Moji Compatiblity for Fire Fox 3
psk
I have been using Firefox+Moji for a couple of years now. Though the
new version of Firefox is super, but im at a loss since moji support
is not there. can anybody provide me any insight as to by when a
support for moji for the newer version of the firefox will be made
available. If Moji is not made compatible, are there any plans to
make an alternative which provides the functionality of moji on the
new firefox?
Thanks & Regards,
Gerald Vogt
Actually moji is compatible, however mozilla changed the extensions
handling and requires "secure" updates for an extension to work. You
should see the warning that secure updates are not supported in the
add-ons manager. I wanted to deal with this in the firefox release
candidates but unfortunately mozilla did not notify addons developers of
the release candidates, only of the first beta and the final release.
Thus this hits me pretty much by surprise and in my summer vacation.
moji 0.9.3 is submitted to mozilla add-ons but is pending for review for
weeks now. This would solve the problem for moji but not for the
dictionaries.
The quickest solution would be to disable secure updates at the moment.
You have to enter "about:config" into the address bar. It opens the
firefox preferences. You have to add a boolean preference named
"extensions.checkUpdateSecurity" and set it to false. Restart firefox.
Afterwards it should work if you are lucky.
I have downloaded and installed firefox 3 on my Mac and it was a pure
disaster. The add-ons manager always asks to restart firefox which I did
couple of times without any difference. Eventually I have deleted the
extensions folder and extensions file from my firefox profile directory
and installed everything again. Now moji and the dictionaries work with
the preference set to false.
I don't know at this time when I will be able to properly solve this
problems releasing updated XPIs for moji and the dictionaries. I expect
to get this done by the end of July (unless someone posts me some quick
and easy to follow instructions what to change in the XPIs which I could
then publish through this lousy internet connection which I have during
my vacation). Until then the only option is to disable update security.
I will post on this mailing list when I have finished the updates. You
should also automatically see the new versions available for download if
you have installed moji from moji.mozdev.org and not from
addons.mozilla.org. After those updates you can remove the added
preference again or set it to true (the "Enable" button in the add-ons
manager should do the same).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Cheers,
Gerald