Macromedia News Firefox Extension and Firefox 1.5
As Christian mentioned, Firefox 1.5 was released today. Unfortunately, it seems to have broken the Macromedia News Firefox extension.
Basically, if you click a link in the extension, it will prompt you to pick an app to handle the URL, and will then crash Firefox.
I am going to look into this, but it might take some time to isolate and / or work around the issue.
I was one of the first to report this bugs, Mike best to start looking in the way it handle “Open in new tab”
Jack
29 Nov 05 at 5:47 pm
fyi,
I have fixed the issue, but have found a number of other issues caused by 1.5.
I am going to try to fix these before I release the updated version.
mike chambers
mesh@macromedia.com
mike chambers
29 Nov 05 at 5:57 pm
I decided to look at the source and found that an old method of testing for browsers was being used, such as:
[code]
firefox = (navigator.vendor == "Firefox");
[/code]
This was causing the app to run in thunderbird mode, and as far as I can tell was causing the bug.
If you use the app id check it works.
I placed this in the onLoad function and it works beautifully.
[code]
var appInfo = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIXULAppInfo);
switch (appInfo.ID) {
// Firefox
case "{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}":
firefox = true;
break;
}
[/code]
I haven’t found another bug turn up from doing this so it looks like the solution.
Matt
Matthew
29 Nov 05 at 5:58 pm
I see Mike fixed it already. I guess I was too slow. lol
Matt
Matthew
29 Nov 05 at 5:59 pm
Can not wait for the new release ,)
Jack
29 Nov 05 at 6:32 pm
Matthew,
yeah. That is essentially the code I ended up using.
Unfortunately, once I fixed that, I found another new bug. Ill try and get a new version out tomorrow.
mike chambers
mesh@macromedia.com
mike chambers
29 Nov 05 at 7:08 pm
isn’t it always like that? i installed, found the bug, blogged it, then searched around. rather than search around then blog about it :)
cool. ill be waitin an a testin’ fer ya ;)
later.
but how will i know, i dont get the updates :(
s’ok im sure it will be quick and widespread fast.
Tony Weeg
29 Nov 05 at 9:48 pm
is that a slog post?
tony of the weeg clan
30 Nov 05 at 8:16 am
WHats up with this pr1 and so on post I see them everwhere I think pr stands for Pagerank and this guy trying to get a voice here…?!
Jack
30 Nov 05 at 11:43 am
It is porn spam ??? I tried to follow a link in a secure location and it tried all sorts of javascript loads (thanks Firefox and noScript for saving me) lol
On another note,
I thought of a potential feature added to this extension. It would be cool to have it only visible on the focused window. A good example of this is the download statusbar extension.
Matt
Matthew
30 Nov 05 at 4:17 pm
mike…
whats the word on the upgrade?
thanks.
tony
tony of the weeg clan
1 Dec 05 at 1:23 pm
Well, I fixed the main issue and it is working now. But I have run into another issue which I am having trouble figuring out, and am starting to think it is a Firefox bug.
Basically, if you change any preferences that affect the display of the menu, then the menu gets all borked up. If you restart the browser, then everything works fine.
Basically, you have to restart the browser after changing some of the preferences.
I have considered releasing it like that, but I don’t want to release a new version that is worse than a previous one.
It is really frustrating as this is all do to changes in Firefox.
Thoughts?
mike chambers
mesh@macromedia.com
mike chambers
1 Dec 05 at 1:53 pm
it could be not having an appropriate listener
Jack
2 Dec 05 at 1:24 am
If it means restarting the browser so that I have something to read and procrastinate on during my day, then yes, release it.
ross
2 Dec 05 at 6:48 am
Well I really miss this extension! Could you please send me the version for FF 1.5, even if it is not 100% compatible?
Stan
2 Dec 05 at 8:33 am
ok. Ill release it, probably on Monday.
mike chambers
mesh@macromedia.com
mike chambers
2 Dec 05 at 9:34 am
I posted this Shockwave-related trouble too:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=348841
Regards,
Mauro Di Blasi
Mauro Di Blasi
2 Dec 05 at 11:09 am
Now it will be release like the:
Adobe News Firefox Extension sniff :(
Anyway please release it so I can follow the blogs on the Adobe Formerly Macromedia stuff :(
Jack
5 Dec 05 at 9:40 am
Please consider releasing the update – I used this extension all the time to follow Macromedia blogs. I don’t mind if it doesn’t work 100% – anything is better than the crashes in Firefox 1.5
Thanks!
Andrew Field
6 Dec 05 at 6:47 pm