Or ask someone who knows about the snippet service (eg. Access is limited to Mozilla employees, so file a bug This resource is highly protected, since it serves up content to all Getting access to the production snippet service Then, follow the Manual Update instructions above to preview your snippet. If you've lost the original value of ``````, reset it to: The plugin works by modifying the aboutHomeSnippets.updateUrl preference and updating localstorage variables accordingly. The snippets switcher plugin code is available here: The Snippet Switcher is currently broken, do not use it! If you do, it may wipe out `````` and you'll have to reset it using the Recovery url below. If testing on Firefox = 22.0 enter gSnippetsMap.clear().Open the Web Developer > Web Console (ctrl+shift+k).After saving the value, restart the browser.If you only want to retrieve a specific snippet, replace %NAME% (including the %s!) with the appropriate value.There are two ways to accomplish this: manually and using the snippets switcher plugin. you'll need to tell Firefox to use these sources instead of the regular snippet service. ) or a privateĭevelopment instance of the server (ie. Testing Snippets with Local or Stage Serviceįor testing against staging (ie. See bug 592431 for historical context on this service. Second and current version of the service.If you'd like to contribute or just run an instance, get the source from here: If no content is available, the browser has a built-in default set of snippets If content isĪvailable, it gets is stashed in localstorage for the page and displayed from

By default, it fetchesĬontent from the production snippets service once every 24 hours. The reason for this is that this service can be potentially hit by every Firefox user, so both the server and client sides are built to minimize the pressure on Mozilla resources.Ībout:home is a page built into Firefox 4 and above. So, in the worst case, it's possible for those two time periods to stack up to a 2-day delay in content delivery. and Zeus caches content from the service for 24 hours.2.1.1 Considerations for external media used in snippetsĪ special note here: Although we can create and edit snippets in the service at any time, it may take up to 48 hours for changes in production to be reflected in browsers.1.5 Getting access to the production snippet service.1.4 Testing Snippets with Local or Stage Service.

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