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So it may have seemed that I closed to tickets when in fact I closed one. Which I'm starting to second guess closing now. But thats another issue. My original ticket #325 to add a metadata field has been reopened because I didn't go through every command and implement the application field. So for step one I am going to go through and decide which ones will work as they are in Thunderbird. Secondly, I am going to go through some of the commands and see if they can be made to work using existing Thunderbird functionality and try to implement that.

So far the most difficult lab we've had to do which makes sense considering were in our last three weeks of school now. But it was a good learning experience. I still haven't gone down to CDOT to check if it all worked out properly because I was having a problem with X11 for some reason.

I think througout this lab I learned a few things which might be considered rudimentary and I'm glad to know what and where and how to find my objdir.

Not much else to say but I will update once I have tested the extension.

Take care!

Yeah so here I am late. Ugh. I really wanted to get this 0.2 in right this time.

So after I finished my last ticket I picked up this one.

David was right! I just needed to dive in and forget about the bad experiences I've had so far and make some good ones for myself. I've been struggling with JavaScript, and understanding the Ubiquity code for a week or two now working on a ticket to add METADATA fields which tell Ubiquity whether a command is for Thunderbird or Firefox and I finally finished it TONIGHT!

I figured I should update you guys because I'm searching for a new ticket to work on now. Ubiquity appears to be working quite well in Thunderbird now too.

Awesomely enough, we learned how to make extensions today in class through our lab and tonight when I got home my roommate started asking me about creating themes. So I did some research into creating themes and it turns out a theme is just an extension and contains alot of the same stuff as an extension. Just thought I'd share that with everybody. There is a great walk through here.

Peace!

I think this is the first lab I've done right through... Thats bad. But it was fun. I think getting into extensions development is a good place to start working on Firefox. It can stay small for learning purposes and can get quite big for whatever purpose. And the best part is, you can show off easily by sending your .xpi to your friends. I'm glad this was the extension we did because I always grind my teeth when I have to go across all my tabs to get back to the tab I was on before I opened a new one.

So for Halloween some friends from my hometown came to visit down and Toronto and we hit the city for the night. But this wasn't just any Halloween. The city got hit hard as a group of Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker, Obi Wan Kanobi, and Jango Fett hit the streets in search of a good time.

I myself dressed up as Anakin. Sadly my lightsaber wasn't in on time. But that didn't change the fact that people were stopping us for pictures every few steps, screaming from every which direction, and nearly falling out of their cars as they passed.

I'm working on a ticket on the toolness trac site which involves adding a new metadata field to the ubiquity commands which tells the system what application the command is built for. For example, we all did the Ubiquity command lab in class, where we were asked to create a command and there were certain fields we needed to include such as "author", "date", "description" etc. Now there will be the option of writing a command for a specific application such as commands specifically for Thunderbird of Firefox.

So I was clicking away in Firefox today, I wanted to change my homepage. The page I wanted was the current page I was on so I went into the Option dialogue and clicked the "Use Current Page" Button for the homepage options. To my surprise it used the address of the page which was open in the first tab of my browser and not the one that was open and currently being displayed.

So I went on Bugzilla and searched around to make sure the bug didn't exist already. It did though. So I think I'll leave a comment eventually saying I reproduced the bug with my platform details etc.