My Firefox Extensions

Google Bookmarks Button

This extension adds a new button in the Firefox toolbar to manage the .

You will need to have a Google Account and be signed in to use this extension.

The button didn't appear directly on your toolbar, you will need to add it manually going to View > Toolbars > Customize... and dragging the "Bookmarks" button into your toolbar.

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(works from Firefox 1.5 to 2.0.0.*)

• 08-28-06 Version 0.3:
• Now it uses Firefox dialogs for adding/editing Bookmarks instead of opening a Google webpage.
• Drop down menu for selecting labels from the existing ones on add/edit dialogs (it has autocomplete function but didn't appears automatically you need to click on the arrow).
• Rename/Remove labels
• "Import Firefox Bookmarks (at the bottom of the popup menu)
• Improved drag&drop functionalities
• Experimental favicon support (can be enabled in the Experimental tab located in the options)
• Label hierarchy (Go to Options > Label Hierarchy). Labels will split in subfolders using a character as separator.
• Context menu "Add this link to Google Bookmarks" option when right-clicking on a link.
• A lot of bugs corrected!
• 05-16-06 Version 0.2:
• If you're not signed in your Google Account, there's Sign In option in the GGB menu. (now works!)
• Context menus for labels and bookmarks (with the Open in tabs option)
• Drag&Drop functionalities, now you can add a Google Bookmark by dragging any link on a webpage, or a Firefox Bookmark into the GBB menu (and you can put it on a label). Also you can move from a label to another the Google Bookmarks.
• 04-25-06 Version 0.1.5:
• If you're not signed in your Google Account, there's Sign In option in the GGB menu.
• Also, there's an Edit this bookmark... context menu when right-click over bookmarks
• Added console output for debugging purposes (more about the Firefox console here)
• Some bugs solved (see below)
• Improved the source-code and the stability (now the browser isn't blocked if there's an error while connecting with the Google Bookmarks server)
• 04-18-06 Version 0.1:
• First release so everything is new ;)

• Add bookmarks by clicking in the star next to the "Bookmarks" button or clicking in the "Bookmarks" button and selecting "Bookmark this page".
• • If you want to edit the bookmark before adding it use ctrl+click on the star
  • Also, you can drag & drop any link on a webpage or a Firefox Bookmark into a label to add it
• When a page is on your bookmarks the star button is filled with yellow, to edit that bookmark you can:
• • Press ctrl+click on the star
  • Select "Edit this bookmark" in the Bookmarks menu
  • Right-click on a bookmark and choose "Edit this bookmark" in the context menu.
• Remove your bookmarks by clicking again in the star or using the bookmark context menu.
• Label hierarchy allows you to organize your bookmarks better by using subfolders
• • Once you enabled the "Label hierarchy" option at the Options menu, choose a separator character ('/' by default)
  • This character will be used to split the labels into subfolders
• You can import your Firefox bookmarks by clicking on "Import Firefox Bookmarks" at the end of the drop-down menu.
• To sort your bookmarks by date or alphabetically select "Options" at the drop-down menu.

Known bugs :

• Drop down label menu for on add/edit dialogs autocompletes but didn't shows automatically when you type.
• You'll need to refresh the bookmarks if you were not signed in your Google Account when Firefox started. SOLVED in 0.1.5
• You'll need to refresh the bookmarks in order to see the changes when the bookmarks or labels are modified. SOLVED in 0.3
• Labels are not sorted alphabetically (just the bookmarks inside). SOLVED in 0.1.5
• If a bookmark has notes it uses them as the bookmark title (it happens also in the Google feed used in the extension, so it's not my fault). SOLVED: Thanks Google! That was fast!
• Not showing special characters correctly. Almost SOLVED in 0.1.5 (but maybe I forgot some characters)
• Seems to have some problems when using long URLs in the bookmarks SOLVED in 0.3
• The annotations can be lost when you drag and drop a bookmark. SOLVED in 0.3
• Seems to hang up Firefox if the net is under a proxy connection (any hint on how to solve that?).

ToDo List:

• Allow to choose a compact version of the button
• Show a message in the menu if the user isn't signed into his/her Google Account
• Remove bookmarks, add/rename/remove labels, etc. directly from the extension like the IE button (if you know how to do that, please contact me)
• Drag & drop bookmarks to assign them to labels (only possible if I can achieve the previous one)
• Favicons on the bookmarks
• Import Firefox Bookmarks into Google Bookmarks.
• Copy bookmark to a label (not just move)

Suggestions by users (currently not in the ToDo plans)

• Open in Tabs all the bookmarks in a label
• Group the unlabeled bookmarks under one folder
• Synchronization with Firefox Bookmarks (not until Places comes to FF)

gTranslate

With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the to translate the text.

[install latest version (0.3.1)] [gTranslate at Mozilla Update] [gTranslate on digg]
(for Firefox 1.0 to 2.0.0.*)

• 24-10-06 Version 0.3.1
• Updated to work with the new version of Google Translate page
• Added Arabic language
• (Testing) Now you can change the text in a textfield with the translated text
• 21-11-05 Version 0.2.7
• Updated to work with FF 1.5
• 09-08-05 Version 0.2.6
• Nothing new, just compatibility with Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (please, report any bug)
• 29-08-05 Version 0.2.5:
• Not big changes...
• The "does nothing" bug has been resolved (I hope!)
• Added it-IT (Italian by MatrixIsAllOver) and ko-KR (Korean by Fractal) locales.
• 26-07-05 Version 0.2:
• Added browser language auto-detection, so the text is tranlsated (if possible) to the browser locale language.
• Image title or alt attributes can be translated now.
• Corrected a bug when passing the text to the Google Translate page.
• 07-01-05 Version 0.1b (yes, again ;)):
• Added locales for de-DE by Jrgen Berg (Thanks!)and nl-NL by Roan Kattouw (Thanks!).
• 06-29-05 Version 0.1b:
• Added locales for en-US, es-ES, ca-AD, fr-FR and it-IT. Thank you goofyFR (for making the localized version of the extension, the french locale) and MatrixIsAllOver (for the italian locale and the helpful links)!
• 06-28-05 Version 0.1:
• First release so everything is new ;)

• Translates from:
  English to German / German to English
  English to Spanish / Spanish to English
  English to French / French to English
  English to Italian / Italian to English
  English to Portuguese / Portuguese to English
  English to Japanese / Japanese to English
  English to Korean / Korean to English
  English to Chinese (Simplified) / Chinese (Simplified) to English
  German to French / French to German
• Auto-detection of browser locale and page language (if lang attribute is defined for the selected tag or for the whole page).
  For example: By defalut gTranslate has "German to English" as language pair. If you your locale is set to French then "German to French" is going to be used, but if the page (or the selected text) is detected to be in English, it will be translated from "English to French".
• Support for translating text from input and textarea form fields. Image title or alt attributes can be translated also.

ToDo List:

• Add Russian!
• Thunderbird version
• Allow changing the selected text for the translated text on input fields.
• Add Arabic language!
• Language auto-detection based on lang attribute in other tags and not only in html.
• Translate to Firefox defined language (if possible)
• Translate title and alternative text from images.
• Internationalization.