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getting it to work w/ chimera
Authored by: cynikal on Feb 06, '03 03:57:04PM

Has anyone gotten this to work with chimera? I know that chimera doesn't support .xpi software installs (if you drag it to the browser, it will just re-download it heh).

But i've looked at the diff's between an installed and a virgin installation of Mozilla (same version) and there appear to only be 4 files involved, tabextensions.jar and .js (newly added) and two modified files, installed-chrome.txt and xpti.dat. i've hand-modified installed-chrome.txt but i can't figure out what to do w/ xpti.dat. the AppDir line is changed it seems but who knows how this line works :-\

I would sooo love to have this work w/ Chimera, and i'm sure i'm not the only one :)



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getting it to work w/ chimera
Authored by: Makosuke on Feb 06, '03 07:24:38PM

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about the way Chimera works, but I believe it uses Cocoa for the front end drawing, and gecko as the rendering engine. Mozilla and Netscape both use the standard Mozilla cross-platform UI, which is not only not written in Cocoa, but has nothing at all to do with Chimera's UI.

Therefore, I would imagine it'd take more than just some adjustment to get any sort of interface enhancement theme designed for Mozilla to work with Chimera.

Hidden prefs are a different issue, were that what this was, but I get the feeling it's not.

Of course, I'd like to be wrong about this, since there are a lot of cool features in this plug-in.



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getting it to work w/ chimera
Authored by: honem on Feb 07, '03 05:35:33AM

and according to what i've read at the Chimera/Mozilla site it uses Gecko to render everything on the page . That's right kiddies _everything_ from the scroll bars to the buttons to the windows ..... everything

Of course getting chimera to use XUL whatevers will require a close examination of the chimera and mozilla source code and documentation ;)



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