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Firefox 0.9 was released a week ago along with the new Mozilla Update site that "hosts extensions and themes for Mozilla software".

I am not sure if it was users discovering my extensions after switching to this new version of Mozilla Firefox, users finding my extension through the new centralized extension site or issues with the new extension manager, but I received a large amount of email in the last week related to my extensions.

I always try to respond to any emails in a timely manner, but it was becoming a fair amount of work so I started looking into possible ways to make the communication process better. With this in mind there are now chrispederick.com forums. The forums are designed to compliment (rather than replace) contacting me directly, but I am hoping they will prove a valuable resource for people wishing to find answers to their issues or discuss feature requests.

PunBB

I am not expecting these forums to be used by large numbers of people so in choosing the forum software I wanted something simple and lightweight. Having seen Alex King's recommendation I decided to go with PunBB and I am very happy so far. I have made some minor tweaks and set up some new themes, but basically it is the standard setup without any modifications. If there are any features that you would like to see added just post your thoughts in the General forum, but bear in mind that I want to keep the forums lightweight and fast.

A few people have already registered and started posting in the forums and so far I am liking the new form of communication. Also bear in mind that these forums are not exclusively related to questions about my extensions, so feel free to post about anything related to chrispederick.com.

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Categories: General.

By Chris Pederick
— June 21, 2004 at 21:49
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  1. Web deve­lop­ment is my pro­fes­sion, and Fire­fox is my pri­mary brow­ser. So I’m quite inte­res­ted in the Web Deve­lo­per plu­gin for Fire­fox. Howe­ver, I’m currently using the nightly builds of Fire­fox (0.9.0+). The Web Dev plu­gin is limi­ted to ver­sions from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0. Is there any way I could make it work in 0.9.0+, or would I have to revert to the 0.9.0 release?

    Peter — June 28, 2004 @ 10:34 —

  2. One way is to down­load the XPI file and update the install.rdf file manually.

    Another option is to set the follo­wing preference:

    user_pref(“app.version”, “0.9.0″);

    I haven’t tried this howe­ver, and don’t know if it has any side-effects.

    Chris Pederick — June 28, 2004 @ 10:44 —

  3. Once I have down­loa­ded the XPI file, how do I access the install.rdf file?

    Peter — June 28, 2004 @ 11:04 —

  4. You have to unzip the XPI, change the install.rdf file and then zip it back up again.

    Chris Pederick — June 28, 2004 @ 11:04 —