Firefox plug in for your forum?

[Code Monkey]

I am able to get the menu part of the extension to work real good. But clicking does nothing. So I am still trying to figure out what I missed.

EDIT: Got it. You have to make sure you replace every single instance of "trtf" in every single file with your new extension short name.

[EricaJoy]

So I googled XUL Editor and chanced upon and extension thats for making extensions! Looks promising so far, check it out:

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/

[dakuda]

Originally Posted by JumpD

Might be easier for folks if you attached the one you saved into a zip.

That was pretty much my only hurdle. Once I knew to change extensions it went like clockwork.

[Code Monkey]

Aparently it's evil to talk about this in the lounge.

If your going to use the above template to make a link extension for your vb forum, I altered one of the js functions a bit. In chrome>content>common.js add this function. Make sure you change it to your site url and forum root.

function tsg_open_vb(event, fid)
{
	if (event && event.button != 0)
	{
		getBrowser().addTab("http://yoursite.com/forumhome/forumdisplay.php?f="+fid);
	} else {
		loadURI("http://yoursite.com/forumhome/forumdisplay.php?f="+fid);
	}
}

Then you can just tsg_open_vb(event, '5') using the forum id instead of puting the whole url for every link. Smaller is better with js.

Now someone move this thing before it explodes.

[EricaJoy]

i finished mine! wheeeee!

[Lizard King]

Originally Posted by princessfrozen

i finished mine! wheeeee!

can we see a demo

[Code Monkey]

<a href="http://joystickrequired.com/ff_extensions/jsr_extension.html" target="_blank">Mine is working</a>.

[dethfire]

well I must be retarded, every time I install my edited one it says it's an invaild package

[Code Monkey]

FYI. That install.js file that comes with that above code is legacy and not needed for Firefox. Firefox handles the install now. It may be needed if you wish to install in another mozila based app, or it may not. Not needed for FF though.

[EricaJoy]

Originally Posted by dethfire

well I must be retarded, every time I install my edited one it says it's an invaild package

mine was giving me an error with the install file for the longest. turns out i zipped it wrong. whats the exact error it gives you?