Independent Status Reports (14 March, 2005)
By Brian King
Seamonkey is dead, long live Seamonkey. As the Mozilla Foundation officially stops development on the Mozilla Suite, a new external group has formed to take over the running of the project. This is another example of the Mozilla Community stepping up and playing a valuable role. Some people like the idea of a separate browser, mail client, editor, and so on. Some like integration, so let's hope Seamonkey survives and thrives in some form, as they can certainly live in parallel. Extension authors will continue to busily do their thing, creating great little add-ons and larger programs based on Mozilla technologies. As this month's reports shows, there is still alot of activity. mozdev.org currently has over 250 active projects and this number is rising.
Note: If anyone has an update that they would like included in the next report, go here, or have any feedback on the reports in general, feel free to contact us.
chatnsearch - v0.1
(Enables you to chat with people searching/surfing similar pages)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: chatnsearch@mozdev.org
For: Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Firefox extension to chat with others surfing/searching for similar content on the web. Initial version (0.1) available.
Notable Highlights
- Lighweight download
- Anonymous Login
YellowMapBar - v0.4
(Toolbar for YellowMap [for Germany, Austria and Switzerland])
For: Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
First public release of YellowMapBar (in german).
Find Points of Interest (with Map) near you easily with YellowMap in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
galician - v0.1
(en galego / Localisation Resources for the Galician language)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Mariano Grueiro
For: Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Camino
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
The Galician translation team of Mozilla
Notes
- We began a project to translate Mozilla and family to Galician language
- Get in touch with us with the galician list
SpurlBar - v0.33
(Sidepanel extension for spurl.net service)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Baris Cicek
For: Firefox
Platform: All
Some bugfixes, added spurl management shortcuts.
Notable Highlights
- Major bugfix for hungarian translation .dtd file.
- Fixes for new spurl changes on sidebar url.
- Increased right click link detection, now it see only spurls as links.
- Exclusive: Adds 'Modify this spurl', 'Delete this spurl' and 'Copy this spurl' context menu items to sidebar that enable users to directly modify/delete/copy spurls.
- Exclusive: Now clicking on links with ctrl on sidebar opens url and closes sidebar
PasswordMaker - 0.2
(Why remember or store dozens of passwords when there's PasswordMaker?)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: PasswordMaker Mailing List
For: Firefox, Mozilla
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Why remember dozens of passwords when there's PasswordMaker? Now you only need to remember a "master" password,
but you can generate the same, unique password for any website over and over again using any of 7
hash algorithms and 9 different
levels of l33t speak
For added security, nothing is stored anywhere or sent over the internet.
There's even an on-line version
for when you don't have access to Firefox.
v0.2, a complete re-write of v0.1, was released on February 28.
Notable Highlights
- Nine different levels of l33t speak (or none at all) can be applied before, after, or before & after password generation.
- Extension is now a non-modal dialog box instead of a toolbar, saving precious screen real-estate
- Extension is available via global access key control-tick (cntrl-`) or command-tick on OS-X
- Hashed passwords are calculated in real-time as user enters input; there is no longer a generate button
- All user-entered values, except master password, are automatically persisted between executions of Firefox and instantiations of PasswordMaker
- master password persistance is off by default (for added security), but can be turned on if desired. If turned on, the password is stored locally using AES (Rijndael) encryption
- Added MD4, HMAC-MD4, HMAC-MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and RIPE-160 hash algorithms, as well as a None option for viewing passwords unencrypted
- Added 4 checkboxes for automatically selecting parts of the current URL (protocol, subdomains(s), domain, and port/path/anchor/query parameters
- Removed restriction on maximum length of master password
- Added v0.1 compatibility mode checkbox which allows the user to turn on/off the concatenation of a colon between the master password and the URL. v0.1 added a colon by default without informing the user, making it impossible to re-create encyrpted passwords with other MD5 implementations.
- Added Copy Password To Clipboard button
- For added security, added the option for auto-clearing the clipboard after n seconds
- Added Help button and associated help screen
- Updated on-line version to match the extension, for use when you don't have access to the extension
- Moved site to MozDev
Flashblock - 1.3.0.1
(Blocks flash content from showing on webpages)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Flashblock Team
For: Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, K-Meleon
Platform: All
Version 1.3.0.1 fixes several serious regressions and now does a better job of blocking flash and reduces the possiblilty of triggering Gecko reflow/crash bugs.
Recent Changes:
- Fixes a bug that let through several flash objects previously blocked.
- Workaround to avoid triggering Gecko reflow bugs that cause the browser to crash.
Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- Site Whitelisting.
- All strings localised and multiple locales and languages now supported.
- Improved compatibility with other extensions (e.g. TextZoom, ForecastFox).
telugutoolbar - v1.1
(Type in Telugu)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Murali Nandula
For: Firefox
Platform: All
V1.1 has been released on March 07 2005.
Notable Highlights
- Type telugu numbers using ~0,~1,~2 etc.,
- Bug fix for Visargha(@h)
- Bug fix for END key changing the typin mode.
biobar - v1.3
(Toolbar project for bioinformatics and biology)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Jawahar Swaminathan
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: All platforms
Version 1.3 is a significant improvement in the functionality and codebase for this project. Most of the code was written from scratch. It is now possible to edit, add or remove search databases, search multiple sources simultaneously, add/remove custom links etc. Please see webpage for more information.
Notable Highlights
- XML-based database list for easy maintenance
- Dynamic update mechanism for BioCyc
- Add/Edit Custom Links in Main Menu
- Tab preference for search results
- Search groups of database simultaneously
- Now supports 38 biological databases.
- Users can add/edit/modify existing search terms by editing XML database file
TrustBar - v0.3.1
(Secure display of logos, credentials prevent spoofing / phishing)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Amir Herzberg
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
TrustBar helps users identify protected web sites, and in particular displays logo/name of the CA (organization which identified the site owner). This protects users from phishing and spoofing attacks, including the recent IDN/homographic attacks. New release supports FireFox (as well as Mozilla); fixed minor bugs reported by users.
WebmailCompose - 0.6
(Make email links load your webmail's compose page)
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: All
Adds webmail functionality to all email options, makes mailto: links load your webmail's compose page, and adds a Compose link to the context menu. Currently supports GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Netscape, OperaMail, Mail.com, Horde, Squirrel, and one user-customizable entry.
Notable Highlights
- Improved MacOS Support
- Bug Fixes
- Gmail redirect Fix
easyGestures - v 3.0
(Adds UI with mouse gestures and customizable actions)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Ons Besbes
For: Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
This is a new major release.
What's new...
- Optional contextual behavior
- Improved script capabilites
- New behaviors
- New actions
- Bug fixes
modifyheaders - v0.2
(Add, Modify and Filter out any HTTP request headers)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Mailing List
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX,
This month sees the first public release of modifyheaders. This extension is aimed at developers who need to be able to add and modify HTTP request headers when developing and testing applications.
Main features
- Add,Modify or Filter HTTP request headers.
- Maintain a list of headers that can easily be enabled or disabled as required.
Please report bugs to: http://modifyheaders.mozdev.org/bugs.html
XHTMLMP - v0.2
(Extension for rendering XHTML Mobile Profile content)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Mailing List
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
This is the first public release of XHTMLMP. This extension provides support for the content type application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml,
Browse Images - 0.2
(Browses all images linked from a page)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Jürgen Binder
For: Firefox 0.10 - 1.0+
Platform: all
The 0.2 milestone was released with a lot of new features:
Notable Highlights
- Going to the next image with forward mouse button like in Opera
- When only an image is displayed, it is now centered and not in the top left corner
- Works now with tabs and frames
- Next Image and Previous Image entries in the forward and back button dropdown list
- You can change the number of entries in these lists
- Bug 285647 is fixed ;)
- An options menu to customize the Browse Images and activating and deactiviting the most features
- You can deactivate the AutoScan to save resources
Maple - 0.4.27
(Bookmark manager for firefox)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Mailing List
For: Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
First beta version released.
Notable Highlights
- Stores your bookmarks online.
- Advanced search engine for bookmarks
- Supports tagging
Padma - v0.2.4
(A Transformer for Telugu Text from RTS To Unicode)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Nagarjuna Venna
For: Firefox, Thunderbird
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Release 0.2.4 adds support for Thunderbird.
MAF - 0.5.0
(Mozilla Archive Format)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: MAF Mailing list
For: Mozilla, Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux
Fixed a number of unicode bugs and MHTML decoding bugs. Improved browser integration.
Notable Highlights
- Improved MHT decoding
- Added better error handling support
- Added ability to use alternative save component
- Cleaned up preferences dialog
- Added MAF integration to save page dialog
cucbcflag - v0.1.0
(Displays the River Cam's flag status.)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: cucbcflag@mozdev.org
For: Firefox
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
Firt release of CUCBC Flag - a small, lightweight Firefox extension that displays the Cambridge University Combined Boat Clubs river flag status in the status bar.
InFormEnter - v0.2.2
(Form filling in semi-automatic mode)
- Home Page
- Install
- Contact: Mykola Onyshchuk
For: Firefox
Platform: Windows
First InFormEnter release on mozdev.org. Support of update.rdf was added.