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Workspace 0.5.3 + Bookmarks Deiconizer Approved

robcee — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:18:51 +0000

One gotcha: If you’re running Firefox Beta 11 or under, you might want to wait for Beta 12 to come out before upgrading (which should be tagged for building today or tomorrow). If you’re on a nightly, you’ll want to upgrade right away.

The reason for the fix is a change to the PropertyPanel which landed this week in mozilla-central made it impossible to close an object inspector panel opened from a Workspace.

Also, a newer version of the Bookmarks Deiconizer Add-on has been approved and released that fixes the problem of icons being “re-iconized” when opening the bookmarks editor panel (star panel). It also now restores your bookmark toolbar’s icons on uninstall.

Workspace 0.4.4

robcee — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:14:15 +0000

Just a quick note to let people know that I’ve updated the Workspace extension recently. Added support for saving and loading files as well as a hotkey (F4) to open it from the browser.

Many thanks to Erik Vold for some nice fixes and improvements!

Install it here: http://antennasoft.net/addons/workspace.xpi.

Mozilla AllHands 2010 + Wikifytabs update

robcee — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:06:10 +0000

Every year we bring in Mozillians from around the globe to have a focused get-together. It’s a time when we can do some heavy planning, and brainstorm in one place. Often, some of the hallway conversations and parties generate good ideas.

One conversation I had last night with Dietrich, Dolske and Mak was, how do we get new contributors up to speed on how to hack Firefox? We’ve already got a ton of excellent documentation on MDN for first-timers and seasoned veterans, but what most people really need is MXR and HG.

Setup some keyword searches:

Go to http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/.
Right click on the Search For: field and select “Add a keyword for this search”.
Name it “mxr search” and give it the keyword “mxr”.
Repeat the process for the File Path field, and give it the keyword “mx”

Now when you want to look up a reference or definition, type “mxr {search-term}” and it’ll return your search results. If you want to search for a file, say, browser.js, type “mx browser.js” and you’ll see the results. (Hint, the one you want is at the bottom of the page)

Got any other suggestions or hacks? Add ‘em in the comments!

An Extension

A couple of years ago, I wrote an extension to take a list of tabs in a window and generate a page with some easily copyable links in it. I neglected the extension and let it moulder until a triage meeting the other day and wanted to get a hunk of bug links out of my browser.

Well moulder no more!

I bring you a reinvigorated WikifyTabs with support for Wiki links, BBCode and HTML. Check it out, browse the source, make some improvements!

extensions.checkCompatibility.version

robcee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:20:30 +0000

I was surprised this morning when I did my update to today’s newest nightly of Namoroka and all of my extensions were disabled. I was extra-surprised when I tried enabling my extensions with Nightly Tester Tools and it didn’t work. Turns out that Mossop’s been busy implementing a patch for bug 521905.

Now for version 3.6b3 and above, you’ll have to set a per-application version in about:config that looks like this:

extensions.checkCompatibility.3.6b = false

See Mossop’s post on the topic for the deep story.

New Firediff Alpha

robcee — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:26:27 +0000

Kevin Decker has posted a new version of the Firediff extension for Firebug which he’s calling “a major milestone”. While still not producing unified patches you can apply directly to your source code, it does create a “serialized version of the page state” you can then manually apply.

Firediff Snapshot + Diff Generation – In Case of Stairs

It’s still Alpha software, but it’s definitely getting there.

Copy Bookmarklet

robcee — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:04:06 +0000

I found a cool little feature this morning while poking around in Firebug’s command line code. If you expand the Console’s command line to the large area (using the little up arrow on the right of the command line), you can enter a block of text, nicely formatted. This is probably not news to anyone. Though if you click the little “Copy” button at the bottom of the large command line panel, it trims out the newlines and prepends “javascript: ” on the front of the line, producing text that looks like this:

javascript:var s = document.getSelection(); if (s) { window.open(s); } else { alert(“No selection”); } void(0);

From this:

(Firefox adds %20 for each of the spaces when you save it as a bookmarklet)

The above snippet grabs the currently selected text in a web-page and opens it in a new window. Add it to a bookmarklet of your own on your toolbar and you have a convenient way to open new text in a separate tab. For bonus points, install the keyconfig extension to create a keyboard shortcut (you’ll need to force-install the extension and write a little function to get that to work). Thanks to Neil Lee for the keyconfig tip!

FireDiff extension for Firebug

robcee — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:16:18 +0000

Kevin Decker’s FireDiff extension for Firebug is 0.1 old! It’s still new, but could be the beginning of a one-stop-shop for getting diffs for changes to locally-modified DOM and CSS from Firebug.

You can grab it from the above link or browse the source code in Firebug’s svn repository. You will need Firebug 1.4a17 or higher.

Add-ons I can’t roll without

robcee — Mon, 26 May 2008 09:20:15 +0000

Deb posted an excellent run-down the other day about 20 top-notch add-ons ready for Firefox 3. I thought I’d do a quick write-up about a few of the add-ons I find invaluable too (and more-or-less ready for Firefox 3.0). Note that there may be some overlap here and that some of these add-ons are considered to be “beta” versions and come with all the warranties that term implies. Without further a-do, I present the add-ons!

Scribefire

This post is written in it. Over the past few weeks I’ve been using this blogging extension more and more often. It’s been getting updated frequently as Firefox has shuffled through the beta cycle and feels ready to go now that they’re up to version 2.2.5. It also includes a number of other useful features including some features like the award-winning Share-o-holic for posting pages to Digg, Reddit and Magnolia, to name a few. The best part of Scribefire is that it keeps my blogging right in my webbrowser. This feels right to me.

Twitterfox

My favorite way to twitter (when twitter is working)*.

Delicious

At long last, the del.icio.us add-on has been released for Firefox 3. It’s still in beta, but I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks now and feel that it’s an integral part of my browser.

eBay Companion

Hardcore eBay addicts will appreciate this. It lets you keep an eye on your watched items and provides a little extra security when logging into an eBay or Paypal site. It has helped me acquire many tiki mugs this weekend at some expense. I considered that “doing my part for Firefox 3″.

Lastly, I’ll mention a few quickies that I really like. It’s time for…

Robcee’s Add-ons Honor Roll!

Fission – progress bar in the title bar. Safari-style.
QuickRestart – restart your browser. Quickly!.
CustomizeGoogle – modify how you work with Google. Force https connections for mail, etc.
Adblock Plus – ads were 10 years ago.

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