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Posts tagged with 'GreatSummary'

Two new Firefox extensions

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

I've been working on a few Firefox extensions for various third-parties, and two of them got upgrades this week:

  • GreatSummary: A handy webpage summarization tool. Long Wikipedia articles are no match for this bad boy.
  • Coupon Craze - Coupon Notifier: Sits in your status bar and lights up when there are coupon codes for the website you're visiting. (I saved 15% on printer ink with this while I was testing it.) Also, I'd have to say that Christian at CouponCraze.com is the most efficient client I've ever worked with: the time from the initial inquiry about working together to uploading the first version of the extension to Mozilla Addons was less than 48 hours. Verily I say to you, it rocked.

A little help?

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I've been working with GreatSummary.com to create a Firefox extension for their service (a webpage summarizer), and yesterday, we submitted the first version of the extension to addons.mozilla.org. With the way that the new AMO site is configured, all new addons are initially placed in the "sandbox," where they must be peer-reviewed before being eligibile for editor review, which grants public availability. To view sandboxed addons, users must be logged in and have the sandbox enabled in their preferences (it's disabled by default).

Because it is highly unlikely that someone will stumble across the GreatSummary extension while it is sandboxed, I'd appreciate it if anyone who has an AMO account could take 5 minutes to download the GreatSummary extension and give it a quick review. Reviews don't need to be long - just a few sentences describing how the addon worked for you.

GreatSummary Firefox extensions

It's a simple addon - it adds a "Summarize this page" menu option to the Tools menu and the page's context menu; clicking that option opens a new tab with the summary of the current page. I've found that it works the best on pages with lots of text, like in-depth Wikipedia articles.