Thursday, August 18, 2011
A new version of Embedded Objects has been approved by Mozilla foundation.
This new version drops support for 3.x versions of Firefox and has a few small tweaks to better support the newer versions of Firefox.
I am still working on it, but I expect to remove the use of the auto discovery of content, which is making it slow to people who uses Facebook.
I also will change the user interface, removing it form the status bar (add-on bar) and moving it to the menu.
If you enjoy this add-on, you can place a small donation or send me a book, it will be much appreciated.
If you are still using Embedded Objects you should start looking for an alternative.
While I updated it to somehow support Firefox 4, I do not intend to update it anymore, it will just linger there and eventually stop working in some future version of Firefox.
The reason is that I do not see a reason to keep investing in it anymore, some of my goals with it was to learn JavaScript and functional programming, both of which I already achieved.
A lot of video sites are moving towards supporting the HTML5 <video> tag, making this add-on kind of pointless, since you can see and download any objects in the page’s property window. Also, some sites (Hulu, for instance) now use Flash’s RTMP protocol, making quite hard to download their videos.
Wow, the German CHIP magazine published a nice review of my extension.
A lot of people have been asking me to add a toolbar button to Embedded Objects. I’m willing to do it, but I need a pretty icon to identify it.
Since I’m no graphic designer, it’d be great if someane could create a few icons for me (PNG, alpha channel, 16×16 and 32×32 sizes). A rounded square with an EO placed inside will be fine, although I’m open to other ideas.
If you are a graphic designer that’s your chance contribute with Embedded Objects.
The new version is available at Add-ons for Firefox. That’s the list of improvements:
- added support to F4V Flash videos. The extension now tries to discover .mp4, .flv and .f4v videos;
- added a button to clean the history of discovered files.
As always, I’m open to new suggestions.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
I finally added support to Flash Video (.flv) in Embedded Objects 2.1.1.
It’s working with a bunch of video sites:
There are a few rough edges, especially with YouTube HD videos, that should be fixed in the next version. Unfortunately, I couldn’t test it with Hulu, because the assholes block people outside US from viewing their videos.
I also removed the cache support from the quick list of downloads. Firefox doesn’t cache big files, and a lot of people were complaining that EO stopped working when downloading big files.
You can still try to download the file from the cache in the detail window.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Well, it took almost 2 months and a complaint, but Embedded Objects 2.0 was finally reviewed.
This version brings 2 fixes:
- Apple Trailers support: Apple keeps trying to block downloading from their site (and I’ll keep trying to stop their games)
- Support to Firefox’s cache: when Firefox loads a page for the first time it caches everything it founds: flash objects, music, video and applets. In previous versions, Embedded Objects would download an item again, now it’ll try to use the cached element instead.
The download is here.
Just Mozilla’s review process.
I submitted a new version on September 1, that corrects 2 bugs brought to my attention:
1 – it uses the browser cache now, which should make easier to people with slow connections to download content (no more downloading 2 times the same file);
2 – it’s possible to download trailers from Apple website again (I had to change the QuickTime code to avoid Apple’s shenanigans).
I just hope someday Mozilla will make it available to users.
Depois de conseguir recuperar o meu EZ-FLASH 3-in-1, me deparei com um problema estranho: a página de seleção da expansão de RAM ou do Rubble não estava mais aparecendo.
Reparei que o soft-reset do MoonShell (o ícone com um R que aparece no canto superior direito) estava desativado:
Como essas opções só funcionam em expansões que têm soft-reset, experimentei ativar novamente o soft-reset (tocando no ícone) e as opções apareceram novamente no menu do GBA ExpLoader.
Meu EZ-FLASH 3-in-1 travou outro dia quando fui ativar o rubble. Mesmo depois de resetar o DS, toda vez que eu abria o GBA ExpLoader ele travava logo na tela inicial e nenhum botão funcionava.
Como o último jogo que eu tinha carregado na memória NOR antes do problema começar continuava funcionando (dando boot via slot-2 no MoonShell), eu estava desconfiado que era algum problema no software e não no hardware do meu 3-in-1. Testei tentar usar uma versão anterior do ExpLoader e consegui recuperar meu 3-in-1.
Bastou baixar e rodar o GBA ExpLoader 0.53, o 3-in-1 passou a funcionar novamente. Inclusive, rodei depois a versão 0.58b novamente e meu 3-in-1 não deu mais problema, jogos de GBA, expansão de RAM e rubble estão funcionando novamente.