785723 - Need to restart Firefox in order to enable/disable ChatZilla

Status: ASSIGNED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Geoffrey De Belie (Smile4ever)]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713224749

Steps to reproduce:

1) Go to about:addons
2) Install ChatZilla
3) You need to restart Firefox (with new SDK there is no need to restart. For example Firebug uses this)

1) Go to about:addons
2) Disable ChatZilla
3) You need to restart Firefox in order to completely disable ChatZilla


Actual results:

See above


Expected results:

No restart, just working after installing. I think this is not difficult.

Comment 1

[James Ross]

This is not a trivial change, and using the SDK is almost certainly too much effort.

Comment 2

[James Ross]

Attachment: Very quickly hacked-together bootstrap.js

This hacked-up patch turns ChatZilla into a restartless extension (without using the SDK). It implements the menu item, but not yet the irc: protocol or toolbar button.

Comment 3

[Geoffrey De Belie (Smile4ever)]

Great to see this :) Maybe this can be integrated with the next ChatZilla release (maybe in the coming months a release can be planned)?

Comment 4

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

(In reply to James Ross from comment #2)
> Created attachment 663172 [details] [diff] [review]
> Very quickly hacked-together bootstrap.js
> 
> This hacked-up patch turns ChatZilla into a restartless extension (without
> using the SDK). It implements the menu item, but not yet the irc: protocol
> or toolbar button.

from skimming taht it only implements menu item for TB not sea