Comments on: Here’s How To Make An Extension Compatible With Prism (Two-ish)

By: LeafStorm

LeafStorm — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:10:12 +0000

I’m trying to hack up POW to work in Prism to deploy my PyTin framework for a project named DWA. After modifying install.rdf to include Prism as a target application (and making a change to POW’s “startup.sjs”), I created a Web app that would go to the address POW would broadcast on, and picked “Tools/Add-ons”. I tried to add my hacked-up XPI file, but it responded with ‘”POW” will not be installed because it does not provide secure updates’. I tried accessing the about:config and changing the “extensions.update.enabled” setting to False, but still no dice. Does anyone know how I can either (a) trick Prism into thinking the extension provides secure updates, or (b) keep Prism from checking for it?

Regards, LeafStorm.

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[...] also been running into a problem described by commenter Marcel, here. I’ve been getting a similar error under Windows for different extensions when I try to [...]

By: Marcel

Marcel — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:22:58 +0000

I’m using a mac; I’ve tried both the FF extension and the standalone app and neither of them have anything by default in the ‘extensions’ folder (which incidentally is in ‘~/Library/Application Support/YourAppName/Profiles/ProfileName/extensions’ for both of them).

I tried modifying the extension as described in the previous post and also with the XML in this post, and installing it using the built-in installer and the Extensions.webapp provided from this site (and just dropping it in the extensions folder in desperation!).

Nothing works. I can’t browse extensions and when I try to install from the Extensions.webapp, I am told the install-xxx.rdf (where xxx is a random string) is corrupted or doesn’t exist.

I’m at my wits end and REALLY want to install GTDInbox onto my Gmail app :(

Can anyone help?

Thanks

Marcel

By: airis

airis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:27:27 +0000

I’ve been looking for something like this for ages, but I have a slight problem. Is there a way to make this work for the Firefox addon of Prism, Refractor?

Refractor is an addon that creats Prism apps from within Firefox, so I don have C:\Program Files\Prism\extensions\inspector@mozilla.org or anything like that. I would really love to be able to have Better Gmail 2 in my Gmail app.

Thanks!

By: manolo

manolo — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:49:26 +0000

i upload the XPI to made works the RTM extension in prism, this the link:

http://www.arnoldroa.com/software/remember-the-milk-gmail-y-prism/

is a spanish blog, but you can get it at the end of the page! and please comment, dont cares you dont speak spanish =)

By: Manolo

Manolo — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:30:26 +0000

Well, after a LOT of testing i finally get the RTM extension to work in Prism, but unfortunally there was a couple of “hard things” i must to do before have success. Is possible that must of this things must to be done in order to get other extensions to work. Im interested in this, so if someone need help can write me a mail.

i dont remember all but:

1) after you do the steps on this post the extension is loaded aparently ok but nothing happens, thats cause in the chrome.manifest the XUL file is loading like:

overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://rtmgmail/content/script-compiler-overlay.xul

But browser.xul dont exists in Prism!! thats the default browser schema for firefox!.

so i must change to:

overlay chrome://webrunner/content/webrunner.xul chrome://rtmgmail/content/script-compiler-overlay.xul

webrunner.xul is the schema for prism.

2) this:

var appcontent=window.document.getElementById(”appcontent”);

dont works in Prism, appcontent is a element where the tabbed browser is (The JS on the extensions runs from the chrome perspective, not from the document), but only exist on firefox, not in prism so i must change it to:

var appcontent=window.document.getElementById(”browser_content”); //browser content is the document container for Prism

The RTM extension load a couple of JS from they server, but i need to download that JS and put inside the extension for a lot of reasons, for example, when you are not logged in there is a messege with a link “login to view your task”. if you click on “login” your default browser is launched…

I need to modified the extension to look like:

http://www.evernote.com/shard/s1/res/504b185c-4a3e-4cec-a71c-4cac6083f8b8

and make the login proceduro on gmail.

Well, after that the extension is working like a charm… i will package it and upload to my server… if anyone is interested…

By: Manolo

Manolo — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:58:08 +0000

ok i add the extensions remember the milk for gmail and i see it on the addons page, but nothing happend, also i edit the js file of the extensions and put alert(”hello”); but the alert never comes up.

After the extensions is installed where Prism put the files?

i look into (my pc is spanish):

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Configuración local\Datos de programa\Prism\

and:

c:\program files\Prism\components

and dont see any files of the XPI

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:21:54 +0000

Hey Ryan,
Sorry WordPress doesn’t like HTML in comments, but I think from now on if you use:

code
< /pre>

(without that space before the “/” in the closing pre)

It should recognize it. Better Gmail did give me fits for a while as well, but I haven’t worked with the latest version. I’ll take a look and see what I can find, but if you’d like to email me the file, I’d be happy to look at what you’ve got as a starting point as well…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:08:44 +0000

Sorry, I’ll try again:
“… that it looks like:”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:05:09 +0000

I’ve been trying to get Better Gmail working through the Prism addon for Firefox 3 and am still unable to. In the Better Gmail addon, I changed and added the code so that it looks like:

Did I at least get this part right? And do I need to edit the Prism addon before I install it in Firefox?

Thanks for the help,
Ryan

By: ian

ian — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:24:13 +0000

easygestures did not work for - i could get it to show up in the add ons by modifying install.rdf, but it would not copy the files, so I manually extracted and copied under extensions/ - still no luck though

it would seem that Prism does not play nice with extensions, I will stick with plain ol FireFox->’new window’ for now…

By: Sid

Sid — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:12:57 +0000

Thanks for the help Kris. So I was able to install the meebo plugin in Prism, but now nothing happens - I see it in my add ons list, but the add on itself appears to not do anything.

Perhaps it is *really* not compatible with prism since it requires a sidebar, and perhaps prism doesn’t support that. Or maybe I just need to research this further. Either way, I am a step closer!

Thanks for your help and replying. I’ll try out some more add ons later now that I was finally able to get one install to work!

Sid

By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:33:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments Sid, as it turns out, I had the same problem when I started working with Prism on Vista Business. I’ve also done some new builds recently and after installation, the extensions weren’t there, so they may be hold outs from the older installs I have on my other system. Any-who, I’ve uploaded the install.rdf for the inspector extension on my system as well as another with a different implementation of the target browser.

I’ve used these methods for creating several standalone webapps based on Firefox extensions (which I hope to have instructions for up soon).

By: Sid

Sid — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:19:07 +0000

Hi,

I am glad i found your blog, as I’m trying to install the Meebo extension in prism and so far have been unable to. In the comments about that firefox add on (Meebo) on mozilla.org someone mentions it works fine with prism, so I’m hoping I can get it to work.

Unfortunately, when i go to C:\Program Files\Prism\extensions there is nothing in that directory. Any chance you could tell me how to get the DOM Inspector install? I attempted to install the actual DOM Inspector Add-on from (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/14870/dom_inspector-1.8.1.2-tb.xpi) but had no luck installing it in prism (says it is incompatible). I’ve tried googling for “Prism DOM Inspector” with similiarly no luck. Any guidance?

This is Vista Home Basic, FF 3 Installed, Prism .9 Win32. I know you’re not tech support, but I thought I might ask =)

Thanks,

Sid

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