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The Higgins Embedded-Selector Extension for Firefox is a Firefox extension written in Javascript. It uses a thin-client, web-based architecture relying on a hosted I-Card Manager and I-Card Service for "back end" support.
When the Higgins Embedded-Selector Extension for Firefox is installed and when your browser lands on a Relying Party (RP) site that is i-card enabled, it an i-card selector user interface pops up in a separate Firefox window. It presents you with a set of i-cards that match the RP site's policy.
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Details
- Status: available since Higgins 1.0M4
- Language: Javascript and XUL
- Packaging: Firefox add-on. Requires Firefox 1.5.x or 2.x running on Windows, OSX, or Linux
Installation
- See HBX Installation
Tips And Tricks
- How to force Firefox to run the Setup Wizard when Firefox starts up
- Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit enter
- Filter the list on word "higgins"
- Right click on "higgins.wizard.next.start" and click reset
- Restart Firefox
- By default Firefox is configured to restore previous session only on crash or after installing updates. You can configure Firefox to restore previous session always with the below settings
- Type about:config in Firefox address bar and hit enter
- Filter the list on word "browser.startup"
- Right click on "browser.startup.page" and modify value to 3
Status
- This browser extension has been developed for Higgins 1.0.0. We plan only minor fixes and improvements as we are looking at alternative architectures for higgins 1.0.1 and beyond.
- Has been tested on WinXP, Linux and OSX
Implementation notes
- HBX Source Folders
- Debugging tools used: To monitor all POST/Get requests the livehttpheadersextension is useful.
Misc
- Don't use HBX and Chuck Mortimore's extension at the same time --one of them should be disabled.
- HBX Screenshots from the Jan 26, 2007 Face-2-Face meeting in Provo, Utah
- HBX Zurich movie from the Mar 1 Telco
Reference
http://xmldap.blogspot.com/2006/05/firefox-identity-selector.html - Chuck Mortimore's Firefox extension. Chuck and the Higgins team have collaborated a bit on the development of our respective extentions.
Old Junk
- HBX How To Generate New Server Account <-- obsolete
- HBX Microsoft CardSpace Support (v0.4.7+) <--old
- HBX CardSpace Test Sites <-- No longer working
- HBX RSS Test Site <-- no longer running
- HBX RSS Protocol Support (v0.5.1+)
- HBX Form Fill
- HBX Screen Scrape
See Also
- This component is used in the Firefox-Embedded Selector Solution.