Posted by Blinky the Shark on 04/11/06 13:05

Brian wrote:

> The Numerator wrote:
>> I don't know what the <LINK> tags in the head do.
>
>> what about those that state the contents of the page, identify the next
>> and previous page, etc. Do some browsers support them or are they just
>> for organization or something?
>
> Firefox has -- or had -- an extension that would give users access to the
> urls in <link> elements. The extension does not work with the latest
> version, and there have been no updates for some time. :-(

It doesn't work, or the extension won't install?

Here's why I ask, and here's a general tip for other FF extension fans:

I wanted an extension for 1.5 that only was rated up to FF 0.8. I
didn't notice, that, and of course the install went south.

I was looking at the home page for that extension and happened to notice a
post in is forum that said it would work fine if you tweaned what I'll
call the "permissable version" line in the targetInstallation
of the install.rdf that is contained by the .xpi file that comprises the
distribution file for the extension.

I changed that line to read:

<em:maxVersion>1.6</em:maxVersion>

from 0.8, and it worked fine here in FF/Linux.

I shared this with a friend who uses WinXP, and for good measure he
changed the value to 2.0 and his installation works fine, too.

I just looked at some other install.rdf files in extension packages, and
they all had that line.

So: if it won't install, that's something to try.


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