Export to GitHub

evoluspencil - issue #333

Pencil for FireFox 3.5+ ... but not really


Posted on Aug 31, 2011 by Helpful Horse

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Try to install it in FireFox 6 2. 3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Installation. Failure.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? The one that's labelled 3.5+, which isn't really. The OS is irrelevant.

Please provide any additional information below. Looks like this thing is dead.

Comment #1

Posted on Sep 8, 2011 by Quick Rhino

same issue. a real problem for us, because there is also no binary for osx which we could use instead

Comment #2

Posted on Sep 14, 2011 by Swift Dog

You can unzip the xpi, modify the install.rdf file and edit the em:maxVersion tag to something higher than 6. Then zip it all together into a zip file and rename it to .xpi.

Comment #3

Posted on Sep 15, 2011 by Quick Horse

same issue here. i tried to work around with the tipp from comment2: unzipped the file with 7z, changed the install.rdf to em:maxVersion 6.6.*, zipped the folder with 7z to a .zip-archive (with the original name) and then renamed the extension to .xpi and dropped it into FF-window. result: the addon could not be installed because the file seems to be corrumpted or sth., bummer..

Comment #4

Posted on Sep 17, 2011 by Grumpy Bear

Don't use 7zip to compress it. If you have any version of Windows since Me, use right click, Send To > Compressed folder instead, and then rename it. If using Linux just use the 'zip -r Pencil.xpi install.rdf, update.rdf chrome.manifest chrome' command. It worked for me. I'm using version 1.2.0 from Iceweasel, and I had to add some lines to the Window overlay to add a button from which I launch Pencil.

Comment #5

Posted on Oct 19, 2011 by Swift Rhino

(No comment was entered for this change.)

Status: Fixed

Labels:
Type-Defect Priority-Medium