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Survey: What Tools In A Firefox Extension?


ju66l3r

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Hi, all.

 

I'm considering making a firefox extension for geocaching. It would probably be a right click menu (although I haven't ruled out making a toolbar either) that contained things like the yvanovich bookmarklet, some of boulter's links, cache/TB lookup, turning 'GC######' into links, etc.

 

I have a pretty good understanding of the java/xpi coding and creation process so hit me with your best shots...what kinds of "at-hand" functions would you like to see in a geocaching extension to firefox that would give you some quick shortcuts you might already have in bookmarklets, hidden pages, etc.?

 

Does anyone have anything already started here that they want to see grow?

 

A quick search of this forum didn't turn anything up.

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I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but I like it.

If I can think of something I'll post.

 

Just wanted to reply so you know somebody out there is interested.

 

UUoohh. Thought of one.

Go to a State page so you can see recently placed caches.

If it could only display caches placed that day or previous day (and preferrably not TB placements) then that would be awesome.

 

Kenneth

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Go to a State page so you can see recently placed caches.

If it could only display caches placed that day or previous day (and preferrably not TB placements) then that would be awesome.

Just going to the state page is good. I can do that easily enough.

 

I'll have to think about how to just display the most recent caches in the state. Something like that might need a dynamic page hosted on my own server with redirects to GC.com for the cache pages or a sidebar. If it were in the toolbar, I could do a once-a-day update, but in order to get what you're looking for, I'm not sure how I could kindly grab the data without doing so every time a new browser window was opened (which could get obscene far too easily).

 

Another idea I had (if I were making this a big enough project would be to add in the RSS forum feed (ala SAGE http://sage.mozdev.org ).

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It would be great if it could respect the [brackets] for non-encrypted text.

Ok. I'll be sure to take that into account as well.

 

Can the extension be written so that Mozilla can use it too ?? Firebird still has some authentication issues on https that need resolving before I can completly change to it

 

Yes. There is an easy way to make the extensions backwards compatible with pre0.9-Firefox and Mozilla and I plan on doing so.

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add the capability for us uk users to take the coordinates, either from the webpage or from the selected text and then open up the www.streetmap.co.uk address for this location. ie for cache GCHFN4 it would need to go to http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?&sc...=600&height=600 on multimap or http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=37...-+Carmen+Geddit on streetmap

(hope that make sense)

or to put it more clearly, have http://benchmarks.org.uk/maplinks.htm work from the highlighted/copied text :-)

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