Development and news about FireGPG
So I work on a new feature :
Currently only buttons related to key servers works. But it’s a big improvement 
I have a lot of work remaining. I’m not sure it’s will be finish for the next release (Sunday - gmail and majors bugs fixed), but “auto-fetching” missing key will be here
(and it’s not a skin).
Lasted release introduted a lot of problems and regressions. But we are trying to fix them.
The 3 main problems are almost fixed :
- FireFTP problem is fixed in some case (depend of things I don’t understand, but should works for some users.)
-
ls platform/ -lhrtotal 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 maximilien users 16 oct 22 18:02 WINNT_x86-msvc
drwxr-xr-x 3 maximilien users 16 oct 22 23:37 Linux_x86_64-gcc3
drwxr-xr-x 3 maximilien users 24 oct 22 18:02 Linux_x86-gcc3
(it’s mean : x86_64 supported again. After 4 our to have a suitable environment for information (including installing a x86_64 linux…))
I found a mac too. I haven’t have yet, but I will probably be able to build the ipc lib (intel only).
Release planned for ‘when the mac’s lib is ready’. The 24 or the 25.
FireFTP conflict with FireGPG. They use an old ipc library. If I try to use the olds functions it’s simply crash Firefox…
I contacted the author to fix the problem.
If you want to use FireGPG on MacOS, Linux x86_64 or any another OS than OSs currently supported, you have to build the IPC library.
Notice you can’t build it for Firefox 2. You need the version 1.2.0 and she’s only Firefox 3 compatible.
You will have to compile Firefox (or a part of). Please have a look at requirements for your system on the mozilla’s website.
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/../obj-@CONFIG_GUESS@
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-static-browser
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browserIf it’s work, you can find the library in FULLPATHOFSOURCES/../obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/dist/bin/components (you need the libipc.so/ipc.dll/whatever.who.is.a.lib.on.your.system.and.has.ipc.in.the.name and the ipc.xpt). Copy the two files in your firefox’s components’s folders, and create an empty .autoreg file in your Firefox’s folder. It’s should work.
There is not only bads news like dropping firefox 2 support in the next release (see previous post) :
Héhéhé 
Hello everybody,
As we now know that not using an xpcom is a relay bad idea (before I think it’s was only a bad), we have to make a new release of firegpg, quickly…
Problem is : it’s dosen’t works for firefox 2. It’s works only for windows and linux (32 bits).
So we will have to stop the support of Firefox2, and the ’support’ for Mac OS (and *BSD btw). Notice it’s possible to build the ipc library for MacOS (and *BSD), so if you have to tools to build it, you can.
Anyways, if someone is ready to make a donation of an old mac (intel architecture) with shipping to Morocco or Switzerland, you know our email
Release will come as soon as possible (~2 weeks).
Hello everybody,
We haven’t time to works on FireGpg, but Gmail has just changed some code and FireGpg wasn’t working.
This is now fixed, the next release is planned for 2008-09-30, ~10:00GMT+1.
Thanks for the lot of report about this problem
Hi !
As I have some errors I can’t fix myself and problems with my new XpCom, I’m looking for some help…
Do you know how a XpCom works ? How build it ? Do you know the IPC library ? Do you want to help us ? So contact us
Any help would be very pleasant ^^’
Thanks !
It’s will be a small update with bug fixes and the deactivation of the XpCom, as it’s seem to be too unstable for the moment (for most of people it’s work, but not for all, and it’s should works for all !).
I add today symmetric encryption (not finish yet but almost) and make the difference between signs and clear signs too !
Release will be here in 2 or 3 day.