102 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by 萤火虫, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14874492, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by 鼬帝国, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12620450, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14778908, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by piunqueyen, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by EeroW, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Di Wang, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by robsku, 6 years agoLONG ONE, PLEASE READ, I think I have good idea!
Ok, this has been one of my favorite add-ons for way over a decade, IF I recall at all how long this one has been around. And it's certainly not a new one! What I'd like to have is paste-services - it's (main) purpose wouldn't be sending the whole page content (in text or html), though a pop-up asking, wouldn't be bad... However, it should upload the currently selected area - an image, or piece of text: depending on what the particular paste/upload service is meant for. Also maybe at least, when user has selected nothing, maybe even if he did, and it's a text-paste service (like most are), there should be a popup with maybe two option list (choose-one) with "upload the content" or "upload the HTML of [page|area]". Now, it's unlikenly that if area is selected (unless if in inspector/source-view - adding support for inspector of course isn't really this add-ons maybe purpose and if in source-view mode, it won't have to ask anyway. And if user selected an area already, he likely want's what hun sees, no matter what view hun is in.
If nothing was selected, maybe a warning should be given in a pop-up and option to choose "Cancel" - "Paste text-content of the page" (formatting it in plain text, as well as you could - firefox *might* have functionality to provide such rendering as well - after all, it has the "Reader mode" built-in.
Or, if image upload service, it could suggest "Cancel", "Full-page screenshot", "Visible area screenshot", or additionally even "Select area from page". It just popped to my mind when I had to paste content to one of these services, Mozilla's dpaste (https://paste.mozilla.org/) and instantly I though, that's the kinda stuff FlagFox might have; though later I realized I confused it with short-URL services. Pastebin and such would be a nice addition, even if they don't work exactly like the rest of you stuff.
I understand if that's not direction you're want to go, but IMHO it would fit your add-on's functionality, extending it's purpose, not adding something totally different :)
Love you extension, no matter what. And thanks for not abandoning FF when Legacy support went away - too many of the greatest didn't stay :( Some still developed for forks of FF with Legacy support added back - but I haven't gone to them now; but I digress.
Yours is such a great example of rather simple add-on, it basically just offers redirection to pages that offer something to do with the URL, but it's so valuable. One tool for one thing, which is what it does in excellent manner. That's the UNIX principle, though it's functionality was based on combining these tools to create endless possibilities on how they can be used, but still: As extensions go, there's other reasons why they often work best. Not to say some of the best add-ons I've used have also been AIO add-ons. But for most time, add-ons are best to do one thing and do that one good perfectly <3
Good luck, and hope you consider - there's no way to invent this as adding custom action in proper way I meant - ok, I'll digress again, but had this funny idea (about adding the services myself):
"unless I built a website that would run an actual FireFox in headless X-server, communicating by it's own extension I'd write with the server-side tool, and that "middle-site" would decide and ask those questions... But the result wouldn't be from your browser, it would be clumsy
and something that 5-10 years ago, I would have written for fun of it, to get this functionality for myself :DDDD
And I could have just written my own add-on for that, but I love hacking a way to use the existing tool and my own tools to get the original add-on achieve more than it has been given functionality. It's about having fun.
Of course, making an unofficial fork of yours and adding the feature, would make much more sense - though, not sure about your license would allow me to spread my mod - as more than a patch, that users could use to add my changes, at their own risk though... Is it FOSS, because that right there would gain you the last star! Not because I want to fork it, I don't, I just highly appreciate people who use FOSS license (I hope also for it's benefits, it's not a "charity" licence, you'll also gain community willing to support with... anything, not just code path suggestions or code, but discussion about features, hosting, anything...). But it's not the only way of getting five stars, heck most 5 star reviews I've given were not for FOSS projects at all. But this feature, which I believe fits to your tools purpose, it would extend it with something similar with slight difference. - Rated 4 out of 5by Val Comdriver, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by <gmfady>®, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14209694, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14336963, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14336309, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by AcidCrash, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12351209, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14241055, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by vertigo, 7 years agoNice, useful addon, though it's too bad the newer versions can't be used on <Firefox 57. Also, an option to open the menu on left-click would be nice, and it definitely needs the ability to export/import the settings, which is the main reason it's not 5-stars.
Edit: Down from 4 to 3 stars since not only am I forced to use an older version, since the newer versions aren't compatible with <v57 (running Waterfox), but I keep telling it not to show me the warning message about the flags getting out of date yet it KEEPS showing me the message anyways. If you're going to update it in a way that leaves a large portion of your users behind, at least don't rub it in our faces.
Second edit: Back to 4-stars now that I'm using a more up-to-date version, though it would be nice if it could be added to AMO or at least be signed by Mozilla. And I still would really like to see the ability to backup the configuration. As previously mentioned, that would make it near-perfect.Developer response
posted 7 years agoIf you're using Firefox 52 ESR, or a fork based on it, I've been releasing Flagfox 5.2.x ESR updates that support it. If not, please update your browser or switch to one of those; running a browser without its security updates is dangerous. You can download the latest Flagfox 5.2.x ESR version here:
https://flagfox.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/april-updates/
https://flagfox.wordpress.com/download/ - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13947330, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Quang Trinh, 7 years agoNice, but if I can disable some context menus by myself it'd be better. For now I almost turn off all of them using the userChrome.css method. If the add-on itself has that feature, it would be perfect, thank you!
- Rated 4 out of 5by P0RTALious, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Andyross, 7 years agoI have used this for years, and am glad it is still supported and was updated to handle the new WebEx format. I do only have one issue with this current version 6.0: It sometimes doesn't seem to display the flag and info and just shows a generic green globe. I almost wonder if the page renders too fast for it to get the needed info? A page refresh usually updates the flag.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoIt's not the rendering speed, per se. There's no API to get IP addresses after requests, and fetches of cached requests leave their IP field blank. A manual refresh forces a new actual request and thus fetch of the IP, at which point it works. If you're getting the globe when a refresh will cause it to change to a flag, then either Flagfox was loaded before the page was or it somehow got confused and forgot a cached IP, somehow.
Due to the API limitations here, I've got to listen to IPs ahead of time and cache them for when needed. Caching is easy; caching without keeping everything cached forever and becoming a giant memory leak, is more difficult. Flagfox 6.0.1 has some cache improvements, with more likely to come in future updates. TL;DR: Working on it. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13244206, 7 years ago