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Just a quick post to tell you how to get hybridfox 1.7 (for connecting to AWS or eucalyptus/UEC clouds) working with the Firefox 5.0. Firstly download the 1.7 version of the plugin and save it to disk. This will give you an XPI file.

http://code.google.com/p/hybridfox/

Now rename the file you’ve downloaded from .xpi to .zip and then extract the .zip file. The file you need to edit is called install.rdf just open this file in you favourite text editor. You’re looking for a line that says:

<em:maxVersion>4.2</em:maxVersion>

and you need to change it to:

<em:maxVersion>5.*</em:maxVersion>

Now zip those files backup, and once done rename the .zip to .xpi. You should now be able to install hybridfox 1.7 in firefox by using the install from file method of adding a plugin.

Update!

Now Firefox 6 is due to land anytime soon I thought I’d update this post and let you know the same tweak can be done to make hybridfox work in Firefox 6. Just change the maxVersion to 6 of course!

<em:maxVersion>6.*</em:maxVersion>

Just for reference I’m using the hybridfox-1.7.000089.xpi version of the plugin.

Due to a recent change on the Amazon AWS page I’ve updated the getAWSdocs.sh script. You can download it from:

http://media.squarecows.com/code/getAWSdocs.sh

For instructions on use please see:

http://dev.squarecows.com/projects/downloadAWS/

One thing that strikes me as odd with Amazon and the documentation on AWS is that there is no download all button, to make it easy to get all the documentation in one go. So I’ve created a bash script to make it easier. You can download it here:

http://media.squarecows.com/code/getAWSdocs.sh

If you run it with the -r command it will refresh all the documents that have been previously downloaded. Very handy if you want all the PDF’s. You could even squirt them into calibre and have them on your kindle.

./getAWSdocs.sh -r

I hope some of you find this useful.