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This short tutorial is dedicated to those who already know basics about editing and localizing an extension for Gecko-engined apps : Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla. It entirely comes from an article of mozillaZine Knowledge Base .
Here are the steps to localize the description of an extension that we shall call tournicoti
1)Check that the extension has this tree structure , else create what is
missing: |---install.rdf
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tournicoti.xpi==|---install.js
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|---defaults------preferences-----prefs.js
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|---chrome.manifest
| |--content
|---chrome---------tournicoti.jar=====|
|---skin
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|---locale--|
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tournicoti
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---------------.....
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en-US (other locales...)
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contents.rdf | tournicoti.dtd
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tournicoti.properties
= = = = = unzip
folder to create
file to create
2) Write this line in prefs.js file:
pref("extensions.{616f2aa8-9674-4009-90de-94ce4ea9d29a}.description", "chrome://tournicoti/locale/tournicoti.properties");
...where the red string is the extension ID number that you can copy/paste from the install.rdf
If you used a pseudo-mail address as id for your extension, remove the special brackets, it should be something like: pref("extensions.
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.description", "chrome://tournicoti/locale/tournicoti.properties");
3) Write this line in tournicoti.properties file:
extensions.{616f2aa8-9674-4009-90de-94ce4ea9d29a}.description = An extension that makes you dizzy.
or extensions.
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.description= An extension that makes you dizzy. Now you have just to re-zip correctly the whole stuff and...That's all !
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