Ross Z

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Name Ross Z
User since Sept. 10, 2008
Number of add-ons developed 0 add-ons
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My Reviews

Closy

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Love this addon. I realize that Firefox now offers "Close tabs to the right" as an OOTB feature, but this has MUCH more robust options (including my other favorites, "Close duplicate tabs" + "Close tabs to the left").

I saw the earlier comment about being incompatible with FF v22.0. I suspect that this was probably from an upgrade (I had problems with a lot of my addons for that version, but a fresh install / manual re-add fixed most of them). I have been successfully using Closy for (at least) v22 thru v28, and it seems to be working fine on v29.0 as well (fresh install). I am a very heavy user of tabs, and I use this all the time. Highly recommended.

YesScript

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

LOVE IT!! At my work, I get proxy authentication popups in an infinite loop (even after providing the correct info) whenever I visit superuser.com or stackexchange.com or programmers.stackexchange.com -- unless I manually disable Javascript. Each. And. Every. Time.... 5 stars for fixing one of my biggest FF annoyances! :)

And @Klone Ranger - I agree with Scree... 1-star is pretty harsh considering that it does an excellent job otherwise, and you *do* have an easy enough workaround. Still very good to know, so thanks for sharing :)

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.9.1-signed.1-signed). 

JS Deminifier

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Just found this a couple days ago, but I already LOVE this addon! Would you consider supporting CSS files as well?

I like how the current version shows up in the page source (and slide-in/out eye candy is pretty slick too). Swigger does make an interesting point though... as it would be very useful to have this work with Firebug or even just to be able to set some option to always display the Deminified version by default.

Cons: it also adds "Deminify" buttons to any in-page <script> blocks but 99.9% of the time these aren't as useful. Maybe we could have those only for <script> blocks with "src" which would open the Deminified version directly?

@trlkly.. I thought the meaning was pretty obvious. But I can see your point, if people haven't been exposed to minimized/minified JS then the meaning could be a little vague.

4 stars is just so there's motivation to make it better :)

XUL/Migemo

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

This is one of my all time favorite FF add-ons AND I **REALLY** WISH THAT MOZILLA WOULD OFFER A REGEXP SEARCH OPTION OUT OF THE BOX . Anyway, it works fine for me with FF 4.0.1 *IF* you have manually patched the maxVersion number for firefox (google "manually update firefox addon 7zip install.rdf maxVersion"). I'm only giving 4 stars b/c I had to patch it myself.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.13.6). 

NetVideoHunter

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

"1. Every time i click Download, the net video hunter window minimizes (i am using windows)"
-> I can confirm that this happens under Linux as well (Ubuntu 9.10 Live-cd).

"2. Pls provide 'Download All' option in the net video hunter window."
-> I would *LOVE* this feature. Although a checkbox system might be nice too.. "Download Selected" :)

And 1 other feature request -- for after first 2 are done :)
-> Ability to set an "auto-save folder" similar to in Snapper [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2703] or FEBE [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109].

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.4.3). 

Launchy

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Love this addon :) But if you ever decide to update I'd really like to see these features:

1) quick/easy access to launchy.xml
For example, under Options > Launchy.xml
you could have the following options:
->Create
->Open Folder
->Launch Launchy.xml in notepad

2) Allowing "custom" application type.

For example,
"custom": doesn't pass any arguments explicitly (requires user to pass arguments).
->myscript.vbs %current-url% -myparameters
->explorer %chromedir%
->notepad %chromedir%\launchy.xml

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (4.2.0). 

Right Links

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I LOVE this extension and use it every day. Think how many clicks you're saving when you're viewing search results (and you can switch modes with F2 if you really need the menu)

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.1.0). 

Right Links

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I LOVE this extension and use it every day. Think how many clicks you're saving when you're viewing search results (and you can switch modes with F2 if you really need the menu)

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.3.1.0). 

Image quality plugin for x-traffic.ru users

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

"Плагин для управления качеством изображений."

-> http://www.freetranslation.com/ (Russian to English)

= "Plug-in for quality management of images."