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

Category: Browser Add-ons

  • ScribeFire 1.4.1 Released

    ScribeFire 1.4.1 has been released. See the ScribeFire blog for details on what changes have been made, or download it from Mozilla Addons.

  • 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…

  • ScribeFire Updates

    Some updates on the ScribeFire project that I’m part of: There’s a new website up at ScribeFire.com – a WordPress blog with a clean, writing-themed template A Support Forum has been launched for ScribeFire help and discussion. We’re on the verge of releasing our next version – it will be mostly small fixes and preparations…

  • 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…

  • A little help?

    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…

  • New Feed Sidebar feature: Age Limit

    What is the Feed Sidebar? It is an extension for the Firefox Web browser that displays all of the unread items from your news feeds (also known as Live Bookmarks) in the sidebar for easy management. One of the most frequent feature requests I get for the Feed Sidebar Firefox extension is the ability to…

  • TubeStop updated

    TubeStop was discontinued on December 25, 2012, and Firefox’s newly-introduced controls for managing auto-playing videos have since made it obsolete. I’ve updated the TubeStop Firefox extension to work with YouTube videos that have embedding disabled (like this one of Ben Folds covering Elton John). Since TubeStop replaces the auto-playing video with the non-auto-playing embeddable version,…

  • Links Like This gets some polish

    I’ve updated the Links Like This Firefox extension with the following features: Links Like This is an extension for the Firefox Web browser that allows you to open many links in a page simply by right-clicking on one link and selecting the “Open Links Like This…” option. It will use the link you clicked on…

  • TubeStop extended to non-YouTube sites

    TubeStop was discontinued on December 25, 2012, and Firefox’s newly-introduced controls for managing auto-playing videos have since made it obsolete. TubeStop was mentioned today on the the Global Geek Podcast, and the main drawback discussed was that it doesn’t disable the autoplay on YouTube videos embedded on other sites. I’ve added this feature and subsequently…

  • Building a better multi-link opener

    After giving up on GoogleTabs, I was thinking about how there is no acceptable (by my standards, anyway) Firefox extension for opening multiple links. Linky is too general, just opening large swaths of links, and Snap Links requires you to physically indicate every link that you want opened. An ideal extension should know the links…

  • Decommissioning GoogleTabs

    I’ve decided to retire GoogleTabs, one of the very first extensions I ever wrote. GoogleTabs adds a context-menu option to open all of the Google search results on the current page in tabs. I made this decision for several reasons: I don’t have time to keep up with Google. Every time they change the HTML…

  • 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…

  • Extending JavaScript

    There are a lot of common programming algorithms that are built into various languages as functions: checking if an array contains a certain item, trimming a string, mapping a function to an array, etc. JavaScript doesn’t have a lot of these built-ins, but with prototypical inheritance, it’s easy enough to add them. I’m thinking it…

  • RSS Ticker (finally) updated to 1.9

    I’ve finally gotten around to updating RSS Ticker. Among other things like new locales and code optimization, this version includes a rewrite of the options dialog and its related code, so any reported bugs related to the Options dialog should be fixed now. This includes the known incompatibility with the All-in-One Sidebar extension. You can…

  • Announcing Feedbar (Firefox extension)

    About a year ago, I wrote my first RSS-related Firefox extension, RSS Ticker. It was intended to be used for getting instant notifications from a small number of feeds. As the number of feeds I follow has grown, I’ve found the ticker interface inadequate and frustrating, so I’ve been working on a new RSS extension…

  • OPML Support Updated (1.3)

    I’ve released version 1.3 of OPML Support for Firefox. What is OPML Support for Firefox? OPML Support is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that adds OPML import/export functionality to the Firefox Bookmarks manager. OPML is a file type that is widely used to distribute lists of RSS/newsfeeds. This version includes full support…

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week X

    This week’s browser teaser is a big one: we’ve released Netscape 9’s theme (Netstripe) as an add-on for Firefox. “Netstripe is compatible with Firefox 2.0 through Firefox 2.0.0.*. To install the theme, you can either download it from Mozilla Addons or just complete the following steps: 1. If you are running Firefox on Windows, install…

  • ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 Released

    ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 is now available for download from Mozilla Addons. Changes since version 1.4 include: Spanish translation Support for special characters in Blogger passwords (as mentioned here) Added detailed error messages for when adding a Blogger account fails (ScribeFire, previously named “Performancing for Firefox,” is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and…

  • New Mozilla Addons site is was live

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ After a series of delays, the new Mozilla Addons site (codenamed Remora) went live late last night. Changes to the site include redesigned visual aspects, localization, and an overhauled discussion/comment system, but probably the biggest change you’ll notice is that new extensions do not…

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