270180 - Add Extension: NextPlease!

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, enhancement)

Description

[Howie Wang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

The current version is 0.4.3. It's compatible with Firefox 0.9-1.0. You can read
more about it at http://nextplease.mozdev.org.
The latest XPI can be found at http://downloads.mozdev.org/nextplease/nextplease.xpi

It's usually easier to reach me at [e-mail] rather than
[e-mail], but hotmail seems to be blocking messages from mozilla.org
(coincidence? hmmm...)

Here's more info about NextPlease! from the website:

Does it frustrate you having to scroll to the bottom of a search results page to
hit that link for the next results?

What about using your notebook's touchpad to navigate to that tiny number link
to get to page 27 of 42?

Are you just plain lazy?

Well, then NextPlease! may be just what you need.

NextPlease! is a highly customizable Firefox extension that allows you to assign
keyboard shortcuts to jump to next and previous links on search results pages,
like Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, and many other sites. 



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Fnord]

Tested ok.

UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0

Random comment: Too bad the Mozilla links toolbar was removed, in theory it was
a standards-compliant way to do this kind of thing.

Comment 2

[Howie Wang]

> Random comment: Too bad the Mozilla links toolbar was removed, in theory it was
> a standards-compliant way to do this kind of thing.

True, but since when do people write standards-compliant web sites :)  If the
links toolbar gets re-enabled, maybe NextPlease! will come in handy as a stopgap
tool for sites that don't use LINK tags. Incidentally, I'm considering adding
support for LINK tags. 

Comment 3

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Bulk Moving Extension/Theme listing bugs to new component.
(Filter: masslistingspam)

Comment 4

[alanjstr]

Your item should now appear on the website.  Please reopen this bug for any
problems or updates.

Comment 5

[Howie Wang]

Sorry about reopening this so soon after you updated, but I have a new version
of this extension. It's version 0.5.0. It's compatible with FireFox 0.9-1.0.

It fixes the following issues:

    * 7960: NextPlease does not work on sites with frames.
    * 7961: Options page is too big for small screens.
    * 7962: NextPlease goes to dictionary.com when searching for the word "next"
    * 7969: Use image/phrase context menu causes duplicate entries
    * 8008: Change keyhandling to use keyset/key elements.

The URL is http://members.cox.net/howie_wang/nextplease.xpi.  Actually the
official URL is 
http://downloads.mozdev.org/nextplease/nextplease.xpi, but it might take a while
for the mirrors to pick it up.

Comment 6

[alanjstr]

The queue has been approved.  Please reopen this bug if you have any issues or
updates.

Comment 7

[Howie Wang]

I just released NextPlease! v0.5.1.

The official URL is http://downloads.mozdev.org/nextplease/nextplease.xpi, but
in case the mirrors take a while to update, you can get it from here:
http://members.cox.net/howie_wang/nextplease.xpi

I was hoping that I could get a couple of changes to the page for NextPlease
while you're updating.

Could I get the main description to read:
NextPlease! is a highly configurable extension that allows you to assign
keyboard shortcuts to jump to next and previous links on search results pages,
like Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Amazon, and many other sites.

And could I get my email on the author page set to [e-mail],
and the home page for the author and extension set to http://nextplease.mozdev.org?

Thanks! You guys are awesome!

Comment 8

[alanjstr]

So you want the email to be publicly available?

Comment 9

[Howie Wang]

Yes, you can make the [e-mail] email publicly available. I already
get so much spam these days that a little more isn't going to make a difference.

Comment 10

[alanjstr]

Darn.  misclicked.

Comment 11

[Howie Wang]

It looks like v0.5.1 didn't make it to the site. I was going to try uploading it
myself using the new interface, but it looks like you guys are still tinkering
with it.

Could you put NextPlease 0.5.1 up? I would have left it alone for a couple of
weeks, but I think some users are running into a serious bug that causes things
not to work at all in 0.5.0.

Here's the link again:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/nextplease/nextplease.xpi

Comment 12

[Howie Wang]

Actually, I've just released 0.6.0 also. 
Could you get 0.5.1 from 
http://members.cox.net/howie_wang/nextplease.0.5.1.xpi

and 0.6.0 from here:
http://members.cox.net/howie_wang/nextplease.xpi

The official URLs are:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/nextplease/nextplease.0.5.1.xpi
http://downloads.mozdev.org/nextplease/nextplease.xpi

But it might take a while for the mirrors to update.

Alan, I hope you don't mind me assigning to you; I was afraid this might get
lost in the cracks.

Comment 13

[Howie Wang]

Shoot. That should be version 0.6.1. 0.6.0 was kind of an unofficial release. 

Comment 14

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The evil bugspam monkeys have attacked again, updating the QA Contact for all Add-ons :: Add-ons bugs (renamed from Listings). Please ignore and go back to work at your cubicle.