JAB Creations wrote:Thanks for reinforcing my "magic bullet"...to your own foot, a screenshot of all nightly builds, because non-technical people on the web are really going to run nightly builds.
For a guy that tries to present himself here as a bit of a 'Firefox guru', you actually know damn all about Firefox, don't you?
How did you think that theme and extension authors version update the code in their stuff for the latest releases? Sit around like dummies waiting for the latest public release to come out? How did you think that they easily check the backwards compatibility of multiple Firefox versions? Ask around the forums?
The answer is
here. They use zip builds that make no registry changes and those zip builds are
only available as nightlies. That is how we can have 10+ versions of Firefox on the system and test with any version within seconds. That is how they know every single change that is made in every single Firefox version.
You think theme and extension authors would be doing that if those nightlies were not identical in functionality and features to the public releases that 'non-technical people on the web' will be using?
You know damn all.
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1633/mozilla.gifFrank Lion wrote:Your 'Firefox 3.6 setup for family and friends' needs looking at - the toolbar buttons on the Nav bar are stretched horizontally. Good job you don't make themes.
You know damn all about UI breaking. How can you put stuff out looking like that?
JAB Creations wrote:Does the average user know how to download an .XPI file, rename it to a ZIP, extract the RDF file, fix the maximum version string and then update Firefox because the extension author either did not bother or is simply too consumed to do that say, once every eight weeks?
You even know damn all about this basic Firefox stuff. To avoid the risk of compression corruption you don't rename stuff or extract and recompress!
Open .xpi/.jar with WinRar, do not extract. Double click install .rdf and edit with Notepad/Programmers Notepad and save changes. Winrar will ask if you want to update the .xpi/.jar with your changes, click OK and you're done.
Actually -
http://www.jabcreations.com/home/?audio ... 1&sounds=1...for a guy that talks a lot about 'clients' and 'web design', you might want to take a second look at your own site. Because you seem to know damn all about how to design a website as well.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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