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

Category: YouTube Comment Snob

  • 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…

  • Announcing Typo.js: Client-side JavaScript Spellchecking

    In which I spend lots of time on something that will eventually be made obsolete by a Chrome extension API.

  • YouTube Comment Snob is now Comment Snob

    In which I write a Brita filter for the Web.

  • YouTube Comment Snob in the news

    YouTube Comment Snob got some press from the BBC.

  • Four More Fennec Add-ons

    Update: TwitterBar was sold to HootSuite and renamed HootBar in March of 2011. TwitterBar for Chrome was discontinued in October of 2012. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four…

  • YouTube Comment Snob updated

    YouTube Comment Snob is an extension for the Firefox Web browser that allows you to filter YouTube comments based on spelling, capitalization, and punctuation usage. I’ve updated YouTube Comment Snob to work with YouTube’s latest redesign, as well as to add compatibility for Firefox 3. It’s available for download from the Mozilla Add-ons sandbox until…

  • Filter YouTube comments by spelling mistakes

    I’m sure that I’m not the only one who has noticed that the discussion threads at YouTube typically contain a low percentage of quality comments. Earlier this week, I remarked to a co-worker that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to be able to filter the comments based on the number of spelling mistakes made…

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