Girish Gangadharan

Mozilla approves Select Search 3.0

// September 15th, 2008 // cool tool, Firefox, Select Search

No new features. Sorry. But this one took me months to finally get it right.

Every time i got this email from mozilla.org (contents shown below), my heart broke.

The following files of Select Search 3.0 have been retained in the sandbox by a Mozilla Add-ons editor:

Review Information:
Reviewer: Andrew Williamson
Tested on winxp with fx3
Comments: the pref exists checking you added doesn’t appear to be complete as I got these two errors with a quick test:
Error: Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]

Source file: chrome://selectsearch/content/selectsearchOverlay.js
Line: 808
and
Error: Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getBoolPref]Source file: chrome://selectsearch/content/optionsDialog.js
Line: 2977

After about half a dozen failed attempts to figure out a solution, one great suggestion by one of the reviewers (Andrew Williamson), helped me finally fix the bugs. All I had to do was add a defaults.js file under defaults/preferences folder that sets the default prefs.

I know what I’m about to say is hard to believe, but I actually have gotten quite a few emails from people asking me if I was planning to upgrade my extension and that they kind of missed it after upgrading to FF 3.0 (LOL! I swear. No kidding.) as Select Search was retained in the sandbox for several months without approval, until today. It was my fault though. I just didn’t know how to fix the bugs they reported.

I was elated and frankly relieved when I finally got this email from Mozilla today.

The following files of Select Search 3.0 have been made public by a Mozilla Add-ons editor:

Select Search 3.0 – ALL

Review Information:
Reviewer: Andrew Williamson
Tested on winxp with fx3
Comments: Looks great – thanks for the update.

Well, to all the people that contributed to the 15,513 downloads as of this second, a big thanks and here – enjoy the new version.

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