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Dec. 9th, 2005 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumI went on a Firefox extension-installing bender just now. The last one I installed was called "imagezoomer", and was supposed to add "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" entries to the right-click menu.
Instead, it created this big extra windowpane that takes up 1/6 of the screen and says, in big red letters, <!DOCTYPE overlay SYSTEM "chrome://imagezoomer/locale/imageZoomerOverlay. and then it stops.
I couldn't uninstall it because it doesn't appear in my Extensions window, and even creating a new profile didn't work. I ended up opening up the .jar file myself and removing anything I could from the imageZoomer.XUL file, whatever the hell that is.
Internet Explorer never made me jump through that many hoops, that I can recall.
It seems like a horrendous design decision. Why should the user see a vague error that he can't ignore, because some extension writer screwed up?
Instead, it created this big extra windowpane that takes up 1/6 of the screen and says, in big red letters, <!DOCTYPE overlay SYSTEM "chrome://imagezoomer/locale/imageZoomerOverlay. and then it stops.
I couldn't uninstall it because it doesn't appear in my Extensions window, and even creating a new profile didn't work. I ended up opening up the .jar file myself and removing anything I could from the imageZoomer.XUL file, whatever the hell that is.
Internet Explorer never made me jump through that many hoops, that I can recall.
It seems like a horrendous design decision. Why should the user see a vague error that he can't ignore, because some extension writer screwed up?
