Python script to fix the Quake Live version problem on Linux

[samyboy]

Hi,

A created a Python script which fixes the version problem with Firefox

You can download it here:

https://github.com/samyboy/qlive_ff_fix

Just download the official plugin manually, then execute the python script in a command line:

python qlive_ff_fix.py QuakeLivePlugin_433.xpi

The script has been tested on my computer (Ubuntu 10.4) and works well.

Please post comments if you have problems/questions.

[FlashSoul]

If it works, I suggest you to ask Yakumo to add it on the sticky thread.

[samyboy]

Yeah, I'm waiting for some feedback actually.

[Lam]

AFAICT, this can't work with the original/official extension. It needs an extension that's already fixed for FF4 because your script can only bump the max version to 7.

Main thread with install.rdf explained and pre-made FF7-compatible extension: http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php?7195

[samyboy]

You can choose what version you want

If you want to fix for Firefox 6:

qlive_ff_fix.py -V 6 QuakeLivePlugin_433.xpi

[Lam]

Fine, however I can't see "unpack" anywhere in the script...

[samyboy]

What do you mean by "unpack"?

[Lam]

http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showt...l=1#post103479
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showt...l=1#post114755

[wolf1e]

why not just regex-replace the maxVersion line instead of parsing the entire xml document? KISS

[samyboy]

Diplodok, thanks for that, I fixed this.

wolf1e, this blog post conviced me that was a bad idea. Plus I wanted to learn how to parse xml.