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I have installed it and it doesn't work. In the Mozilla addons page it just says " Pinpointer error ". In this HN page, it prompts me to select and click a green button, but fails to do anything. It's an interesting concept, keep going! edit: Firefox 62.0b9 (32-bit) in up-to-date Ubuntu 16.04, with uMatrix and other extensions running.
"It requires your permission to: Access your data for all web sites" I wish Firefox had a permission along the lines of 'Access all data from pages on which I activate the extension', which is presumably all this would need.
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You should post such a generated link here as an example, so people can immediately try it by clicking on it.
Good point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#aHRtbCA%2BIGJvZ... (I wasn't kidding about needing to shorten those links.)
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You should post such a generated link here as an example, so people can immediately try it by clicking on it.
Good point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#aHRtbCA%2BIGJvZ... (I wasn't kidding about needing to shorten those links.)
You may want to add an option to select only from the anchors/ids from the page to generate links which work in any browser.
Though there may already be an extension for this.
"It requires your permission to: Access your data for all web sites" I wish Firefox had a permission along the lines of 'Access all data from pages on which I activate the extension', which is presumably all this would need.
[1] https://github.com/Rumperuu/Pinpointer/blob/master/content_s...
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Good point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#aHRtbCA%2BIGJvZ... (I wasn't kidding about needing to shorten those links.)
It kind of defeats the point that you need the extension to view the generated links. You may want to add an option to select only from the anchors/ids from the page to generate links which work in any browser. Though there may already be an extension for this.
"It requires your permission to: Access your data for all web sites" I wish Firefox had a permission along the lines of 'Access all data from pages on which I activate the extension', which is presumably all this would need.
As yoklov said, I had to have a small script[1] run a quick check on every page you visit to check if the URL is a Pinpointer URL. As far as I can tell there's no way around this (and I'd say breaking backwards compatibility with HTTP is a bit drastic for a little browser extension like this). [1] https://github.com/Rumperuu/Pinpointer/blob/master/content_s...
EDIT: Or tabs.onUpdated if webNavigation doesn't fire for hash changes[2]
[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/AP...
I wanted to try making a browser extension and it seemed weird to me that there didn't seem to exist any means of linking to specific elements on a web page if they hadn't been given IDs to make a fragment identifier out of, so I made this. You select a page element and generate a link, which you can then share. For someone without the extension, the link will work as normal and just take them to the page, but someon…
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You should post such a generated link here as an example, so people can immediately try it by clicking on it.
Good point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela#aHRtbCA%2BIGJvZ... (I wasn't kidding about needing to shorten those links.)