Category: Browser Add-ons
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Links Like This gets a facelift
Links Like This is a Firefox extension I wrote last year that allows you to automatically open multiple links from a webpage. I released the first version in May of 2007 but never really went back to update or improve it; that’s about to change. During a recent conversation about Links Like This, I realized…
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Stop! Yammer Time
Yammer is a service designed to help co-workers keep each other up-to-date on their work progress by answering the question “What are you working on?” Yammer Time is a Firefox extension that reminds you to use Yammer. By default, every 4 hours between 9AM and 5PM on weekdays, it will pop up this obtrusive prompt:…
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Slashdotter updated to 2.0
I’ve updated the Slashdotter Firefox extension to make it compatible with Slashdot’s latest decision changes. “Hide/Show Replies” is working again, the BSD section has been added to the “Styles” options panel, and most of the code has been rewritten due to the fact that we’re no longer living in a Firefox 1.0 world. Thanks to…
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YouTube Comment Snob updated
YouTube Comment Snob is an extension for the Firefox Web browser that allows you to filter YouTube comments based on spelling, capitalization, and punctuation usage. I’ve updated YouTube Comment Snob to work with YouTube’s latest redesign, as well as to add compatibility for Firefox 3. It’s available for download from the Mozilla Add-ons sandbox until…
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Hey, you got your VC in my XUL!
Fred Wilson is blogging about Firefox extensions today, specifically on the benefits of adding features to the content (the actual webpages) versus adding functionality to the chrome (new toolbars, sidebars, etc.). He uses Mahalo Follow as an example to make the case for in-content data being more valuable than in-chrome, making me feel all warm…
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Very important news for Firefox extension developers
If you’ve written an extension for Firefox and you want it to work correctly in Firefox 3, read this right now. The ID of the navigational toolbox has been changed from “navigator-toolbox” to “browser-toolbox,” and you’ll need to update your code to reflect this change. Basically, if any part of your extension adds a toolbar…
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Mahalo Share Goes to 11
One of the latest things I’ve been working on at Mahalo is Mahalo Share. It’s a utility that automatically posts links that you want to share to 11 different services: del.icio.us, Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, your Tumblr blog, Ma.gnolia, Faves, Pownce, Mahalo, StumbleUpon, and/or Google Bookmarks. All of this cross-posting is done behind the scenes using…
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Facebook Scavenger: Now with vCard support
I’ve updated Facebook Scavenger (a Firefox extension that saves a backup your Facebook friends’ profile data) to add vCard export support. You can download this new version (1.1) from the Facebok Scavenger homepage, and you might want to hurry. A little birdie told me that this handy tool might not be available for too much…
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Take your Facebook data with you
Earlier today, I mentioned that it wouldn’t be out of the question to write a Firefox extension that would grab profile data about your Facebook friends as you view their profiles so that you could take that data to another service. Given that, allow me to introduce Facebook Scavenger. It’s a Firefox extension that saves…
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Facebook Image-to-Email: Back from the grave
A while back I mentioned that Facebook Image-to-Email (a Firefox extension that converts Facebook’s e-mail address images to plain-text) was broken after some unknown change was made by Facebook. I am happy to announce that it is working again, after I re-tooled it with a different method for accessing the image data of those e-mail…
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Facebook Image-to-Email: Broken Again
I am aware that the Facebook Image-to-Email Firefox extension is (once again) broken, and given that version 1.1 installed on Firefox 2.0.0.8 was working, and now version 1.1 installed on Firefox 2.0.0.8 is not working, it has to be due to a change that Facebook made. The problem is that I can’t discern any relevant…
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Facebook Image-to-Email Working Again
I’ve just updated the Facebook Image-to-Email Firefox extension to be compatible with Facebook’s new image generation algorithm. (Facebook Image-to-Email converts e-mail addresses in images to plain text.) This new version should be a little more robust; if it can’t convert the image to text, it appends a small question mark after the image, rather than…
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OPML Support for Firefox updated
I’ve updated the OPML Support for Firefox extension to be compatible with the latest Firefox 3 (Minefield) alphas. The compatibility changes were more than just bumping the maxVersion, since Firefox 3’s bookmark and history architecture has been completely reworked as Places, but the awesome new FUEL project (Firefox User Extension Library) is an incredible asset,…
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Convert Facebook e-mail images to actual e-mail links
The massively popular social network Facebook uses images to display the e-mail addresses of your friends, making it impossible to copy the e-mail address or click on it to send e-mails to your friends, thus making Facebook’s own proprietary in-site messaging system more attractive to its users. Yesterday, Gervase Markham posited that it should be…
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Filter YouTube comments by spelling mistakes
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has noticed that the discussion threads at YouTube typically contain a low percentage of quality comments. Earlier this week, I remarked to a co-worker that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to be able to filter the comments based on the number of spelling mistakes made…
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TubeStop also stops YouTube ads
TubeStop was discontinued on December 25, 2012, and Firefox’s newly-introduced controls for managing auto-playing videos have since made it obsolete. The TubeStop Firefox extension that I wrote in order to stop YouTube videos from auto-playing also has the serendipitous side-effect of removing ads from YouTube videos. Since YouTube is only serving ads through the player…
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Mahalo Follow
Tonight at GnomeDex, Jason introduced Mahalo Follow, Mahalo’s first Firefox extension release, and a project in which I’ve invested a fair amount of effort. Follow includes two components: (1) a Mahalo toolbar (with the requisite links and search box) that also sports a dropdown of the Mahalo directory and buttons that let you say whether…
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Two new Firefox extensions
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. An add-on for CouponCraze.com. I’d have to say that Christian at CouponCraze is the most efficient client I’ve ever worked…