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Occasionally when developing add-ons for Firefox, you want your JavaScript to only run once for the lifetime of the application. Normally, you would place your code in a browser overlay, but this causes the code to run every time a new window is opened. There are several ways to get around this. You could write [...]
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January 19th 2010
For the latest version of KwiClick we introduced a feature called search clovers. When you highlight a word on a page, a single diamond shaped “clover” appears. When you hover over the diamond, 3 more diamonds appear creating a 4 leaf clover configuration. To create these diamonds we use two html tags, an img surrounded [...]
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December 8th 2009
KwiClick 2.4.1 was released on AMO this week. This is a pretty large update from the last AMO release so make sure to check it out. Here is a list of what is new in this release: New Search Clovers for selection based searching functionality Updated Bing provider Updated compatibility for ff 3.6betas Improve sqlite [...]
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November 29th 2009
Since I upgraded my laptop to Snow Leopard, I’ve been trying to setup my development environment so that I can compile idl files. I need to do this for one of the Firefox extension I work on. I’ve been able to put this off for a while since my interfaces haven’t changed in a while. [...]
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October 27th 2009
Sometimes when developing Firefox extensions, you need to store information on a per tab basis. I’ve developed some reusable code for doing this. As an added bonus the information is stored using the session store api so it will be restored when a tab is restored. It also listens to the private browsing notifications and [...]
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July 21st 2009
I’ve been working with JavaScript for a long time on web pages and Firefox extensions. From time to time I run into instance where I want to keep an object around for a while in case I need it later. At the same time I don’t want to bloat memory usage by holding reference that [...]
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July 15th 2009
Flock has put up a rather complimentary blog post today about the Netscape Navigator Team. With the decision to cease ongoing support of the Netscape browser, we are honored to have the support and endorsement of AOL and Netscape, who have introduced Flock to millions of loyal Netscape users as AOL sunsets ongoing support for [...]
Filed under Work Posted on April 2nd 2008
Lilmatt posted recently about Making good on a promise. zbraniecki followed up with a post on not-invented-here syndrome. I just wanted to comment. Since we are ending support of Netscape Navigator, we have been working on migrating users. We’ve been working with both Mozilla and Flock in migrating our users to their products. Even with [...]
Filed under Work Posted on January 29th 2008
Real life has interfered with my extension development lately. I just haven’t had a chance to work on much of it. We do have a beta version of Forecastfox 0.9.5 that we are still working on, and I have started new versions of Location Navigator and Flickr Sidebar. Hopefully, I can find some time soon [...]
Filed under Work Posted on December 7th 2006
I’ve started work on my next version of Location Navigator. Some things to look for in this next release: I’ve added prefetching for up/down navigation. Improved the way navigation operations are stored in the back-end. Made prefetch, history, and valid checking asynchronous operations. Integrated into the new Session Store API. Integrated into the tab events [...]
Filed under Work Posted on October 2nd 2006