Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: AutoAuth

  • My Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons

    Mozilla announced today that add-ons that depend on XUL, XPCOM, or XBL will be deprecated and subsequently incompatible with future versions of Firefox: Consequently, we have decided to deprecate add-ons that depend on XUL, XPCOM, and XBL. We don’t have a specific timeline for deprecation, but most likely it will take place within 12 to…

  • Interpr.it now speaks Mozillian

    I think the locale code for that is mo-FX.

  • Four More Fennec Add-ons

    Update: TwitterBar was sold to HootSuite and renamed HootBar in March of 2011. TwitterBar for Chrome was discontinued in October of 2012. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four…

  • Translation Tuesday

    There are a number of extension updates available today simply due to new translations: AutoAuth 1.1.1 French (fr-FR) Dutch (nl-NL) Spanish (es-ES) Japanese (ja-JP) Portuguese (pt-PT) Feed Sidebar 1.1.1 German (de-DE) French (fr-FR) Dutch (nl-NL) Italian (it-IT) Japanese (ja-JP) Russian (ru-RU) RSS Ticker 1.9.1 French (fr-FR) The updates can be downloaded from each add-on’s respective…

  • AutoAuth updated with suggestion feature

    I’ve updated the AutoAuth Firefox extension with a “suggestion” feature: if no username/password is saved for a site, AutoAuth will supply a menu of other usernames that you’ve saved for the site’s other subdomains, along with an “Autofill” button to quickly use one of those suggestions to authenticate for the new subdomain. For example, if…

  • Extension Updates: Feed Sidebar and AutoAuth

    I’ve pushed out updates to two of my Firefox extensions: AutoAuth and Feed Sidebar (formerly Feedbar). AutoAuth 1.0.1 includes a fix for a bug that was causing about:config dialogs for modifying values to close as soon as they were opened. Feed Sidebar 1.0.1 brings the extension out of alpha, and it includes several new locales,…

  • New browser extension: AutoAuth

    AutoAuth is an extension for Mozilla-based Web browsers that automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login information. (If you’ve already told the browser what your username and password are, and you’ve told it to remember that username and password, why not just have it automatically submit it…

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