How to make ColorZilla work with Firefox on Ubuntu

Submitted by TBarregren
on Mon, 2007-07-23 18:32

ColorZilla is one of the more productive extension to Firefox. Unfortunately, it does not work with Firefox on Ubuntu. Fortunately, there is a solution.

The problem

ColorZilla is a tool for web developers and graphic designers who want to sample the color from any point in the browser. Unfortunately, ColorZilla coredumps on Ubuntu.1

The solution

Visit Firefox download page and download the latest version of Firefox. Extract the firefox/libxpcom*-files from the downloaded .tar.gz-archive. Move the extracted files to /usr/lib/firefox. These steps can be done with following command lines:

VERSION=2.0.0.6 # Change this to current version number
DOWNLOAD=http://ftp-mozilla.netscape.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/$VERSION/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-$VERSION.tar.gz
wget $DOWNLOAD -q -O- | sudo tar -zxv -C /usr/lib --wildcards firefox/libxpcom*

Finally, start Firefox again and install ColorZilla. You should now have a ColorZilla working with Firefox on Ubuntu.

  1. See Ubuntu bug report #85382 ↩

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