Mike’s Musings

I want to cover few more topics to wrap this things up.

The first thing you might be thinking is “man that seems like a lot of work. Isn’t there something else I can do?” As I pointed out in the first post, Benjamin Smedberg’s Firefox Release Repackager is great if you are a Mac user. […]

IMPORTANT! Some of the information in this post is not correct. I will be updating it soon.

Updated: See section on serving the update.xml file

OK, now that we have MAR files, how do we get them to our users?

Setting Up a Firefox Update Server

A Firefox update server is actually not that complex of a setup. Basically […]

This is working so well, I have to tell the world.

I just added support for DOM Mutation events to Operator. So now when DOM nodes are added and removed from the document, Operator will update appropriately.

But that’s not the coolest part…

I added support for the DOMAttrModified event. So combined with Firebug, you can actually interactively […]

My original topic was Setting up your own update server to deploy Firefox patches. I think what I am going to do is split things up into two sections - Creating Firefox Update files and setting up a Firefox Update Server. So…

Creating Firefox Update Files (MARs)

Firefox 2.0.0.3 and 1.5.0.11 were released yesterday (March 21, 2007), […]

Creating a Firefox installer

Continuing where we left off…

Now that we have built Firefox, our next step is to build the installer. Before we do that, however, we need to place our custom extensions in our build so that they get packaged with Firefox.

There are three ways that extensions can be installed in Firefox: user extensions, […]