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firefox 1.6a1 and xforms.xpi from same nightly not compatible

Jeff

2005-09-15, 7:45 pm

All,

I downloaded the firefox-1.6a1.en-US.win32.zip from
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....09-14-07-trunk/

and from the same directory went into the windows-xpi/ subdirectory and
downloaded the xforms.xpi. When I tried to install it into this build
of firefox I got the following error message
"Mozilla XForms 0.2 could not be installed because it is not compatible
with Dear Park 1.6a1. (Mozilla XForms 0.2 will only work with Deer Park
versions from 1.0+ to 1.1)

Is there any way to bump the version number up so it will work?

Thanks!!

Jeff

2005-09-15, 7:45 pm

Jeff wrote:
> All,
>
> I downloaded the firefox-1.6a1.en-US.win32.zip from
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....09-14-07-trunk/
>
> and from the same directory went into the windows-xpi/ subdirectory and
> downloaded the xforms.xpi. When I tried to install it into this build
> of firefox I got the following error message
> "Mozilla XForms 0.2 could not be installed because it is not compatible
> with Dear Park 1.6a1. (Mozilla XForms 0.2 will only work with Deer Park
> versions from 1.0+ to 1.1)
>
>
>
> Is there any way to bump the version number up so it will work?
>
> Thanks!!

(Replying to self!)

Ok - I bumped the version number in the xpi on my machine (I always knew
it was supposed to be fairly easy but I just never knew how so I went
exploring and found the install.rdf)

But now a new problem - every time I try to open up an xforms doc
firefox crashes.

Allan Beaufour

2005-09-16, 7:48 pm

On Friday September 16 2005 00:30, Jeff wrote:
> Ok - I bumped the version number in the xpi on my machine (I always knew
> it was supposed to be fairly easy but I just never knew how so I went
> exploring and found the install.rdf)

I checked in the fix yesterday:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305227#c15
So it's in todays nightly build.

> But now a new problem - every time I try to open up an xforms doc
> firefox crashes.

I tried today's build:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....09-15-06-trunk/
And it "works for me". Linux though. Do you have more information on the
crash?

--
Allan Beaufour
Novell Denmark

Jeff

2005-09-16, 7:48 pm

Allen,

I completely cleared all versions of firefox off my system (dear park
1.4, firefox 1.5 beta 1, and the 1.6a1 builds), cleared out the whole
mozilla folder in my Application Data/, removed any files not deleted in
my Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/ (just deleted the folder) and
reinstalled from scratch and now it's working again.

Now that it's working I discovered another crasher. I should probably
write this up in bugzilla - but I've never written up a mozilla bug and
it might take me a bit to figure out how (If you need me to I can figure
it out and write it up this weekend).

The crasher is due to an error on my part (I'm trying to change the src
of an instance to point to a different external file, but I was
accidentally doing so before the page had loaded all the way). However,
instead of getting some sort of error in the js console, it was crashing
firefox completely.

<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="left_text_formstyle.css" />
<xf:model>
<xf:instance id="pagedata" src="left_text.xml" />
<xf:submission id="save" method="put" action="values.xml" />

</xf:model>

<script type="application/x-javascript">
function openFile()
{
var objInstance = document.getElementById( 'pagedata' );
objInstance.setAttribute( 'src', 'values2.xml' );
}

openFile();
</script>
</head>

Allan Beaufour wrote:
> On Friday September 16 2005 00:30, Jeff wrote:
>
> I checked in the fix yesterday:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305227#c15
> So it's in todays nightly build.
>
>
> I tried today's build:
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....09-15-06-trunk/
> And it "works for me". Linux though. Do you have more information on the
> crash?
>

Allan Beaufour

2005-09-19, 7:22 am

Friday 16 September 2005 21:02 skrev Jeff:
> I completely cleared all versions of firefox off my system (dear park
> 1.4, firefox 1.5 beta 1, and the 1.6a1 builds), cleared out the whole
> mozilla folder in my Application Data/, removed any files not deleted in
> my Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/ (just deleted the folder) and
> reinstalled from scratch and now it's working again.

Sad, that that had to be done, but I'm glad to hear that it is working.

> Now that it's working I discovered another crasher. I should probably
> write this up in bugzilla - but I've never written up a mozilla bug and
> it might take me a bit to figure out how (If you need me to I can figure
> it out and write it up this weekend).

Olli created it for you:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308986

> The crasher is due to an error on my part (I'm trying to change the src
> of an instance to point to a different external file, but I was
> accidentally doing so before the page had loaded all the way). However,
> instead of getting some sort of error in the js console, it was crashing
> firefox completely.

Ouch, that hurts :) Olli has created the bug, we'll look at it, but until
then: Stop using javascript! ;-)

--
Allan Beaufour
Novell Denmark