Hi Jeremy, You mentioned a checkbox appearing a second time. Does this extension (or Firefox) currently display the dialogue box on each launch? Is there a way to prevent this, pending your update that will disable it?
Thanks, and great work on getting Firefox to save properly! James On Monday, September 3, 2012 4:04:06 AM UTC+10, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Michael > > Many thanks for the feedback. I'm working on adding auto-updating to > TiddlyFox. The plan is also to add a checkbox to prevent the dialogue > box from appearing a second time for a given file. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:22 PM, midpeter444 <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hi Jeremy, > > > > Thanks for doing the TiddlyFox plugin. Here are my results: > > > > I'm on Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 11.10, using Firefox 15 and I tested a newly > > downloaded 2.6.5 TW. > > > > First I downloaded and installed your TiddlyFox plugin. I was able to > save > > my previous 2.6.4 TW (which was already and still working due to being > in > > the prefs.js file) and a new 2.6.5 - both worked, but requiring you to > click > > the TiddlyFox dialog box. > > > > Next, I disabled the TiddlyFox plugin and then edited by > > $HOME/.mozilla/xy_random/prefs.js file like so: > > > > user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p83.granted", > > "UniversalXPConnect"); > > user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p83.id", > > "file:///home/midpeter444/spideroak/wiki/my-new-wiki.html"); > > user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p83.subjectName", ""); > > > > and that also works to save the new 2.6.5 wiki without the TiddlyFox > plugin. > > > > It's nice to have two ways to solve this. I will probably go with the > > manual editing step to avoid the dialog popup. I will have to solve > this on > > my Windows work computer in a few days when I get in the office again. > > > > -Michael > > > > > > On Monday, August 27, 2012 5:18:30 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > >> > >> Firefox 15, which is currently in beta but scheduled to be released on > >> August 28th, finally disables the trick that TiddlyWiki uses for > >> saving changes to itself (see [1]). From a general security > >> perspective, this is probably a good thing - especially if you've > >> watched a less computer-literate friend or relative deal with random > >> yes/no dialogue boxes; that familiar confirmation dialogue isn't much > >> protection. > >> > >> So, I've started work on a little Firefox extension called "TiddlyFox" > >> that can save files on behalf of TiddlyWiki. > >> > >> TiddlyFox stays in the background until you load a TiddlyWiki 2.x.x > >> document from a file: URL. It then patches the TiddlyWiki document on > >> the fly to have it invoke the extension to save files on it's behalf. > >> > >> I've tested the extension on Firefox 14 (the current version) and the > >> beta of Firefox 15. > >> > >> To install the extension, navigate to [2] in Firefox. You should be > >> prompted to install the plugin. Then, if you navigate to a TiddlyWiki > >> document on a file: URI you should get an alert notifying you that > >> TiddlyFox has patched the document. Save changes should then work in > >> the normal way. > >> > >> Right now, the extension is very basic, without a full user interface. > >> The plan is to add a proper confirmation dialogue, and to extend it > >> with functionality something like TiddlySnip for clipping bits of web > >> pages into a TiddlyWiki document. It will also work with TiddlyWiki5 > >> (it doesn't yet). > >> > >> I'd be very grateful for any testing, and ping me here with any > >> feedback or questions. > >> > >> Best wishes > >> > >> Jeremy. > >> > >> [1] https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/tiddlywiki/issues/101 > >> [2] > >> > https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/raw/master/tiddlyfox/extension/tiddlyfox.xpi > > >> > >> -- > >> Jeremy Ruston > >> mailto:[email protected] > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywikidev/-/rYooyNE9xvAJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
