Firefox ODFReader Extension
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 18:13 UTC, submitted by Wily Yuen
Features, Office Several months ago there was an OSNews article which discussed why browsers should be able to display OpenDocument. It's been a while now and recently Wily Yuen, the reader who submitted this to us, discovered on the OpenOffice.org Wiki that there is indeed somebody working on a Firefox extension called ODFReader, which will display ODF within the browser using XSLT. The extension only reads OOo Writer documents and displays only text so far. You can check it out here.
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Doesn't work here
by Joe User on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 20:30 UTC
Joe User
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2005-06-29

Firefox prompts what to do, I select "Open with Firefox" and it says it downloaded the .odt file on the desktop, but there's nothing. I expected Firefox would open it just like an Acrobat file, inside the browser.

I checked, the ODF extention is indeed enable. Dunno...

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RE: Doesn't work here
by dylansmrjones on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 20:54 UTC in reply to "Doesn't work here"
dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

Well it doesn't work for me.

It just opens a tab with nothing in it.

Edited 2006-03-22 20:55

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v RE[2]: Doesn't work here
by Kick The Donkey on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 21:02 UTC in reply to "RE: Doesn't work here"
RE[3]: Doesn't work here
by dylansmrjones on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 21:23 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Doesn't work here"
dylansmrjones Member since:
2005-10-02

No, of course not. It's still in very early stage, and I don't doubt it's going to be much better. I'm all for an ODF-plugin to browsers.

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RE[3]: Doesn't work here
by Rodrigo on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 08:47 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Doesn't work here"
Rodrigo Member since:
2005-07-06

Thanks god you didn't try Linux 0.01 and told that to Linus ;)

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RE: Doesn't work here
by zero0w on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 23:24 UTC in reply to "Doesn't work here"
zero0w Member since:
2006-03-22

Some users found that you can only read local ODT files (file://), but cannot read files on remote server (http://).

In my case, I can also read local files only with this extension. It could be a bug in the MIME setting or something.

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RE[2]: Doesn't work here
by Thom_Holwerda on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 23:34 UTC in reply to "RE: Doesn't work here"
Thom_Holwerda Member since:
2005-06-29

Works fine here, remote server.

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RE[3]: Doesn't work here
by zero0w on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 23:49 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Doesn't work here"
zero0w Member since:
2006-03-22

I double-checked it, by choosing firefox (instead of OOo2 Writer) to open *.odt files from remote server. It works! Thanks for the confirmation.

Here, you can try to view some of the ODT files at OpenOffice.org HOWTO documentation page (where certain docs are written in ODT):

http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html

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About the plugin
by Joe User on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 20:34 UTC
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2005-06-29

I think it would make more sense that installing OpenOffice.org installs a plugin to each browser installed on the system, the same way as Real Player or Acrobat do. Why a plugin only for Firefox?

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RE: About the plugin
by Wintermute on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 06:18 UTC in reply to "About the plugin"
Wintermute Member since:
2005-07-30

I am guessing that in the long term, thats the aim of the project. However, at present they are only testing out the plugin thus it would make sense to release the plugin for Firefox as most OO users probably use Firefox as well (more so than IE).

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RE: About the plugin
by Lettherebemorelight on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 08:02 UTC in reply to "About the plugin"
Lettherebemorelight Member since:
2005-07-11

I think it would make more sense that installing OpenOffice.org installs a plugin to each browser installed on the system, the same way as Real Player or Acrobat do.

If I need to view a ODF doc online, I certainly would not want a "plugin" that simply loads OOo Writer into a tab. A small 9 KB Firefox extension aint a bad idea though...

Why a plugin only for Firefox?

Someone has to be the first. If not Mozilla, then who were you expecting?

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No reason for this
by zeppelin on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 14:06 UTC
zeppelin
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2005-07-08

Just make sure you know the hidden treasure of OOo2 options (hint: enable Mozilla Plugin)

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RE: No reason for this
by zero0w on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 14:43 UTC in reply to "No reason for this"
zero0w Member since:
2006-03-22

If you have OOo installed, then sure, you can view it.

But a lot of people who don't have OOo installed but just want to view an ODF document; or for those who are on dial-up, then this small plugin will make their life easier.

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