and here I was, all excited about a base64 encoding extension so I can read
your e-mails.
Klint
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From: Angus Scott-Fleming [angu...@geoapps.com]
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 1:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: My First Firefox Extension
Last week Jerry Pournelle, one of my all-time favorite authors, complained in
his online colum Chaos Manor Reviews that there was a GoToGoogle extension for
Firefox but no GoToBing extension. Well, I looked at the source for GTG and it
was trivial to convert it to GTB, so I did.
------- Included Stuff Follows -------
Chaos Manor Reviews Column 347, June 11, 2009
... Alas, when I wanted to experiment with Bing, I found there is no
comparable "Go to Bing" extension.
--------- Included Stuff Ends ---------
http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com//oa/2009/20090611_col.php
It puts a "Bing" icon in your status bar. Clicking the "b" opens a new tab at
Bing.
It's available for download here:
Go To Bing :: Add-ons for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12423
If you're paranoid (as I am ;-) about unapproved extensions, you can examine
the contents by renaming the .xpi to .zip; this will allow you to look at the
contents with any .zip archive manager. There's really nothing to this trivial
extension. Rename it back to .xpi to install it.
Enjoy!
Angus
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