News (January 2010)
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Create Shortcut
Version 0.3.6
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Description
Implements the Netscape Navigator 4 Create Shortcut menu item in Firefox. To create a shortcut to the current page bring up the context menu (usually done by right-clicking) and choose Create Shortcut. Selecting the menu item displays a dialog box that allows the creation of a shortcut to the current page/link on your desktop.
Note: This extension is currently for Microsoft Windows only, see the Deskcut extension for a cross-platform alternative.
Contributors
- Fernando Pereira Silveira (Brazilian Portuguese translation)
- Patrick Ruh (German translation, retired)
- rn1rn0 (Japanese translation)
- Team erweiterungen.de (German translation)
- winiah (Traditional Chinese translation)
- Godai71 of eXtenZilla.it (Italian translation)
- DragonZilla (French translation)
Release History
0.3.6
- Fix a bug that prevents shortcuts from being created for sites with long titles.
0.3.5
- Added support for Firefox 3 final.
- Added an Italian (it-IT) locale, contributed by Godai71 of eXtenZilla.it.
- Added a French (fr-FR) locale, contributed by DragonZilla.
0.3.4
- Added support for Firefox 2 final.
- Added a Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) locale, contributed by winiah.
0.3.3
- Added compatibility with the latest nightlies (2006-03-17 and above).
0.3.2
- Fixed garbled text when specifying non-ASCII characters in the prefix and suffix boxes.
- Added a Japanese (ja-JP) locale, contributed by rn1rn0.
0.3.1
- Fixed problems with the latest post-1.0 Firefox builds.
0.3
- Added an option to control what happens when a new shortcut has the same name as an existing shortcut. By default the old shortcut will be overwritten, this behaviour can now be turned off in the extension's options dialog causing the new shortcut to be automatically renamed instead.
- Added a hidden pref that changes the folder where the shortcut is created, set the pref createshortcut.folder to the path of the folder you wish shortcuts to be created in (remember if you set the pref in about:config you should use single backslash path separators, e.g. c:\windows\favorites, however if you set it in
prefs.jsoruser.jsyou must use double backslashes, e.g. c:\\windows\\favorites). - Added a Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) locale, contributed by Fernando Pereira Silveira.
- Added a German (de-DE) locale, contributed by Patrick Ruh.
0.2.1
- Fixed a problem with shortcuts being sent to the wrong location if the desktop folder had been moved, this extension suffered from the problem described in Bug 228977.
- Polish: Prevent the context menu entry from displaying in some situations (such as when text is selected or when the cursor is in an input box).
- Polish: Append an ellipsis to the Create Shortcut menu entry when the shortcut prompt is enabled.
0.2
- You can now choose to bypass the shortcut prompt and automatically use the default values instead.
- You can now edit the prefix and suffix applied to the shortcut's name.
0.1
- Initial Release.
Comments
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@tyro52
Yeah, I suppose a shortcut can't be made when playing a full-screen video, but 99% of the time people are playing an embedded video in which case a shortcut can still be created by right-clicking outside of the video.
Anyway thanks for clarifying, I can see your point now. I'm still wary of adding entries to the File menu though since many people don't like extensions to modify the main menus.
Hi, Pike.
In regards to post #110, #121, & #122, maybe you could give an option/setting in Create Shortcut's options to allow one to have an additional way of using Create Shortcut by placing a "Create Shortcut" command on the "Tools" menu.
Many Firefox Add-ons either automatically or optionally include various options and functionality on the Tools menu. By giving one an option to add a "Create Shortcut" command on the Tools menu, they don't have to turn that on, but can if they want/need to.
However, before making any such change to the Create Shortcut add-on, you might consider the upcoming changes to Firefox 4.0 (currently being labeled as 3.7 Alpha 5) and how the menus might change or be accessed.
-Jeff
Hi,
@Pike
Sorry to take so long to get back to you. When I posted above (#110), I'd had the problem I described several times right after installing Create Shortcut. Then it didn't occur for a long time. Today, it happened again, and I remembered that you'd asked for an example. Here it is:
http://cdn11.castfire.com/video/76/306/888/245945/kcts_2010-02-10-121425-2701-3-0-0.2701.mp4?referer=http%3A%2F%2Fkcts9.org%2Fseries%2Fkcts-9-chefs%2Fvideo%2Fkcts-9-chefs-2010
or
http://tinyurl.com/3277ygc