Jesse Ruderman, for those of you who don't know him, is one of Mozilla's top security experts. He's responsible for a huge number of exploits discovered and fixed. In addition to that, he runs The Burning Edge, a daily view into what's new in Mozilla Firefox. And if that wasn't enough, he's also the master bookmarklet writer. Today, I see he's created a new bookmarklet that just kicks ass. The new bookmarklet, called flash seek bar, adds a nifty seek bar for Flash animations.
I challenge you to give it a look and not find yourself poking around Jesse's site for the rest of the day :)
Posted by asa at July 19, 2004 06:14 AMcan't believe pornzilla wasn't mentioned..j/k :P
http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/
It would be cool when Mozilla Firefox 1.0 would include some useful bookmarklets for e.g. turning off page colors etc. or a simple link to good collections like Jesse's.
Of course with an explanation what they do ;-)
Sida, if you have any suggestions for improving my explanation of what bookmarklets are, I'd love to hear it. I've rewritten it several times but I'm still not happy with it.
Posted by: Jesse Ruderman on July 20, 2004 12:27 PMI accept your challenge: I poked around there yesterday for hours, so I've seen most of it. :-P
(Now I just have to not go back and look at everything again...)
Posted by: dolphinling on July 20, 2004 12:40 PMText that might been improvable:
* Top of http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/. Maybe it could use screenshots, but I'm not sure what the screenshots should be of.
* Italicized text at the top of http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagelinks.html. The same text appears on most pages on the site.
* Name and one-line description of each bookmarklet.
* Name and descripiton of each category.
If some bookmarklets were included with Firefox, the text would be most similar to the first or the second, although it might be limited to how to use bookmarklets rather than how to "install" and use them.
Posted by: Jesse Ruderman on July 20, 2004 01:34 PM