goal: export my history into a JSON blob that can be imported into a web service.
exporting bookmarks in FF is very easy, but history is a bit harder.
this sumo page suggests that you go to about:support and click on the 'show in finder' button to find your profile
| existing repos | |
| ============== | |
| fxa-profile-server | |
| /bin | |
| - looks like this just does instantiation, dependency injection, | |
| like the /server directory in the fxa-auth-server repo | |
| - _static.js - load local-dev-only static server | |
| - server.js - just load lib/server and start it, pass in the logger | |
| - worker.js - just load lib/server/worker and call create |
This API corresponds to the state of the abandoned gecko fork. The project has been ported to an addon which contains the up-to-date API docs in its repo.
Just some snippets for now. I'll clean this up into an article later (maybe).
| /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public | |
| * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, | |
| * You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ | |
| // TODO: it would be nice to check size of places DB before starting (precondition?) | |
| // TODO: do we need to listen for shutdown events to avoid corrupting the DB? | |
| // or does PlacesUtils handle that for us? | |
| const {classes: Cc, interfaces: Ci, utils: Cu} = Components; |
I'm working on an addon which includes an iframe served over https. https is needed for WebChannel (chrome to content) communication to work. It's also going to be needed to find and avoid mixed-content warnings as we pull various bits of remote content into that frame.
Setting this all up is medium-unpleasant, as ops tasks go. I want to remember how I did it, so here are some quick notes:
Assuming you're using the built-in Apache2 install on OSX Yosemite, follow these guides:
You can't just click to accept self-signed certs in iframes in FF; the idea is to prevent clickjacking. (See https://bugzil.la/792479 for more.) To work around this, make yourself a certificate authority in your Firefox a
| # development use only | |
| Daemon 0 | |
| LogFacility - | |
| ListenHTTPS | |
| Address 0.0.0.0 | |
| Port 3443 | |
| Cert "tmp/certificates/ssl.pem" | |
| xHTTP 1 | |
| AddHeader "X_FORWARDED_PROTO: https" |
I had this idea a couple years ago, but I think I've found a way to simplify the whole thing.
Email as web pages:
Fundamentally, email is just a message written by one person, intended for another.
Use RSS to see if a friend sent you a message (auth'd RSS access).
here's the content, newlines inserted by me.
"<div id="readability-page-1" class="page">
<article itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" itemscope="" data-article="3983182" id="article-3983182" class="clearfix full-article time_article metered ">
<header class="article-header">
<section class="tags ">
<a href="http://time.com/" class="brand-tag brand-time-tag">TIME</a>
What do we need?
How do we do this quickly / easily?