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I didn't do that because I wanted to use a UNIX socket (more secure), and RPC is simpler. I added an RPC server, which is how the workflow talks to it, but you could add an HTTP server, too, which would allow just about anything to talk to the extension. As long as the extension and workflow are installed, other programs can communicate with Firefox, too.Īs far as the general case goes, the native messaging API for extensions runs an external program or script and passes messages back and forth via STDIN/STDOUT. It's basically just an RPC server + client. I'll probably refactor the workflow to make the bits needed to communicate with the extension importable from other code. I thought about implementing a CLI client (say /usr/local/bin/firefox-cli) to encapsulate the interaction with Firefox, but that would have made installing the workflow more complicated, and that's ultimately what I wanted to build. It might work to just encode the imacro in base64 and send it to imacros via javascript, but that would be messy and not allow for easy editing of scripts.On another note, I haven’t looked at the code but I don’t suppose your extension (or an extension) could bridge the gap with the missing AppleScript functionality to at least return the title and URL of the frontmost tab, could it? Since it doesn't use the application helpers in the FF standard release, this seems like the way it's catching the URL from the bookmark. I'm just guessing here, but it seems like imacros intercepts firefox's address variable in the BOM and acts on it in the standard release, but does not do this in the FDE, and is being blocked somehow. I did change the 'bWFjcm8uaWlt' to 'bXltYWNyby5paW0='. I also tried it under the standard FF release (48), and it does work and invokes the mymacro.iim. It looks like it's running the javascript without any issues and it does invoke imacros, but under FDE it throws an address error for the mymacro.iim. IMacros for FF v8.9.7 has been tested and works fine for FF46 + FF47 and it seems to work fine as well on FF48 as I haven't seen any Reports (yet) related specifically to the recently released FF48, which is nearly a 'Miracle'' with 3 FF Versions in a row working on the same iMacros Version as since FF29, nearly every FF Version has broken stg in iMacros.Ĭode: Select all javascript:(function() ) () You need to mention your FCI with all exact Versions for iMacros (I reckon you'll be on v8.9.7) and FF, + OS even if OS won't play a Role in this Case I guess. I can run a macro from the side panel after clicking the imacro button in the toolbar, but running them from a bookmark or the address bar isn't working.Ĭode: Select all imacros://run/?m=mymacro.iim How can I make Firefox Developer Edition run my macros from a bookmark or URL like the example bookmark above the same way that the standard Firefox seems to be able to do?Īlso, just to note, imacros appears to be working fine in all other aspects inside the Firefox Developer Edition. I looked in the Firefox standard edition under the Options/Applications area to see if there is an action to imacros there, but there is not.

FIREFOX DEVELOPER EDITION FORUMS INSTALL

You might need to install other software to open this address.'

FIREFOX DEVELOPER EDITION FORUMS HOW TO

'Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (imacros) isn’t associated with any program or is not allowed in this context.

However, on the Firefox Developer Edition, when I try to run the bookmark I get this error: When I set up a macro on the release version of Firefox, I can save the macro as a bookmark and run the bookmark to execute the macro.

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