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February 15, 2008

RichScrollbar sunset

Filed under: extension, richscrollbar, xbl — dafi @ 6:21 pm

RichScrollbar extension, RSB for friends, is quite simple and not intrusive but technically is a big compromise.
It is written as  XBL component and runs inside chrome context and  browser content context.

Under Firefox 3 beta1 and beta2 RSB after some fix worked like a charm, when beta3 arrived RSB was broken.

Mark Finkle helped me to understand why RSB didn’t work and we discover FF3 fixed a security bug on XBL.

Now it is impossible to make RSB functional on browser windows, it works only on chrome dialogs.

I surrend, period! I have not enough technical knowledge to dig for a workaround.

I consider terminated the RSB development, the XBL documentation is poor and all my help requests haven’t received reply except Mark.

Honestly I’m sad, I love RSB and I prefer it to Mouse Gestures, I’ll continue to search for a fix but it is very difficult to find.

Mark helped me and I would say thank to him, great people work at Mozilla.

2 Comments »

  1. :(((((((((((((((((((

    Comment by A@AA.fr — June 26, 2008 @ 12:31 pm

  2. If it´s imposible (for the moment i hooooope), do you think is possible to create a script that works with greasemonkey???

    Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!!!

    And thank you, for your hard work… it´s so sad, that only a few people say thanks.

    So, THANK YOU!!!

    Comment by DS — August 13, 2008 @ 4:21 am

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