Finally found some time to write about my new Firefox add-on! Originz is a source viewer, and with it, you can view HTML, CSS and JavaScript sources of a page. It can also beautify or unminify the source code. Originz uses Prism for highlighting the source code.

You can choose a source from Originz context menu to view it in a new tab. From there you can do some operations or choose another source using the dashboard which will be shown whenever you move the mouse cursor to the top of the page.

Using the dashboard, you can:

• See a list of sources and select a source
• Wrap long lines
• Beautify(unminify) the code
• View source info(HTTP headers returned from server)
• See and use the source URL
• See total lines

There is also an ‘Other Sources’ context menu for viewing other sources.

Keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl+Shift+g – View page source
• w – Wrap long lines
• b – Beautify code
• i – View source info
• l – See total lines
• g – Go to line

From the Preferences/Options, you can enable/disable Wrap Long Lines and Beautify and change the shortcut key(for viewing page source).

* Depending on how large a source is, highlighting and beautifying it can be a slow process.

Originz on AMO

Originz on GitHub

New Project: Originz – an HTML, CSS and JS source viewer [Firefox Add-on] is a post from: PotatoZone

I suppose that you know what you’re doing! For example you need to know in which partition linux is installed.

Boot Arch linux from live CD.

Create a directory for chroot environment:

Mount the root partition and other necessary device and file systems:

It seems that on newer Arch releases(2012), you can use arch-chroot /mnt/root instead of the last 3 mount commands.

If you have a separate partition for boot, mount it:

Change the root:

You can define another shell by adding it to the above command, like this:

Generate grub.cfg file:

Install GRUB:

Exit the chroot environment:

Unmount filesystems and devices:

Unmount the root partition:

And finally, you can reboot:

Restoring GRUB with Arch linux live CD is a post from: PotatoZone

When I read an article about a window manager, I was reminded of Tiling Window Managers so I decided to check window managers before moving. After some reading and comparing, I chose xmonad as my window manager.

So I installed Arch Linux with xmonad. I spent a few days on installing softwares and configuring. You can see the result in the below picture.

There is still a lot to learn about Arch Linux and xmonad, but I know enough to do the things I need to do.

If you want to try Arch Linux, the Beginners’ Guide is the best place to start.

This guide is a good start on configuring xmonad. Other useful links:

xmonad : a guided tour

Xmonad/Config archive – HaskellWiki

Some of the Applications I use:

Applications in the above picture:

• Firefox
• GNU Emacs (text editor and more!)
• Terminator
• Midnight Commander (file manager)
• xmobar (status bar)

Other softwares:

• dmenu (application launcher)
• ncmpcpp (music player)
• llpp (PDF viewer)
• Gpicview, feh (image viewer)
• mplayer, smplayer, vlc
• thunar

I’m currently using Thunderbird as my email client and weechat and thunderbird as my chat clients.

My move from Ubuntu to Arch Linux is a post from: PotatoZone

Magrent is a Firefox add-on that enables you to convert magnet links and URIs to torrent files.
It uses torrent caching sites like Torrage.com for downloading torrent files.

This add-on is useful when you have the magnet URI and want the torrent file or when your are using sites like The Pirate Bay which only provide the magnet links.

Magrent has 2 context menu items and a widget which is accessible from the Add-on Bar.

“Download .torrent file” context menu item appears when you right-click on a magnet link; This item will download the torrent from torrage.com(if the torrent is available).

Clicking on the add-on’s button(widget) will open a panel for coverting magnet URI to torrent file. It checks your clipboard content and if it recognized a magnet URI it will convert the magnet URI automatically and show the download links.

Download links are from Torrage.com, Zoink.it, Torcache.net and Torrage.ws.

“Open in Magrent panel” is another context menu item which opens the magnet link in the panel and shows its download links.

Notes

• Torrents may not be available; More sources are provided so that you can try them if one source is down or doesn’t have the requested torrent file.
• It seems if torrage.ws doesn’t have the torrent file on its server, it redirects you to torrage.com.

Install Magrent

Magrent on GitHub

New Project: Convert magnet links and URIs to torrent files with Magrent [Firefox Add-on] is a post from: PotatoZone

My new project, ImgViewerPlus, is a Firefox add-on that adds zoom, rotate and light switch capabilities with smooth animations to Firefox image viewer.

Clicking the image icon in ImgViewerPlus toolbar minimizes/maximizes it.

You can change background and light color and disable toolbar from Preferences/Options.

Shortcut keys:

• Up, Down, Left, Right – Movement keys
• W – Zoom In
• S – Zoom Out
• D – Rotate Clockwise
• A – Rotate CounterClockwise
• L – Light Switch
• M – Minimize/Maximize toolbar
• X – Reset Image

You can install this add-on from here. {version 0.2 has not been reviewed, but you can install the latest version from here}

ImgViewerPlus on GitHub

New Project: ImgViewerPlus, adding zoom, rotate and light switch capabilities to Firefox image view is a post from: PotatoZone

Uploaded a new version of ContextMenuPlus.

Changes in this version:

• New context menu item: Show Google PageRank; shows Google PageRank for the current page.
• Added description for preferences.
• Add-on SDK upgrade.

ContextMenuPlus 1.3 released [Firefox Add-on] is a post from: PotatoZone

If you are using version 1.0, you need to install version 1.1 first. [Read more here]

New features:

• New context menu item: Paste & Submit, if used on a text input or textarea, pastes the clipboard content, then submits the form. [Forgot to mention the "Paste" part in the changelog]
• New context menu item: Copy Link Text & URL, copies link text and its URL, separated with newline character.
• New context menu item: Copy Link Text & Page URL, copies link text and page URL, separated with a newline character.
• New context menu item: Copy As Plain Link, copies the link without formatting.
• New hotkey, for Paste & Submit.

ContextMenuPlus 1.2 released, with 4 new context menu items and a new hotkey [Firefox Add-on] is a post from: PotatoZone

Jetpack is a young project that is becoming more mature with each new release. I take my add-on, ContextMenuPlus as an example and explain the limitations.

The first limitation was preferences, I had to use three modules(“simple-storage”, “panel” and “widget”) to make Preferences available to users(ContextMenuPlus 0.4). But when the “simple-prefs” module landed in Add-on SDK 1.4, I implemented it as soon as I could(ContextMenuPlus 1.0).

The second limitation is localization. “l10n” module for localizing landed in Add-on SDK 1.5, but it does not cover everything. I could localize context menu items, but I could not localize preferences. So I decided to wait till it’s possible, because I didn’t want to localize just half of the add-on.

The third limitation is location of context menu items. There were 2 users that complained that they can not move the items(using Menu Editor for example – Update: Another user said that it is possible to move items using Menu Editor!) but neither can I! It is not possible to move menu items, not yet.

There are many limitations, you can not do whatever you want(using add-on SDK). As I said Add-on SDK is young and with each new release there will be more features and less limitations.

The annoying part is that users think Add-on SDK bugs and lack of some functions are add-ons’ fault :)

What users should know about Jetpack add-ons [Firefox] is a post from: PotatoZone

This recovery will be done automatically and does not require any action from users. If you are using ContextMenuPlus 1.0, the only thing you need to do is upgrading it to version 1.1.

ContextMenuPlus 1.1 uses Add-on SDK 1.5 and adds support for Firefox 11.

ContextMenuPlus 1.1 released is a post from: PotatoZone

ContextMenuPlus 1.0 was released 3 weeks ago, but I couldn’t write about it because I had to go to an urgent trip.

I rewrote some parts of the code and added two new features.

• Preferences are available from Options/Preferences in Add-ons Manager. Previously preferences were available from Options panel. [You lose old preferences because of this change]
• “Stop Loading Image” item: With this item you can stop an image from being loaded.
• “Copy Feed URL” item: This item shows a list of page feeds in a sub-menu. By clicking on feed items, you can copy their URL.

ContextMenuPlus 1.0 is a post from: PotatoZone