Resizable Textarea Extension for Firefox 1.5

One reason only: PRGoogleBar went away.. they haven't had an update, and the site itself is offline. The alternative (having it in the status bar) is nowhere near as attractive. I'm sticking with 1.07 til 1.5 is officially released.

maybe you haven't heard of this one yet:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=958

makes all extensions compatible (meaning those < than current FF version load, since lots of ext's are slow to be upgraded)

By all means, if you feel like it, make a comment on Firefox bug #311998 about how the extension versioning is badly broken from a user perspective.

Jeremy ate my link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311998

I was surprised to find that 1.5rc3 can't display the lower frames of the phpMyAdmin (via Y! Webhosting) page. Not exactly a razzle-dazzle challenge. No problem for 1.0.7. Go figure.

> if you still haven't tried Firefox (especially version 1.5), what are you waiting for?

Non RC version...

Just to clarify the link BillyG posted to the Nightly Tester Tools (for anyone who wanders by here and reads it without context): it only *marks* extensions as being compatible with your current version of Firefox. If something has changed between 1.0 and 1.5 (or between the beta and 1.5) that actually breaks the way the extension works, it won't help, and may actually make things worse by telling Firefox it's okay to run it.

Most (or possibly all) of the extensions I've used work fine after being marked compatible using NTT, but it's something to watch out for.

In the spirit of the hacker ethic.

thanks

You are correct Kelson, I've been using this since Lifehacker passed it on a few weeks back and haven't had any problems so I figured I'd pass it on... no problems but in fact, not all of my extensions are working still (that used to work) so hopefully the next release will correct this

OT - I'm getting really sick of Bloglines, I just read this feed last night (obviously lol).

In part, I'm waiting for tomorrow (http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39237442,00.htm) but mostly I'm waiting to hear all of my favorite extensions are ready for 1.5.

Thanks Jeremy, that works great. One of the best extensions out there.

You have my eternal devotion: I was going nuts without this extension, and thus kicking myself for upgrading to 1.5! Thank you, thank you!

you said:

This differs from the original version only in the metadata provided to Firefox. I had to increase the alowable maximum Firefox version number--that's it.

How did you do this as ive made an extension and it wont work in 1.5 maybe ive got to do the same as you had to?

Lee

I've been searching for an extension that does this all week. Was using a bookmarklet, but this is far superior as the bookmarklet only made it higher, not wider. My eternal thanks to you Jeremy! Nice work.

This is the best kind of extension - really simple and subtle in use, but once it's taken away you miss the effect!

Holy cow, what a great extension. This really is easy to use, and makes several of my critical sites with tiny text boxes much easier to use. Thanks so much Jeremy!

Wes

why isn't this extension on the mozilla site?

Jeremy, I keep getting a "dowload error" when I click on the plugin link, from my home computer. Strangely, the link worked great on my office computer for FF1.5. Is there an alternate way to get this extension enabled? Something I can edit or delete?

Will you make it installable in Firefox 2 Beta 2?

Yeah, I should do that.

Badly waiting for the Firefox 2 ready version.. thankyou!

I wish this functionality was just rolled into Firefox by default. I live in dread that this plugin won't work with newer updates and it is SO useful.

How the heck do you use this? Maybe a little description somewhere on this site would be useful. I am far from a newbie and yet I can find no way to implement this to see how it works. Installed from this site, closed and restarted browser (1.5.0.7) and nothing. Went to a site that extends off the page and tried to resize... no right-click context, no options, no icon. How do you implement it?

I don't want to start getting copies all over the place, so I will delete this copy if
an update appears here, but I have upped the maxversion (to 2.0.0.*) and put it at

http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~ccjpb/Resizeable_Textarea_0.1c.xpi

Tried installing John's version in v2.0 and got a message that it's not compatible.

#> How the heck do you use this?

Just point to any edge or corner of a text area and click and drag it, the way you'd resize a window.

Jeremy et al, I've released a new version of this plugin called Resizeable Form Fields for Firefox that works with single line text boxes and select boxes, in addition to textareas. I'm also submitting it to addons.mozilla.org so we can depend on longer term maintenance of this excellent plugin.

Whoops, here's the URL for Resizeable Form Fields:
http://justinsomnia.org/2006/10/resizeable-form-fields-for-firefox/

(didn't see the "No HTML tags" warning)

Could you please just bump the maxVersion and tell Justin Watt not to use your UUID? "Resizeable Form Fields" has some problems (despite the fact that resizing *any* form field seems unnecessary), while your extension actually works with trunk builds.

Dao,

I felt the same so a version with bumped maxversion and forked
UUID is at
http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~ccjpb/Resizeable_Textarea_0.1d.xpi
(E & OE) - you will need to manually uninstall any other
versions.

I think that it is Raik Jürgens UUID.

Thanks John
I have also experienced problems with Resizeable Form Fields, so its nice to be able to return to the good, old and reliable original Resizeable Textarea again.

i want to undo the change to "textarea a HTML control" by pressing ctrl+z using javascript but the "textarea" is made readonly.

I have made a feature request to integrate "resizable textarea" to Firefox.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467516

You can vote for it.