Re: Need to edit Firefox 3.5 compatible extensions to install them in IceCat

[Figue]

Hi,

try with

<!-- GNU IceCat -->
<em:targetApplication>
<Description>

<em:minVersion>3.5-g1</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>3.5-g1</em:maxVersion>


Regards

Figue


Giuseppe Scrivano said the following on 11/07/09 18:15:
> Hi,
>
> I looked at the .xpi you sent me and I noticed this:
>
>    <em:minVersion>3.5</em:minVersion>
>    <em:maxVersion>3.5</em:maxVersion>
>
> Is there any special reason why the langpack should work exactly on 3.5?
> I think that it is a too strict requirement, why it shouldn't work on
> 3.5.1 or 3.5.0.1?  I don't know if Firefox langpacks do the same, but it
> seems a bit strange to me.
>
> Anyway, I am going to change the versioning scheme for IceCat, I'll
> remove the -gN suffix, we were using it to have more releases based on
> the same Firefox version, but it never happened in reality.  IMO, drop
> the suffix is better than introduce new changes in the library to handle
> it or don't work with so many addons.
>
> Giuseppe
>
>
>
> al3xu5 / dotcommon<address@hidden>  writes:
>
>    
> > Il giorno venerdì 10/07/2009 19:52:35 CEST
> > Bruno Miguel<address@hidden>  ha scritto:
> >
> >      
> > > I know that a lot of Firefox extensions are not yet upgraded to
> > > version 3.5. But some are. And I've been having some difficulties
> > > installing some of them. Although maxversion is set to 3.5, I have to
> > > change it to 3.6pre1 so it installs.
> > >
> > > I've already reported this behavior with Firebug [1]. I'm using the
> > > latest 1.4 beta version, which is, according to the info available in
> > > addons.mozilla.org, Firefox 3.5 compatible (but it doesn't work,
> > > unfortunately). Now, it happened with oxygen theme [2], which was
> > > finally ported to the new Firefox version.
> > >
> > > I checked the install.rdf and the max-version is 3.5. I didn't try to
> > > install it with Firefox, but I assume it should install with no
> > > problem. Yet, IceCat 3.5 doesn't allow installation.
> > >
> > > Is there any problem in the browser identification?
> > >        
> > I still have the same ("extension not compatible") problem with the
> > it.xpi langpack I have rebranded...
> >
> > The addon maxversion is set to 3.5.
> >
> > I am using the test GNU IceCat file from here:
> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.5-g1/
> >
> > Hope it helps
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > al3xu5 / dotcommon
> >
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