Add-ons
JoeG
About me
| Name | JoeG |
|---|---|
| User since | March 5, 2007 |
| Number of add-ons developed | 0 add-ons |
| Average rating of developer's add-ons | Not yet rated |
My Reviews
Toolbar Buttons
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Here I'd like to repeat Caerus's comments, "The add-on itself I love. One of my 'must-haves'."
I only use "Page Fonts" and "Minimum Font Size", but I use them relatively frequently and they're life savers. The fact that this add-on is now broken (as of Fx 55) is a real bummer.
The author replied to Caerus that he's busy and apparently otherwise preoccupied. That's extremely bad news.
In any case, I wish the author all the best in his studies and his future in general. I only hope that some day he'll be willing and able to update this great add-on.
Actually, with the advent of web extensions, I think a lot is going to change with Firefox, and I mean for the worse.
In any case, the two buttons I've mentioned are very useful to me and more than justify the five stars as far as I'm concerned.
Download Status Bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
As of today (08 March 2016), there's an updated version (13.4.2.1-signed).
I've installed it in both the latest Beta (v. 45) and Nightly (v. 48). As far as I'm able to see, it works fine in both - and I have 40+ other extensions installed!
Thanks to the dev.
Download Status Bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
If you apply the fix mentioned in a recent Forum posting, everything works fine in Nightly again.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=2782661&p=14486627#p14486627
Download Status Bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
The functionalities of this extension are well thought out and well programmed.
It's a million times more helpful than Fx's native download capabilities. The ability to automatically virus-scan files, open the download folder, etc. are very practical.
Unfortunately, with the code changes to Fx Nightly of 07Jan16, the extension (v. 12.3.0.1-signed) - along with several others - got broken.
For me, having this extension functioning is more important than keeping up with what the Fx devs are up to, so I've gone back to the Nightly of 06Jan16.
It would be great if the extension dev could find some time to get it functioning again.
Thanks very much in advance.
Download Status Bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great!
If the dev really has nothing to do, how about a setting to change the color of the "Downloads" and Clear" buttons?
Thanks for the great work!
Download Status Bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
The Options window is now truly "professional", and all of the functions I've set for my personal configuration work as selected.
Thank you very much for a top-quality extension and a crucial addition to Firefox.
In my opinion, it's light years ahead of what the Moz devs have come up with in both concept and implementation.
Super!
Download Status Bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This extension now permits addressing the Options from the AOM. Fantastic!
Thank you for the amazing and effective amount of work you've done over the last couple of days.
Download Status Bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This just keeps getting better and better!
I've just updated to the new version (on Win XP), and everything works as it says on my machine.
The only thing that's missing for me is that clearing the extension downloads doesn't clear the native Fx download panel, but I guess this might not be technically possible.
In closing, I have to confess that I'm not a "big-league" download person; those who are might need some additional functionality.
Download Status Bar
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've now downloaded 1.6.19 and am using it with Holly (Fx 29) on both 32-bit WinXP and 64-bit Win 7. In both cases I'm using the Red Cats Green Flavor theme.
All in all I'm VERY happy with the extension so far. It basically does everything I want in a way I find aesthetically pleasing.
The options panel is good, though it could be a bit smaller.
Setting up the automatic antivirus scan is super, and it works with Norton Internet Security 2014 perfectly.
I have a big monitor (actually three), so the extra bar above Status-4-Evar doesn't bother me at all.
I have three suggestions, but I'm not sure if they're technically possible.
1. It would be great if canceling and clearing the downloads in the extension would also clear them from the Fx library panel, too.
2. An Option to "Open the 'Save to' directory automatically after the download is completed" would be much appreciated.
3. An Option to "Close Bar automatically after Download is completed" would also be very helpful.
Again, my sincere thanks for this EXTREMELY useful extension.
SmoothWheel
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've used this great add-on with no problem for years, but some recent changes to the Nightly (v.21 beginning about 10 Feb) have apparently broken something.
When the mouse is at the very left border of the monitor, it works as expected. When it's to the right of the site's main text, it works sometimes.
However, on sites including EBay.de, Spiegel.de, the BBC, and many others, when the mouse is in the middle of the monitor or anywhere over the main text section of the site, there is no vertical scrolling at all.
I'm using an identical Logitech mouse with the same driver on another computer using Aurora, and here everything is fine.
German Dictionary
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
This is a complete re-edit of my reviews.
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Thanks to help from people on the Mozilla forums, with a little bit of fiddling in the install.rdf file, I was able to get this to install and work perfectly with Thunderbird 2.0.0.25pre and Firefox Namoroka. It worked perfectly "out of the box" with Aurora and the 64-bit Nightly.
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P.S. In regard to the review from "chruschow", 2.0.2 worked perfectly on my 64-bit version of the Nightly using, of course, 64-bit Win 7. The update to 2.0.3 on that machine also worked perfectly. I'm not sure what the problem with chruschow's installation is.
Having said this, I might add that my profile for the Win7 machine was a re-worked copy of the one from my 32-bit Win XP machine, on which 2.0.2 was already functioning properly, i.e. I never actually tried to install 2.0.2 on 64-bit Win 7 or the FF 64-bit Nightly.
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P.P.S. I'm not sure what the poster who's had trouble with "mixed-up letters" is referring to. I've never noticed any problem of this type with this extension.
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