Thanks, John. So, it sounds like---in theory---it wouldn't be that hard to update the extension.
--B. On 15 March 2011 11:05, John J. Foerch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:01:46AM -0500, Benjamin Slade wrote: > > A sort of idle inquiry: > > > > Having upgraded to the newer xulrunner, I found that -- unsurprisingly -- > the > > Googlesharing Firefox extension no longer works. This is unsurprising > since the > > extension doesn't work with Firefox 4.0. > > > > I imagine marlinspike will update the extension to work with Firefox 4 at > some > > point, but I was wondering if there might be any easy hack to get it to > work > > with conkeror using the newer xulrunner: the code for the extension is > > available here: > https://github.com/DisruptiveStudies/GoogleSharing/tree/master/ > > firefox > > > > The main difference between XULRunner2/FF4 and earlier versions that > affects extensions is a new system for component loading. Within each js > component, instead of using NSGetModule, you now use NSGetFactory. Also, > each component has to be explicitly registered with a stanza in > chrome.manifest. Components are no longer auto-loaded. Details here: > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM/XPCOM_changes_in_Gecko_2.0 > > -- > John Foerch > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Slade Dept. of Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [ http://www.jnanam.net/slade/ ] Stæfcræft & Vyākaraṇa (lingblog) - http://staefcraeft.blogspot.com The Babbage Files (techblog) - http://babbagefiles.blogspot.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *प*रो ऽक्ष॑का*मा* हि *दे*वाः 'The gods love the obscure.' (Śatapathabrāmaṇa 6.1.1.2)
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