GWT Developer Plugin for Firefox 7

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Fabricio Pizzichillo

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Sep 29, 2011, 6:23:58 AM9/29/11
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Hello Friends.
Again has come a new version of Firefox and the plugin does not work. Does anyone know how to do this work?

thanks!

Thomas Broyer

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Sep 29, 2011, 6:45:14 AM9/29/11
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Mozilla requires that binary components be compiled against the libraries for the version of Firefox they'll run in; so the extension has to be recompiled against the Firefox 7 libraries (and a couple lines added to extension manifest).
The last 2 commits in the SVN (r10673, r10674) are adding the libraries for gecko 7 on Linux 32bits, so it's only a matter of time for the extension to be updated.

Fabricio Pizzichillo

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Sep 29, 2011, 7:13:07 AM9/29/11
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Thanks Thomas.

2011/9/29 Thomas Broyer <t.br...@gmail.com>
Mozilla requires that binary components be compiled against the libraries for the version of Firefox they'll run in; so the extension has to be recompiled against the Firefox 7 libraries (and a couple lines added to extension manifest).
The last 2 commits in the SVN (r10673, r10674) are adding the libraries for gecko 7 on Linux 32bits, so it's only a matter of time for the extension to be updated.

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bryn ryans

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Sep 29, 2011, 11:36:41 AM9/29/11
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Supposedly mozilla's jetpack SDK (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/
Jetpack/Roadmap) will make it faster to develop and migrate add on's.
At this point however it is unclear to me whether the jetpack API
supports all API function calls required by the GWT developer plugin.
So I guess my questions are

1. Can the GWT developer plugin be migrated to jetpack?
2. If it can be migrated, is there a plan to migrate it?
3. If there is a plan to migrate it, any ideas when?

Thanks

Thomas Broyer

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I don't think JetPack is the solution. js-ctypes look like a much better one: http://adblockplus.org/blog/binary-xpcom-components-are-dead-js-ctypes-is-the-way-to-go

Lukas Laag

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Sep 29, 2011, 5:00:02 PM9/29/11
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Hi,

If you are eager to have the plugin now, it appears it is not too hard
to rebuild it. Here is the procedure I followed:

1/ Check out the source and tools from the svn repository
http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
Also checkout http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/plugin-sdks/gecko-sdks/gecko-7.0.0
(see http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/makinggwtbetter.html#checkingout
for details)

2/ Edit several files, by either adding an extra section for ff70 copy-
pasted-adapted from what existed for ff60 (trunk/plugins/xpcom/
Makefile, trunk/plugins/xpcom/prebuilt/extension/chrome.manifest), or
by replacing 6.0 by 7.0 (trunk/plugins/xpcom/install-template.rdf)

3/ Create the directory trunk/plugins/xpcom/prebuilt/ff70/include

4/ Go to trunk/plugins/xpcom and type: make ARCH=x86 BROWSER=ff70
This will build a plugin in the directory trunk/plugins/xpcom/
prebuilt/gwt-dev-plugin.xpi
5/ In FF7.0, go to File > Open File... and open the .xpi resulting
from the build

I cannot guarantee the resulting plugin is flawless as I blindly
changed stuff without having a real understanding of FF plugin
development or the GWT plugin, but this has produced something which
works for me (FF7.0, linux 32 bits)

Lukas

On Sep 29, 6:11 pm, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think JetPack is the solution. js-ctypes look like a much better
> one:http://adblockplus.org/blog/binary-xpcom-components-are-dead-js-ctype...

Adil

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Mozilla are coming up with a new remote debugging protocol, jsdbg2, which should make hooking a debugger into Firefox much easier and more compatible with future releases. I think it is already a feature of the latest nightly builds (Firefox 9.x).

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Thomas Broyer

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I haven't tried it (yet) but what's needed is just to do the same as http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source/detail?r=10593 but for ff70.

If you're not on Linux 32bits though (that's my case, and why I haven't tried it yet), you'd have to download the appropriate Gecko SDK for your platform and unpack it in the plugin-sdks/gecko-sdks/gecko-7.0.0/<platform>, mimicking what's been done for ff60 and/or ff70-on-Linux-32bits.

Otherwise, you're right that "make BROWSER=ff70" should be enough (the README says the ARCH defaults to the one of the machine you run the build on); it'd add support for ff70 for your platform to the prebuilt XPI.

I bet it's a bit different on Windows though.

David Sanders

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Sep 30, 2011, 5:46:45 AM9/30/11
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Yeah I'm on Ubuntu 64 bit

For other 64 bit users out there, I needed to do the following:
 - Get your Linux 64bit gecko sdk from Mozilla (available here: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/7.0/sdk )
 - Add "-std=gnu++0x" to CFLAGS in the Makefile
 - Make sure I had the 32 bit building stuff - I needed to install libc6-dev-i386 & g++-multilib

(The error I got previously was from not editing the Makefile correctly so I deleted my post)

wbabachan

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Sep 30, 2011, 9:45:40 AM9/30/11
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It works for me too. Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64 But I got xullrunner 7.0.1

Fabricio Pizzichillo

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Can you upload it to svn or somewhere?


2011/9/30 wbabachan <wbab...@googlemail.com>
It works for me too. Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64 But I got xullrunner 7.0.1
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emerix

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Hello,
Would you mind sharing your xpi file ? I am on Ubuntu 64bit also and I am having trouble compiling the plugin :-/

Thanks!

Fabricio Pizzichillo

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me too

2011/10/1 emerix <raf...@gmail.com>
Hello,
Would you mind sharing your xpi file ? I am on Ubuntu 64bit also and I am having trouble compiling the plugin :-/

Thanks!

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wbabachan

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Oct 2, 2011, 5:49:50 PM10/2/11
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Of course I can do, but I have no idea, how and where. Unfortunately I
can't attach the xpi here, Is there any way to attach the xpi here ? I
want to share it.

wbabachan

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Oct 2, 2011, 6:29:11 PM10/2/11
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OK I've found a way, I have uploaded the file here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/s01yil

I Hope that it helps everyone.

Fabricio Pizzichillo

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Thanks!!!!

2011/10/2 wbabachan <wbab...@googlemail.com>
OK I've found a way, I have uploaded the file here:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/s01yil

I Hope that it helps everyone.
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Michele Adams

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Awesome. Can you share the link where it can be found?

Michele Adams

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Wbabachan,

Can you share the link where the xpi can be found? What version of the
developer plugin is it?

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Michele Adams

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Thanks wbabachan.....I guess we'll find out if it will work with Firefox
6.0.2

Michele

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Hmmm....I'm unable to access the site so is there a way you can change the extension and send it to me as an attachment?


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Subject: Re: GWT Developer Plugin for Firefox 7

Kees de Kooter

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mjfan80

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Yes
there's still problem with firefox 7.01
The worst thik is that i can't make work the plugin with chrome too

On 3 Ott, 15:48, Kees de Kooter <kdekoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This plugin is failing on FF 7.0.1: "Sorry, the GWT Developer Plugin only
> supports Firefox 3.0 - 6.0 at present <http://www.getfirefox.com/>"

Ivan Bahdanau

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Attached file is GWT FF plugin for FF7 on Ubuntu 11 64. in case anyone does not want to re-build it by himself.

My Ubuntu info:
uname -a:
Linux v 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ioanbsu@v:~$

cat /etc/issue:
Ubuntu 11.04 \n \l





gwt-dev-plugin.xpi

Lorenzo M

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Oct 7, 2011, 12:21:29 PM10/7/11
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Many thanks Ivan, but still I cannot make it work on FF 7.0.1. I keep
getting the same error message Kees de Kooter reported.
Any chance someone can share the plugin built for Firefox 7.0.1?
Unofrtunateli, I didn't manage to compile it by myself :/

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Thomas Broyer

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Oct 7, 2011, 2:51:03 PM10/7/11
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It's available on the GWT SVN; just a matter of time 'til it makes it to an official release with the auto-update process right from firefox.

Alan Leung

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Yes. I checked it in last night and tested it on all the OS.

Let me know if you have any problems with it.

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It's available on the GWT SVN; just a matter of time 'til it makes it to an official release with the auto-update process right from firefox.

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Kees de Kooter

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Doin' fine on my mac.

Kees de Kooter

Tapas Adhikary

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Oct 7, 2011, 11:44:26 PM10/7/11
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Alan,

Can you share the check-in location?
-Tapas

On Oct 8, 1:24 am, Kees de Kooter <kdekoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Doin' fine on my mac.
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> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 21:50, Alan Leung <acle...@google.com> wrote:
> > Yes. I checked it in last night and tested it on all the OS.
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> > Let me know if you have any problems with it.
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Kees de Kooter

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Michael Vogt

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Hello Alan.

Thanks for the update.


> Yes. I checked it in last night and tested it on all the OS.
> Let me know if you have any problems with it.
>

Just tried to run one of my applications with it. Crashes Firefox 7
(updated through the Ubuntu update) before the application is loaded
on Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit.

Could not find a log other than the dump from the crash reporter.
Should I send you this?


Greetings,
Michael

JB

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Same as Michael,

Initializing GWT Developer Plugin
  gecko=7.0.1, firefox=7.0.1, abi=Linux_x86-gcc3, built for ff70
Connect(url=http://127.0.0.1:8888/Photobook.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997, sessionKey=g35&fIN;t2)"=6/\, address=127.0.0.1:9997, module=photobook, hostedHtmlVersion=2.1
Initiating GWT Development Mode connection to host 127.0.0.1, port 9997
Segmentation fault

JB

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I manually rebuilt from SVN and that worked.
I on Gentoo Linux 32bits (built plugin attached).
gwt-dev-plugin.xpi

koma

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works perfectly on my Ubuntu 64 bit
Linux N53SV 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
FF 7.0.1

Alan Leung

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Thanks for the info.

That is pretty weird.....I can't think of any reason why that would happen

Let me try rebuilding...

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:16 AM, JB <jul.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
I manually rebuilt from SVN and that worked.
I on Gentoo Linux 32bits (built plugin attached).

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Michael Vogt

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Yes works also on my ThinkPad with Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit and Firefox
7.0.1 at home.

Alan Leung

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For those who had experienced a crash on 32bit Linux, would you mind doing me a favor by trying the attached xpi file?

Thanks!

-Alan

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Michael Vogt

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Hello Alan.

> For those who had experienced a crash on 32bit Linux, would you mind doing
> me a favor by trying the attached xpi file?
>

Yes, this works with Ubuntu 11.04 and Firefox 7.0.1 now for me.


Thanks,
Michael

Michael Vogt

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>> For those who had experienced a crash on 32bit Linux, would you mind doing
>> me a favor by trying the attached xpi file?
>>
> Yes, this works with Ubuntu 11.04 and Firefox 7.0.1 now for me.
>
I should have mentioned, that it works now on 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu for me.


Greetings,
Michael

Joel

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Oct 25, 2011, 10:29:27 AM10/25/11
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It seems to work for me as well, under Firefox 7.0.1 with Windows 7
x64.

When is the deployment planned ?

On Oct 10, 6:27 pm, Alan Leung <acle...@google.com> wrote:
> For those who had experienced a crash on 32bit Linux, would you mind doing
> me a favor by trying the attached xpi file?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Alan
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Michael Vogt <vmei...@googlemail.com>wrote:
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> > > works perfectly on my Ubuntu 64 bit
> > > Linux N53SV 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011
> > > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > > FF 7.0.1
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> > Yes works also on my ThinkPad with Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit and Firefox
> > 7.0.1 at home.
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Ivan Dimitrijevic

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Works regular for me on Mac OS X 10.7.2
64bit

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Alan Leung

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Sometimes this week.

It seems to be pretty stable.

-Alan

Ivan Dimitrijevic

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Also works fine from Win7 64bit.
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morteza adi

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Oct 25, 2011, 5:28:55 PM10/25/11
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I'm new here  !!

where can i download gwt-dev-plugin.xpi for ff7 ? can you please provide a link.


Truly yours,
Morteza Adi

Joel

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Oct 26, 2011, 11:10:24 AM10/26/11
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It is inside the conversation, you even had it included in your reply.

Here is the direct link to it :
http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/attach/840a3dc826eda769/gwt-dev-plugin.xpi?part=4

Please take the time to report how it worked for you :-)

Joel.

On Oct 25, 5:28 pm, morteza adi <morteza...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new here  !!
>
> where can i download gwt-dev-plugin.xpi for ff7 ? can you please provide a
> link.
>
> Truly yours,
> Morteza Adi
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Ivan Dimitrijevic <dim...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
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> > Also works fine from Win7 64bit.
> > --
> > S postovanjem,
> > *Ivan Dimitrijevic*, dipl.ing. ISiT, MSc
> > d...@dnjcompany.com <d...@dnjcopmany.com>
> >http://dimi.dnjcompany.com
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> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 23:14, Alan Leung <acle...@google.com> wrote:
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> >> Sometimes this week.
>
> >> It seems to be pretty stable.
>
> >> -Alan
>
> >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Ivan Dimitrijevic <dim...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>> Works regular for me on Mac OS X 10.7.2
> >>> 64bit
>
> >>> --
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> >>> *Ivan Dimitrijevic*, dipl.ing. ISiT, MSc
> >>> d...@dnjcompany.com <d...@dnjcopmany.com>
> >>>http://dimi.dnjcompany.com

Joel

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Thank you very much :-)

On Oct 25, 5:14 pm, Alan Leung <acle...@google.com> wrote:
> Sometimes this week.
>
> It seems to be pretty stable.
>
> -Alan
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Ivan Dimitrijevic <dim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Works regular for me on Mac OS X 10.7.2
> > 64bit
>
> > --
> > S postovanjem,
> > *Ivan Dimitrijevic*, dipl.ing. ISiT, MSc
> > d...@dnjcompany.com <d...@dnjcopmany.com>
> >http://dimi.dnjcompany.com

morteza adi

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Thanks Joel !

it worked for me very well !




Truly yours,
Morteza Adi

Joel

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Cool !

May be Alan could be interested by your systems specs ?...
By the way it is always better to give a little bit of these info for
every question/remark you have.

It's sad but computing is still very sensitive to the context :-/

Salvatore Piccione

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Thank you very much! It works also for me:

OS: Win 7 64 bit
GWT: 2.4.0
Firefox: 7.0.1

Regards,

Salvatore

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> It is inside the conversation, you even had it included in your reply.
>
> Here is the direct link to it :http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/attach/840a3dc826ed...

FanFan Huang

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Not to get this started again but umm... firefox 8.... Yeah..... Tomorrow.....

Alan Leung

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Don't worry. I am on it.

Once it is once I'll start checking in changes. Hopefully It'll be pain free.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM, FanFan Huang <vort...@gmail.com> wrote:
Not to get this started again but umm... firefox 8.... Yeah..... Tomorrow.....

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David Guo

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Now FF8 has already  lanched,so the new GWT plugin still need to rebuild.....

Thomas Broyer

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