Writing an add-on for facebook

B2G OS Foxfooding
#1

I’ve written an addon to tweak some things about facebook for a presentation at Firefox Developer’s conference this weekend, however it never seems to apply when I load the facebook app. Am I doing something wrong?

Source here: https://github.com/birtles/facetweak/

I’ve leaned very heavily on Eitan’s responsive IRCCloud add-on (which works), but it doesn’t seem to have any effect. If I reduce the JS to a single console.log call, even that doesn’t run.

Any ideas?

#2

@jorgev Is this something you also cover on the Addons category? Maybe we should move it there to get help from others?

#3

I’ve also tried to inject some code into Facebook app and I had the same problem. Nothing is working.

#4

Does it work when facebook is loaded in the browser app? Does https:// instead of * help?

#5

The Add-ons category would probably be the most appropriate, but I think at this point @eviljeff is the best person to answer these questions.

#6

Unfortunately it doesn’t work when loaded in the browser app either. I tried using https:// instead of * but that didn’t work either.

#7

Thanks for all the help! With much help from Eitan I think I’ve worked out what is happening. When you install a packaged app from WebIDE, it appears to just copy over the contents of the folder you point it at (after zipping it up).

That appears to mean that:

  1. You don’t actually need to make up a package.zip – WebIDE does it for you.
  2. If you have a ‘dist’ folder with your package.zip, you also need to copy the unzipped source files.
  3. If you point WebIDE at a folder with a node_modules subfolder you might have trouble since WebIDE will copy the whole thing over (and on Windows you can hit errors because of exceeding the maximum path length).
#8

Filed a bug to cover all of this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225002