I screwed up Firefox (but it's fixed now).

[aimeeandbeatles]

I had a theme installed, and it was open-source. So I renamed it to a ZIP, opened it up, and edited one of the graphics. Then renamed it back to an XPI file. But when I opened up Firefox, it came out a bunch of garbage, at the top of the screen was just a bunch of icons. So I got into safe mode and uninstalled it and now it's working again.

Any ideas what I did wrong? My guess is that the ZIP file was the wrong type.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

You messed around with files without knowing how the structure of the archive worked and how the whole thing worked?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well, I did google it first. It said to rename the JAR file to a zip. But there wasn't a JAR file, but an XPI. So I googled XPI and it said it's just a zip file. So I renamed it, opened it up and found it worked, edited the graphic, then renamed it back to an XPI. And that's when the weirdness happened.

 

[againsttheflow]

How on earth do you graphically edit a *.zip file?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

How on earth do you graphically edit a *.zip file?

I had a theme installed, and it was open-source. So I renamed it to a ZIP, opened it up, and edited one of the graphics. Then renamed it back to an XPI file. But when I opened up Firefox, it came out a bunch of garbage, at the top of the screen was just a bunch of icons. So I got into safe mode and uninstalled it and now it's working again.

Any ideas what I did wrong? My guess is that the ZIP file was the wrong type.

Any questions?

 

[againsttheflow]

Ok my confusion came from the wording in the second paragraph.