely with FF
1.5

http://lcb.me.uk/losingit/2005/11/30/firefox-15/

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Les Bessant les at lcb.me.uk
Losing it[1] - http://lcb.me.uk/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com 
> [mailto:wp-forums-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of TechGnome
> Sent: 29 March 2006 18:43
> To: wp-forums at lists.automattic.com
> Subject: Re: [wp-forums] A bit of Firefox fun
> 
> A little more info on that for those who don't know... and 
> xpi file is 
> really a zip file in disguise. You can change the extension 
> to zip, then 
> extract the file, make the changes, then add it back into the 
> archive, 
> change the extension back to xpi, then install it into Fx.
> 
> -tg
> 
> Handy wrote:
> > Long story short, you download the .xpi file to your 
> machine.  Extract the
> > rdf file and modify the version info.  Add the rdf file 
> back to the .xpi
> > archive and drop it on to your firefox browser to install.
> >
> > -or-
> >
> > Podz has a already hacked version linked in this thread at 
> the forums.  :-)
> >
> > On 3/29/06, Petit <petit at petitpub.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> Kaf Oseo wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> http://guff.szub.net/2006/03/28/some-style-for-wordpress-support/
> >>>
> >>> Do it yourself.
> >>>
> >>> -Kaf
> >>>       
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> I really like this very much, but I cant get the URLid extension to
> >> install.
> >> Podz said: "I had to up the version number inside 
> install.rdf - but this
> >> is awesome !"
> >> I'm not sure what install.rdf?
> >> And I'm not sure the questions should be asked her, but 
> since it's all
> >> about more efficient use of the forum ... ;)
> >>
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