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

Category: Browser Add-ons

  • ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) Updated

    Version 1.4 of Performancing for Firefox has been released, and in the process, it has been rebranded as ScribeFire. The homepage has moved as well, from Performancing.com to ScribeFire.com. Besides the name change, this release includes the following changes: Support for Blogger blogs has been improved (now you can even post with ampersands!) We’ve added…

  • Firefox 3 to include URL Fixer?

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I just found out that Mozilla is considering including the functionality of my URL Fixer extension as part of the base Firefox 3 install. A great idea (if I do say so myself); however, they won’t be the first browser to do so.

  • Sorry, Austria

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.3.1; new features since 1.3 are a Czech translation and a fix so that it no longer tries to correct www.orf.at (a popular Austrian news site) to www.org.at (not a popular Austrian news site). You can install or…

  • ScribeFire Development

    FYI: I’ve been hired to continue the development of the Performancing for Firefox extension (soon to be rebranded as ScribeFire), so I’ll be posting about its progress occasionally.

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week III

    This week at the Netscape blog, I wrote about the allowances we’ve made in Netscape 9 for installing extensions targeted at Firefox 2: “Since Netscape 9 will share an architecture with Firefox 2, it is very likely that most Firefox 2 extensions will work in Netscape 9 without modification. This is why Netscape 9 will…

  • Looking Foxy

    My “Firefox 2 Addons Team” t-shirt finally arrived in the mail! I’ll have to look into getting AOL to spring for shirts that say “I worked on Netscape 9 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a great browsing experience.”

  • Shortcuts are people too

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ While I was reading over the comments at Lifehacker’s post on URL Fixer, I came across this critique: […] I’ve run into one little problem with this sucker. I avoid bookmarks like the plague and, instead, create keywords to jump to sites by typing…

  • Hackers and Downloaders

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Welcome, readers of Lifehacker and Download Squad. I hope you find URL Fixer as useful as I do. Feel free to check out my other extension and software projects, and if you find any of it interesting, go ahead and subscribe to my feed.…

  • URL Fixer gets a little British flavour

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ URL Fixer will now correct “.ku” to “.uk”, but I’ve made no decision on colour, metre, or encyclopaedia. Cheerio!

  • Update to URL Fixer (1.2.12)

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.2.12. In addition to including a Catalan translation, there are two main changes to the correction algorithm: 1. “;//” will now be corrected to “://” (http;// => http://). 2. All commas and other semicolons will be changed to…

  • Minor update to URL Fixer

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated URL Fixer to version 1.2.11. A bug was causing the Chinese translation to be displayed for English-speaking users, so if you were seeing “?? (R)” or Chinese characters instead of “Confirm corrections” in the context menu for the URL bar, go ahead…

  • Sorry, Missouri

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve updated the URL Fixer extension for Firefox; it was inadvertantly “fixing” all .mo.us addresses to .com.us. The latest version is 1.2.10.

  • NSFW Detector

    Problem: You work in an office. You may occasionally browse non-work websites. These websites may occasionally link to pages that may be Not Safe For Work (NSFW). Proposal: If websites indicated somehow that links (and the link text) were NSFW, your browser could screen them out or tone them down to avoid embarrassing you or…

  • Slashdotter Updated: 1.8.9

    I’ve updated Slashdotter to accommodate the changes that Slashdot made to their HTML. Thanks to all who brought bugs to my attention.

  • An early Christmas present for Digg

    Merry Christmas, Kevin Rose!

  • GoogleTabs Updated

    I’ve updated GoogleTabs to work with the changes Google made to the HTML on several of their search results pages. You can get the updated version (2.3) at my personal site for now, and it will be updated on Mozilla Addons sometime soon.

  • Keyword export added to OPML Support

    I’ve updated OPML Support to include keywords in the exported file so that if you import back into Firefox, your shortcut URLs should be intact. Grab the new version (1.2.1) at either Mozilla Addons or my personal site.

  • RSS Ticker Updated

    If you were running RSS Ticker 1.8.9 with Firefox 2.0 RC3 and some of your Atom feeds weren’t being displayed, this update is for you.

  • URL Fixer 1.2.7

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ URL Fixer 1.2.6 contained a bug that may have caused an “Error in chrome registration” error for some users. This has been fixed, and you can download URL Fixer 1.2.7 at my main site. The new version should be available at Mozilla Addons shortly.

  • Extension Updates

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I’ve just updated all of my extensions to be compatible with Firefox 2.0. They’re all available for download at my site, and they’ll all eventually be available at Mozilla Addons as well. No new features for these updates, just compatibility fixes.

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