RE: xpcom-startup notification

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:43:18 -0700

Title: Message
Hi Srinivasa,
I was having exactly the same problem as you i.e. I'd written an XPCOM dll that worked with Mozilla but couldn't get it to work with Firefox.
Anyway I think I've found the solution. All you need to do is "touch" (open, save and close) the file called .autoreg in the C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox folder (i.e. the folder where the firefox.exe file is). After you do this restart firefox and your dll is registered.
Unfortunately I have no idea how this works :)
Do you (or anyone else out there) know exactly what is happening here i.e. what gets updated and where so that firefox now loads my dll. I noticed that a compreg.dat file _is_not_ being created so where is the registration info being stored? is it in the MS registry somewhere?
 
I would like to know this as I need to do a lot more work on my dll and debugging, etc. will be easier if I understand what's going on.
 
BTW - I discovered this .autoreg file touching thing from this posting by Doug Turner.
 
Thanks,
 Damien
 
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srinivasa Raghavan
Sent: 19 April 2005 06:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: xpcom-startup notification

Hi all,

I have registered XPCOM component with Mozilla Firefox.

I have also registered for xpcom-startup notification with CategoryManager, but didn't get the notification while Firefox starts up.

I have already posted the similar question earlier,  but not successful with the answers i got .

The same component works well with Mozilla 1.7.3.

Please tell me how to get the startup-notification ?

Thanks & Regards
Raghavan

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