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arkadiyt / zoom-redirector

Zoom Redirector is a browser extension that transparently redirects any meeting links to use Zoom's browser based web client.
MIT License
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Manual installation for Firefox #14

Closed adrianlshaw closed 3 years ago

adrianlshaw commented 3 years ago

Very nice add-on, thank you for making it. As others may also do, I prefer to vet the code of the addons I install. So I've tried manually to install manually this in Firefox.

I've taken this repository, zipped it, and renamed the extension from .zip to .xpi. Since Firefox needs extensions to be signed, I've also disabled xpinstall.signatures.required in Firefox. Firefox says it appears to be corrupt without specifying more detail.

Has anyone had any success with this method or has an idea as to what I should fix?

arkadiyt commented 3 years ago

I would try installing the web-ext cli and running web-ext build against the extension

adrianlshaw commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the tip! I got it to work. After running npm install web-ext -g and web-ext build I then tried to install the resulting zip file. It was still saying "corrupted" but I discovered here that you need to add the following in the manifest.json:

"browser_specific_settings": {
  "gecko": {
    "id": "myaddon@example.com",
    "strict_min_version": "42.0"
  }
}

I didn't read about why this is needed. Anyhow, just writing this here in case anyone else wants to do the same thing.

arkadiyt commented 3 years ago

Glad to hear - thanks Adrian!