Pike's Mozilla Firefox Extensions

@Kool_Savas

Adding sound notification is something that has been on my todo list for quite a while, maybe one day I'll get round to doing it (I think it should be farily easy to implement) :-)

@Peter

It's not possible to move the icon, I don't have any plans to add that feature, sorry (though if someone were to submit a patch I *might* consider it).

@Guillaume

Find your profile folder (http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile) and delete the file called popupcount.dat.

I updated from 1.0 to 1.0.3, and my original instance of Popup Count didn't follow. Now when I try to install it, I get the error message 'Popup Count 0.3.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with this version of Firefox. Popup Count will only work with Firefox versions from 1.0 to 1.9+.'

Any ideas?

Thanks. Keep up the good work.

cheers
-matt.

@matt

Hmm I have no idea, are you having problems with any other extensions or just with Popup Count?

You could try creating a new profile and then transfering your bookmarks/passwords/etc over but I wouldn't recommend that unless you're fairly computer literate. See:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile#What_do_I_do_if_my_profile.27s_corrupted.3F

I think you should allow people to reset the all-time popup counter. Just a thought.

To reset the counter, just edit popupcount.dat, change it to 0, and save it. The file is located in your profile directory.

a visual sign near the mouse pointer when a popup is blocked would be very nice, it often happens to me that I don't realize there has been a popup although there is important information in the popup window

Hi,
I've noticed that PopupCount was behaving oddly on some pages (look at this, http://www.meteo60.net/foudre.php but it is not the only one) : the number of blocked popups increases quickly and infinitely... Do you have any idea of what is happening ?
Nice extension by the way.

I get the same thing-
'Popup Count 0.3.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with this version of Firefox. Popup Count will only work with Firefox versions from 1.0 to 1.9+.'

@Matsuryo

I'll try to look into that sometime next week, thanks for the link. If you have any other pages that cause the same problem please send me as many of them as you can, thanks.

@Stephen

The same thing as what? What version of Firefox are you using?

Erm... I've only managed to find one (It is another weather site ^^') : http://lameteo.org/meteo-7a.html
A friend of mine who has the Google Toolbar told me there was only one blocked popup at first, then that number suddenly jumped to 323 blocked popups, and just after this, the bar was displaying 1899 popups...

@Matsuryo

Was that Firefox Google toolbar or IE Google toolbar, it sounds like it could be an underlying Firefox bug?

Thanks for the extra URL, I'll investigate this soon.

He says it was the IE Google toolbar

@Matsuryo

I finally investigated this, it turns out that this is not a bug in Firefox or Popup Count. Basically the page really does try to open a new window once every 10 milliseconds until it succeeds, but since the Firefox popup blocker blocks every attempt the page just keeps trying forever.

I'm not sure whether to do something about this or not, on the one-hand the current behaviour is accurate (and it sounds like Googlebar also reports the true figure), on the other-hand it distorts your stats. Ideas on how you'd like to see this handled are welcome.

Here's the code from the page for those interested:

function showPopup_523()
{
w = window.open('about:blank','','width=800, height=510,scrollbars=1, resizable=1, toolbar=1, location=1, menubar=1, status=1, directories=0');
if (w!=null) {
clearInterval(interv_523);
w.moveTo(0,0);
w.moveBy((Width-800)/2,(Height-510)/2);
w.location = 'http://www.cibleclick.com/cibles/clicks/symp.cfm?site_id=632633417&friend_id=1337103';
w.blur();
window.focus();
}
}

var interv_523 = setInterval(showPopup_523,10);

Hey, I'm curious: Why does Popup Count use the popupcount.dat file instead of a preference like popupcount.count? Is it faster (since I guess all of prefs.js would have to be written out when it changed)? Did you just want to see if you could make it do that? Is it for ease of copying the count to a new profile (though changing it in about:config isn't that hard)? Or what?

@Matt,

Basically a mix between the last two. I wanted to figure out how to write to files (PC was my first real extension so I didn't know how to do it at the time) and ease of moving the count between profiles.

Hehe, all right. Hmm, I might try and see if I can make it use a preference instead. Gotta start somewhere with making extensions. :)

....Actually, my "start" would be editing install.rdf files to change the maxVersion, and I think I might've done something in the JAR of one. Meh.

Shoot. Even if popupcount.js is only 240 lines long, it's pretty much all over my head. I might actually have to learn something! :(

:P

@Matt

Let me know if you need any help deciphering my dodgy code. :-)

Nah, I just need to learn JavaScript and how Firefox extensions work. Your code looks fine to me, and the comments help. :)