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aaron

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Post Posted June 24th, 2007, 1:07 pm

Is there anyone willing to port the BetterGmail extension over to SeaMonkey? I use it all the time on my work machine (Firefox) but cannot get it to install properly on my home machine (SeaMonkey).

http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/li ... 251923.php

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Post Posted June 24th, 2007, 5:02 pm

If you're familiar with making extensions you could try yourself:
http://users.skynet.be/fa258499/hackexttutorial.html

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Post Posted June 24th, 2007, 10:14 pm

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for! I went through the tutorial and I'm so close... I get an error in the install.log:

** InstallPackage() failed. - nsresult code: 0x80004005
** Failed to register chrome. - nsresult code: 0x80004005

And I get the "Chrome Registration Failed" message from SeaMonkey.

Here's my work so far (maybe a second pair of eyes can spot something I might have missed)
http://www.spuler.us/temp/bettergmail_0.8.xpi

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Post Posted June 25th, 2007, 4:55 am

You forgot to provide a content/contents.rdf file. Also, the three sets of variables that tell the installer script how the extension's directory structure looks need to be modified. Lastly, to prevent errors in locale registration, rename contents-locale.rdf that's in locale/en-US/ to contents.rdf.

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Post Posted June 25th, 2007, 7:10 am


My attemp: bettergmail_0.8-fx+sm.xpi
Only tested on SeaMonkey 1.1


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Post Posted June 25th, 2007, 7:49 am

Thanks for the look guys. Zoolcar9, I'm going to send your attempt to Gina over at lifehacker.com -- it works perfectly for me. Thanks for taking a look at it!

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Post Posted July 6th, 2007, 1:07 pm

At Lifehacker.com, Gina Trapani wrote:Version 0.9: ...
Added SeaMonkey support (thanks, Aaron!);

You're welcome.


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Post Posted July 6th, 2007, 2:06 pm

This is the text of the email that I sent to Gina.... so don't blame me :)
Gina, I've made some modifications to the Better Gmail 0.8 extension,
along with a little help from a couple of others. The modifications
simply make the extension work in SeaMonkey and Mozilla Suite. No
functional changes, just the inclusion of an installer.

I hope that you will take these changes and incorporate them into your
builds, as I love this extension -- but can only use it at work. I
use Firefox on my work machine, but SeaMonkey on my home machine.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=560992

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