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Month: October, 2007

Signing a Firefox plug-in

9 October, 2007 (23:57) | codesigning, faq, signtool, xpi

Laurent brought this up recently in the comments on the XPISigner download page. He ran into an issue signing his Firefox Linux plug-in with XPISigner. Some files were no longer executable when the XPI was deployed.
This is a ‘feature’ of java’s cross-platform underpinnings, since not all platforms use file-system metadata to flag files as executable.
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XPISigner v1.6 released

1 October, 2007 (00:02) | firefox, java, security, signtool, xpi

Available from the download page.
Version 1.6

Fixed FileNotFound exception for xpi output file that doesn’t exist (yet). XPISigner now creates the file entry so the jar operation can use it.
Updated the unix script
Readme now correctly refers to the unix script as xpisigner.sh