[starko]

Hi all,

When reading on a particular subject that interests me i often want to see if there is any information available on this subject on ed2k or Kad networks. I think that pretty much 80% of all my searches originate from the browser. Up until now i have been always forced to select the text (artist name, book title etc) in Firefox, copy it to clipboard, then go to eMule, go to the Search window, paste selected text into the search query text box and click on Start button. Then go back to Firefox! argh...

Never again!

Since version 0.50a eMule accepts and handles new kind of ed2k links, namely ed2k://|search|%s|/ where %s is the search query text.

I just have completed writing a Firefox add-on that allows you to select some text in Firefox and by clickin on the right mouse button select a context menu 'Search eMule for "..."'. That menu item sends the selected text to eMule and it runs a search automatically.



You can find this Add-on on the official Mozilla site : eMuleSearch Firefox Add-on

I hope it will save you as much time as it does to me. Enjoy!

This post has been edited by starko: 02 November 2010 - 04:34 PM

[omeringen]

Thanks for the extension !
But there was no difference after i installed the extension. . . Tested on my vmachine with no other extension installed firefox.

This post has been edited by omeringen: 25 April 2010 - 10:46 PM

[starko]

omeringen, on 25 April 2010 - 11:21 PM, said:

Thanks for the extension !
But there was no difference after i installed the extension. . . Tested on my vmachine with no other extension installed firefox.

It's possible you got bad version - 0.0.2, which existed for only a brief moment and for some reason Mozilla is stuck with it.

Could you please try getting version 0.0.3 and see how it goes?

This post has been edited by starko: 26 April 2010 - 07:40 AM

[omeringen]

No difference. Plus, i noticed this ;


Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3

This post has been edited by omeringen: 25 April 2010 - 10:48 PM

[Tuxman]

Thanks for your add-on, a really great idea, no matter if it works or not.

Maybe I'll find the time to check it soon.



(Rated and voted BTW.)

[starko]

omeringen, on 25 April 2010 - 11:46 PM, said:

No difference. Plus, i noticed this ;

Thanks for your quick feedback.
I think i have found the problem and fixed it in this version

Tuxman, on 25 April 2010 - 11:52 PM, said:

Thanks for your add-on, a really great idea, no matter if it works or not.

Maybe I'll find the time to check it soon.

(Rated and voted BTW.)

Thanks. And i am looking forward to your test results. Especially now that omeringen has problems.

This post has been edited by starko: 26 April 2010 - 07:40 AM

[omeringen]

Yeah, it's working !
Thanks for your work and to the eMule devs of course.

[Tuxman]

(edit: should've read the initial posting)

Installed v0.0.3 ... marked "crashes" on a website and chose "Search with eMule" ... seems to work.

This post has been edited by Tuxman: 26 April 2010 - 12:46 AM

[SS1900]

thx

[Andu]

Tuxman, on 26 April 2010 - 01:59 AM, said:

(edit: should've read the initial posting)

Installed v0.0.3 ... marked "crashes" on a website and chose "Search with eMule" ... seems to work.

You want to dl crashes?

Edit: You need to add the AMO page as home page. Since I'm using nightly builds and your extension is just set to be compatible up to FF3.6 I have to do a manual update every time. For that I need the home page available in the Add-Ons Manager .

This post has been edited by Andu: 26 April 2010 - 12:19 PM

[starko]

Andu, on 26 April 2010 - 01:17 PM, said:

Edit: You need to add the AMO page as home page. Since I'm using nightly builds and your extension is just set to be compatible up to FF3.6 I have to do a manual update every time. For that I need the home page available in the Add-Ons Manager .

This is my first Add-on and i have no idea what you mean. What is an AMO page? How can i facilitate automatic update?. What's the home page in Add-ons manager? Also how do i add my add-on to it?

I did extend compatibility up to v3.7a5pre

This post has been edited by starko: 26 April 2010 - 12:47 PM

[Andu]

AMO = addons.mozilla.org. You already have a page there for your extension. But you need to set that page as the home page of the extension within the extension .

Extending compatibility to 3.7a5 should do the trick. But if something breaks with the daily dev builds some people might expect you to fix it ASAP if you set compatibility like that.

[starko]

Quote

But you need to set that page as the home page of the extension within the extension

You mean in install.rdf? Which URL do i have to set? Just Mozilla addons one or

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/154449

I had a look at other extensions that show up in Firefox's addon manager and on the pages of those extensions they show different Homepage URLs. But those are properties of the Add-on on the site itself.

There are still a few improvements that will be made to the extension:
1. Localization. The framework is all there but no translations yet
2. Support for selections which are parts of a link
3. Add eMule icon to the menu item. This is nice to have thing and will have no priority

This post has been edited by starko: 04 May 2010 - 03:59 PM

[Riso64Bit]

on Xtreme 7.2 i receive

Quote

04/05/2010 10.54.13: Could not add link - Not an eD2K server or file link

v.addon 0.05
Win XP sp3

[Some Support]

You have to use eMule 0.50a or mods based on this version.

[Riso64Bit]

Some Support, on 04 May 2010 - 11:51 AM, said:

You have to use eMule 0.50a or mods based on this version.

ok i'm sorry.

[starko]

Update!

It's been exactly 3 months since this add-on became available. In this time it has been downloaded 3,667 times and at the moment there are 1033 Active Daily Users.
What i found interesting is distribution per locale. Surprisingly most active users are from Italy (310) - 60 more than US (249). And Spain with 165 beats Germany by almost 70. I am trying to figure out the reason for such difference. Could it be, that eMule is more popular in Italy than in Germany? Or is it because there is an Italian translation?

Date - 24 Jun. 2010   
Count - 1033   
it - 310   
en-US - 249   
es-ES - 165   
de - 97   
en-GB - 44   
fr - 27   
zh-CN - 20   
es-AR - 19   
pt-BR - 14   
hu - 11   
tr - 9   
el - 9   
nl - 6   
pl - 5   
zh-TW - 5   
es-MX - 4   
ja - 4   
it-IT - 4   
ru - 3   
hr - 3   
da - 3   
sv-SE - 3   
ko - 2   
ja-JP-mac - 2   
de-DE - 2   
ca - 2   
fr-FR - 2   
pt-PT - 1   
eu - 1   
ar - 1   
sr - 1   
fr-BE - 1   
en-AU - 1   
lv - 1   
id - 1   
he - 1   
sl - 0   
et - 0   
en - 0   
fa - 0   
id-ID - 0   
ro - 0   
es-VE - 0   
tr-TR - 0   
fi - 0   
en-CA - 0   
ru-UA - 0 

This post has been edited by starko: 25 June 2010 - 06:14 PM

[Tuxman]

eMule is, was and has always been a German software, but it has a large user base in China, Spain and Italy. (In quite this order.)

[muhtesem insan]

It has probelm with turkish characters.

[Some Support]

The order is more like Italy, France, Spain, China (with quite a gap) at least for the official version.