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I thought I would give a quick run down of what Firefox extensions I’ve created, work on, and are currently maintaining. Just so you have an idea of what I work on, what I have worked on, and what I’ve abandoned. Forecastfox Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or [...]
Filed under Work Posted on March 14th 2006
I’ve released a new extension for Firefox. It’s called Flickr Sidebar, and it works with Firefox version 1.5 through 1.6a1. You can get it here. Below is a short description: This Flickr sidebar is used for viewing and searching photo lists. You can access it by the command key Ctrl+Shift+F, the toolbar button, or clicking [...]
Filed under Work Posted on January 2nd 2006
As an extension author, you like to see your extension get used by the widest audience possible. To do this, sometimes you have to pimp your extension out to several places so that it can get exposure. This brings up several questions. How much is too much? Where should I post about my extension? How [...]
Filed under Work Posted on November 1st 2005
Location Navigator 0.6 was release on October 14th. You can get it from update.mozilla.org New to this version: Added automatic selection guessing. Added mode to automatically accept guessed selection. Control key reverses automatic mode. Tooltips are now cropped in the middle. Bumped max version to 1.6
Filed under Work Posted on October 31st 2005
I’ve created a new version of Location Navigator for the Deer Park release of Firefox. You can get it here. Here is what has changed: This version has been greatly reworked. For the user, you can now select the portion of the location that varies, and how you want to increment that portion. The command [...]
Filed under Work Posted on July 26th 2005
Has anyone else been having issues with addons.mozilla.org lately. We’ve asked for version 0.5.9 of ForecastFox to be added to u.m.o on December 22, and It’s still not been updated. I’ve also have version 0.3 of Location navigator that was requested to be added on January 7, and its not been updated either.
Filed under Work Posted on January 17th 2005
I haven’t posted for a while so I thought I would throw this out. Work is continuing on ForecastFox, we are working on a 0.7 release. There will be lots of changes in this release: including redesigned dialogs and Mozilla Suite support. I’m getting ready to release a new version of Location Navigator as well. [...]
Filed under Work Posted on January 3rd 2005
New version of forecastfox has been released. You can get it at getforecastfox.com
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December 7th 2004
In the 5 days since WeatherFox has been released, we have had over 17,000 downloads. That’s pretty impressive. Especially when you consider Location Navigator, my other extension I’ve released to update.mozilla.org, has only had 3,900 since September 23rd. It really gives you an idea of just how popular an extension is. I’m currently working on [...]
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October 4th 2004
Location Navigator 0.2.2 has been released also. Try it out
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September 30th 2004