On 6/22/11 5:50 AM, Ant wrote: > Hi! > > Yesterday, I was messing with a new/clean installation of SM v2.1 in a > XP Pro. SP2 (IE6) virtual machine at work to see which of my current > extensions work or not. > > I decided to try the latest PrefBar extension first from > http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/installation.html, but it kept showing the > wrong language web page > (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/seamonkey/addon/prefbar/; manually force > to use /en/ instead of /de/). It also refused to install XPI file > (versions don't match) from > https://addons.mozilla.org/seamonkey/downloads/latest/67148/addon-67148-latest.xpi?src=addon-detail > > ... > > How do you force a download to install in SM2.1? Sheesh. Good thing I > didn't do this on my production installatios and machines! :( > > Thank you in advance. :)
You can't install PrefBar 5.1.1 into SeaMonkey 2.1 without tweaking the XPI file. 1. Download the XPI file. On <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/prefbar/>, place your cursor over the Add to SeaMonkey button, right-click, select Save Link Target As from the pull-down context menu, and navigate in the file-save window to where you can save the file. 2. The XPI file is actually a zip file. Launch your favorite zip application (e.g., WinZip). Drag the XPI file into the blank zip window. 3. View file install.rdf in a text editor. Right-click on install.rdf and select View from the pull-down context menu. (I have WinZip view it in WordPad.) 4. In install.rdf, locate the line <!-- SeaMonkey --> Just under it, locate the line beginning <em:maxVersion> Change the version to 2.1 or 2.*. Save. (DO NOT use Save As.) Close the text editor. 5. With WinZip, I get a dialogue popup asking if I want to update the archive? The answer is (of course) Yes. With some other zip application, the result should be similar. After somehow incorporating the modified install.rdf back into the XPI file, close your zip application. Now you should be able to install PrefBar. Note that a Mozdev bug report already exists to request PrefBar be made installable in SeaMonkey 2.1. Also note that setting the <em:maxVersion> to 2.* might not work with a pending update to the Add-ons Manager. I'm not sure, but I think the new Add-ons Manager will reject wild-cards in version numbers. Fortunately, that version of Add-ons Manager is not yet part of SeaMonkey. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
