Hi Michael Many thanks for the feedback. I'm working on adding auto-updating to TiddlyFox. The plan is also to add a checkbox to prevent the dialogue box from appearing a second time for a given file.
Best wishes Jeremy On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 3:22 PM, midpeter444 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > Thanks for doing the TiddlyFox plugin. Here are my results: > > I'm on Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 11.10, using Firefox 15 and I tested a newly > downloaded 2.6.5 TW. > > First I downloaded and installed your TiddlyFox plugin. I was able to save > my previous 2.6.4 TW (which was already and still working due to being in > the prefs.js file) and a new 2.6.5 - both worked, but requiring you to click > the TiddlyFox dialog box. > > Next, I disabled the TiddlyFox plugin and then edited by > $HOME/.mozilla/xy_random/prefs.js file like so: > > user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p83.granted", > "UniversalXPConnect"); > user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p83.id", > "file:///home/midpeter444/spideroak/wiki/my-new-wiki.html"); > user_pref("capability.principal.codebase.p83.subjectName", ""); > > and that also works to save the new 2.6.5 wiki without the TiddlyFox plugin. > > It's nice to have two ways to solve this. I will probably go with the > manual editing step to avoid the dialog popup. I will have to solve this on > my Windows work computer in a few days when I get in the office again. > > -Michael > > > On Monday, August 27, 2012 5:18:30 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> Firefox 15, which is currently in beta but scheduled to be released on >> August 28th, finally disables the trick that TiddlyWiki uses for >> saving changes to itself (see [1]). From a general security >> perspective, this is probably a good thing - especially if you've >> watched a less computer-literate friend or relative deal with random >> yes/no dialogue boxes; that familiar confirmation dialogue isn't much >> protection. >> >> So, I've started work on a little Firefox extension called "TiddlyFox" >> that can save files on behalf of TiddlyWiki. >> >> TiddlyFox stays in the background until you load a TiddlyWiki 2.x.x >> document from a file: URL. It then patches the TiddlyWiki document on >> the fly to have it invoke the extension to save files on it's behalf. >> >> I've tested the extension on Firefox 14 (the current version) and the >> beta of Firefox 15. >> >> To install the extension, navigate to [2] in Firefox. You should be >> prompted to install the plugin. Then, if you navigate to a TiddlyWiki >> document on a file: URI you should get an alert notifying you that >> TiddlyFox has patched the document. Save changes should then work in >> the normal way. >> >> Right now, the extension is very basic, without a full user interface. >> The plan is to add a proper confirmation dialogue, and to extend it >> with functionality something like TiddlySnip for clipping bits of web >> pages into a TiddlyWiki document. It will also work with TiddlyWiki5 >> (it doesn't yet). >> >> I'd be very grateful for any testing, and ping me here with any >> feedback or questions. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> [1] https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/tiddlywiki/issues/101 >> [2] >> https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/raw/master/tiddlyfox/extension/tiddlyfox.xpi >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
