Window-Q 0.1 d10 (complete single-window)

TheOneKEA · Post by **TheOneKEA** » October 6th, 2004, 12:32 pm

rue can't use Fx Aviary nightly builds because of his platform - if he does choose to update Window-Q, though, a fair bit of its "native" functionality will be removed due to conflict with the builtin browser features; the same thing happened to TBP.

rue · Post by **rue** » October 6th, 2004, 6:51 pm

Everyone running ~Firefox 1.0 should be very happy -- the new, native code for Single Window beats pretty much anything one could pull, extension-side.
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The only remaining feature Window-Q offers is its (rad) sized-popups. If I did release a new version, it would be intelligent, and scale back for newer Firefox builds, basically only offering that one feature. Personally, I have no idea how widespread this extension's use is, or if anyone would even care.
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Naturally, I'll continue private maintenance for my own designs.

TychoQuad · Post by **TychoQuad** » October 6th, 2004, 10:05 pm

An extension not listed at update.mozilla.org would in no way gain the popularity of an extension not listed there these days. Mainly because Firefox itself links to there, and people know to get extensions there, but also because extensions update themselves possibly without having to download new files.

The single window code works for the most part, and with a few more bugs filed here and there, should be fine. But it still doesn't do your cool stuff with javascript windows. I would love a version of your extension chopped down to just pull this off. I'm sure there has been lots of cool changes you have made to it that I haven't seen yet, as I have been unable to update as of late.

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » October 7th, 2004, 6:46 am

rue wrote:Everyone running ~Firefox 1.0 should be very happy -- the new, native code for Single Window beats pretty much anything one could pull, extension-side.
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The only remaining feature Window-Q offers is its (rad) sized-popups. If I did release a new version, it would be intelligent, and scale back for newer Firefox builds, basically only offering that one feature. Personally, I have no idea how widespread this extension's use is, or if anyone would even care.
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Naturally, I'll continue private maintenance for my own designs.

Maybe it is time to shelve Window Q then and come out with something new, to differentiate it, or just rename it and release with the reduced features and new name.

xeen · Post by **xeen** » October 7th, 2004, 10:40 am

do you mean with single window the extension? i dropped it as the popup blocker doesn't work anymore with it, i already mailed the author but he didn't publish an update yet

the best thing would be if firefox would have itself a single window option like opera has which would be much more comfortable and logic, i think this is a basic feature for comfortable browsing...xeen

Post by **kstahl** » October 8th, 2004, 12:58 pm

xeen,

The latest nightlies have that function. Catches JS links and everything.

f4lc0n · Post by **f4lc0n** » October 8th, 2004, 5:33 pm

kstahl wrote:xeen,
Catches JS links and everything.

Not yet they don't.

xeen · Post by **xeen** » October 13th, 2004, 3:11 am

but now they have

looking forward to 1.0

xeen

Parkotron · Post by **Parkotron** » October 31st, 2004, 3:47 pm

I think there would be serious interest in a scaled down, sized windows only version of WindowQ. I think the biggest thing impeding it's popularity earlier was that it was available and discussed really only through this thread. I think a renamed sized popups extension would do very well, were it added to the official update page.

MvD · Post by **MvD** » November 1st, 2004, 7:05 am

kstahl wrote:xeen,

The latest nightlies have that function. Catches JS links and everything.

Not anymore they don't! Bug 266759

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » November 1st, 2004, 7:33 am

MvD wrote:
kstahl wrote:xeen,

The latest nightlies have that function. Catches JS links and everything.

Not anymore they don't! Bug 266759

TheOneKEA · Post by **TheOneKEA** » November 1st, 2004, 7:56 am

How fortunate that I chose to continue TBP's development - the bug referenced doesn't remove the code entirely, it just hides the controls for it. Since TBP provides an alternate set of controls.... no huhu!