2006-10-20

Summary: mozilla.dev.apps.firefox - October 13, 2006 - October 20, 2006

Announcements

• content filtering, manipulation, and control in Firefox 3
  • An open invitation from Myk Melez to contribute to the brainstorming of new features for Firefox 3 and future Firefox releases. Myk will be paying close attention to features dealing with content filtering, manipulation and control in FF3. To contribute visit the wiki

Discussions

• I wanna make an addon for Firefox
  • A commonly asked question in many newsgroups. Jesper Kristensen pointed the requester here

• Change download action for .rdp files on Windows and OS X
  • A question regarding enabling Firefox to associate .rdp files with Microsoft Remote Desktop Client so that the correct application opens the files automatically.

• Method ShouldLoad in "content-policy" Category Problem ?
  • A student learning XPCOM is having issues with the method ShouldLoad in the interface nslContentPolicy. When the method is executed Firefox crashes. As of yet there are no responses.

• IE7 RSS Reader Better - Say Reviewers
  • A discussion revolving around the quality of RSS readers in IE7, Firefox and other assorted browsers. Also a debate about which browser is "beating" which to a lesser extent further in the discussion.

• How to create firefox extension (chrome) to add images next to URLs ?
  • Question regarding how to make a firefox extension that would insert an image next to all links in the loaded web pages similar to the McAfee SiteAdvisor extension.

• Adding support for new URI scheme
  • Question regarding creating a new URI scheme for Firefox on Windows. Helpful information was found here on mozillaZine.

Meetings

None this week.

Authors

1. Sara Minchella (sara)
2. Dave Manley (seneManley)

Back to Summary List