Firefox 37.0 vs. FDM 1hl4f

[Lost as Usual]

I am using FDM 3.9.4 Build 1485, which has FDM plugin 1.6.0.9. I assume that that plugin is the latest; if so, then it is incompatible with Fx 37.0, which was released today.

[Usher]

Do you mean standard Firefox disclaimer (see FDM FAQ about install.rdf) or real incompatibility? Could you provide more details without being asked, please?

[Lost as Usual]

Do you mean standard Firefox disclaimer (see FDM FAQ about install.rdf) or real incompatibility? Could you provide more details without being asked, please?

I cannot say that I understood your message; for example, you ask if I could provide more details without being asked, which linguistically makes no sense, as you did ask. (This is what happens when you reply to a message to someone who is by academic training, a medieval scholar, not a computer science person.)

Furthermore, I have no idea where the FAQ you refer to is located.

However, I did find an install.rdf in the FDM Program File location, under Firefox/Extension, so I changed the maxversion to 37*, and then restarted Fx, which fixed the problem. The Fx entry no longer shows the plugin as being incompatible, and I just used the FDM plugin to a file.

None of this is anything that I had encountered previously, so that, for example, my not even knowing about the existence of the .rdf meant that I had no idea that I could or should change it

To conclude, thank you for what was, to me, a somewhat opaque reply which nonetheless allowed me to accomplish the desire result of my starting this thread, namely the restoration of FDM to its operational status.

[Usher]

Can you see my signature?

[Guest]

fdm plugin doesnt work for mozilla firefox 37
can we fix it???

[Lost as Usual]

Can you see my signature?

Now, yes, but previously I was focused on the text of your message. I often ignore sigs, as they so often contain nothing but extraneous and meaningless content. No insult intended to you, Usher: The apparent failure of FDM was the first time I had even encountered a problem of this nature, one that required me to modify some part of FDM, and as that was so new, my interest was, as I stated, on your text. It was that that led me to fix the problem my way, quite ignoring that you had, indeed, provided information, but information that was, under the circumstances, easily and totally ignored by me.

I find this somewhat ironic: Just a short while ago, I finished reading Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England. Your sig relates, in my academic world, to the notes of the scribes written about in the book.

I think that relates to the fourth message in this thread, posted by someone who, as did I, quite ignored something for which I had been the scribe, namely how I fixed the FMD problem.

[Usher]

Note that manual editing of any Firefox add-on will be blocked in newer Firefox versions, see: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17015

[StormJumper]

What a bummer and I got my FF37 to work now...