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[quote=mouse]
Thanks very much for all your help, and the welcome.

Just a greying 4GL programmer i'm afraid - nothing up to date!

Anyway, what I was trying to do was port an extension which does deep SSL checking  - the extension is verification engine www.vengine.com from Comodo. (I'm a Comodo forum mod).

What the apps does is give various indications on level of security when you access an .ssl page. It also checks whether the name of the org on the page matches the IP I think, and compares with a very selective whitelist. Pages are graded safe, middling, or unsafe according to the details of the certficate (normal, enhanced security, revoked) etc, and IP details. The reason for the grading is available. Level of security is indicated by page border colour - and a sort of alert that flashes out from the padlock, and can be invoked by hovering over it. This carries more certificate details than standard certificate dialogs. It also has flashing arrows that indicate where it is reading the company name from.

The extension is available for FF and for what they describe as Mozilla 1.7 (Seamonkey?). At the moment I'm trying the firefox files. Dunno if the Seamonkey files would be different or an advantage?

The FF extension files sit in a Program files/vengine subdirectory. I've worked out I think the right places to put them in K-meleon. They include:
- a Jar (in XUL's and a .js) >put in chrome
- a .manifest > put in chrome
- a dll > put in componets
- a xpt > put in componets
- an install.rdf and .js, which I believe irrelevant

I think above you are suggesting I edit the manifest, not the jar? Contents of chrome.manifest below (does it need renaming to same as JAR?). Already edited content line - is it correct?

content vengineext jar:vengineext.jar!/content/
overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://vengineext/content/vengineoverlay.xul
overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://vengineext/content/vengineoverlayev.xul appversion>=2.0
overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://vengineext/content/vengineoverlayev_old.xul appversion<2.0
overlay chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul chrome://vengineext/content/vengineoverlay.xul
overlay chrome://pippki/content/downloadcert.xul chrome://vengineext/content/vengineoverlaycertdlg.xul

I would imagine that the best implementation in KM would be for the security grade to be reflected in browser URL bar colour, and for it to be possible to invoke a dialog with all the details, maybe by hovering on the padlock. But just the ability to invoke the dialog with the details would be helpful.

One thing I note already is that if the DLL is in the coponent directory KM aopens then closes immediately it has finished loading the page. Dunno what this means. If I rename this file to xxx.OLD, this does not happen.

Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes

Mouse[/quote]

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