ShowLocalDirectory - FF15?

[skye riquelme]

Hi All

Just noticed that ERics ShowLocalDirectory is now throwing a UniversalPConnect error..... it used to work...but my system upgarded to FF15...is that the problem?

Thanks
Skye

[Eric Shulman]

> Just noticed that ERics ShowLocalDirectory is now throwing a
> UniversalPConnect error..... it used to work...but my system upgarded to
> FF15...is that the problem?

Yes, that's the cause. Unfortunately, as of FF15, FireFox has removed
support for "PriviledgeManager", which is used to get
"UniversalXPConnect" priviledges for access to the diretory
information. Thus, ShowLocalDirectory is broken with FF15 (but should
still work with IE, which has different browser-specific file/
directory access functions).

-e

[Eric Shulman]

On Sep 5, 2:15 pm, Stephan Hradek <stephan.hra...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> > Yes, that's the cause.  Unfortunately, as of FF15, FireFox has removed
> > support for "PriviledgeManager", which is used to get
> > "UniversalXPConnect" priviledges for access to the diretory
> > information.
>

> I don't like IE :( There is no fix for this I guess? Signing won't help,
> because tiddlywikis are one file and so there is noc single js file to
> sign, right?
>  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-scripts.html

The only way to use the filesystem functions is to invoke them from a
true browser-level extension so that they are automatically run as
'privileged code' , much like the new TiddlyFox extension that Jeremy
has recently created to enable FF15 to read/write local files without
security errors. It might be possible to provide similar extension-
driven functions for reading local directory information. I'll have
to look into that.

-e

[Mark S.]

Is this why I can no longer import from tiddlytools ?

Thanks,
Mark

[Stephan Hradek]

It is. Switch back to FF14

[roger]

Eric,
Just wondering if you determined whether ShowLocalFolder could be salvaged in FF 15+ using an extension.  Some of the other functionality in the TW's we use at my office don't work with IE, while FF works great, or at least it did work great.

~Roger