This is a good move in the round as NPAPI is a terribly outdated technology (over 20 years old, in fact). Firefox 52 began its roll out yesterday, bringing a bunch of small iterative improvements to the fore.Īmong the most significant change in the release is the decision to disable support for all NPAPI plugins bar Adobe Flash by default. I find the icon in the address bar especially annoying, as it is.
Unfortunately, Pocket is now "integrated" with Firefox, which means that it is not possible disable it in the Add-ons menu. There are several solutions, but generally. I've been reading up on global namespace pollution when developing an extension for Firefox, and I want to avoid it as much as possible in my extension. How best for a Firefox extension to avoid polluting the global namespace? Typically this could be done in a webpage by calling "" on the blob and giving the url.
I want to use web workers in a javascript code module that load code from a blob. Use createObjectURL in Firefox javascript code module jsm file is in a directory called modules with this path. jsm file (from This github) called "WebSocketServer.jsm" in my Firefox extension. jsm file in Firefox Extension (with add-on sdk) What are the scopes and/or persistence of JavaScript Code Modules?Įxperimenting with a bootstrapped extension, I'm trying to understand the scopes and/or persistence of jsm modules by setting a property, called baseUri, on a module object from bootstrap.js and. I have tried restructuring the code and the inputs many times, but I still receive this error, and I've gotten. I keep receiving a 406 HTTP response when I try to execute code structured in this way. Jersey UniformInterfaceException trying to proxy to REST POST service :~# ln -sf $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ Testing the plugin. :~# ln -sf $JAVA_HOME/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ :~# export JAVA_HOME="/opt/java/jre1.7.0_05" Adding the plugin to Firefox. :~# update-alternatives -set java /opt/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/java :~# update-alternatives -install /usr/bin/java java /opt/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/java 1 (Download tar.gz version) We first create the directory and place java there:
:~# killall -9 /opt/firefox/firefox-bin You can download java from the official website. NOTE: Before installing Java make sure you kill Firefox. I followed the instructions here and it worked: I have JDK 1.7.0_12 installed, and add a symbolic link to plugin folder under /usr/lib/mozilla to the file libnpjp2.so under (JRE)/lib/amd64/īut I still couldn't find java plugin on my Firefox Add-ons Manager.ĭo you want the JDK or the JRE? Anyways, I had this problem too, a few weeks ago. I want to add java plugin for FireFox (v10.0.12) on Linux(Centos 5.6 64bit).