Running FlickrUploadr on Linux — Firefox!

Trying to deliberately make an uploader out of FlickrUploadr I tried to put it into a browser… as an extension/add-on/plugin.

Here’s what I did:

1. get the source and extract it anywhere
2. cut/copy the contents of chrome folder of the Flicker Uploader (/uploadr/MacUploadr.app/Contents/Resources/chrome) to a new folder named flickr and place it in your (~) folder
3. go to your mozilla firefox folder (default ~/.mozilla/firefox/########.default/) where ######## is your profile id
4. edit your extensions.ini file. add the following line
       Extension##=~/mozFFfolder/yourProfile/extensions/FlickrUploadrTest
   ex.  Extension10=/home/roiji/.mozilla/firefox/5ca8so10.default/extensions/FlickrUploadrTest

   where: ## is the next number of you extension…
          mozFFfolder is where your Mozilla Firefox folder is
          yourProfile is your profile id default
          FlickrUploadrTest a folder which we will create later

5. edit your extensions.rdf file and insert the following lines before the </RDF:RDF> tag at the bottom
     <RDF:Seq about="urn:mozilla:package:root">
       <RDF:li resource="urn:mozilla:package:FlickrUploadrTest"/>
     </RDF:Seq>

     <RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:package:FlickrUploadrTest"
             chrome:displayName="Flickr Uploadr Test"
             chrome:author="roiji Mikagami"
             chrome:name="FlickrUploadrTest"
             chrome:extension="false"/>

6. insert the chrome namespace at the top <RDF:RDF>
     <RDF:RDF xmlns:NS1="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"
              xmlns:chrome="http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/chrome#"
              xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#"
              xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
7. go to you extensions folder in you firefox and create a folder named FlickrUploadrTest
   
8. copy/paste the chrome.manifest and chrome.manifest.prod file from your ~/flickr folder to the FlickUploadrTest folder
9. edit your chrome.manifest file so that I’ll look something like this:
     content uploadr file:///home/flickr/content/uploadr/
     locale branding en-US file:///home/flickr/locale/branding/
     locale uploadr en-US file:///home/flickr/locale/en-US/
     skin uploadr default file:///home/flickr/skin/

   just change the paths to your flickr folder

10. paste the content of the skin/uploadr to skin and locale/en-US to locale (both in your ~/flickr folder)
11. restart your firefox if ever it’s open (well it’s open, your reading this ^^,)
12. go to chrome://uploadr/content/main.xul in firefox and hopefully it works with you..

if you have any questions or clarifications please feel free to post on my message board or comment here… don’t worry, i don’t bite~ hahahh

by the way, this exercise is only to RUN Flickr Uploadr on your Firefox browser… on not to actually make it WORK…

it is a step (for me) to make / try to make an uploader based on FlickrUploadr based on xulrunner…  

the one I did before has Components.classes  errors (UnnamedClass.classes error)… because of under priviledged code… so chrome installed files are a work around… but what if the uploader come from the net.. then it won’t be chrome installed, unless it is an xpi extension to be installed by the user….

sources:  walkthrough and error