Firefox Extensions

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I've had occasion to uninstall and reinstall it on Firefox
1.0 with no problem. Can't say about 0.8, since ImageLoader
did not exist before I upgraded to 1.0.
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Well, there's one way to find out ... ;)
Again, tks for the info.

J
 
http://downloads.mozdev.org/visuallinkindicator/ImageLoader.xpi
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I'm straying a bit OT, and I'll post this in the FF Forum, but maybe
more experienced FF users here can comment too please. I'm having the
same kind of problem with this that I've had before in FF with some
XPI files. I click the link in my newsreader (or paste it into it my
FF address box), and FF reports an almost instant 'Done' and an empty
tab. Nothing downloaded. Yet if I open IE and load it there, I get
correct operation.
 
Clicking that link gives me a blank screen.
Lower left corner says "done". No indications of anything else going
on, no indication anything's wrong at the website, and no extra
extensions added.
Any ideas why the page won't show?
Thanks,
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com
@Fictionwise: http://tinyurl.com/26v45
 
(e-mail address removed) wrote in <@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:
was able to download the extension to my hard
drive.
I'll see if I can find a way to install it locally.
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Drag it onto your Firefox window.
 
(e-mail address removed) wrote in
Update: Tried the link:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/visuallinkindicator/ImageLoader.
xpi
with Avant Browser and was able to download the extension
to my hard
drive.
I'll see if I can find a way to install it locally.
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com
@Fictionwise: http://tinyurl.com/26v45
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Interesting -- they've removed the link from that page
(sometimes during yesterday).

FWIW, I always d/l any .XPI via Netscape (save to disk).

J
 
Interesting -- they've removed the link from that page
(sometimes during yesterday).

FWIW, I always d/l any .XPI via Netscape (save to disk).
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Man, I didn't know that mentioning this extension here was going to
overload their bandwidth, if that's the reason they pulled it! It can
still be found at:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/lofiversion/index.php/t947.html

where it is called Image-Show-Hide-Load.

I also download extensions, and then install them from my HD after
running a virus scan on them. That way I don't have to allow the
hosting site to install software on my system.
 
Man, I didn't know that mentioning this extension here was
going to overload their bandwidth, if that's the reason
they pulled it! It can still be found at:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/lofiversion/index.php/t947.ht
ml

where it is called Image-Show-Hide-Load.

I also download extensions, and then install them from my
HD after running a virus scan on them. That way I don't
have to allow the hosting site to install software on my
system.
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I'm not surprised by the popularity.

Oh, one can also "sandwich" A-V scan b/w download and install.
;)

J
 
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/lofiversion/index.php/t947.html

where it is called Image-Show-Hide-Load.
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Beware extension authors silly enough to ramp their 'max Firefox
version' above 1.0 already. This one's set to 999.9. Best to disable,
or better yet uninstall, such extensions before upgrading to 1.1 when
it arrives.
I also download extensions, and then install them from my HD after
running a virus scan on them. That way I don't have to allow the
hosting site to install software on my system.
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If you just click them, the xpi packages are downloaded to a temp
directory anyway before being unpacked and executed; a real-time
scanner would catch them then.
 
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