Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
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June 6th, @12:49PM
|  Is anyone maintaining the DSLR notifier addon?
I'm curious as to who is maintaining the DSLR Notifier Firefox addon. The home page lists www.dslreports.com. The homepage in the addon is blank and appears to be abandoned.
I've fixed a number of bugs with the current 1.2 version and would like to get in touch with the author/maintainer.
Bugs fixed:
1. Clicking alert slider opens DSL Reports page. Previously it generated an error in the error console.
2. When polling window is closed, another window now takes over. Previously the old window would keep trying to poll which not only failed to work, but resulted in a memory leak.
3. Bypasses cache so polling results will be up to date (helps with proxies that cache).
4. Bumped up version number to install in Firefox 3.0
5. Fixed a few more memory leaks reported by Leak Monitor extension.
6. Fixed issue where if user quit Firefox using File->Exit or browser crashed, the extension wouldn't check when Firefox was started next time.
7. Fixed issue where slider, popup and sound alerts might trigger only once per browser session.
8. Fixed so that changing the "Show icon set on all/single window" and "update interval" preferences takes effect immediately instead of on browser restart.
9. Cleaned up code a bit so there's not as much needless processing going on.
Who ever is in charge, feel free to use the changes (dslrOverlay.js, overlay.xul, overlay-moz.xul, reportstatus.js (defaults), install.js and install.rdf).
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Cudni
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join:2003-12-20
Someshire | Ryan F  , he be the author
Cudni |
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ | Hmm. I see he hasn't logged in for a good number of months and his web site hasn't been updated since 2006. I'm guessing he's not around any more. Anyone have some kind of contact info for him? |
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fatness
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Janitor
join:2000-11-17
fishing | You could try the "email through the site" option on his user page. |
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ | Worth a shot I guess. I sent him a message. Thanks. |
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Lanik
Lab-nik
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join:2001-06-25
Bay Area
 ·DSL EXTREME
| reply to Morac
You brought up a great point there. If you do get in touch with Ryan F that will be great otherwise you can always change the version, the extension name to DSLR Notifier 2 or similar and UID, then submit it to AMO ( »https://addons.mozilla.org ). There are multiple extensions that have been abandoned by their original authors but have been picked up by another person. Usually if the original author is given credit there are no issues.
If you need help making this happen feel free to IM me. 
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justin
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| reply to Morac
thats great! and is there any way to detect when a response gets an error such as 503 (not 200 basically) and if so back off on the checking frequency, or pause for a minute or something? a few users hammer away due to timing issues on their browsers or perhaps the old notifier just allowed that. |
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Weirdal
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Lincoln, NE | reply to Morac
Sweet, I was hoping someone would take over the development. (to at least keep up the compatibility with new FF versions) |
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Cudni
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Someshire | reply to Morac
Just tell us when you are ready to deal with all, inevitable, requests about improving it this and that way 
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
·Comcast
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June 3rd, @09:38AM
| reply to justin
said by justin :thats great! and is there any way to detect when a response gets an error such as 503 (not 200 basically) and if so back off on the checking frequency, or pause for a minute or something? a few users hammer away due to timing issues on their browsers or perhaps the old notifier just allowed that. The way the extension is currently coded, if it gets a 503 response it just ignores it and waits the user specified amount of time before checking again (the same as if it had gotten a 200 response). The default is 1 minute, which I think is excessive to begin with, but that's how it was originally coded. There's nothing preventing a user from manually checking over and over again though.
BTW I'm still seeing a few minor bugs in Firefox 3.0 RC1. For example I just got a slider alert stuck up in the top left corner of my screen which won't go away (I think I know why that's happening though). So I might make a few more changes.
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Gizy
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Lake Oswego, OR | That particular bug isn't from Firefox 3.0. I had it happen a few times with FF 2.0 |
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
·Comcast
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June 3rd, @03:09PM
| reply to Morac
I made a number of other changes to my original fixed version. Here's what's new:
1. Fixed a few more memory leaks reported by Leak Monitor extension.
2. Fixed issue where if user quit Firefox using File->Exit or browser crashed, the extension wouldn't check when Firefox was started next time.
3. Fixed issue where slider, popup and sound alerts might trigger only once per browser session.
4. Fixed so that changing the "Show icon set on all/single window" and "update interval" preferences takes effect immediately instead of on browser restart.
5. Cleaned up code a bit so there's not as much needless processing going on.
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Grail Knight
Who Dares Wins
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join:2003-05-31
Erie, PA
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to Morac
Thanks.
Are you taking feature requests?
Give the extension username/password capability so it can be used to log in without visiting BBR first.
Example;
Gmail Notifier has »https:// login capabilities and it retains username/password and checks email for you logging in manually or automatically.
No need to visit gmail first let the extension do it for you.
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actor90
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L.E.H.T., NJ | reply to Morac
Excellent work. Thank you for picking up on this extension. |
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
·Comcast
| reply to Grail Knight
said by Grail Knight :Are you taking feature requests? I'm not against taking requests as long as they are simple enough. In other words, don't ask me to design a multi-user GUI for it?
said by Grail Knight :Give the extension username/password capability so it can be used to log in without visiting BBR first. Example; Gmail Notifier has » https:// login capabilities and it retains username/password and checks email for you logging in manually or automatically. No need to visit gmail first let the extension do it for you. It depends on how you want this to work. If all you want to do is have the extension log you (one user) in to DSLR automatically and keep you logged in, that is relatively easy to do. I'd still need to add a GUI to enter your username and password as well as actually store the password (which can be a security risk depending on how you set up the browser).
If you want it to login and check without affecting the browser (ie: you could be logged in as one DSLR user and the extension could log in an check another user without affecting you) that would require a complete rewrite of the way the processing works. I still haven't done that with my Yahoo Mail Notifier extension (despite me saying I'm going to do it for over a year), so I highly doubt I'd end up doing it for DSLR notifier.
A better question though is that functionality really even needed? As far as I'm aware, DSLR keeps you logged in a good number of weeks without requiring you to re-enter your password and when you do need to, the extension let's you know. After that it takes all of a few seconds to log in.
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
·Comcast
| reply to Morac
said by Morac :For example I just got a slider alert stuck up in the top left corner of my screen which won't go away (I think I know why that's happening though). I'm still seeing this in my latest version, but it doesn't happen consistently so I don't know why it's occurring. My other extension doesn't have this problem, so I'll see if I can track it down. In the mean time I've found that you can just click on the window and hit ALT-F4 and it will close the slider.
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Grail Knight
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join:2003-05-31
Erie, PA | reply to Morac
Did not hurt to ask. |
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Bobby_Peru
Premium
join:2003-06-16 | reply to Morac
Whoa! Way to go Morac ! Where has Ryan been, anyway? |
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
·Comcast
| reply to Morac
Just uploaded a newer version. Nothing new, I just optimized something and tweaked the error messages you get when it fails to log in.
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JAAulde
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join:2001-05-09
Hagerstown, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| Is this Firefox 3 compatible right now? While I am able to download it from the original post in this thread and get it installed, it keeps showing me that I am not logged in.
I stay logged in to dslreports.com, and choose that domain in the options. However, I notice there are only 3 choices for domain...an empty selection, dslreports.com, and dslr.org. I choose dslreports.com, but when I close the options and look again, it is back to the empty selection.
Firefox 3.0, Mac OS 10.5.3
Thanks,
Jim |
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