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About me
| Name | SilverSage |
|---|---|
| User since | June 21, 2007 |
| Number of add-ons developed | 0 add-ons |
| Average rating of developer's add-ons | Not yet rated |
My Reviews
Extension List Dumper
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This extension has been invaluable to me over the years with regard to helping debug extension conflicts and to catalog my extensions when I've had to create a new profile because my original became corrupted.
It's so brilliant in its simplicity. I cannot fathom how and why Mozilla hasn't incorporated this functionality into FX's about:addon page at any time over the years this extension has existed.
Oxygenate
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This stopped working in TB 12. Thank you, though, Neo, for not distributing your theme as a compiled java/javascript file as some theme developers have done. All I needed to do to get Oxygenate to work in TB12 was to boost the version # in the install.rdf and everything's now perfect. Woo-hoo!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Oxygenate
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Love it! The contrast is perfect, which makes everything easy to see and read, especially after spending hours at end in front of a monitor and your eyes ain't what they used to be. I also like some of the usability touches, like the up/down scroll arrows at the bottom of each scroll bar and how elements of the interface <span id="sxGenLink6" linktext="highlight" keyword="highlight" classname="sxGenLink" style="font: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; color: inherit; background-color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; position: static; float: none; top: 0px; left: 0px; background-image: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">highligh<span id="sxGenLink_6" classname="sxGenLink" style="font: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; color: inherit; background-color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; position: static; float: none; top: 0px; left: 0px; background-image: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">t</span></span> on hover. The only thing I would ask is that you add envelopes (closed for unread, open for read) to <span id="sxGenLink7" linktext="the list" keyword="the list" classname="sxGenLink" style="font: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; color: inherit; background-color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; position: static; float: none; top: 0px; left: 0px; background-image: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">the lis<span id="sxGenLink_7" classname="sxGenLink" style="font: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; color: inherit; background-color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; position: static; float: none; top: 0px; left: 0px; background-image: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">t</span></span> of e-mails. Now I need to see if you've created a similar theme for Firefox.
EDIT: I checked. Nope. Please create one for Firefox. ;-)
Compact Menu 2
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
The issue was with conflicting extensions. After I disabled them, Compact Menu 2 worked flawlessly.
This user has 3 previous reviews of this add-on.Compact Menu 2
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've been using your extension in FX and TB since it was first published. It really makes the UI much cleaner. I've just downloaded TB 10b5 and noticed that Compact Menu 2 doesn't install on the compose window and when I try to customize the compose window and drag Compact Menu 2 to the window, there's nothing to drag. I don't know if there may be a conflict with another extension or if there's an issue w/ this version of TB. I figured I'd tell you about it nonetheless.
This user has other reviews of this add-on.GlassMyBird [Tb45-58] (discontinued)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This does exactly what you say. Absolutely beautiful! I've been wanting the glass effect applied to more of the TB -- and FX (I use the FX version, too) -- UI than was available previously, at least without having to learn CSS and whatever else I would have to learn to make that happen. Two questions: (1) Can you add options to alter the transparency of the viewing pane, too? (2) Have you thought about developing an extension for Lightning to accomplish the same thing you do in TB?
I've noticed three slight issues, though:
1. I'm using Compact Menu 2 with both TB 9.0.1 and TB 10b5 (both running on Vista w/ latest SP and KB fixes installed) and noticed a big difference in the way the drop-down main menu renders in the two versions of TB. In TB 10b5, it's almost fully transparent and the main menu is difficult to read because it overlays part of the folder pane and the folder names are very visible through the "glass-ized" background of the main menu; it appears the glass effect renders differently between the two versions of TB.
2. In TB 10b5, when I move my cursor up and down the drop-down menu listings for the main menu (File, Edit, View, etc.), each main menu entry is highlighted but the highlight remains when the cursor moves off one entry and onto the next. The net effect is the drop-down main menu turns dark because the highlights remain and are not removed when the cursor moves off an entry. This behavior does not occur on any of the secondary drop-down menus, though.
3. I'm not entirely sure and will need to double-check, but I think the configuration options the extension presents in its interface differ between the two versions of TB.
None of these issues is anywhere near a deal-breaker, though.
Let me know if you want me to send you screenshots and where I need to send them. Keep up the great work, though. I really enjoy the results of your work. I wish I had some of the same talents; I can only appreciate others' talents.
~~~~~~ EDIT 2012 Jan 26 ~~~~~~
Thank you for your quick response, Aris. This is the first time I've been back to this review to check for a reply. I run Vista only on one machine, my laptop, but haven't had it up since I wrote my original review. My other machine is a desktop still running XP. Anyway, I'll get you the screenshots you requested in a couple of days -- and install the dev version you mentioned. I'm looking forward to seeing what it does with Lightning.
ThunderBrowse
Rated 3 out of 5 stars
The feature in Thunderbird that allows one to search for extensions on AMO from the Add-Ons Manager breaks when Thunderbrowse is active. When I click on "Browse All Add-Ons" in the Add-On Manager, it just opens a blank tab. Also in TB10, Thunderbrowse only creates a new tab in the message display window, where in previous versions of Thunderbird it would work in a new Thunderbird tab.
I know TB10 is still in beta but I'm hoping Thunderbrowse gets updated to work properly in TB10 and above.
Classic Toolbar Buttons [Tb24-58] (discontinued)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I'm glad I'm not the only one who had an issue with FX's new small icons! And I'm glad someone did something about it.
Just as I was about to give a low rating to the released version because it didn't affect all the buttons on my button bar, I checked to see if there was a beta version. There was and I installed it. I'm very happy to say that the small buttons your extension creates look like they're directly from the factory! Job well done!
Compact Menu 2
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've been using this since its first appearance; when a new beta release of Firefox came out and this extension wasn't updated for it yet, I bumped the .rdf so I could enable the functionality. While the FF button now kind of obsoletes this extension, I still use it because of its aesthetics.
This user has other reviews of this add-on.Version in Add-on bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Does exactly what it says and what I want -- no more, no less.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.9.9.9.9.9.9.9.1-signed.1-signed).Nightly and Aurora
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome persona! I have a couple of requests, though. I'd like to see the bottom part of the persona through the background of the Web page. I know there's an extension that controls overall opacity but it seems to conflict with another extension I use. I'd also like to be able to see the close tab button on whatever tab I want to close. When tabs have a black background that's impossible. Could you provide some options with your persona that allow those types of changes? Thanks.
Blue Magpie
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Piotr -
I commend you on your English. Lord knows I couldn't begin to read or write your language. I would guess your native language might be Russian or that of an Eastern European country once ruled by the former USSR.
Be that as it may, I think there is a word you might want to change in the one-sentence description that appears to the right of the first image and above the first <Add to Firefox> button. That word is "poverty".
Perhaps you were looking for the term "power". Poverty is something no one wants; it is poorness beyond poorness. Africans living in famine-ridden and disease-ridden countries live in poverty. The people Mother Theresa helped lived in poverty.
Keep up the great work, though.
Memory Fox
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
IDEVFH and others -
Thank you for this extension. It works and works well. It's sure helped me extend the life of my five- or six-year-old antique of a desktop.
I was receiving warnings from my OS, XP SP3, that I was running out of virtual memory. The last time I ignored this message my machine rewarded me with a BSOD so I pay attention to them now.
I have 2GB of RAM (87% of it was used by FF 3.6.4 with several tabs loaded, Avira Antivir, Comodo, PopPeeper, PopFile, and some other utilities I load into RAM at boot time) and a 65GB drive that's about 88% full so I don't have a paging file defined -- no room. (BTW, I know I can define one on a thumb drive. Just haven't gotten around to it yet.)
When I loaded Memory Fox 2.7b into the systray, my RAM usage dropped to 63%. As I'm writing this, it's hovering anywhere from 67% - 74%, depending upon what FF and the other programs I have running are doing. That's a reduction of 13% to 20% in RAM usage, which is pretty damn good in my book.
I'm now going to upgrade to 3.0 and expect I'll still enjoy this little gem.
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@Ginjok -
I may be wrong, but I think AFOM and Memory Fox are designed for different versions of Firefox. If you loook at the processes running on your machine, you'll see an AFOM process running even if you're running Memory Fox.
If you want a definitive answer, ask the developer. His provided his e-mail address in the "Developer Comments" section on this page for a reason.
Make Tab Bar And Status Bar Font Size Bigger
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This is an excellent add-on, especially when your eyes get older, you wear trifocals, and you use a high-res monitor. My only issue is that the extension renders all text in black. If you use a dark theme, you can't read the link text in the status bar, regardless of its size because it blends right in with the theme. I sent an e-mail to the developer asking him if he could provide some options with the extension that would allow users to change the colors of the fonts on tabs and on the status bar independently of each other.
Buzz it!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Works well. Although this page reads 1.1, v. 1.2 is what will be downloaded. Also, I was getting -221 and -261 errors trying to install it. Just download the extension to your machine and install locally. Problem solved.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.2).Signature Switch
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I don't know why everyone is complaining about the developer or the extension. This extension does exactly what it's supposed to do, and that is to comply with the IETF's RFC 1845. It supports text sig blocks and also more complex HTML sig blocks the way I would expect it to support them. In other words, it works.
Regardless of what people think about this extension not supporting top posting, it works as it was intended to work and, for the most part, works well. You shouldn't drop your rating because you don't like bottom posting. After all, bottom posting is still the Internet e-mail standard. Suppose you like interleaved posting. Are you going to rate this extension lower because it doesn't support interleaved posting? Interleaved posting, just like top posting, isn't part of RFC 1845, either.
I'm not sure about this, but I believe top posting was propagated by Outlook and it top posted due to a bug, not by design. Imagine buggy software coming from Micro$oft!
Be that as it may, I think most people top post because that is the way Outlook worked and they got used to it. Plain and simple.
An RFC is not a standard. It's a recommendation. So maybe this developer is a little opinionated. The fact of the matter is that, in Internet e-mail parlance, a signature always appears at the very end of an e-mail and is always preceded by two dashes followed by a new line code. E-mail servers, if configured properly, recognize the double dash followed by a new line code as the beginning of a signature block, or the beginning of the end of an e-mail.
The developer could, if he wanted, support top posting by developing code that would insert a signature block without prepending two dashes followed by a new line code, perhaps prepending only a blank line or some other codes (like a double equal sign or double tilde) that an e-mail server would not interpret as a true signature block. That is how Evolution, the Mac version of Outlook developers chose to implement top posting. He could also support interleaved posting, too, if he were so inclined. It probably wouldn't be too much more difficult to write that logic than the logic to support top posting.
Many of the IETF's RFCs were written in the early-to-mid 1990s when many people used dial-up and people paid their ISPs by the minute. It was more efficient to read e-mails from top-to-bottom because the natural flow was preserved by bottom posting. Corporate America uses top posting partly because of Outlook's bug but also because the most recent and relevant information appears at the top of a business e-mail; if someone needs to know the history of the communication, he or she knows enough to read the e-mail from the bottom up. There's really no big deal.
Not that my opinion means anything, but I think many of the IETF's RFCs that date back to the "beginning" of the general public's use of the Internet need to be revisited, especially those that make recommendations for Internet e-mail.
Maybe Achim will read this review and have second thoughts about his stance... and, then again, maybe he won't.
Compact Menu 2
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Milly -
Went to your github site and downloaded 3.1.1. Upon installation, received error message 207: Not a valid install package. Not going to dis your addon because of that, though. I've been using it a long time and it just works. By the way, tried to download it from Mozilla, too, and received 208 error, too.
Tab Wheel Scroll
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I love this extension. One thing I'd like to see is the ability to scroll through tabs without the focus changing from the current tab until I click on the tab I want to give focus. Changing the focus from tab to tab to tab slows the whole scrolling experience. Thanks for this extension, though. It rocks!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (20090618).Spam Complaint
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
I used Spam Complaint for many months. Some of the spam I received was from servers whose owners didn't know that their machines had been turned into zombie bots. I was able to help those folks by at least informing them. However, I noticed, over time, that the more I complained about the spam I received, the more spam I received. I've replaced this extension with Pop Peeper. It doesn't fight spam but it allows me to delete it directly from my mail server without opening it so the sender never receives a confirmation - by whatever method(s) they use - that it was opened.
As an aside, I think it's great that this extension notifies the appropriate governmental authorities, depending upon the nature of the spam. However, these folks are overworked, underpaid, generally don't want anything more added to whatever's already on their plates, and probably could care less about our e-mails about spam.
IMNSHO, the best way to deal with spam is via challenge-response. However, you run the risk of people you want to contact you - e.g., potential clients - not doing so b/c they see it as a time-waster and an inconvenience.
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