[Conkeror] google gears, conkeror, gmail...

[Nicholas A. Zigarovich]

Mark Eichin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
> <jeremy at jeremyms.com> wrote:
>   
>> "Nicholas A. Zigarovich" <nick at servo.cc> writes:
>>
>>     
>>> I haven't heard anyone mention it.
>>> All I can say is that the Firefox extension fails to load in Conkeror.
>>>       
>> I would have to imagine that it should be fairly easy to get it working
>> in Conkeror, though, as it seems to have a purpose that is mostly
>> unrelated to the Firefox UI.
>>     
>
> I did find one hit that described getting gears to work with xulrunner
> apps, but it was windows specific and had a bunch of registry setting
> adjustments and things like that, which also makes it seem possible
> (but I don't really know the internals yet.
I checked out the page you mentioned and all they really do is modify 
the extension's install.rdf to list webrunner as a supported 
application. I had thought this wasn't necessary when xulrunner's 
extension compatibility checking was disabled, but after listing 
Conkeror in Gears' install.rdf, the extension loaded without error.

I'd appreciate it if you (or anyone) could give it a test run. (It 
loads, but that doesn't necessarily mean it works.) Here is a version of 
the extension which should load in Conkeror:

http://servo.cc/gears-linux-opt-conkeror.xpi

To modify the extension yourself:

1. Download the extension.
2. Make a scratch directory and extract the xpi there. (It is a zip file.)
3 Add an entry for Conkeror to install.rdf. (See the patch attached to 
this message.)
4. Zip the contents of the scratch directory and name the file 
gears-linux-opt-conkeror.xpi.

Hope this helps,

- Nick





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