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Icons needed

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 [...]

Embedded Objects updated

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.

Embedded Objects 1.8 released

Mozilla Foundation just approved the new version of Embedded Objects. This version fixes a bug with some QuickTime videos and has improved mimetype detection. You can download it here.

Embedded Objects 1.7 released

I just finished the new version of Embedded Objects. I fixed a small bug that prevented downloading Apple HD trailers, it works great now. I also improved the code a little bit, now when you try to download a QuickTime (.mov) file, instead of downloading the entire file and then inspecting it to look for [...]

Embedded Objects

Essa é uma extensão que eu escrevi há algum tempo. Meu objetivo principal ao escrever essa extensão era aprender a arquitetura interna do Mozilla/Firefox e o mecanismo de extensões do browser. A extensão mostra uma setinha esquerda no canto inferior direito da tela sempre que um conteúdo dentro das tags <applet>, <embed>, <object> ou <bgsound> [...]