{"id":546,"date":"2009-10-16T09:53:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/16\/fxpointer-broken-you-can-help\/"},"modified":"2009-10-16T09:53:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T14:53:05","slug":"fxpointer-broken-you-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/16\/fxpointer-broken-you-can-help\/","title":{"rendered":"FXPointer Broken &#8211; You Can Help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/bugs.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>I'm writing this quick entry as a desparate plea out there: Anyone who has an hour or two and knows some XUL-fu skills, can you please take a look at my <a href=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/fxpointer\/\">FXPointer extension<\/a>?  This thing worked fine in Firefox 3.0, but unfortunately some change in Firefox 3.5 causes FXPointer to completely break the location bar.  Every time I've tried to debug this problem, I've failed and I don't have a lot of time these days to work it out.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If someone thinks they can help out, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/fxpointer\/fxpointer-0.2.9.xpi\">download the XPI<\/a> (using a different browser than Firefox), rename to .zip, unzip and start hacking.  WARNING: This breaks the location bar in Firefox 3.5 - do not enable the add-on unless you're going to help debug the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Conceptually it's pretty straightforward.  In the content\/fxpointer.xml XBL file, I bind to the id=\"urlbar\" and then modify the onTextEntered() method.<\/p>\n<p>I put the source code up on a <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/fxpointer\/\">Google Code Project<\/a> to make it easier for hackers to get the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m writing this quick entry as a desparate plea out there: Anyone who has an hour or two and knows some XUL-fu skills, can you please take a look at my FXPointer extension? This thing worked fine in Firefox 3.0, but unfortunately some change in Firefox 3.5 causes FXPointer to completely break the location bar. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,25,11,28],"tags":[50,190,87,167],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-software","category-technology","category-web","tag-addon","tag-firefox","tag-fxpointer","tag-xpointer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}