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

Category: Links Like This

  • My Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons

    Mozilla announced today that add-ons that depend on XUL, XPCOM, or XBL will be deprecated and subsequently incompatible with future versions of Firefox: Consequently, we have decided to deprecate add-ons that depend on XUL, XPCOM, and XBL. We don’t have a specific timeline for deprecation, but most likely it will take place within 12 to…

  • Interpr.it now speaks Mozillian

    I think the locale code for that is mo-FX.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

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