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Hi,
Yes
this did work for me. The steps are as follows
1)
Shutdown any running instances of Firefox
2)
Copy your dll into the components folder (C:\Program Files\Mozilla
Firefox\components)
3)
"Touch" e.g. open and save the file .autoreg - You will find this in the same
folder as firefox.exe (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox)
4)
Restart Firefox.
Once
you've done this you should be able to use your dll (depending on what it
does).
According to Doug Turner in that link I sent you there
are a number of other ways of doing this;
A) touch a file .autoreg next to the executable.
B) run
regxpcom with the right commands.
C) install the component via xpinstall.
D) run some priveleged js (as your code above attempts to do)
I tried using regxpcom to do this but like you this didn't work
for me. I haven't tried using xpinstall.
If you mange to figure out another way of doing this I'd
appreciate you sending it on to me ;-)
Thanks,
Damien
Hi Damien,
Thanks for the
information.
Did you got this to work ? If so, please tell me the steps
you did to install this .
I am facing problem on this way too .
Is there any other way to install the component (through XPInstall
?).
Raghavan
Damien O'Brien wrote:
Hi
Srinivasa,
I
was having exactly the same problem as you i.e. I'd written an XPCOM dll
that worked with Mozilla but couldn't get it to work with
Firefox.
Anyway I think I've found the solution. All you need to do is "touch"
(open, save and close) the file called .autoreg in the C:\Program
Files\Mozilla Firefox folder (i.e. the folder where the firefox.exe file
is). After you do this restart firefox and your dll is registered.
Unfortunately I have no idea how this works :)
Do you (or
anyone else out there) know exactly what is happening here i.e. what gets
updated and where so that firefox now loads my dll. I noticed that a
compreg.dat file _is_not_ being created so where is the registration info
being stored? is it in the MS registry somewhere?
I
would like to know this as I need to do a lot more work on my dll and
debugging, etc. will be easier if I understand what's going
on.
BTW - I discovered this .autoreg file touching thing from this
posting by Doug Turner.
Thanks,
Damien
Hi all,
I have
registered XPCOM component with Mozilla Firefox.
I have also
registered for xpcom-startup notification with CategoryManager, but didn't
get the notification while Firefox starts up.
I have already posted
the similar question earlier, but not successful with the answers i
got .
The same component works well with Mozilla
1.7.3.
Please tell me how to get the startup-notification
?
Thanks & Regards
Raghavan
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