Tigsman's PCPer and PCPer F@H Firefox Extensions

[Drawde5]

We need an update. Who do we petition? Tigsman? All right buddy! I petition thee. Anyone in contact with the Tigsman?

[molestedbyasus]

Haven't seen Tigs in a while but ...

download the extension with IE so that you end up with a pcper.1.2005.1.11.02.xpi file.

Rename it to pcper.1.2005.1.11.02.zip. Open with your choice of program (7-zip, winzip, winrar, explorer, whatever), you will see a file called install.rdf.

Open that file with notepad (either inside the archive or extract it)

you will see a line that says

<em:minVersion>0.8</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>2.0</em:maxVersion>

Change the maxVersion to about 5.0 or so and save the changes and reimport install.rdf if you extracted it

Rename the file back to pcper.1.2005.1.11.02.xpi, fire up firefox and then drag and drop the xpi file into the browser window.

Your toolbar shall return!

[Drawde5]

Excellent! Thanks MBA!

[igloo iguana]

Haven't seen Tigs in a while but ...

download the extension with IE so that you end up with a pcper.1.2005.1.11.02.xpi file.

Rename it to pcper.1.2005.1.11.02.zip. Open with your choice of program (7-zip, winzip, winrar, explorer, whatever), you will see a file called install.rdf.

Open that file with notepad (either inside the archive or extract it)

you will see a line that says

<em:minVersion>0.8</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>2.0</em:maxVersion>

Change the maxVersion to about 5.0 or so and save the changes and reimport install.rdf if you extracted it

Rename the file back to pcper.1.2005.1.11.02.xpi, fire up firefox and then drag and drop the xpi file into the browser window.

Your toolbar shall return!

I did this but when I drop in in my browser window nothing happens.

[molestedbyasus]

You renamed it back to .xpi and click dragged the icon into your firefox window and then let go?

[igloo iguana]

You renamed it back to .xpi and click dragged the icon into your firefox window and then let go?

Yeah this is what I see in the new tab when I drop it in.

Index of file:///C:/Users/name/Downloads/pc_perspective_site_navigator_v2-2.3-fx.xpi/
Up to higher level directory

Show hidden objects

Name Size Last Modified

chrome 2/10/2010 7:32:27 PM
File:install.rdf 2 KB 2/10/2010 7:55:37 PM

[Drawde5]

It won't install because of a missing install script.


file:///C:/Users/Drawde5/Desktop/pcp...05.1.11.02.xpi

Firefox could not install the file at

file:///C:/Users/Drawde5/Desktop/pcper.1.2005.1.11.02.xpi

because: Install script not found
-204

The next try: PC Perspective Site Navigator v2 2.2 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.6.

anyway, thanks for the suggestion.

[igloo iguana]

I think I have found out why this did not work.

After I saved it and changed the file ext back to .xpi the file still has a folder and I can access the files inside it.

I have not figured out how to just make it one file like it was before I changed the ext. to .zip.

Have any ideas?

[molestedbyasus]

Maybe whatever compression program you used decided to make its self the default program for xpi files and now FF isn't getting a chance to open it?

[igloo iguana]

Maybe whatever compression program you used decided to make its self the default program for xpi files and now FF isn't getting a chance to open it?

That's the problem. Once I changed the file to .zip it keeps that association after I rename back to .xpi. When I go into properties I can't change the "Type of file" it keeps it as WinRAR Archive.

Got any suggestions?

[igloo iguana]

OK, I got this to work somewhat.

I had to un-check some boxes in folder options.
Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Advanced Settings
Uncheck the boxes for.
Hide extensions for known file types
Hide protected operating

Now the .xpi .zip file problem is solved.
BUT
Whenever I drop it in my browser it says it is installing but I have nothing to show for it. It's like nothing installed.

[molestedbyasus]

Just to revisit this topic, as I've now seen the odd behaviour some have described.

My home machine (in sig), Win7 Professional shows the PCPer add on in the menu bar. Win7 Enterprise at work does not.

In both cases I have an .xpi file that had the version info string edited so that Firefox has no compatibility issues. I've even used the same xpi file on both machines with no changes.

Farting around in about:config seems to have done nothing when the strings for checking for compatibility and secure updates are changed to false. No sign of the addon using the Menu Editor addin.

... now investigating trying to uninstall and reinstall in the hopes that will help.