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Re:Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text sel... by antimatter15 on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @03:04PM (#7629652)
Yeah, I just haven't gotten around packaging the whole thing as a Firefox Addon. It's actually technically possible to run the whole thing on a normal unprivileged webpage (in fact, that's my development environment).
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Re:Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text sel... by mcpherrinm on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @03:56PM (#7630006)
If all you need to do is inject Javascript into a webpage, you should be able to make a Firefox addon to do that in easily under an hour -- check out the SDK getting started guide at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tutorials/Ge...
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Re:Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text sel... by Ironlink on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @02:25AM (#7632476)
In that case, why not make it available as a javascript bookmark?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet

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Re:Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text sel... by SteveDeFacto on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @07:39PM (#7631181)
Please give us a Firefox version! I'm begging you!
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Re:Project Naptha: a browser extension that enables text sel... by Natsu on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @12:20AM (#7632077)
Seconded. This is one of the most incredibly useful projects I've seen in a long time.
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