New Firefox extension I made called 'Customizer'. Need beta testers. - GoFuckYourself.com

StuartD · 07-05-2009, 07:01 AM

Hey everyone,

I just finished up the basics on a new extension I'm working on called Customizer.

If you've seen the 'userChrome.css' tweaks around the internet that you can use to add, remove and change some elements in Firefox, you know that no one site has them all and even if they did.. they're not that easy to get working.

So I created this extension to do the dirty work for you, it will create the file and edit the file and all you do is check some boxes.

You can hide menu items, menus, icons, search bar, magnifying glass... you can change fonts, colors, sizes... all kinds of things. And the interface is super easy to use.

http://www.tycamtech.com/customizer

There will be a lot more added to it in time as I get to it, but for now I think it's a great start for a beta. So if you like FfvB and would like to have a little more control over what Firefox looks like (this is not a theme however)... then give it a try and leave me some feedback.

Oh, and to give you an idea, here's a couple of screen shots:

http://www.tycamtech.com/customizer

seeandsee · 07-05-2009, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by StuartD

Hey everyone,

I just finished up the basics on a new extension I'm working on called Customizer.

If you've seen the 'userChrome.css' tweaks around the internet that you can use to add, remove and change some elements in Firefox, you know that no one site has them all and even if they did.. they're not that easy to get working.

So I created this extension to do the dirty work for you, it will create the file and edit the file and all you do is check some boxes.

You can hide menu items, menus, icons, search bar, magnifying glass... you can change fonts, colors, sizes... all kinds of things. And the interface is super easy to use.

http://www.tycamtech.com/customizer

There will be a lot more added to it in time as I get to it, but for now I think it's a great start for a beta. So if you like FfvB and would like to have a little more control over what Firefox looks like (this is not a theme however)... then give it a try and leave me some feedback.

Oh, and to give you an idea, here's a couple of screen shots:

http://www.tycamtech.com/customizer

bump for exstensions

Basic_man · 07-05-2009, 08:29 AM

Pretty cool dude!

fris · 07-05-2009, 09:56 AM

looks good

Yngwie · 07-05-2009, 09:59 AM

I just installed it, but I don't get all the options.

No matter what I click I never get the options like the ones in your screeshots.

StuartD · 07-05-2009, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Yngwie

I just installed it, but I don't get all the options.

No matter what I click I never get the options like the ones in your screeshots.

Strange, can you do something for me?
Go to the Tools menu and open the "Error Console" ... then open the extension and see what error it gives you?

Yngwie · 07-05-2009, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by StuartD

Strange, can you do something for me?
Go to the Tools menu and open the "Error Console" ... then open the extension and see what error it gives you?

Oddly enough, I didn't get any errors related to the extension in the error console.

would it be because I'm using FF 3.5?

StuartD · 07-05-2009, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Yngwie

Oddly enough, I didn't get any errors related to the extension in the error console.

would it be because I'm using FF 3.5?

No, it should be working fine because you're using 3.5. I purposely didn't make it compatible with older versions of firefox.

That's truly bizarre that it is not showing the options. There's not much I can do to fix it when I don't get the same problem....

But you're not the only one to have this problem.

If you feel up to it, go to about:config and type in javascript.
It should display a few settings to you.
javascript.options.showInConsole will be set to false, if you change that to true (double click on it) it should force Firefox to show extension errors into that error console.

Yngwie · 07-05-2009, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by StuartD

No, it should be working fine because you're using 3.5. I purposely didn't make it compatible with older versions of firefox.

That's truly bizarre that it is not showing the options. There's not much I can do to fix it when I don't get the same problem....

But you're not the only one to have this problem.

If you feel up to it, go to about:config and type in javascript.
It should display a few settings to you.
javascript.options.showInConsole will be set to false, if you change that to true (double click on it) it should force Firefox to show extension errors into that error console.

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StuartD · 07-05-2009, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Yngwie

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Ah, perfect!! See, I wasn't getting that error but I found it.
Give it a re-install (no need to uninstall first) and it should be fixed up.

You can use this link: http://www.tycamtech.com/extensions/...mizer0.0.1.xpi

Yngwie · 07-05-2009, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by StuartD

Ah, perfect!! See, I wasn't getting that error but I found it.
Give it a re-install (no need to uninstall first) and it should be fixed up.

You can use this link: http://www.tycamtech.com/extensions/...mizer0.0.1.xpi

ok, I'll re-install it and let you know what happens.

Yngwie · 07-05-2009, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by StuartD

Ah, perfect!! See, I wasn't getting that error but I found it.
Give it a re-install (no need to uninstall first) and it should be fixed up.

You can use this link: http://www.tycamtech.com/extensions/...mizer0.0.1.xpi

it works now.

StuartD · 07-05-2009, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Yngwie

it works now.

Thanks to a very helpful beta tester

Yngwie · 07-05-2009, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by StuartD

Thanks to a very helpful beta tester

not a problem man.

jact · 07-05-2009, 01:17 PM

Customizer 0.0.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.11.

Erm.

StuartD · 07-05-2009, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by jact

Customizer 0.0.1 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.11.

Erm.

I no longer have 3.* and therefore can't verify that it works correctly on it, so I didn't make it compatible with anything under 3.5.... for the time being.

Perhaps I'll change that, since it's still in beta anyway... hold on...

StuartD · 07-05-2009, 01:24 PM

ok, I changed the min version 3.0.... give it another try?
But remember, I can't promise that it'll all work.

jact · 07-05-2009, 01:27 PM

yay I installed it.

StuartD · 07-05-2009, 07:53 PM

Bump for the night time bunch... feedback, requests would be appreciated.

Keep in mind that this isn't a "theme" add on or anything, just a way to customize some things. This extension didn't take me long, it's not a huge piece of hardware. I wrote up the toolbar portion while my wife was gone to the store.

It simply takes your input and puts the appropriate CSS into the userChrome.css file found in your Firefox profile. Nice, simple... and it works. (at least I hope it does!)

borked · 07-05-2009, 10:51 PM

On the mac, there's no window close button - imposs to save options made. The only way out is Apple-W to close the window but that doesn't save the selections made...

niche25 · 07-05-2009, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by borked

On the mac, there's no window close button - imposs to save options made. The only way out is Apple-W to close the window but that doesn't save the selections made...

Yep, looks weird. I just hit escape but it definitely needs a bar. This extension is pretty slick man, kudos.

StuartD · 07-06-2009, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by borked

On the mac, there's no window close button - imposs to save options made. The only way out is Apple-W to close the window but that doesn't save the selections made...

Have I mentioned that I hate Firefox on macs?? The buttons are supposed to be managed by Firefox itself. I just build the contents of the window, it does the rest.
And yet on a mac, this happens every time.

It's so frustrating. Good to know though. I'll see what I can do.

StuartD · 07-06-2009, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by borked

On the mac, there's no window close button - imposs to save options made. The only way out is Apple-W to close the window but that doesn't save the selections made...

Ok, this should be fixed in the latest update:
http://www.tycamtech.com/extensions/...mizer0.0.2.xpi

borked · 07-06-2009, 09:29 AM

yeah, the ok/cancel buttons now show, but nothing is hiding....

checked in both FF 3.0.11 and 3.5
(the options I checked are still checked after a restart, so it's writing the prefs correctly, but it isn't altering what shows/hidden)

StuartD · 07-06-2009, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by borked

yeah, the ok/cancel buttons now show, but nothing is hiding....

checked in both FF 3.0.11 and 3.5
(the options I checked are still checked after a restart, so it's writing the prefs correctly, but it isn't altering what shows/hidden)

hm.... without a mac, there's no real way I can effectively trouble shoot that.
I just assumed that the DOM structure for Firefox would be the same for both OSes... but I guess not.

borked · 07-06-2009, 09:42 AM

well, the file's written and no errors are showing, and it does a little blink/refresh when I hit ok, but nadda on the layout

here's what's got written during testing clicking various things from various categories

Code:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */
#history-menu{display: none;}#bookmarksMenu{display: none;}#back-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }#forward-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }#stop-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }#home-button { display: none; }

StuartD · 07-06-2009, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by borked

well, the file's written and no errors are showing, and it does a little blink/refresh when I hit ok, but nadda on the layout

here's what's got written during testing clicking various things from various categories

Code:

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */
#history-menu{display: none;}#bookmarksMenu{display: none;}#back-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }#forward-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }#stop-button[disabled="true"] { display: none; }#home-button { display: none; }

damn... there's nothing worse than code that has no errors, works perfectly and yet... does nothing. How do you fix that?!?!

When you open the preferences to the menus pane, do you see all the menu items or just a list of the menus themselves?

borked · 07-06-2009, 09:54 AM

yeah, I see all the items, and whatever I check gets written to userChrome.css

however, it looks like the probs are restricted to the menus, since I think I didn't restart firefox and now the home/back/fwd buttons etc are gone, but still no menus are hidden.

digifan · 07-06-2009, 09:58 AM

Good job, thank you

borked · 07-06-2009, 10:00 AM

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The Mac OS application bar isn't part of Firefox's chrome and cannot be manipulated with userChrome.css.

I found that somewhere on a forum....
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

StuartD · 07-06-2009, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by borked

I found that somewhere on a forum....
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Ah, that would do it... I wonder why.
Oh well, I guess that means some things simply won't work on a Mac.
I guess when I submit to Firefox's site, I'll have to list it for Windows and Linux (or maybe just Windows to save headaches).

borked · 07-06-2009, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by StuartD

Ah, that would do it... I wonder why.
Oh well, I guess that means some things simply won't work on a Mac.
I guess when I submit to Firefox's site, I'll have to list it for Windows and Linux (or maybe just Windows to save headaches).

Is it poss to disable simply the menus tab for the mac? The rest work fine but nothing on the menus.

Apple have had a long history in preserving the coveted menu bar space, stemming back to the Apple menu - the single thing that is unhackable. I guess the menu bar real estate is controlled by the OS and nothing higher can alter it.

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StuartD Sofa King Band Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Outside the box Posts: 29,903	Bump for the night time bunch... feedback, requests would be appreciated. Keep in mind that this isn't a "theme" add on or anything, just a way to customize some things. This extension didn't take me long, it's not a huge piece of hardware. I wrote up the toolbar portion while my wife was gone to the store. It simply takes your input and puts the appropriate CSS into the userChrome.css file found in your Firefox profile. Nice, simple... and it works. (at least I hope it does!) __________________ This is me on facebook This is me on twitter

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