On 01/21/2010 10:50 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.6_for_developers
Found this tidbit. Does it affect the gnash Firefox plugin?
Firefox will no longer load third-party components installed in its
internal components directory. This helps to ensure stability by
preventing buggy third-party components from being
executed. Developers that install components this way must repackage
their components as XPI packages so they can be installed as
standard add-ons.
No, it doesn't affect gnash. Gnash is not installed in the components directory.
(This mostly affects extensions[1] with binary components that were installed
for all users of a computer and whose developers were too lazy to figure out how
to do it right. Also, malware.)
[1] For those who don't know the terminology of extension vs plugin in the
Mozilla world, an extension is a change or addition to the browser itself,
whereas a plugin is closer to a separate program that merely displays in part of
a browser window. The combination of extensions, plugins, and themes is called
add-ons
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dolphinling
<http://dolphinling.net/>
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