HowTo get ColorZilla Eyedropper working on Ubuntu Feisty

If you want to use ColorZilla on Ubuntu Feisty it may not work out of the box. So here is a little tutorial to get it running. (I am using Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Ubuntu Feisty) -> Should be upgraded to 2.0.0.7 now

Download libxpcom* for Firefox ColorZilla (VS von 2.0.0.7). Alternatively you can download the newest Release of firefox from www.mozilla.com and extract firefox/libxpcom*. You only need this 3 files.
Copy the 3 files as root to /usr/lib/firefox/
cd /path/to/ff-libxpcom sudo cp libxpcom* /usr/lib/firefox

Note: I had firefox running and as I started copying firefox crashed. (So If you do not close it before it will do it for you )
Install ColorZilla from https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/271

Now the Eyedropper-Tool should work. I waited a long time for such a tool =)

EDIT: Seems that other extensions are too affected such as greasemonkey or firebug. An alternative would be to install firefox the normal way and do not use the ubuntu-firefox version but I heard there are some problems with sound and flash… You can download the current one here: libxpcom* for Firefox ColorZilla (VS von 2.0.0.11), VS 2.0.0.13.

13 Responses to “HowTo get ColorZilla Eyedropper working on Ubuntu Feisty”

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1 gnioot October 17, 2007 at 8:31 pm

Cool! thanks for the tips!
2 Anony October 24, 2007 at 10:12 pm

Thanks for the fix!

The only problem now is that every time Ubuntu updates firefox it breaks the eydropper part of colorzilla and we have to go follow these steps to fix it again Using Gutsy and FF 2.0.0.8 here, which supposedly will be replaced by 2.0.0.9 next week.
3 jimig October 25, 2007 at 5:39 am

Thanks. Worked flawlessly but you already knew that.
4 Iñaki November 6, 2007 at 10:14 am

After copying those libxpcom files, both Colorzilla and HTML Validator started working, thanks!

I’m using Ubuntu Gutsy with Firefox 2.0.0.8
5 Samm November 26, 2007 at 11:10 pm

Thank you very much This tip is much better then “install firefox from mozilla.org”, provided on colorzilla page.
6 Steven December 13, 2007 at 9:31 pm

Thanks
7 jack December 27, 2007 at 7:25 pm

Didn’t work for me :(.
I downloaden and copied the files from libxpcom* for Firefox ColorZilla (VS von 2.0.0.11) into usr/lib/firefox and after that installed the latest colorzilla. Firefox wouldn’t start. Luckily I copied those files to another folder.

I’m using Ubuntu Studio (Gutsy - 64 bit version)) with the latest Firefox 2.0.0.11.
8 stg January 18, 2008 at 1:57 pm

i can confirm that in 2.0.0.11 this solution does not work for Ubuntu Firefox (Gutsy 32 bit).
9 Kokesh February 5, 2008 at 5:10 pm

For Swiftfox change it to:
sudo cp libxpcom* /usr/lib/swiftfox
10 Bakyt Niyazov February 11, 2008 at 2:06 pm

WOW. Thank you!!! Man! It helped me!

Can you help me with HTML Validator? I can’t get it working (
all necessary libraries are installed official FAQ couldn’t help.

Please …
11 Bakyt Niyazov February 11, 2008 at 2:17 pm

This is a good URL
http://www.imarc.net/communique/view/362/firefox_html_validator_on_ubuntu_gutsy
12 nakolah April 7, 2008 at 9:48 am

Ahh ! Thanks, this is finally working, I can work again !