[Flashblock] Flashblock and Firefox 1.5

[Philip Chee]

On 20/11/05, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at colitti.com> wrote:
> Ok, I've created the FLASHBLOCK_1_5_CLEANUP branch in CVS for this. It

Um, stupid question, how do I check out a branch into a different
directory on to my HDD. CVS is still pretty much a black art as
far as I'm concerned :-).

> will have minVersion = 1.5, it won't have any contents.rdf files, it

Do we want to support SeaMonkey on this branch? Contents.rdf won't
go away until SM starts using install.manifest.

> Anything else we can take care of?

Yeah, I'll put a brief summary on our index page indicating our
direction. Can you put a note on a.u.m.o. about this as well?

>> Mozilla and Seamonkey don't use install.rdf so min/max versions
>> (outside of a.u.m.o) don't apply. The current CVS will work with
>> Moz 1.7x and with Seamonkey 1.0.* (natch).

> Shall I remove these from install.rdf, or are we keeping them in there

We should keep Seamonkey there so that a.u.m.o will mark Flashblock
as compatible with SM.

> will also remove Thunderbird: who installs Flash player in thunderbird

Somebody who asked for it obviously, but since none of us use
Dunderbird, we don't know how to make it work. Yeah remove it.

>> Current versions of KM have Flashblock packaged in. I'll leave
>> The CamiTools people have packaged a Flashblock installer for
> Wow, cool. :)

Galeon and Epiphany support xpinstall and there are reports that
Flashblock installs successfully, but I don't know whether they
use install.js or install.rdf. I guess we'll find out when the 2
people who use these browers start to complain :-).

> Pathetic!!! On the other hand, I don't know anyone who actually uses it,

The NS forums are full of NS8 fanatics who complain bitterly that
nobody wants to make extensions for Netscape :-P

Phil