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Other Editions => Other Editions - Feature Requests / Enhancements => Topic started by: Steve on September 06, 2008, 01:19:45 AM
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I know Google has not released their extension API yet, but I would love to have a PasswordMaker extension for Chrome as soon as it is possible.
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You know, I was thinking the same thing the day it came out. If there's a way to add PasswordMaker to Chrome, someone will jump on it.
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Seeing as Google Chrome is a fork of WebKit (http://webkit.org/) (like Safari), I don't foresee this happening anytime soon. The only extendability provided by WebKit and its derivatives--so far--have been plugins to render non-HTML content (e.g., flash, adobe, quicktime, java, etc). Maybe that will change someday, but for now, Mozilla has a leg up on those guys in customizability.
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I'd be much more interested in converting the existing FFox extension to make use of the sqlite db backend in 3+...
Also, apparently work is going to be required to make PWM work properly with the new JS implementtaion (Tracemonkey)...
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Also, apparently work is going to be required to make PWM work properly with the new JS implementtaion (Tracemonkey)...
How so?
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Also, apparently work is going to be required to make PWM work properly with the new JS implementtaion (Tracemonkey)...
Where did you get that information?
edit: it's my understanding that tracemonkey is a set of performance improvements to the javascript engine, adding things like loop optimizations that traditional compilers have had for a long time. See here (http://ejohn.org/blog/tracemonkey/). If that's the case, it shouldn't require any changes existing javascript code like PasswordMaker.
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Also, apparently work is going to be required to make PWM work properly with the new JS implementtaion (Tracemonkey)...
Where did you get that information?
From this bug report (http://forums.passwordmaker.org/index.php/topic,1532.0.html) and your response?
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Tracemonkey may be fixed so that it doesn't break anything, unless it's some code that does something really weird.
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True... hopefully it does...
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Google Chrome may be getting add-ons sooner than later...
Web 2.0: Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons
Google said it will work hard to make sure its add-on paradigm keeps Chrome stable, unlike add-ons for Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
By J. Nicholas Hoover
InformationWeek
September 19, 2008 01:18 PM
Google's new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons and Greasemonkey, Google engineer Ojan Vafai said during a panel discussion on the future of Web browsers at Web 2.0 Expo in New York on Friday.
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"There's two different kinds of add-ons," Vafai said. "The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of those in Google Chrome." Greasemonkey's founder, Aaron Boodman, actually works on the Google Chrome team.
Google Chrome was released earlier this month and saw almost 2 million downloads in the first week alone, raising the visibility of Chrome as a strong new competitor to Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Internet Explorer. It does a number of things differently from either, such as isolating browser tabs so that each one is treated almost like a separate instance of the browser for reliability purposes.
Vafai cautioned that Google will work hard to make sure its add-on paradigm keeps Chrome stable. "We hope to do them right," he said. "As many people notice in Firefox add-ones, there are problems with instability."
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210602700 (http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210602700)
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Instability due to extensions is not nearly as big a problem as this article would lead you to believe.
I use 40, and have zero stability problems.
Its mostly a matter of being selective and only running ones that are well maintained and don't cause problems.
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Chrome officially supports extensions now.
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Well... yeah, but it is their own implementation, so FFox extensions would still have to be ported.
Maybe Eric and company are planning on supporting Chrome with Abine.
Speaking of which - Eric, my apologies, I've just been totally slammed at work and haven't had time to dive into the changes/updates in Abine, though I have noticed the extension getting updated a few times. I'm hoping to be able to do some serious playing with it this weekend to see if I can actually switch over.
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Well... yeah, but it is their own implementation, so FFox extensions would still have to be ported.
Maybe Eric and company are planning on supporting Chrome with Abine.
Speaking of which - Eric, my apologies, I've just been totally slammed at work and haven't had time to dive into the changes/updates in Abine, though I have noticed the extension getting updated a few times. I'm hoping to be able to do some serious playing with it this weekend to see if I can actually switch over.
It is, but at the same time, someone has wacked out a generate password based off hashing in no time. I can't imagine it's tough to take the default PM stuff and put it into the extension system :) It would sure make a lot of people very happy.
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No matter your browser, if you have a way to run bookmarklets (javascript embeded in the bookmark), there's a version (http://passwordmaker.org/bml/) of PasswordMaker to run. (Mobile phones, and game consoles may be the only modern platforms you can't run it from. The hard part with Chrome, getting the bookmark toolbar.)
I need to see how extensions are made for Chrome one day.
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There are few (three?) such extensions for Chrome already but they all have some shortcomings. For one none of them get you to double type the master password so you might end up generating a password which you can never get again! They also don't have the remember in memory option.
It would be really nice to have the identical extension so that you can seamlessly move between browsers so I hope a port is possible :)
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PasswordMaker for Chrome is out:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/doblembglfahhpiilfhajboogopikhcm
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The chrome version is only a quick and dirty copy of the original javascript file. I didn't like it and started to create a full featured chrome extension.
It is not ready yet (options page is missing), but if you want to have a sneak peak or help me out, the extension can be found here:
http://github.com/bodo/chrome-passwordmaker
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Had to move the repository.
New link : http://github.com/bitboxer/chrome-passwordmaker
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Had to move the repository.
New link : http://github.com/bitboxer/chrome-passwordmaker
Nice!! Want to add it to the passwordmaker.org wiki page?
Eric
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As soon as I am ready and released a final version, I will promote it everywhere. ATM only the settings dialog is missing. I hope I will finish it in the next few days.
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Well, I added some minimal info here:
http://passwordmaker.org/Google_Chrome
Feel free to add more when you like.
Eric
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My version can now be found in the chrome extension library :
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ocjkdaaapapjpmipmhiadedofjiokogj
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And another version by me:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bdpcmemfgiocoffjmpbbldflllfgldln
neelance
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We could combine our work and work together on one extension. You are free to fork mine and push back all stuff that is in your Version and missing in mine. Let's team up.
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Yes, you two should team up.
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Yeah, serious duplication of effort :)
There's no harm in choice, but if you work together perhaps a single extension would have more features and better support/maintenance than two extensions (one from each of you)
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I tried to contact him a few times, but he never answered :( . Please contact me. I really want to work together and make the best extension that is possible.