Questions and answers from the newsgroups 2006 10 06

Is there anyway, via plug in or extension, for Firefox to mimic the functionality of IE in this respect?

The IETab (Opens IE in a Firefox tab) should be able do this if you set it to always open "file://*" URLs in an IE tab. The appearance with a FireFox tab isn't quite the same as having a completely separate Explorer window. However, it's functional and does allow for the Explorer to be handling the display of the folder contents, and all of the right-click context menu support is present so it should meet my needs.

What is the valid location and things needed to to release a Mozilla extension on Mozallia site?

You must remove update URL from the install.rdf and use a known to AMO minVersion/maxVersion.

No confirmation that the answer given worked yet.

Is it possible to open the URL in a new tab?

var tab = getBrowser().addTab( url );

// And if you want it to load in foreground:
getBrowser().selectedTab = tab;

Is it possible to read the html-code of the current URL/site?

Yes, this is possible. Use the DOM API (http://www.w3schools.com/dom/default.asp has a good tutorial).

Not the best answer but a good starting point for the question asker to do some research towards the answer.

Why does his extension not able to read the contents of a folder and then produce a segmentation fault after his extension reads preferences in Thunderbird? [1]

The person was missing a method call to getService.

Are there any built in libraries that can be used to encrypt data? [2]

Yes.

1. You can use nsISecretDecoderRing.encryptString() and nsISecretDecoderRing.decryptString(). However, I'm not sure how/if that works if the user hasn't defined a master password in Options->Security->Use a master password.
2. You can AES-128 or AES-256 symmetric encryption via aes.js (http://tinyurl.com/pp79t).

No confirmation from the question asker on whether this answer was helpful in solving their problem.

How can we programmatically extract the subject, sender, date and the body of an e- mail when you are reading one (in Thunderbird presumably)?

Could someone make an address book enhancer extension that has the ability to put pictures on a contact and other features the Thunderbird address book lacks.

Is there a way to save a whole news thread in Thunderbird?

Is there some workaround for the timing issue with Windows and Linux?