Comments on: /Find Bar/

By: Mossop

Mossop — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:13:10 +0000

I’m closing comments on all my unsupported extensions, you can read why I’m no longer developing these on my blog.
http://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2008/08/Throwing-in-the-Towel

By: dick

dick — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:54:46 +0000

Great!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: AHinMaine

AHinMaine — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:11:32 +0000

Also, if you use the MR Tech Toolkit add-on, you have the option of overriding the maxVersion param without having to edit the xpi file at all.

By: whiteHead

whiteHead — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:00:19 +0000

right click on the above Install link and Save link as, you’ll be prompt to save the *.xpi file.

By: whiteHead

whiteHead — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:58:16 +0000

Here is my workaround:
download the v1.01 and open with 7-zip. Right click on install.rdf file and then Edit (or press F4). Change all maxVersion to maxVersion=”3.*”. Save and exit. You can install the *.xpi now.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:09:58 +0000

The install link with text:

” /Find Bar/ Install v ”

doesn’t work. It simply points back to this “http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/FindBarRX”
webpage. I can’t even find /Find Bar/ on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox using the
addon search by name. I love /Find Bar/ and would sorely miss the regular expression
and highlight features. Please point me to a location from which I can directly download
the xpi file.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:49:55 +0000

It bears mentioning that, while the javascript/xul/etc. sources are available in the xpi (of course), the extension also makes use of compiled, platform-specific dynamic libraries (.dll, .so, .dylib). These are located in ./platform/*, and their source code is *not* provided in the xpi.

I’m assuming that the OP is referring to these files in his request, since maintaning the extension would undoubtedly be impossible without the source for these components.

On a related note, it would be incredibly sporting if mossop (aka Mr. Townsend) if the source repository were made available to the new maintainer(s). Anyone who’s maintained a pre-existing software project knows that it’s far easier to determine where you’re going if you can see how you got there.

By: x

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:27:26 +0000

unpack the xpi and you’ll see the sources

By: Frek818

Frek818 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:15:12 +0000

I’m interested in maintaining the /Find Bar/ extension. Where can I find the source code for it?

By: vic

vic — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:05:58 +0000

From LICENSE file: “The source code is available on request from ” [an email address is provided].