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POFirefox /FindBar/ addon resurrection
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copied!<p>I found the FindBar addon, that allows the searching on the page with regular expressions. But it works well only in fox 2 and 3. Can someone help me to adapt it for the fox 4 at least. Cause there are some changes in the extensions development since Firefox4.</p> <p>There are some XPCOM components in that addon, one .dll file and XPCOM functions. </p> <p>This is the .xpi of the addon:<br> <a href="http://www.oxymoronical.com/files/extensions/FindBarRX/archive/FindBarRX-1.0.1.rev45.xpi" rel="nofollow">http://www.oxymoronical.com/files/extensions/FindBarRX/archive/FindBarRX-1.0.1.rev45.xpi</a> <br><br><br> I have read this article about the changes in Firefox4.<br> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/XPCOM/XPCOM_changes_in_Gecko_2.0" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/XPCOM/XPCOM_changes_in_Gecko_2.0</a></p> <p>But i still cannot apply all the changes. I've changed the manifest file according to those instructions but it still doesn't work. Cause i don't know how to register those components properly. For example i don't know what ID they have.</p> <p><br> In Firefox2 it allows to set the "Regular Expression" checkbox and input a regex pattern, such as \d to search for a digit. In fox 4 it only shows that checkbox but doesn't react on the find-textbox contents. </p> <p>There is a file fbTypeAheadFind.js which contains the method Find(), which performs the main functionality of the regex searching. I worked with JavaScript Debugger Firefox addon, XPCOM Viewer. And in fox2 i can see the fbTypeAheadFind.js, loaded in that debugger and i can set a breakpoint in the file to wath the searching process. But in fox4 there is no this file in the debugger.</p> <p>I guess it's because the XPCOM components aren't loaded properly. So how can i fix it. Maybe it's imposible because there is the .dll file which is responsible for those components loading, but i cannot change it. And maybe i could change all the addon so that it works without those XPCOM stuff, cause i don't really understand it. It's a little hard for me now.</p> <p>In the link above there is a sentense that says that NSGetModule method should be converted to the NSGetFactory. But the NSGetModule is stored in that .dll file. So i have to rebuild all the source code to create another .dll and obtain the NSGetFactory stuff. But i don't have that source code and don't even know how to create it.</p> <p><br> This is my edited <b>chrome.manifest:</b></p> <pre><code>content findbarrx chrome/content/ locale findbarrx en-US chrome/locale/en-US/ skin findbarrx classic/1.0 chrome/skin/ overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://findbarrx/content/browserOverlay.xul overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://findbarrx/content/bindingOverlay.xul style chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://findbarrx/skin/findbarrx.css interfaces components/fbITextExtractor.xpt binary-component platform/WINNT_x86-msvc/components/FindBarRX.dll component {a5089a1b-2afe-4dae-94b4-c051c3cde90a} components/fbFallbackTextExtractor.js contract @blueprintit.co.uk/fallbacktextextractor;1 {a5089a1b-2afe-4dae-94b4-c051c3cde90a} category profile-after-change FindBar-RX-Text-Extractor @blueprintit.co.uk/fallbacktextextractor;1 </code></pre>

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