Hi,

I think you can achieve this by using preferences.

Here's how: 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Adding_preferences_to_an_extension#startup%28%29

If you need to store a lot of data, you should use the Storage API:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Storage

Bye,
Pas

Jeff Weitzel wrote:
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> I'm also working on a command that would be a lot niftier if it could  
> store some preferences somewhere that would persist across firefox  
> sessions and command reloads.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:41 PM, dplepage wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>   I have a private mediawiki installation that I use to collect
>> miscellaneous notes from meetings, etc. I wrote a little command
>> called 'wiki' to automatically open new pages on my wiki for editing,
>> so that I can type e.g. "wiki GLunch." and have it open up http:// 
>> <path
>> to my wiki>/Glunch/04/22/2009?action=edit. I also added a noun type
>> that uses the mediawiki api to get a list of existing pages and
>> suggest them. I have two questions:
>>
>> 1) Since the wiki is password protected, if I'm not logged in the
>> attempt to generate suggestions pops up an authentication window. This
>> is irritating because if I'm looking for a different command but it
>> starts with 'w', Ubiquity suggests my wiki command and tries to get
>> the page list, forcing me to authenticate before I can keep typing. Is
>> there a way I can check whether I'm authenticated and forgo the
>> suggestions if I'm not?
>>
>> 2) I can't usefully share the script with other people because the URL
>> of my private wiki is hard-coded. Is there anything analogous to
>> environment variables that I could set on my browser, so that other
>> people with mediawiki installations could use it for their wikis
>> without needing their own copy of it? If so, how do I access it?
>>
>> You can see the command here: http://gist.github.com/100168
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Dan Lepage
>>
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> 


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