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Firefox Addon

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  • 21-08-2008 11:56am
    #1
    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,216 ✭✭✭


    Building custom firefox addon.

    Hey guys, I'm looking to build a very basic firefox addon that'll allow me to display snippets of a web page in either a sidebar or bottom bar that'll remain visible no matter what tab etc is open.

    This would come in incredibly handy for a certain webpage that usually requires constant monitoring for work. Any ideas how I could go about this or is there an existing addon with this in mind that I could take apart and recode to suit my needs?

    Cheers!


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    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Achilles wrote: »
    Building custom firefox addon.

    Hey guys, I'm looking to build a very basic firefox addon that'll allow me to display snippets of a web page in either a sidebar or bottom bar that'll remain visible no matter what tab etc is open.

    This would come in incredibly handy for a certain webpage that usually requires constant monitoring for work. Any ideas how I could go about this or is there an existing addon with this in mind that I could take apart and recode to suit my needs?

    Cheers!

    Not sure about existing Add-On. but I can give you the build environment I made for the boards.ie plugin and you can just rip out the unrelated code. Need to be using Eclipse though.


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,216 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    That'd be great Hobbes but it's literally only a standard HTML web page that I'd be looking to display. I'd just be looking for it to read specific snippets from the HTML page itself in a small summary.


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    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    What you could do is create php script to download the page and from there you can modify and remove the code you dont want.

    This is a small example that I made to go to my router and display the current upload and download stats in real time rather than wait for BT to update them once every 24 hours.
    http://jmccrohan.com/scripts/btusage/

    You can easily then just view this in the sidebar in firefox.


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    #5
    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,216 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    jmccrohan wrote: »
    What you could do is create php script to download the page and from there you can modify and remove the code you dont want.

    This is a small example that I made to go to my router and display the current upload and download stats in real time rather than wait for BT to update them once every 24 hours.
    http://jmccrohan.com/scripts/btusage/

    You can easily then just view this in the sidebar in firefox.

    Any chance you could supply me with the code so that I can have a tinker?


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    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    Achilles wrote: »
    Any chance you could supply me with the code so that I can have a tinker?
    Yup. I'll send it later. I'm in work atm. Do you have a server with php installed?


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    MrVestek
    Registered Users Posts: 9,216 ✭✭✭MrVestek


    jmccrohan wrote: »
    Yup. I'll send it later. I'm in work atm. Do you have a server with php installed?

    Well it's an intranet site that I'll be pulling the info from so I'm just going to use one of the many php servers here in the office.


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