mlabs wrote:
> I used the extension wizard to generate a skeleton extension.
> I put the 'myext@myext' text file into the extensions folder to point
> to my extension files.
> It seemed to work.
> except:
>
> 1. the javascript in overlay.js doesn't get called every time you
> load a new page. It seems flaky.

It shouldn't. Overlay attached js files should get run once per browser
window.

> 2. i click 'uninstall' in the addons panel - it says the plugin will
> be removed when i restart firefox. It never get's removed.

Sounds like a corrupt extensions.rdf, read the support docs on it at
kb.mozillazine.org

On 28/08/2007 19:58 (CET), mlabs wrote:
> I used the extension wizard to generate a skeleton extension.
> I put the 'myext@myext' text file into the extensions folder to point
> to my extension files.
> It seemed to work.
> except:
>
> 1. the javascript in overlay.js doesn't get called every time you
> load a new page. It seems flaky.
>
> 2. i click 'uninstall' in the addons panel - it says the plugin will
> be removed when i restart firefox. It never get's removed.
>
> is there a solution to all this madness?

Is your chrome.manifest pointing to a JAR file? I've seem some
unexpected behaviour in this case before. Try pointing to folders instead.

- Brian