Open all links 0.2
October 24th, 2006
The 0.2 release of my Thunderbird extension “Open all links” is awaiting approval at the Mozilla Add-ons site. Beside a bug fix, I added the possibility to exclude certain links based on a regular expression.
People who submit their spam in batch to Spamcop (with the Okopipi Thunderbird extension) can use the following pattern: ^http://www\.spamcop\.net/upgradeaccount\.shtml$ Using a Spamcop bookmarklet or greasemonkey script afterwards can save you even more time.
You can already try the non-approved xpi installer of Open all links 0.2.
I’d like to know what you are using the extension for, so please drop a comment if you’re using it. Thanks!
Entry Filed under: Okopipi,Thunderbird
7 Comments Add your own
1. William W. Mikrut | November 6th, 2006 at 5:18 am
Hello,
I was using version 0.1 with no problems… Thunderbird automatically updated the extension to version 0.2 and now it no longer works.
I tried downloading the version form here and it still does not work with Thunderbird. If I uninstall the extension and re-install version 0.1, all is well… until Thunderbird automatically updates the extension again.
Anyone else having this kind of issue with 0.2?
2. Flower O.S. | December 13th, 2006 at 6:30 am
An option to set a delay between opening links would be nice. If I have lots of links in one email, spamming 20-30 new tabs at once will significantly increase the stress on my computer. So if I would be able to set a delay between each link opening that would give time to my browser to load a page (at least partial) before going to the next one.
3. jackcall | December 21st, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Hi
I’m having the same problem as William. Only I first discovered this extension a couple of days ago, so I started out with 0.2.
When I choose open all links in the right click menu, nothing happens, I’ve tried both with firefox running and not.
I’ve also tried uninstalling 0.2 and installing 0.1, but then I don’t even get an open all links option in the right click menu.
I’m running Thunderbird version 1.5.0.9 (20061207), localized to Denmark, on a fully updated danish win XP pro system. I’ve got the talkback and Okopipi extensions installed as well, and no other extensions.
4. Oriel | December 22nd, 2006 at 10:50 am
Version 0.2 does not work! The right click entry appears but has no effect. Version 0.1 does not work either, here the right click entry does not appear at all.
I am using TB 1.5.0.7 and FF 2.0.
5. Kristof | December 22nd, 2006 at 11:52 am
I have been busy with a lot of other stuff and didn’t have the time to take a look at this issue. I found the problem and will release a new version soon.
Until the release of the new version, you can use this workaround:
Set the preference value of extensions.openalllinks.exclude to a boolean (anything but a string) or a valid reg ex pattern string that doesn’t match all links (for example the one I mentioned in this blog article).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
6. Kristof | December 22nd, 2006 at 3:22 pm
There’s a new version released:
0.3.
7. doejari | March 7th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Instead of an exclusion filter, please add a whitelist feature to
this extension. Only links to whitelisted domains should be opened.
This would then open e.g. only urls contaning spamcop.net domain.
Thanks
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