Ναι, είναι γεγονός, αξιώθηκα και ενημέρωσα
το firefox extension που είχα φτιάξει πριν
πολλά χρόνια για το myphone.gr!

Η νέα έκδοση έχει εγκριθεί από τη mozilla και είναι
διαθέσιμη στο official add-ons site (click)!

Εάν για κάποιο λόγο θέλετε να κατεβάσετε το
extension από το site μου, πατήστε εδώ.

Ελπίζω να σας βολέψει

UPDATE 2: The mozilla reviewers asked me to remove the popup greeting dialog,
so I replaced it with a web page that loads in a new tab.
This resulted in version 4.0.2. Current 4.0.x users don’t need to update.

Original post:
I finally found some time and updated my Clear Fields firefox extension to version 4.0.2.

Included in this version you’ll find:
- Support for Firefox 4.0 (yay!)
- New in-field clear buttons for the Address, Search and Find fields.
You can disable them from the Tools menu if you don’t like them.

The new version is approved and available at addons.mozilla.org.

If you have any issues with the extension please let me now in the comments or at wired@linuxized.com.
Make sure you include a list of other extensions you’re using, a screenshot of the issue and/or any errors reported in Tools -> Error Console.

Sorry for making you guys wait, enjoy

uzbl has a simple but nice formfiller script that automatically fills forms for you.

if you’ve been using firefox’s password manager, you probably have a large list of user details you’d probably like to use in uzbl too. migrating the data is actually simpler than you think.

first, install the Password Exporter add-on in your firefox.

then go to edit->preferences->security->import/export passwords, click export passwords (do NOT check the checkbox), select csv in the bottom right select box and save the file in your ${HOME}.

you should now have a file called password-export-`date +%Y-%m-%d` (current date ) in your ~ folder.

now open a terminal and run the following:

cat ~/password-export-`date +%Y-%m-%d` | grep "^\"http" | while read i; do S=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f2`; S="${S/http:\/\/}"; S="${S/https:\/\/}"; U=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f4`; P=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f6`; UF=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f12`; PF=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f14`; echo $UF: $U | sed "s/\@/\\\@/g" > ~/.local/share/uzbl/forms/$S; echo $PF: $P | sed "s/\@/\\\@/g" >> ~/.local/share/uzbl/forms/$S; done

note that the above command will overwrite any existing domains.
the command below are slightly modified to only add non-existing domains:

cat ~/password-export-`date +%Y-%m-%d` | grep "^\"http" | while read i; do S=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f2`; S="${S/http:\/\/}"; S="${S/https:\/\/}"; U=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f4`; P=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f6`; UF=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f12`; PF=`echo $i | cut -d"\"" -f14`; echo $UF: $U | sed "s/\@/\\\@/g" >> ~/.local/share/uzbl/forms/$S; [[ ! -f ~/.local/share/uzbl/forms/$S ]] && echo $PF: $P | sed "s/\@/\\\@/g" >> ~/.local/share/uzbl/forms/$S; done

that’s it! you should have a file per domain with the necessary info in ~/.local/share/uzbl/forms

ls ~/.local/share/uzbl/forms/

open a uzbl instance, visit a site with a form and press zl [default binding] to tell formfiller to fill in the form for you

if you don’t feel like waiting, click the following link to download it then drag the downloaded file in your firefox window:

clearfields 3.0.2 with support for firefox 3.5

A lot of updates are still pending for my extension… I really need to find some time to implement them. Thanks to anyone who “reminded” me I had to update this

Clear Fields in Mozilla Addons (up-to-date \o/)

As you probably know, firefox keeps track of everything you visit while you browse the web infinity, then allows you to quick-search that history just by typing in its awesome bar –err, address bar

Unfortunately, after a while the whole thing slows down and gets a bit annoying. So what Comzeradd tried was to move ~/.mozilla (which includes the history database) on a tmpfs mount.

The difference is staggering! Searches are snappy again and even firefox itself feels faster!

Comzeradd offers a script that syncs your tmpfs ~/.mozilla with a folder on your hdd to make sure you won’t lose your data on reboot/shutdown/powerfail.

I took this a step further by creating a firefox wrapper script. After you move your ~/.mozilla folder to a safe place, this script makes sure that your data is always synced between the tmpfs folder and your hdd folder on a fixed interval.

what the script does, in steps:

1. check that we don’t have any stale ~/.mozilla folder
2. rsync our hdd copy of .mozilla with our tmpfs
3. launch a background process that syncs any changes on the tmpfs .mozilla folder back to our hdd copy every one minute (adjustable)
4. launch firefox
5. when firefox ends, kill background process and sync back to the hdd one last time

To use the script, you’ll first need to mount tmpfs to a folder. On my laptop I have my /var/tmp as tmpfs (useful for gentoo emerges too). To make /var/tmp a tmpfs folder, you need to edit your /etc/fstab file and add the following line:

tmpfs              /var/tmp    tmpfs  size=768M,mode=0777         0 0

You should adjust the size= option based on the ram you have available.

Then just mount the “partition” with:

mount /var/tmp

and execute the script

chmod +x speedfox

speedfox

Thats it! This simple process gives firefox a real boost!

If you start speedfox from a terminal, you can see the rsync info at the beginning and after each minute =]

You can get the script here.

Don’t forget to edit it, read the instructions and configure its variables!