HACKING FIREFOX - PART 43 DOC

See XUL Extensible User-Interface_ Language user path, 10–13 _user preferences.[r]

locally, and substitute setup for the subdirectory or full path where you want the filesextracted to. In our example, a subdirectory will be created called setup in the current path.20_596500 ch13.qxd 6/30/05 3:06 PM Page 246247Chapter 13 — Hacking Installation and DeploymentThere is no space[r]

232Part IV — Hacking Navigation, Downloads, and SearchingFIGURE12-8: Translate text while browsing with the Translator sidebar.Open Your Search Results Quickly with LinkySearch engines give you pages and pages of links as results for your queries. That’s great, butyou have to click on[r]

252Part V — Installation, Automation, Tools, and TricksTo download Shockwave just visit and download the installer using Firefox: http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?.Both installers have the ability to run in silent mode by specifying a command-line parameterof /s[r]

18_596500 ch12.qxd 6/30/05 3:03 PM Page 224225Chapter 12 — Search HacksNow go back to your location bar.Type ms windows bsod and press Enter. Firefox searchesMicrosoft’s web site using the terms “windows bsod” and shows you the results just as if you’dbrowsed to microsoft.com and used their s[r]

262Part V — Installation, Automation, Tools, and TricksHacking with MaSaIOne great tool that you can use to create or update MSIs is MaSaI Solutions’ MaSaI Installer.While Microsoft has the Orca MSI editor as part of its Installer SDK, MaSaI offers someinteresting options and an enhanc[r]

with the default home page and bookmarks — a new, blank profile. Close Firefox.5.Browse to your old Firefox Profiles folder and look for the exact folder you noted earlier.Copy everything in that folder to your MovedProfile folder. If your operating systemprompts you to overwrite exist[r]

192Part IV — Hacking Navigation, Downloads, and SearchingLet’s start with hacking your mouse scroll feature.Firefox includes a feature called smooth scrolling that lets you see just how much of the pagegoes by when you use the Page Up or Page Down keys or your mouse scrol[r]

tion buttons, as shown in Figure 9-20.FIGURE9-20: FoxyTunes in action on the status bar. ID3 tag information is displayed, along with a standard set of multimedia navigation buttons.Some of the more interesting buttons include the ^ button, which brings the media player to theforefront.This is a use[r]

182Part IV — Hacking Navigation, Downloads, and SearchingFIGURE10-3: Firefox’s General options showing three home pages.FIGURE10-4: The Bookmarks window lets you select a bookmark or folder to use for your home page(s).16_596500 ch10.qxd 6/30/05 2:59 PM Page 182183Chapter 10 — <[r]

212Part IV — Hacking Navigation, Downloads, and SearchingFrom our LiveHTTPHeaders Firefox download example, you can see that the MIME type orContent-Type in the header information is as follows:Content-Type: application/x-msdos-programNow you take this value and add it to the in[r]

Site search functionality is also available through the following syntax: site:www.targetwebsite.tld searchterm.14_596500 ch09.qxd 6/30/05 2:57 PM Page 166167Chapter 9 — Hacking Toolbars and the Status BarFIGURE9-12: The Googlebar includes Site Search, I’m Feeling Lucky, Google Groups, and Go[r]

ing. Further, as you will see in this section, you can use the addEventListener method todynamically define a capturing event handler.The second part of the event propagation process is called the bubbling phase, and it is thereverse of the capturing phase. During event bubbling, the event is[r]

define a XUL application, the packages that contain these files must be first registered in thechrome registry. When a browser receives a chrome URL, it looks into the chrome registry,obtains the installation locations of the needed files, and then loads the documents from theselocations. Using this[r]

342Part VI — Creating Extensions and ThemesⅢ javascript.options.strict: When this preference is set to true, Firefox dis-plays JavaScript warnings in the JavaScript Console. A warning usually means that youare doing something illegal or nonstandard in your code, and that might cause un[r]

The mechanism is typically used to save element visibility, position, size, and so on, but you canmake any attribute persistent, and any number of element attributes can be saved using thistechnique.Localized Strings in JavaScriptAs mentioned in the previous sections, all the strings that are displa[r]

&lt;button onclick=”getHome();”&gt;Get Home&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;When you click on the Get Home button, the script retrieves the user Home Page preferenceusing the Preferences Service XPCOM object.When a local file requests a privilege using the pre[r]

icon to display the status of the current page that is loaded to the status bar. The real function-ality comes with the information that it displays when you view a page’s source code from22_596500 ch15.qxd 6/30/05 3:08 PM Page 294295Chapter 15 — Hacking Tools for Web ProgrammersView➪ Page So[r]

282Part V — Installation, Automation, Tools, and TricksThe Configuration Mania window options are divided into categories on the left panel andoption groupings on the right. The most useful tweaks are in the Browser, HTTP Network,and Debug categories. While the extension does have other great[r]

written using this format, but understanding RDF is not required — all the examples includethe necessary explanations and clarifications.24_596500 ch16.qxd 6/30/05 3:11 PM Page 302303Chapter 16 — Understanding Mozilla ProgrammingThe RDF specification is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W[r]