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)

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