OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/14065/Firefox_ODFReader_Extension Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:39:47 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Doesn't work here http://osnews.com/thread?106840 http://osnews.com/thread?106840 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... Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments About the plugin http://osnews.com/thread?106843 http://osnews.com/thread?106843 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? Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments RE: Doesn't work here http://osnews.com/thread?106856 http://osnews.com/thread?106856 Well it doesn't work for me.

It just opens a tab with nothing in it.Edited 2006-03-22 20:55 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments RE[2]: Doesn't work here http://osnews.com/thread?106865 http://osnews.com/thread?106865 "Well it doesn't work for me. "

Then I guess the whole project's worthless, then... Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kick The Donkey) Comments RE[3]: Doesn't work here http://osnews.com/thread?106873 http://osnews.com/thread?106873 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. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments RE: Doesn't work here http://osnews.com/thread?106943 http://osnews.com/thread?106943 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. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zero0w) Comments RE[2]: Doesn't work here http://osnews.com/thread?106949 http://osnews.com/thread?106949 Works fine here, remote server. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE[3]: Doesn't work here http://osnews.com/thread?106955 http://osnews.com/thread?106955 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 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zero0w) Comments RE: About the plugin http://osnews.com/thread?107044 http://osnews.com/thread?107044 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). Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wintermute) Comments RE: About the plugin http://osnews.com/thread?107060 http://osnews.com/thread?107060 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? Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lettherebemorelight) Comments RE[3]: Doesn't work here http://osnews.com/thread?107067 http://osnews.com/thread?107067 Thanks god you didn't try Linux 0.01 and told that to Linus ;) Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rodrigo) Comments No reason for this http://osnews.com/thread?107130 http://osnews.com/thread?107130 Just make sure you know the hidden treasure of OOo2 options (hint: enable Mozilla Plugin) Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zeppelin) Comments RE: No reason for this http://osnews.com/thread?107156 http://osnews.com/thread?107156 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. Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zero0w) Comments