Eyedropper in Colorzilla addon does not work

[ceverett]

Binary package hint: mozilla-firefox

If you install the Colorzilla add on (from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271), when you try to use its eyedropper function after it restarts it brings up an alert box saying it doesn't work. All the other functions seem OK.

The workaround is to uninstall Colorzilla, download and untar the official binary tarball, and copy the libxpcom*.so files to /usr/lib/firefox, then reinstall Colorzilla.

Obviously, this is not an upstream bug. :)

[Markus Vuori (lite-deactivatedaccount)]

This issue is already well known and has been a concern for a long time. Imo it should and could be fixed. Why not package the firefox properly for ubuntu? IIRC, some version of Fedora Linuxalso included firefox incompatible with colorzilla.

[R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar (chandra)]

I can confirm this behaviour and the successful workaround for firefox-2.0.0.12 in Gutsy and ColorZilla-1.9. I have written a script to patch the workaround after each update., but it would be nicer and neater if that were done in the post install script of the package itself.

Thanks.

Chandra

[snodnipper (oliversnowden)]

This still appears to be a problem in 3.0.1 (64-bit hardy). Clicking on the eyedropper displays:

"Installation problem or the Eyedropper mode isn't supported on your platform. You can go to the ColorZilla Home Page to see if your platform is supported. If so, try re-installing the extension. ColorPicker and other features will still work.".

Downloading Firefox from mozilla.com makes the extension work as expected.

[Sukochev Roman (Leolik) (leolik)]

I confirm this bug.

Ubuntu 8.10 amd64
ColorZilla 2.0.1

[zEn (der-eremit)]

Confirmed
Ubuntu 8.10 amd64
ColorZilla 2.0.2.1

also the proposed workaround did not work for me.

libxpcom*.so ??

in the tarball I downloaded there is only one libxpcom.so
why the * ?

[yamo (stephane-gregoire)]

Hi, It seems to work On Ubuntu 8.10 386 (I will install amd64 in the future) with Firefox 3.0.6 /ColorZilla 2.0.2

http://pages.colorzilla.com/welcome/updated/?firefox/3.0.6/1.9/2.0.2

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This was fixed in extension not firefox and the bug was not in firefox

[Tyler Ham (tylerh11)]

This is still a problem in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex, x86_64) with Firefox 3.0.13 and ColorZilla 2.0.2.1.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Colorzilla is not packaged by Ubuntu. Please report the problem to the author of the addon. Please report any other bugs you may find.