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

Category: URL Fixer

  • URL Fixer Has Been Acquired

    They made me an offer I didn’t refuse.

  • What do people type in the address bar?

    An analysis of 7.5MM location bar inputs.

  • My experience with developing a freemium browser add-on

    In which I discover that selling something that used to be free is hard.

  • URL Fixer now compatible with Fennec (Mobile Firefox)

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Fennec is the codename for Mozilla’s work-in-progress mobile browser for phones and smaller computing devices, and since it supports extensions just like Firefox, I’ve started adding Fennec compatibility to the extensions I’ve written (when it makes sense). URL Fixer version 1.5 is fully Fennec-compatible.…

  • URL Fixer places in Extend Firefox 2

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ The Extend Firefox 2 winners were announced today, and while I didn’t win one of the 3 awesome grand prizes, my submission, URL Fixer, rounded out the list of runner-ups (runners-up?). First place was taken by Minimap Sidebar Extension by Tony Farndon, which intends…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Netscape 9 Teasers: Week IV

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ I just posted this week’s Netscape 9 update at the Netscape blog: Netscape 9 Saves You Time: “Netscape 9 will be the first major browser to automatically correct common typos entered in the location bar. The browser will watch for nearly 30 different types…

  • Social Traffic Statistics

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Until URL Fixer got Dugg last week, I hadn’t had a good real-life example for my Social Traffic Monitor WordPress plugin. What follows is an analysis of the traffic my blog received from social news and bookmarking sites late last week, as recorded by…

  • Social Traffic Monitor 1.2

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ After giving it a workout this week with all the visitors to my blog from Digg and StumbleUpon, I’ve made some changes to the Social Traffic Monitor plugin for WordPress, and I’m releasing version 1.2. Since version 1.1, I’ve added StumbleUpon as a social…

  • Sign of success

    Update: URL Fixer was acquired and is now hosted at http://urlfixer.org/ Just got this automated e-mail: The domain chrisfinke.com has reached 90% of its bandwidth limit for January. Please contact the system admin as soon as possible. Thanks a lot, Digg! I better lay low for a while… :-)

  • 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.

  • 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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