Mike’s Musings

I haven’t blogged in a while, so I wanted to give everyone a quick update on som of my projects.

Activities

Version 0.7.1 of Firefox Activities is waiting patiently to be moved out of the AMO sandbox. Unfortunately my 0.7 version had a memory leak, so I missed my chance. Once Firefox 3.0b5 was released, the AMO […]

UPDATE: jst ROCKS! - I was able to do exactly what he said and I now have both cases of APIs working in my extension.

OK, this is really starting to bother me because Activities are starting to show up and they don’t work on Firefox because Microsoft screwed up the documentation.

The correct syntax for adding […]

I’ve made version 0.6 of Firefox Activities available in the Add-ons Sandbox. If you like it, please review it so I can get it moved out of the Sandbox.

This version has a working preview for Firefox 3, as well as management of activities. It’s very close to the Microsoft version. The only thing it is […]

NOTE: There is a problem with the zh-TW, hr-HR, cs-CZ, pt-BR and ru-RU translations. I’ll post a 0.9.1 when I get this worked out. Unfortunately this makes Operator 0.9 unusable in those languages because for some reason Babelzilla replaced the strings with blanks (not what I asked for).

Operator 0.9 is available. This was mainly done […]

I’ve been working with Cesar Oliveira from Seneca College to put together some initial attempts at group policy support. Here’s his comment from bug 267888:

Since there doesn’t seem to have been any communication from the assignee for
over a year, I am guessing that he is no longer working on it. With big help of
Michael Kaply […]