274756 - Add Extension: Generic URL Creator

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

GUC (Generic URL Creator) helps you create URLs on the fly from the selected
text. Select some text, right click and look it up on your favourite site using
the context menu. You can add as many URL creation rules as you want. Very
convenient for search engine, directory, bug databases and other query look ups.
The search string can be a JScript regular expression. If the search string is
not found, the menu item will not be displayed.

Current version of the extension is 0.2 and works for both Thunderbird and
Firefox. I have tested it on the 1.0 versions of the programs.

E-mail address - [e-mail]
Extension homepage - http://guc.sourceforge.net
URL to .xpi file -
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guc/guc-0.2.xpi

Comment 1

[Samir L. Boulema]

Tested on Firefox 1.0 and it works correctly :)

Also tested on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6)
Gecko/20041214 Firefox/1.0+
And then it crashes firefox everytime i try to save an edited entry.

Comment 2

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Tested on Firefox 1.0 and it works correctly :)
> 
Nice

> Also tested on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6)
> Gecko/20041214 Firefox/1.0+
> And then it crashes firefox everytime i try to save an edited entry.
Forgive my ignorance :) What is Firefox 1.0+? Is that the same as Firefox 1.0PR?
It sounds like it is a version after 1.0 (current dev version). Where should I
download it from? Can I safely ignore the crash on this version (well my
thinking is that it should be a firefox bug)?

How do you like the extension, btw ;)?

Comment 3

[Tristor]

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

Installs and Uninstalls fine.  Works as advertised.

A note to the author:

You may need to modify how the extension calls wikipedia because of how
wikipedia does spacing.  Taking for example, if I highlighted the words "regular
expression" above in your description.  When calling it with the extension it
takes me to 
<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular%20expression">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular%20expression</a>

as opposed to where the actual wikipedia page is:
<a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression</a>

Instead of spaces (%20), wikipedia uses underscores (_).  

Just a thought, and just a btw, this is a very useful extension :d

Comment 4

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041206
Thunderbird/1.0

Installs fine, works properly, uninstalls fine.

Comment 5

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Hi,
Thanks for trying this out. I am aware of the problem with the wikipedia URL. It
should however work nonetheless. For the next release, I am planning some sort
search and replace mechanism to create URL's (for example, replace all spaces
with underscores).

Thank you,
Girish

(In reply to comment #3)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/1.0
> 
> Installs and Uninstalls fine.  Works as advertised.
> 
> A note to the author:
> 
> You may need to modify how the extension calls wikipedia because of how
> wikipedia does spacing.  Taking for example, if I highlighted the words "regular
> expression" above in your description.  When calling it with the extension it
> takes me to 
> <a
>
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular%20expression">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular%20expression</a>
> 
> as opposed to where the actual wikipedia page is:
> <a
>
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression</a>
> 
> Instead of spaces (%20), wikipedia uses underscores (_).  
> 
> Just a thought, and just a btw, this is a very useful extension :d

Comment 6

[Jens Bannmann]

Marking tested+ according to comment 1, comment 3 and comment 4.

Comment 7

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

The GUC project is officially online on mozdev.
http://guc.mozdev.org

The download URL is now,
http://guc.mozdev.org/installation.html
(its the same as the one that was posted on source forge)

Comment 8

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Please note the following changes
Extension homepage - http://guc.mozdev.org

URL to .xpi file -
http://downloads.mozdev.org/guc/guc-latest.xpi
(This is the same as guc-0.2 which has been marked tested)

Comment 9

[Girish Ramakrishnan]

Just to make sure I got the process (https://addons.update.mozilla.org/about/)
right, I just need to wait for the whiteboard status to have the status "In
Queue". If there is anything else I need to do please let me know.

Girish

Comment 10

[alanjstr]

Please use the Developer Control Panel to upload your addon
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/developers/

Comment 11

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

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