Get File Size Extension

Clint1 · Post by **Clint1** » October 18th, 2004, 1:07 am

Well I tried them both and I don't see any difference between them. It says on the page "Show the filesize when hovering over a link", but that doesn't work. I get nothing on either one of them while hovering. I have to right click then "properties" to see the info. Does anyone know why? :omg:

mastavic · Post by **mastavic** » October 18th, 2004, 2:08 am

Clint1 wrote:
MaStAViC wrote:Sorry, I didn't read all five pages of text but only the last two pages. Is there an updated version of Get File Size around? I want to use it for 1.0PR. Thank you.

Yes, someone posted that above somewhere.
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=328
I don't know how the two downloads differ though. Maybe someone can answer that. I tried the first one and it works. But I don't get any "hover" info.

Thanks! And the hover-over-link thing doesn't work for me either.

sboulema · Post by **sboulema** » October 18th, 2004, 4:33 am

The second one will also install one a 1.0 nbuild, where the first one will give an incompatible error...

Clint1 · Post by **Clint1** » October 20th, 2004, 6:35 am

I don't recall anyone mentioning it, but the "hover info" is on the status bar @lower left of the browser window. So, this getfilesizestatusbar0_1.xpi works fine on 1.0PR, but it won't install on .9.3. It doesn't "complain", it appears to install, but it's not on the extension list and is not installing. I didn't see any mention it was specifically for v1.0PR.

Clint1 · Post by **Clint1** » October 23rd, 2004, 6:25 am

Can anyone answer that please, why this won't work in .9.3?

sbc · Post by **sbc** » December 30th, 2004, 5:26 am

Any chance that this will be updated (I'm sure a few use this) - would be good if it was on Mozilla Update.

VaMPiRiC_CRoW · Post by **VaMPiRiC_CRoW** » May 22nd, 2005, 7:32 am

How can I use this extension on the last version of Firefox?

Thanks

Clint1 · Post by **Clint1** » May 22nd, 2005, 8:58 am

VaMPiRiC_CRoW wrote:How can I use this extension on the last version of Firefox?

Thanks

If no one answers you I may be able to help, just post it again. I'm just really busy now.

It involves changing the XPI acceptance version number within FF, do you know how to do that? This works with most XPI's, but not all.

Chris Wood · Post by **Chris Wood** » June 8th, 2005, 1:44 am

Clint1, are you sure that's all that needs to be done?

Clint1 · Post by **Clint1** » June 8th, 2005, 5:49 am

Chris Wood wrote:Clint1, are you sure that's all that needs to be done?

Yeah, I don't recall it ever not working for me but I have heard that it may not work with ALL extensions that are too old. I don't have FF installed anymore so I can't give you the exact steps. It's been almost a year since I've messed with it. One method is (again, going from memory) is I THINK typing something like about:config in the address bar (is that right?) then you have to search for something else and I can't remember what. It is this that you search for that displays the extension version accepted by FF. I think in my cases if it showed "1.0" or maybe ".10" and I changed that to .9 and the extensions worked.

In rare cases when that did not work, you can unpack the xpi extension. (Again going from memory long ago), the xpi file is basically a zipped file with a different extension. Change .xpi to .zip and open it with Winzip. There's an "Install.rdf" file and open that in Notepad and you can scroll down to see the versions of FF it will support. If it shows something like .9, you can change that to 1.0 or whatever (to the FF version of what you're using). I can't remember if there is another file you also have to do that to. Then you close the file and save it, zip the files back up being sure to zip again with the .xpi extension, and it should work. I'm probably leaving out some steps here but I'm sure others here can give more details or the full steps.

There have been a few new versions of FF since I used it, so FAIK these methods may not even work anymore.

Chris Wood · Post by **Chris Wood** » June 8th, 2005, 12:17 pm

Yep, that'll work, unless the extension really is incompatible.

ieremiou · Post by **ieremiou** » June 8th, 2005, 10:28 pm

It's not incompatible from what I can tell. It's always worked since I installed it in all itterations of Firefox from 0.9 to 1.0+.

sbc · Post by **sbc** » September 29th, 2005, 1:43 am

For Deepark/Firefox 1.5, it is known as Extended Link Properties and is available at https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/m ... fox&id=798

Duke D · Post by **Duke D** » September 30th, 2005, 5:45 pm

Would it be possible for the file size to show on the download screen you know the one that tells u if u want to save or open and such..?? Because I would really use this for when i install files that im not quite sure of the size, just wondering

brody · Post by **brody** » November 16th, 2005, 10:09 am

I thought I would make you aware of what some may view as a security hole in both Get File Size and Extended Link Properties.

The following lines which obviously set the referer for the request will send local file specs as a referer:

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if(nsPreferences.getIntPref("network.http.sendRefererHeader",2) > 1)
    this.channel.setRequestHeader('Referer',referer, null);

To verify this, open your bookmarks file in the browser, and get the properties for a bookmark and look at the referer that was sent.

This is remedied easily enough by using the following in place of the above lines:

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if(nsiPreferences.getIntPref("network.http.sendRefererHeader",2) > 1 
    && referer.scheme.toUpperCase() != "FILE")
    this.channel.setRequestHeader('Referer',referer.spec, null);

So that the referer will not be sent for local files.