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

Category: Mozilla Firefox

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Pownce has a big security problem

    Kevin Rose’s latest project, Pownce, has a glaring security problem on its front page. The JavaScript that Pownce uses in its login form can reveal your password in plain text on the screen. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem in Firefox: Login to Pownce via http://www.pownce.com/. Allow Firefox to save your login information…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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