British Dictionary for Firefox
I know that the Add-ons for Firefox are created by volunteers but the organisation does itself no favours by allowing a fundamental extension go out of date. In most cases there is nothing wrong with the extension, just that the install package is out of date specifying a maximum version older than the current one. This has happened with the British English Dictionary so I have made available a hacked copy here.
British English Dictionary 1.19.99 (Click to install, right click to download.)
Webmaster
Good evening, Rick Parsons.
Thank you very much for this fix.
Regards,
Christopher Beeston
It is a pleasure to be of help.
This still seems to be a problem. Shame of mozilla for this and thanks for making this fixed version available.
It won’t install this fix. TB expects an xpi file: when I try to use the install.js file, it says “not a valid install package”.
I am not sure what you mean, Flumbo. The link I have provided is to
british_english_dictionary1.19.99fxzmtb.xpiDespite the link apparently pointing to an xpi file in fact, when downloading, it saves it as:
british_english_dictionary1.19.99fxzmtb.zip
Why is that?
Hmmm. I have seen this happen before and it is a “feature” of some browsers or systems and the way they interpret the mime types as sent by the server I think. It is because an XPI file is really a zip under another name but what is at fault I have no idea. Downloading with Firefox itself is generally ok.
It is nothing to worry about as you can just rename the file to what it should be and then it woks just fine.
Thanks. Spent quite a bit of time trying to install the dictionary for ‘Firefox’ on one of our computers after successfully installing it from ‘Firefox Add Ons’ on another which worked first time. Both are running the same OS (Vista)
I am most grateful to you for taking the time to supply this fix.
Interesting all this: unlike others, I had no problem at all with the one provided by Mozilla. See my comment there [izziwizziletsgetbizzi]. I assume DB has the same version of Vista on those systems and not Vista64 on one and 32 on the other, or Home Premium on one and Basic on other, or perhaps sp1 on one but not on the other, etc etc…? If DB has *identical* OS’s on both his systems and uses Firefox as his browser, I will be forced to conclude that something else is awry. Possibly a firewall or antivirus program. He could actually help Mozilla by comparing and contrasting his systems…
I don’t understand why some people seem to be able to use the raw version downloaded from addons.mozilla.org
I can see that the blurb says Firefox 2.0 - 3.0.* but have just got a fresh copy and looked inside and it still clearly says maxVersion 2.0b2 in the install.rdf file so it shouldn’t work with Firefox 3.
So I stand by my version.