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I was trying out this XUL tutorial on Firefox 3.6.13.

The example extension in the tutorial is meant to find files. This is my manifest file:

content findfile file:///home/darthshak/Programs/firefox/findfile/content/
skin findfile classic/1.0 file:///home/darthshak/Programs/firefox/findfile/skin/
locale findfile en-US file:///home/darthshak/Programs/firefox/findfile/locale/

This file is located at /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.13/chrome and is called findfile.manifest.

In /home/darthshak/Programs/firefox/findfile/content/findfile.xul I have put this sample XUL code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?>

<window id="findfile-window" title="Find files" orient="horizontal"
        xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">

    <button id="find-button" label="Find"/>
    <button id="cancel-button" label="Cancel"/>
</window>

Now, the darn thing never runs when I execute the following command: 

firefox -chrome chrome://findfile/content/findfile.xul

Only a PID is output on the terminal, and nothing appears.

I downloaded the ChromeList extension, and to my chagrin, I found the following directory structure:

findfile/
    content/
        content/
            findfile.xul
        skin/
        locale/
    skin/
        content/
            findfile.xul
        skin/
        locale/
    locale/
        content/
            findfile.xul
        skin/
        locale/

Further, when I launched findfile.xul with the option "Open in new window", nothing appeared. However, it worked only when I chose "Open in new tab" or "Launch".

I tried a lot of things (except, obviously, the right thing which would have solved this problem) which included renaming the .xul file, changing the findfile.manifest file and so on. Oddly, when I added the manifest file in the chrome directory in /home/darthshak/.mozilla/, the manifest did not even register on ChromeList.

Alba Mendez
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  • did you try perhaps: chrome://findfile/content/content/findfile.xul ? Btw, I don't think the way you're doing it is the best for your testing. Actually it's pretty bad because you cannot package your extension and install it in Firefox. Try the above chrome link, and I'll give you more details on what to do. It would be good to add folder structure of your extension on disk (it will be possibly different from what ChromeList shows) – Mihailo Feb 04 '11 at 11:45
  • Yeah - that tutorial page doesn't work for me either. I try launching firefox with the -chrome argument but nothing appears. – Snowcrash Apr 13 '11 at 17:05
  • I am assuming that Firefox won't read XUL files from the filesystem for security purposes. You need to package the extension for Firefox to read it. – Mike Caron Apr 20 '11 at 08:21
  • Hi, still do u have this problem. I would like to propose a solution for this problem. – user838691 Jun 20 '11 at 08:46
  • @darthshak: could you please tell me about development environment? – linguini Aug 18 '11 at 07:17

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