Category Archives: Browser Add-ons
Feed Sidebar 4.0 Released
Beware! There's a Feed Sidebar running wild!
TwitterBar 2.4, Now With 2% Longer Tweets
is.gd, yes?
Feed Suggester for Feed Sidebar?
Would anyone besides me use this?
Abandoning Yammer Time
a.k.a. Quitting Time
Feed Sidebar 3.2 Beta 3: A Gentler Feed Updater
I’ve been working on decreasing the CPU consumption of my Feed Sidebar Firefox extension; one of its main problems is that when it’s time to update the feeds, Firefox can grind to a halt while the Sidebar starts to make tens or hundreds of HTTP requests. A solution I’ve settled on allows the sidebar to [...]
TwitterBar updated with OAuth, shorter URLs
Everyone’s favorite tool for posting to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (TwitterBar) has been updated to version 2.0. Changes in this version include: URL shortening Long URLs are now shortened by http://is.gd/ before being sent to Twitter. is.gd offers the shortest URLs around, so you have more room in your tweet for your words. [...]
TubeStop for Google Chrome
When Google released a document today showing the design process for Google Chrome extensions, I thought it would be fitting to have one of the first third-party extensions for Chrome address a major shortcoming of one of Google’s other products. With that thought, I give you: Install TubeStop for Google Chrome What is TubeStop? It’s [...]
Feed Sidebar 3.2 Beta Update
I’ve published an update to the beta of Feed Sidebar that I talked about here: Sort Your Feeds in Feed Sidebar. In this version (3.2pre2), I’ve made the following changes: Enhanced the sorting mechanisms so that updates occur more seamlessly. Added some accessibility fixes, courtesy of Marco Zehe. Fixed some security holes related to JavaScript [...]