This software is intended to be used for Firefox 2.0 (codename Bon Echo) with the new preference panel only. (nightlies after 20060801)
Possible side-effects of using this software can include (but are not limited to) nausea, diarrhoea, vomiting, listlessness, incontinence, light-headedness, erectile disfunction, depression, anxiety, nervous twitching, panic attacks, heart palpitations, sexual deviancy (animal, vegetable or mineral), elephant-man syndrome and more.
Thanks must go to two brave souls: Uncle Spellbinder for some initial Linux testing, and rmpmw for some initial mac testing. Both their machines are still running, so the extension didn't break them too bad
I got so annoyed with DownloadManagerTweak 0.7.1 breaking the new prefs panel on the Firefox 2.0 branch, I decided to try and make it work properly.
PLEASE BEAR IN MIND I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING. I was stumbling round the extension's code worse than a blind man with heavy sunglasses on with his eyes shut in a room with all the lights out at midnight during an eclipse. I just hacked at bits of code that looked like they aught to get hacked at. It was all removal too, bar one bit.
All I have done is removed the overlay that went over the Downloads tab on the old pref window. The new pref window doesn't have a Downloads tab, and in my total n00byness I wasn't going to attempt anything dramatic like adding a new pref-tab or reworking the download options in the General tab. This means you can no longer get to the DownloadManagerTweak options from the prefs panel, you have to go through the addons UI. But (for me anyway) that is a small price to pay to still have the functionality of DownloadManagerTweak.
You can grab DownloadManagerTweak 0.7.2 ALPHA TEST from here:
- http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/fi ... gr_072.xpi
(Big thanks to Mossop for the hosting!)
Oh, and the other thing i fixed was the Options button not working when you had the downloads in a tab, and the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. But that was a trivial change.
Consider this slightly wider testing of this attempt at a firefox-2.0-friendly DMT extension.
Some known (or possible) issues:
* Exception still thrown when a download completes.
* Error Console msgs still appear due to DMT. I have no idea why. I can fix this, but only by removing the code that causes the errors, and this might not be the best approach
* On mac, it may not be possible to close the DMT options window.
Once I have had slightly wider confirmation that my hackery hasn't blown any PCs up, I will attempt to get this update up on AMO.
It will have the pointer to the update site changed
It will have the minversion set for 2.0beta2 and maxversion set to 2.0.0.*
It will have the current homepage URL changed to probably a forum thread.
Any comments about what I've done, what i plan to do, and the extension welcome!
Please note: I am a noob at coding, so no feature requests can be considered! Please, only feedback on the hackery I did to the 0.71 build! If it's generally good enough to warrent putting on AMO, i will do this. But if the feedback suggests i have broken things and caused regressions, I will not.
