Comments on: Moving Files Into JARs http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2009/08/27/moving-files-into-jars/ Just another Blog.mozilla.com weblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Wladimir Palant http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2009/08/27/moving-files-into-jars/comment-page-1/#comment-23350 Wladimir Palant Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:16:02 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/?p=178#comment-23350 Unfortunately, extensions usually use the resource: protocol for JavaScript modules - but that feature explicitly requires physical files (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406538). Unfortunately, extensions usually use the resource: protocol for JavaScript modules – but that feature explicitly requires physical files (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406538).

]]> By: skierpage http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/2009/08/27/moving-files-into-jars/comment-page-1/#comment-23346 skierpage Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:02:28 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/tglek/?p=178#comment-23346 That jar: protocol is one of the many hidden gems of Firefox. You can browse a compressed slice of a website without unpacking it and with an about:config tweak you can view ZIP files in the browser! The Firefox implementation has got encoding and functionality bugs (#445065, #132008) but it's still damn cool (#502528). That jar: protocol is one of the many hidden gems of Firefox. You can browse a compressed slice of a website without unpacking it and with an about:config tweak you can view ZIP files in the browser!

The Firefox implementation has got encoding and functionality bugs (#445065, #132008) but it’s still damn cool (#502528).

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