Less Talk, More Do » AutoAuth http://www.chrisfinke.com Christopher Finke is a software engineer who builds high-traffic websites (like AOL Shopping and Mahalo.com) and develops browser add-ons (like ScribeFire, TwitterBar, FireFound, and Tapsure) to enhance the Web. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:34:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Four More Fennec Add-ons http://www.chrisfinke.com/2008/11/06/four-more-fennec-add-ons/ http://www.chrisfinke.com/2008/11/06/four-more-fennec-add-ons/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:49:34 +0000 Christopher Finke http://www.chrisfinke.com/?p=1015 Picture of a Fennec fox.
This is a Fennec fox.

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 more add-ons:

So far, I’ve found it pretty easy to port add-ons to Fennec, with the following caveats:

  • You can’t install add-ons in Fennec by opening them from your computer; I wrote a script to copy the add-on directly into the Fennec profile, much like an add-on IV drip – straight into the bloodstream!
  • There’s no easy access to the error console , but you can open it manually if you grab the address from Firefox.
  • No DOM Inspector. For now, just browse the source.

It seems that all of these issues could be solved with a “Fennec Add-on Development” extension; maybe that will be my next project, unless easier solutions already exist.

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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 homepage or via your browser’s auto-update feature for extensions. Thank you to the translators at BabelZilla for all their hard work.

]]> http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/07/17/translation-tuesday/feed/ 2 AutoAuth updated with suggestion feature http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/07/11/autoauth-updated-with-suggestion-feature/ http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/07/11/autoauth-updated-with-suggestion-feature/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:02:38 +0000 Christopher Finke http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/07/11/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.

AutoAuth Firefox extension

For example, if you are trying to access foo.bar.example.com and there is no username and password saved for it, AutoAuth will give you a list of usernames that you’ve saved for example.com and *.example.com (including *.*.example.com). Just select the username that you want to use for foo.bar.example.com and press hte “Autofill” button to fill in the form and submit it.

The newest version of AutoAuth can be installed from the AutoAuth homepage.

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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, a spiffy new toolbar, and general bug fixes.

Both extensions can be downloaded from their homepages (AutoAuth, Feed Sidebar), and AutoAuth can be downloaded from Mozilla Addons as well.

]]> http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/05/11/extension-updates-feed-sidebar-and-autoauth/feed/ 1 New browser extension: AutoAuth http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/05/08/new-browser-extension-autoauth/ http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/05/08/new-browser-extension-autoauth/#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 21:52:19 +0000 Christopher Finke http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/05/08/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 instead of asking you each time?)

The extension is pretty simple right now (very simple, actually), but I think it has the potential to become a very useful base for enhancing the HTTP authentication process in the browser. For example, a future feature might add the ability to specify login credentials for wildcard subdomains, so that once you’ve entered a password for foo.com, you don’t have to manually re-enter that password for a.foo.com, b.foo.com, c.foo.com, if they all take the same username/password pair. Just tell AutoAuth the username and password to use for *.foo.com, and let it do the work.

You can install AutoAuth from the AutoAuth homepage. (AutoAuth is compatible with Firefox 1.5 and 2, Netscape Navigator 9, and Flock.)

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