DSWP Bar for Firefox

[natirips]

Sry for offtopic, but .jar already uses zip compression itself.

[JRandomNoob]

Yup. I didn’t compress the file, simply renamed it for uploading (.jar isn’t in the list of allowed extensions).

[natirips]

(.jar isn’t in the list of allowed extensions).

I was suspecting this might be the case.

[Zottel]

hi hi!!!!!!
I have a question!
I have verion 0.0.2 and the update for this bar (0.0.3) is not working! (Firefox version 3.6.24)
Although it is available, but when i install it then is always version 0.0.2 on the bar!!

Can someone help plz!

[wurst]

oh, ask svarox...

[Zottel]

Then the question is just only for!

[JRandomNoob]

Zottel: I just checked and yes, it’s caused by exactly what I remembered. You see, each and every add-on has an update address that the browser sniffs periodically (in case of DSWP Bar, this is http://www.dswp.de/old/dswp_tools/svarox/dswpbar/update.rdf); if it finds the file in the other end reporting that an update is available, by default it downloads and installs it. Now there’s this funny thing that although SvaRoX made his update.rdf point at dswpbar_0_0_3.xpi, he actually hasn’t either uploaded or even finished this version — the update is actually exactly the same bloody thing! Update installs 0.0.3, which is actually 0.0.2 (and reports its version number accordingly), which prompts the browser to tell you that an update is available, forevermore.

(BTW, warning: DSWP Bar “is not compatible” with Firefox 4 and beyond, that is, it reports too low maxVersion in one of the magic files — when I was doing silly things with it, I also changed this number. Of course, this was before Mozilla went all GNU and decided that integer version numbers are the Right Thing that puts hair on your chest. Hint: maxVersion 9999 sounds good:-P)

[Samtron]

[...] before Mozilla went all GNU and decided that integer version numbers are the Right Thing that puts hair on your chest.

I have disabled the compatibility check for years now...

@JRN: I still have the addon in use and like it very much. It's all open source and I fixed once one bug in the code, and you also changed something when I remember correctly. So we can modify it and also replace the files on the DSWP server Do you know how the signing works? I guess we need it to keep the update mechanism running... Do we have to hack SvaRoX' computer to get the secret key?

[Zottel]

ok?!?!?!????????

[wurst]

zottel didnt get the hair-on-the-chest-thingy