mozex (was Re: Linux.ie as a Wiki (was Re: [ILUG] AGM Annoucement) )

[Justin Mason]

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getting a bit OT ;)

Colm MacCarthaigh writes:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:27:47AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> > nah, it does work.  its UI is a little odd though:
> 
> I won't even install for me :/ I go to http://mozex.mozdev.org/installation.html
> and following the click here link gets an unknown download error (it's
> not a 404 or anything server-side like that, since grabbing
> downloads.us-east3.mozdev.org/mozex/mozex-1.07.xpi by hand works fine.
> It just won't install for me in Firefox :(

wierd!  Firefox PR 1.0?  (works for me ;)

It *could* be file ownership in the ~/.mozilla dir, I've run into that
before.  (the Firefox PR1.0 install process is too windowsy and didn't
comprehend that I might be installing system-wide as root using "sudo",
so it created files in $HOME as root which I had to chown later.)

> So I try the same thing from:
> 
> 	http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/mozex
> 
> And I get the same deal, I get told it's a download error, when the
> resource is downloading fine. I've managed to install numerous other
> extensions just fine, so I'm guessing it's some problem with the XPI
> file. This is all using the latest version of Firefox, which seems
> otherwise fine :/ 

very odd.

- --j.
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