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See MozillaZine's news about this.
. Some extensions aren't working, but maybe they have some follow up which does, haven't checked up on the website. Is it just me, or is the startup time less?
Also those extensions which refuse to work can be made to work, if you open up the .xpi files and inside in one the XML files (which contain the basic template for that extension) - you can modify the MaximumVersion data to 1.5 and make them run here...
abhiram, the reason the startup time decreased may have been that some extensions are disabled, so your Firefox takes less memory to start and to run.
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abhiram, the reason the startup time decreased may have been that some extensions are disabled, so your Firefox takes less memory to start and to run.Hmm... I guess you're right. I've installed the binary package for linux and for some reason sometimes when I start it, it gives me a popup saying 'chrome' has been disabled. I click on 'ok' and firefox starts as normal. Any idea what that means?
It is great, but eats lots of memory..
I just open 3 tabs, memory usage is about 47MB..
and some extensions did not work in this 1.5 version.
For example, Bookmarks Synchronizer and Super DragAndGo....
The onmouseover effects of the menu buttons are quite nice though
But apart from that I didn't really notice much difference (besides the interface change from the OPTIONS menu).
or has it come? :S
Memory usage is insanely high now... I've had been using Firefox for a while and the memory usage is a staggering 80 mb's now
Setp 1: download the extension that you want to install to your
local drive and rename it to zip file
Setp 2: Open it with WinZip or any other compress software.
Setp 3: look for install.rdf and open it with any text editor.
Setp 4: Find em:maxVersion, change its value to 1.5 then save
Setp 5: Rename it back to xpi file. then install this modified extension
by draging it in to a FireFox window.
However, this method does not always work.
"SwitchProxy Tools" can be installed after modified with this method.
but error occur when adding a proxy.
And you can use the same method for your favorite theme.
Anyway, I'm writing an extension to view the Asta/Trap Credits in your statusbar - autorefreshed at a certain preset interval. I'm 70% done with it - the UI is complete.. the part that's remaining is fetching the actual data and displaying it back. If anyone want's to help me out with this - you're most welcome
Regards,
m^e
I modified the install.rdf file and it works very well in Firefox 1.5
The extension which you are working on sounds very cool and useful for us...
I hope it can be released soon..
ms^e, I've been writing an extension too, but like always, I got bored and stopped working on it. I started it during the summer, and I may continue working on it in the future. It's a tool mainly to search astahost, but also includes other things like games to play while your page loads (I got this idea during the time when astahost had a slow loading time, but I guess it's not applicable anymore. Well, maybe dial-up users can use this feature), and astahost's stats (I don't know what I meant by that - I wrote it in my extension's changelog, but I don't remember what I was thinking about). Have you coded any extensions before? Or did you want to make your first extension out of curiosity?
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