misc

May 10

firefox 2 plugin’s in FF3 beta5

Many of you who will be working on firefox 3 beta 5 will be having problem’s to configure the plugin’s coz they are not compatible with firefox3b5,

YOU Don’t Need to wait til the official release you can try on your own that are the really not compatible with ff3b5

=== rest of the section is not for fainthearted people ===

The plugi’s of firefox are provided in .XPI package.

This xpi is nothing but a zip file renamed.

so to view the content of the plugin’ just change the extension to zip from xpi.

The extract the file in a folder and look for a file named “install.rdf”

This is the file that need editing

Pasting a sample install.rdf from sparky - an alexa plugin
<?xml version="1.0"?> <RDF:RDF xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#" xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#" xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:extension:file:" em:package="content/" /> <RDF:Description RDF:about="rdf:#$qOePo2" em:id="{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}" em:minVersion=”2.0″ em:maxVersion=”2.0.0.*” /> <RDF:Description RDF:about=”urn:mozilla:install-manifest” em:id=”toolbar@alexa.com” em:name=”Alexa Sparky” em:version=”1.1″ em:creator=”Derrick Pallas” em:description=”Alexa Internet Statusbar Sparkline” em:homepageURL=”http://www.alexa.com/” em:aboutURL=”chrome://alexastatusbar/content/about.xul” em:iconURL=”chrome://alexastatusbar/skin/logo.png” > <em:targetApplication RDF:resource=”rdf:#$qOePo2″/> <em:file RDF:resource=”urn:mozilla:extension:file:”/> </RDF:Description> </RDF:RDF>
The lne to check out is already highlighted

em:minVersion=”2.0″ em:maxVersion=”2.0.0.*” />

This minVersion is the version number below which it will not install and maxVersion is the upper limit

To make it running on FireFox3 Beta 5 change the above lines to

em:minVersion=”2.0″ em:maxVersion=”3.0b5″ />

After this just recompress the folder and rename it with extension xpi.

and open it in firefox to install it.

more examples of such edit includes firebug and scribefire.

all three plugin are working fabulously on my pc and i keep using them around 12hrs a day so that can count to the stability issue.

Tags: firefox, web

Apr 16

Orkut Updates

google, misc 1 Comment »

big time for orkut fan’s

first time opensocial has yielded some results.

orkut has launched orkut apps with some minor enhancements in cosmetics of orkut layout also.

currently the apps database has only 18 apps

Music iLike
Emote
Photoattack
horoscopes
TypeRacers
Top friends by slide.com
SlideTV by Slide.com
My Hangman
iRead
Flixter Movies
ChakPak Movies
Reading Social
Bible Verses
INdia Dekha
Teen Patti
Hangout
BuboMe
Music And Movies

But if you look at the list closely you find many applications resembling close to each other
Like we have 3 movies apps and 2 books apps.

so that should be avoided.

and i tested 3 apps till now
1) iRead - working fine with all features
2) Flixter Movies - Going smooth.
3) Music iLike - interface not opening on FF3 beta, hope it works on other’s

Well lets see what this leads to, if they can work properly then apps can realy make orkut a rocking place.

BUT STILL SOME ISSUES LOOM LARGE

1) many of these apps are available on facebook, can the users import their data here,
2) what about generic site data. mean’s like for example some one has account at flixter can hi import data on orkut app.

for reference my orkut profile is
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?uid=3169045171018903779

Tags: orkut

Nov 06