add-on updated again

[darkoshi]

I made another update to my ToggleDocumentColors add-on today (version 1.4.20120122), for a bug related to the one I worked on yesterday.

According to the add-on's Statistics Dashboard, it currently has over 200 daily users.

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If you are a user of the add-on, and want to report any bugs, feel free to reply to this post.

Comments

love your add on, looking forward to next update

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, Just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love your add-on. I have poor vision and toggledocumentcolors allows me to use high contrast color schemes on most web pages.

I will delay updating to the new version of firefox until your add-on is compatible. Please keep up the great work and thank you very very much for putting your time into developing this tool.

-JC

Re: love your add on, looking forward to next update

[darkoshi]

Starting with Firefox 10, add-ons are supposed to be treated as "Compatible by default" during the Firefox upgrade process. For some reason which I haven't yet figured out, this wasn't working right for my add-on, and the add-on was being flagged as incompatible, even though it works fine on Firefox 10.

I have now marked the add-on as compatible up to version 12.* of Firefox, on the add-on website. Try updating Firefox, and let me know if you still get a message about the add-on being incompatible.
Thanks, Darkoshi

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! Your addon is extremely useful, I've been using it for years. Unfortunately it now stopped working with my last update browser, Palemoon 25.0.1. The button disappeared from the toolbar and it doesn't appear among available tools in the "Customize..." window. The keyboard shortcut doesn't work either (I tried to change the keys but no luck). Any hope that it will be updated?

Thank you,
A.S.

[darkoshi]

Hi, I hadn't heard of the Palemoon browser before. I'll try to look into this when I get some time. Based on a quick look at the release notes for v25 (http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes.shtml), the problem might be related to the GUID or browser versioning. Is the add-on still listed as enabled in the section where your installed add-ons are listed? Are there other add-ons which still work ok for you? If so, please list a few, and I might be able to use them for comparison to determine what the issue is. Thanks, Darkoshi

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, the addon is listed as enabled, I've tried to uninstall and reinstall too. The other extensions I have are all working fine and TDC worked too until this update (I've been using Palemoon for months). This is the full list:

- Adblock Plus 2.6.4
- BetterPrivacy 1.68
- DownloadHelper 4.9.24
- DownThemAll! 2.0.17
- Extension List Dumper 1.15.2
- Firebug 1.12.8
- FireShot 0.98.59
- Ghostery 5.4.0
- Image Zoom 0.6.3
- NoScript 2.6.9.1
- oldbar 1.2
- Search By Image (by Google) 1.1.2
- Tab Mix Plus 0.4.1.5.2
- TinyURL Generator 2.6.1
- toggleDocumentColors 1.4.20120122
- Tree Style Tab 0.14.2014051101
- Web Developer 1.2.5

OS is Windows 7 (64bit).

[darkoshi]

Ah, I found this:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5932

The add-on does have logic which checks the GUID in order to support Seamonkey in addition to Firefox. I will update it to also work with Palemoon, and will post another reply here again when the update is ready.

[(Anonymous)]

That will be very useful! Many thanks!

[darkoshi]

Hi, I've uploaded a new version of the add-on with Palemoon support. The version number is 1.5.20141023. Let me know in case you still have any issues with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Works fine now, thank you!

Doesn't seem to be working for Firefox 37.0

[(Anonymous)]

I just updated to Firefox 37.0, and ToggleDocumentColors seems to no longer be working. I see from commentary that the 37.0 update also broke the Color toggle add-on as well, so something must have changed about color selections. I've been using your add-on for years, and I hope you can update it to fix this.

Re: Doesn't seem to be working for Firefox 37.0

[darkoshi]

I'll look into this during the coming week. Thanks for letting me know.

Re: Doesn't seem to be working for Firefox 37.0

[darkoshi]

I've updated the add-on to work with Firefox 37.

Re: Doesn't seem to be working for Firefox 37.0

[darkoshi]

Actually, something still doesn't seem to be right. The user-selected colors are sometimes getting replaced by the default ones when toggling. I'll look into it some more.

Re: Doesn't seem to be working for Firefox 37.0

[darkoshi]

The issue I mentioned above was due to the add-on not having installed correctly for whatever reason (the icon didn't get added to the toolbar automatically like it should have, either). Disabling the add-on, restarting Firefox, and enabling it again fixed the problem.

I tried to recreate the problem by doing another fresh install, with multiple browser windows and tabs open like the other time, but it worked right this time.

toggle shortcut

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, thanks a lot for the addon, I have cataracts and can't cope with bright colours. I want to assign a keyboard shortcut but I've never beeb able to in Firefox. The about:config entry says "enter string" when I was expecting to just hit the keys I want. Could you explain how it should be done? Thanks a lot,
Mark

Re: toggle shortcut

[darkoshi]

The toggledocumentcolors.shortcutKey entry should be set to the alphabetical/numeric character that you want to use. The toggledocumentcolors.shortcutModifiers entry should indicate which other keys to include (accel, shift, alt, etc.)
This page lists and explains the possible Modifiers:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/High-Level_APIs/hotkeys

For example, the default Toggle shortcut key is set to Control+Shift+C:
toggledocumentcolors.shortcutKey: C
toggledocumentcolors.shortcutModifiers: accel,shift

If you let me know what shortcut key you want to assign and what kind of system you are on, I may be able to provide more specific help. Just make sure that Firefox and your other add-ons aren't using that same key combination for anything else already. I think there is a way to list all the existing shortcuts in use, but I don't remember right now how it is done.

Re: toggle shortcut

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks a million darkoshi...I already have a million cross-platform shortcuts from Intelliwebsearch (check it out if you don't know it) so I eventually assigned to pageup+P with some syntax help from your link, works fine. Keep up the good work.
Mark

Add menu item

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this essential add on it allows me to use a default colour scheme for viewing the web without fuss! I think it would be handy to have a menu item available for access from the context menu etc.

Re: Add menu item

[darkoshi]

Hi, for me having a context menu item would seem no more convenient than the toggle button that is available on the navigation (URL) toolbar. Do you have the button on your toolbar? It is black and white with a letter "A" in both colors. If it isn't showing up, you may be able to add it via the Customize... option when right-clicking the bar.

Or is there a reason why a context menu item would be more convenient for you than the button on the toolbar? Also, what browser version are you using?

Thanks

Toggle colors for a single page?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi darkoshi - thanks for the addon!
I've been using it for a long time.
One issue I have: it seems to be a global toggle (for all tabs in all windows).
Instead I think it should work only for the page it was invoked on.
The way it is, I come across one page with red text on black background, kill that craziness with your addon, but then all normal pages are screwed up until I toggle back. Or am I missing a config parameter?
I'd rather not go into the code and hack it myself ... :)
Could you please add this functionality - or explain what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks a lot!
Dmitri

Re: Toggle colors for a single page?

[darkoshi]

Hi Dmitri,
It is a global browser setting that the add-on toggles. It is not currently possible to configure it per page, and adding that kind of functionality to the add-on would be difficult. So you simply have to toggle it back and forth, depending on which page you are looking at. You can use either the toolbar button or the hot-key for toggling.

You could try searching if there are other add-ons which do what you want.

Re: Toggle colors for a single page?

[(Anonymous)]

OK. Thanks. This is unfortunate.
Would be exceptionally nice to have this capability...

[(Anonymous)]

in recent firefox ctrl-shift-c is mapped to the inspector, alt-c is free

[darkoshi]

Thanks for letting me know.

Maybe I'll change the add-on to not have any hotkey by default, and only let the user configure one if they desire it. I'll have to see. That's always been one of the troublesome parts, that the browser could start using the same hotkeys for something else in any new release.