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adiary-tan Inside

If you have any problems or bugs, please see "Troubleshooting" section.

Introduction

Power up your Firefox by "adiary-tan".
adiary-tan is a mascot character of adiary (Perl-based powerful weblog tool).

[Compatibility]
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later
This extension only support Official Release Builds.
This doesn't support Nightly/Developer Edition (Aurora, alpha)/Beta/Release Candidates or
unofficial/optimized/third party builds.
[Locale]
en-US, ja, ja-JP-mac

Download

Download from Mozilla Add-ons.

How to use

Firefox 29 or later

After installation, you click the menu button - "?" icon - "About Firefox"
(or select "Help" - "About Firefox" from the menu bar),
and Firefox shows the about dialog powered by adiary-tan.
You click the mini-banner to go to adiary official website.
About dialog

This extension shows on the location bar when you visit web pages made by adiary.
And it shows the version number of adiary by tooltip.
Shows adiary version

When you click adiary-tan of "About Mozilla Firefox", adiary-tan tells time to you.
When you click adiary-tan again, the message is disappeared.
Sometimes adiary-tan tells something else...?
About dialog message

This extension also change the activity indicator to adiary-tan with Throbber Restored.
Activity indicator
adiary-tan blinks during the pages are loading.
Activity indicator blink

If Firefox doesn't show the activity indicator,
you click the menu button - "Customize"
or select "View" - "Toolbars" - "Customize" from the menu bar,
and drag & drop the activity indicator to the place where you want.
Customize window

When you delete this extension, you can choose if you remove
all of used configuration information (preferences) or not.
Click "Remove" button in the Add-ons Manager or Extension Manager,
The dialog is shown in the picture below.
Confirm dialog
If you click "Yes" button, you can remove all of used configuration information.
If you click "No" button, you can remain used configuration information.

Firefox 4 and later

After installation, you click "Firefox" button - "Help" arrow - "About Firefox"
(or select "Help" - "About Firefox" from the menu bar),
and Firefox shows the about dialog powered by adiary-tan.
You click the mini-banner to go to adiary official website.
About dialog

This extension shows on the location bar when you visit web pages made by adiary.
And it shows the version number of adiary by tooltip.
Shows adiary version

When you click adiary-tan of "About Mozilla Firefox", adiary-tan tells time to you.
When you click adiary-tan again, the message is disappeared.
Sometimes adiary-tan tells something else...?
About dialog message

This extension also change the activity indicator to adiary-tan.
Activity indicator
adiary-tan blinks during the pages are loading.
Activity indicator blink

If Firefox doesn't show the activity indicator, you click
"Firefox" button - "Options" arrow - "Toolbar Layout"
or select "View" - "Toolbars" - "Customize" from the menu bar,
and drag & drop the activity indicator to the toolbar from the Customize Toolbar dialog.
Customize Toolbar dialog

When you delete this extension, you can choose if you remove
all of used configuration information (preferences) or not.
Click "Remove" button in the Add-ons Manager or Extension Manager,
The dialog is shown in the picture below.
Confirm dialog
If you click "Yes" button, you can remove all of used configuration information.
If you click "No" button, you can remain used configuration information.

Firefox 3.6 or earlier

After installation, you click "Help" - "About Mozilla Firefox",
and Firefox shows the about dialog powered by adiary-tan.
You click the mini-banner to go to adiary official website.
About dialog

This extension shows on the status bar when you visit web pages made by adiary.
And it shows the version number of adiary by tooltip.
Status bar

When you click adiary-tan of "About Mozilla Firefox", adiary-tan tells time to you.
When you click adiary-tan again, the message is disappeared.
Sometimes adiary-tan tells something else...?
About dialog message

This extension also change the activity indicator to adiary-tan.
Activity indicator
adiary-tan blinks during the pages are loading.
Activity indicator blink

If Firefox doesn't show the activity indicator, you click
"View" - "Toolbars" - "Customize" and drag & drop
the activity indicator to the toolbar from the Customize Toolbar dialog.
Customize Toolbar dialog

You click "View" - "Toolbars" - "Customize" and check "Use Small Icons"
to make the activity indicator 16x16 pixel size.
If "Use Small Icons" checkbox is off, the activity indicator is 24x24 pixel size.
Use Small Icons
Small Icon

When you delete this extension, you can choose if you remove
all of used configuration information (preferences) or not.
Click "Remove" button in the Add-ons Manager or Extension Manager,
The dialog is shown in the picture below.
Confirm dialog
If you click "Yes" button, you can remove all of used configuration information.
If you click "No" button, you can remain used configuration information.

Troubleshooting

It doesn't work correctly (1)

Other extensions may cause the problem with this extension.
Try deleting other extensions except this extension.
If you know what extension the problem, please tell me the extension.

It doesn't work correctly (2)

If you have some problem in your profile, the extension may not work properly.
Try creating a new profile and installing this extension.
To create a new profile, see Firefox Help page.

It doesn't work correctly (3)

Nightly/Developer Edition (Aurora, alpha)/Beta/Release Candidates or
unofficial/optimized/third party builds may cause the problem.
Please use on official release builds.

History

1.2 (Released on 2015/3/27)
1.1 (Released on 2014/5/24)
1.0 (Not released)
  • Not released.
0.9 (Released on 2012/5/8)
  • [Firefox 11] Modified em:maxVersion to 11.* in install.rdf.
  • Modified the about dialog.
  • Added a secret message.
0.8 (Released on 2011/2/10)
0.7 (Released on 2009/6/27)
  • [Firefox 3.5] Modified em:maxVersion to 3.5.* in install.rdf.
0.6 (Released on 2009/6/13)
0.5 (Released on 2009/5/17)
0.4 (Released on 2009/4/23)
  • Be able to click adiary-tan of "About Mozilla Firefox".
  • Fixed misspelling of XUL.
  • Cleand up codes.
0.3 (Released on 2009/3/28)
0.2 (Released on 2009/3/25)
0.1 (Released on 2009/3/21)
  • Initial release.

License

This software is distributed under the terms of
the GPL (GNU General Public License) Version 2.

Special Thanks

adiary-tan is designed by GLANSHE (Easy Noise).
adiary-tan reprinted with permission from nabe.

ToDo

Help Wanted

I need your help! and I also need bug report.
Please contact me by e-mail (my e-mail address is listed below).

Presented by INOUE Naoto.
E-mail: leafy [at] multi [dot] nadenade [dot] com