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authorgirst <girst@users.noreply.github.com>2025-08-05 19:21:23 +0200
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make compatible with mozilla142 and above
the general idea came from onemen and 117649 in the discussion in https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/issues/363 but the code has been written from scratch (as I wasn't convinced of some of their design decisions). in the end, the overall approach taken looks somewhat similar, because there seems to be only one way to do that from JS code. we only rewrite a subset of specified manifest instructions, that are needed for VimFx. others are passed-through and might make other addons work. the full list of manifest instructions is documented here: https://www.devdoc.net/web/developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Chrome_Registration.html Further notes on the implementation: use of constants from (and hence import of) FileUtils has been avoided by 1) specifying unix file/dir permissions directly instead of using FileUtils.PERMS_FILE and 2) by relying on default open(2) modes in FileOutputStream, which are the one we want anyways. its documented at https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/4fd0d5e4669bfa2d0888b730684d8adea061fd30/netwerk/base/nsIFileStreams.idl#96-97 during uninstall(), it does not suffice to re-call .autoRegister() to remove the chrome.manifest. .checkForNewChrome() has precedence in mozilla-central: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/4fd0d5e4669bfa2d0888b730684d8adea061fd30/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/AddonManagerStartup.cpp#770 the file doesn't need to exist in uninstall() at all, and only the parent directory must exist for install(), but creating it in both cases simplified the logic a bit. an empty directory will stay behind in the profile directory after uninstallation - oh, well; too bad. nsIFile.remove() takes a boolean argument; it determines recursion. https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/820596a140570007ce22a6c137ce2520676cfffe/xpcom/io/nsIFile.idl#272 AddonManagerStartup exposes a method .registerChrome(), which takes a parsed manifest instead of a file path. This one doesn't support 'skin' entries (workaround-able with overrides) and does not expose 'content' entries to the content processes - the latter kills this idea. https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/820596a140570007ce22a6c137ce2520676cfffe/toolkit/mozapps/extensions/AddonManagerStartup.cpp#782 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/820596a140570007ce22a6c137ce2520676cfffe/browser/extensions/formautofill/api.js#124 zipReader code was cribbed from here, with Cc[].createInstance() replaced by the nicer Components.Constructor call: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/820596a140570007ce22a6c137ce2520676cfffe/modules/libjar/zipwriter/test/unit/test_alignment.js#73 regressed-by: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1953136
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