Less Talk, More Do » Extend Firefox 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 FireFound Shutting Down http://www.chrisfinke.com/2011/08/08/firefound-shutting-down/ http://www.chrisfinke.com/2011/08/08/firefound-shutting-down/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:00:37 +0000 Christopher Finke http://www.chrisfinke.com/?p=2175 FireFound is a Firefox add-on and companion Web service that I wrote for the Extend Firefox 3.5 competition in 2009. It allows users to track their device’s location via Firefox’s then-new geolocation API; additional features include the ability to view a device’s location history on the website and the ability to turn on a “killswitch” that would clear your browsing data (history, saved passwords, etc.) if someone opened your browser and could not provide your chosen password. It was the first add-on of its kind, and it has been well-received.

That being said, FireFound will be shutting down on June 1, 2012. I don’t have the time to keep it compatible with the newest Firefox and Firefox Mobile releases, nor can I keep up with the feature requests and bug reports.

FireFound users who would like to save a copy of their location data can, as always, export their data by logging in and clicking the “Download” button on the “My Data” page. Any users who have pre-paid for a Premium account past June 1 will be given a prorated refund.

For those looking for a suitable replacement, I recommend Prey. It’s an open-source implementation of a similar idea, but it runs at the operating system level rather than inside the browser, so it’s always on.

(If you’re interested in taking over FireFound, e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com. If you’d just like to run your own instance of FireFound, all of the code is open-source.)

]]> http://www.chrisfinke.com/2011/08/08/firefound-shutting-down/feed/ 5 URL Fixer places in Extend Firefox 2 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2008/02/12/url-fixer-places-in-extend-firefox-2/ http://www.chrisfinke.com/2008/02/12/url-fixer-places-in-extend-firefox-2/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:43:15 +0000 Christopher Finke http://www.chrisfinke.com/2008/02/12/url-fixer-places-in-extend-firefox-2/ The Extend Firefox 2 winners were announced today, and while I didn’t win one of the 3 awesome grand prizes, my submission, URL Fixer, rounded out the list of runner-ups (runners-up?).

First place was taken by Minimap Sidebar Extension by Tony Farndon, which intends to make map/traffic management in the browser less painful; I have to admit, it looks very cool. I’ll be installing it as soon as it supports the latest Firefox beta.

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