If you saw my post yesterday, you saw that I figured out how to get most Firefox extensions to work with Flock . It involved some unzipping, pasting of XML, and re-zipping.

Well, I made it easier. Download Flocker and all you have to do is drag and drop a downloaded Firefox extension (a .xpi file) onto the Flocker window and you'll have a newly modified xpi to install the extension in Flock.

As I mentioned yesterday, some extensions won't work in Flock no matter what. But give it a shot! I've had good success so far.

EDIT: I'm starting work on a Mac OSX version of Flocker. As a Mac user as well as a PC user, I knwo how it is when a cool app comes out for Windows and Mac guys get left in the dark.

EDIT 2: The Mac version is done! Download it here !

EDIT 3: FLocker has it's own website! flocker.frobba.com Please direct all links to this new URL instead of this blog post.

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Friday, October 21, 2005 4:41am
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»  db
Sunday, October 23, 2005 8:39pm
And what of Linux, or BeOS, or QNX, or the multitude of other OSes out there? In other words, how about a commandline-capable version of this that compiles with GCC so *everyone* can benefit from this thing?

»  El Payo
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:41pm
Mad props. Thanks for the Mac version.

»  ehoffmann
Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:51pm
Thanks for the nice little app.
Flock on!

»  Jed
Friday, October 28, 2005 6:17pm
Any plans to release the code? I ask because it would be great if someone modded the code to automatically update a Firefox extension's max version.

»  Geoff
Tuesday, November 01, 2005 12:00am
Actually, B., if you want, open up the .CAB file included in the .ZIP file and just pull out the executable (flocker.exe) and try running it. if that gives you an error, copy the zip and unzip .DLLs into your windows\system32 folder.

»  Palace Pete
Sunday, December 04, 2005 12:56am
I bow down before you, oh geoff of geoffs.



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