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
>



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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[ http://www.jnanam.net/slade/ ]

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