News (January 2010)
All of the extensions on this site have been successfully tested on Firefox 3.6. If you find any compatibility issues please e-mail me with the full details of the problem.
If Firefox lists an extension as incompatible then please reinstall it using the links on this page.
Popup Count
Version 0.3.7
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Description
Counts the all-time total number of popups blocked by Firefox, displaying the number in the statusbar. The number of popups blocked on the current webpage is shown in a tooltip.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1. How do I move the counter to a new profile?
Find your old profile folder and copy the file called popupcount.dat into your new profile folder.
2. How do I reset the counter?
Find your profile folder and delete or rename the file called popupcount.dat.
Contributors
- andr3a of eXtenZilla.it (Italian translation)
- Mori (French translation)
- Tjaard (Dutch translation)
- Willy Young (Traditional Chinese translation)
- Patrick Ruh (German translation, retired)
- Fernando Pereira Silveira (Brazilian Portuguese translation)
- Team erweiterungen.de (German translation)
Release History
0.3.7
- Fixed an issue with the blocked count not displaying on recent development versions of Firefox.
- Added support for the new private browsing mode in Firefox 3.5. The blocked count is saved before entering private browsing mode then restored after exiting private browsing mode.
0.3.6
- Added support for Firefox 3 final.
0.3.5
- Added support for Firefox 2 final.
0.3.4
- Added compatibility with the latest nightlies (2006-03-17 and above).
0.3.3
- Fixed an issue with the status bar icon not showing when the "always display count" option was enabled.
0.3.2
- Fixed a slight issue with some third-party themes (e.g. Charamel) where the count text would display even when no popup had been blocked. There are still some unfixed problems with always-on mode and third-party themes.
- Added a German (de-DE) locale, contributed by Patrick Ruh.
- Added a Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) locale, contributed by Fernando Pereira Silveira.
0.3.1
- Improved the "always display count" option to work with more themes. If you find a theme that still doesn't show the correct icons, please send me the name and version of the problem theme, thanks.
- Added a Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) locale, contributed by Willy Young.
- Added a French (fr-FR) locale, contributed by Mori.
0.3
- New options for always showing the popup count and for showing only the total. The "always display count" option may not appear correctly in certain themes, see the Known Issues section for more details.
- Added a Dutch (nl-NL) locale, contributed by Tjaard.
- This extension no longer works on older versions of Firefox, you must be using Firefox 1.0 or above.
0.2.6
- Fixed the problem with two popup blocked icons appearing on recent nightly builds (sorry for the delay in fixing this issue).
- Added an Italian (it-IT) locale, contributed by andr3a of eXtenZilla.it.
- Removed the automatic
install.rdfupdate link due to bandwidth constraints, from now on you'll have to manually check for updates.
0.2.5
- More accurate popup counting (now counts all timed popups beyond the first one).
- Fixed the problem with two blocked popup icons showing if a user had both a profile and a browser directory install of Popup Count.
- New install script.
0.2.4
- Defaults to showing totals in a tooltip for new users.
- Resets the tooltip to it's default value when switching to status bar mode.
0.2.3
- Now uses the correct icon for each theme (inheritance is my friend).
0.2.2
- Fixed a conflict with the All-in-One extension.
0.2.1
- Shows the icon in all themes (still uses the default Qute icon though).
- Option to show the total number of blocked popups in either the status bar or in a tooltip.
0.2
- Now shows the number of Popups blocked per page.
0.1
- Initial Release.
Known Issues
- The "always display count" option may not appear correctly in certain themes. Popup Count 0.3.1 added a hack to find out what icon the theme uses when a popup is blocked, if you find a theme which still shows the wrong icon (or no icon at all) please send me its name and version.
Comments
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Oldy,
Try switching to the default theme then visiting:
http://www.popuptest.com/popuptest1.html
The popup count from that page should show up on the left hand end of the status bar next to the popup icon (and hovering over the icon with your mouse will show a tooltip with the all-time total).
I've added the <-- --> butttons to the defuault theme. Wouldn't want to remove them just to get the popup counter.
In the popuptest I can see the icon in the bottom left part of my browser. Why not now?
Scott,
The popup count only appears when a popup has been blocked, the rest of the time it is not visible. Also there are a couple of themes that just don't have the right image (at least there were last time I tested, they may have been fixed since then).
Popup count extension installation in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9 causes mozill to not move past "please wait extension installing" after restart.
Javier,
No this is a bug in Firefox 0.9, any extension installation can trigger that message. To fix it you can start Firefox in safe mode (there should be a option in the Start menu to do that) then uninstall the extension, restart Firefox then reinstall the extension.
instead of displaying the total blocked popups it sez change popup blocking settings for this site when i mouse over the part in the corner.
i figured it out nvm
Great page, great extensions. Thanks very much for your time and effort. Only critisism I have is that it would be nice to see the release date associate with the version number for each extension. Again, thanks!
doesn't work for me - i tried going to the popup page using the default theme, but i don't see any information at the bottom of the screen
jae,
Do you get the popup icon in the bottom left of the status bar after visiting a page like http://www.popuptest.com/popuptest1.html, does it appear if you disable the extension? The count should appear to the right of that icon, and the all time total should be in the icon's tooltip.
nope - tried everything suggested and nothing appears in the status bar.
I'm stumped jae, maybe there is an extension conflict, do you have any others installed?
ok - on a fresh install of firefox, installing popup count as the first plugin shows me the window.
i'll start adding them in one at a time now to see which one causes the conflict and post back.
ok - looks like it's an extension conflict. the smooth resize patch for tabbrowser extensions (http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en) is causing the problem.
jae,
OK jae, I'm not sure there's really much I can do about it, but I'll try to take a look sometime, thanks for the info.
The popup count in the status bar disappears when going to a secure site. It is replaced by a lock.
when i swap from showing the popups in the status bar to tooltip, I don't get a tooltup when I go back to the site which has the popup.
brian,
When you say the popup count disappears when going to a secure site, do you mean just the count disappears, or that both the count and the icon disappear? If it is the first one then it's probably a bug if it's the second then it probably isn't.
The popup count and icon are replaced by the lock icon(denoting secure site). Checkout www.stgeorge.com.au and for online services, select internet banking and click logon).
One of the things I like about this extension is the ability to use the feature of clicking on the icon and finding out the address of the site to be added to allowed web sites for popups. For the example above, the site address for this popup is different to the site address that initiated the popup i.e. www.stgeorge.com.au -> ibank.stgeorge.com.au.
Count is not showing up on status bar.. What is wrong?