AstroSkipper

@VistaLover Here is a fixed version of IP Geolocator when using the Photonic theme in Serpent 52. I resized all flag images from 48 x 48 to 24 x 24 and saved them in a new folder img/flags/24/. Then I changed the code inside the file main.js in the folder js/: Original code: function setIcon(country_code) { var showFlags = lp.isSet(KEY_SETTINGS_SHOW_FLAGS) ? lp.get(KEY_SETTINGS_SHOW_FLAGS) : true; if (country_code == "ERR" || !showFlags || !(countriesSupported.includes(country_code))) { chrome.browserAction.setIcon({ path: "img/icon48.png" }); } else { chrome.browserAction.setIcon({ path: "img/flags/48/" + country_code + ".png" }); } } Modified code: function setIcon(country_code) { var showFlags = lp.isSet(KEY_SETTINGS_SHOW_FLAGS) ? lp.get(KEY_SETTINGS_SHOW_FLAGS) : true; if (country_code == "ERR" || !showFlags || !(countriesSupported.includes(country_code))) { chrome.browserAction.setIcon({ path: "img/icon.png" }); } else { chrome.browserAction.setIcon({ path: "img/flags/24/" + country_code + ".png" }); } } Screenshot: Now, the toolbar icon and the flag images are shown in a suitable size. Here is the download link of my mod: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xkha44rjidj5maw/ip_geolocator-2.1.0-Photonic-mod.xpi/file Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Inside the xpi file of IP Geolocator, one could restrict the size of the toolbar icon to a certain, desired value. I did that several times in terms of legacy extensions, and I assume it could be similar when it comes to webextensions. My credo: What doesn't fit, is made to fit. @VistaLover I had a look inside the IP Geolocator xpi file. I think I have an idea how the problem with the size of the the toolbar flag might be fixed when using the Photonic theme in Serpent 52. If the standard theme is selected, the flag is sized correctly. So, it seems to be a problem caused by the Photonic theme. Anyway! Interested in fixing it?

Inside the xpi file of IP Geolocator, one could restrict the size of the toolbar icon to a certain, desired value. I did that several times in terms of legacy extensions, and I assume it could be similar when it comes to webextensions. My credo: What doesn't fit, is made to fit. PS: And thanks for noticing my "typo"! TBH, it wasn't a typo but German spelling. Suddenly, and for no reason at all, I was of the opinion that the word interval is spelled the same in English as in German. Stuff happens! Dementia?

And many thanks for pointing me to IP Geolocator! I will have a look at it. At the moment, I am writing from my Android tablet, but later, back at my desktop computer, I will check this extension immediately.

Not reallly! The weather here in Germany has been rainy and stormy for weeks. It's no fun to go anywhere. Thanks! I'll do my best. And keep well, too!

I also noticed this behaviour in the past. I assume it depends on the VPN provider and the established VPN connection. Sometimes, it happens very quickly and sometimes, it takes a few seconds longer. And I can confirm, with my real/default (German) IP address, the current external IP is shown immediately.

You're welcome! Glad to hear it is working for you as advertised by me. In the moment, when you click onto the toolbar icon, your current external IP is shown directly. Therefore, a button such as "Check Now" does not really make sense to me. What I can do is to try adding further time intervals as fractions of a minute. For example, 0.05 Min for 3 Sec. Interested?

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Check My IP Address & Location - A fork of the HMA! IP Checker extension, made by AstroSkipper HMA! IP Checker, created by HMA, was my favourite extension for checking the external IP and displaying its location. It directly showed the external IP and the corresponding country flag of its location by clicking onto its toolbar icon. Furthermore, it was able to alert external IP changes and to log them. HMA stopped developing this extension in 2015 and has not been offering it for many years. It seems to have been completely removed from their website in 2015. Unfortunately, HMA! IP Checker stopped working properly some months ago. It was no longer able to show the associated country flag of the external IP. Therefore, I decided to fix this extension in the form of a private project. But first, a few commented screenshots of HMA! IP Checker 2.0.2 for a later comparison to my fork: The red arrow points to the missing, associated country flag. The red arrows point to advertisement and to a link to the HMA website. Here, you can see, not all entries are available easily in the dropdown menu which is unfortunately displayed truncated (red arrow). And here are download links for HMA! IP Checker 2.0.2 which are also the source files for my fork: Download link for HMA! IP Checker 2.0.2 via Classic Add-ons Archive: https://caa.zetamex.com/xul/410/410358/hide_my_ass_ip_checker-2.0.2-fx.xpi?origin=caa&action=download Download link for HMA! IP Checker 2.0.2 via Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20170914162156/https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/hide-my-a**-ip-checker/type:attachment/addon-410358-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary While fixing the extension HMA! IP Checker, I noticed a further bug in the size of the Log & Alert window. And I decided to remove some code and to add new functions. All this led me to the decision to make a fork of HMA! IP Checker. And although the project was actually of a private nature, I nevertheless decided to make it available to the public. Therefore, I tried to make a proper fork with my own branding and identification. I also kept the reference to the MPL-2.0 licence. As already mentioned in the headline of this article, the name of my fork is Check My IP Address & Location and will be available in the version 1.2 (Edit: The latest version is from now on 1.3, see further below). If you are now wondering why the version number is 1.2, it is because the previous versions were purely private. But first of all, a few screenshots of Check My IP Address & Location 1.2 together with corresponding explanations: As you can see, the associated country flag is shown again. Here you can see the changes I made by adding the service Geotool. Clicking onto the button Show leads to this new tab: The service Geotool provides a lot of information about the geographic location of the current external IP. The Log & Alert window was enlarged by me. I added a 1 Min and 5 Min interval for checking as requested by users of the abandoned HMA! IP Checker extension long time ago. And you can see, all entries are now available in the dropdown menu which is no longer displayed truncated. All is shown by the red arrows. This is the standard toolbar icon of Check My IP Address & Location. And this is what the toolbar icon looks like when an IP change is alerted. List of all features of Check My IP Address & Location: Check current external IP. Show the associated country flag. Show the geographic location of the external IP. Show more information provided by the service Geotool in a new tab or window. Alert if the external IP changes. Set different time intervals for checking of IP changes. Have a look at the log of the last external IPs. Changelog of Check My IP Address & Location 1.2, compared to HMA! IP Checker 2.0.2: Missing country flag in the IP Address window fixed. Unnecessary code removed. Service Geotool added to the button Show in the IP Address window. Wrong size of the Log & Alert window and truncated dropdown menu fixed. New time intervals for alerting added. Compatibility entries to different browsers updated and added. Changelog of Check My IP Address & Location 1.3, compared to Check My IP Address & Location 1.2: Four further time intervals for checking IP changes added: 1 Sec, 5 Sec, 10 Sec and 30 Sec. Here is a screenshot: Here is the link to the MPL-2.0 licence I kept when I created my fork: https://opensource.org/license/mpl-2-0/ And here you can get the latest version of my fork Check My IP Address & Location: Download link for the extension Check My IP Address & Location 1.3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xvmk2ntk0f4i2e7/Check_My_IP_Address_%26_Location-1.3-pm.xpi/file Version history: Check My IP Address & Location 1.0 (14-10-2022) Initial, private build Check My IP Address & Location 1.1 (04-08-2023) Private build Check My IP Address & Location 1.2 (08-08-2023) First public release. Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/72755xbjfipa5h3/Check_My_IP_Address_%26_Location-1.2-pm.xpi/file Check My IP Address & Location 1.3 (11-09-2023) Second public release Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/xvmk2ntk0f4i2e7/Check_My_IP_Address_%26_Location-1.3-pm.xpi/file The extension Check My IP Address & Location is my fork of the extension HMA! IP Checker. I tested it successfully in New Moon 28, Serpent 52 and Serpent 55. After months of testing, I didn't notice any problems or bugs. The extension Check My IP Address & Location, contrary to the original HMA! IP Checker, is fully working. For all those who want or need to know exactly which external IP they are connecting with, especially all users of VPN services, this extension is absolutely perfect. My recommendation for setting the time interval to check IP changes is the 1 Sec interval (only available in the version 1.3). If you use this interval, the detection of an IP change takes place without any significant delay (at most 5 seconds for VPN connections, almost no delay for direct connections). However, if you find errors or other problems, please report them here in my thread! Any feedback in the form of commenting, liking or upvoting is of course welcome at any time. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

@VistaLover and @UCyborg! Thank you very much for your hints and opinions! The fork from one of my favourite extensions will be released here in this thread as soon as possible. Cheers, AstroSkipper

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I just want to make sure I am spared any trouble. When you provide something voluntarily, you don't want to be punished for it.

Thank you for your thoughts and tips! I already read the MPL-2.0 FAQ. As far as I understood all correctly, the measures I have listed should actually satisfy the MPL 2.0 licence conditions: Or, have I missed something? What do you think?

Hello, @cmalex! How are you? I hope in any case you are well and, above all, healthy and unharmed in these still difficult times. As you know, you compiled the great programme ProxyMII, dated from 2022-07-17, based on OpenSSL 3.0.5, dated from 2022-07-05, and Cryptography 3.4.8, dated from 2021-08-24. That was a year ago. OpenSSL is now available in version 3.1.2 and Cryptography in version 41.0.3, both dated from 2023-08-01. In terms of Cryptography, there was a big version bump after 3.4.8 directly to 35.0.0. Link: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/tags?after=37.0.0 Do you know if these versions are still compatible with Windows XP? If not, which are the last XP-compatible versions? Would it make sense to update ProxyMII in terms of OpenSSL and Cryptography for the use under Windows XP, especially to support more modern ciphers? TBH, who else could assess this better than you, the creator of ProxyMII? Or, have you perhaps already updated ProxyMII? Anyway! What do you think about all that? Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Which one of @roytam1's browsers do you refer to?

What would be the easiest way to make a fork of an extension available to the general public without creating a GitHub repo? I already made a proper fork with my own branding and identification. I also kept the reference to the MPL-2.0 licence. And I would provide links. One to the original source files and a second to the changed files. What other information would have to be provided in order to avoid trouble? And what is the most simple way to do this all under the MPL-2.0 licence? Further ideas and opinions are still welcome.

To use Proton VPN you have to create an account as usual.

You're right. Not really. TBH, I have only a little idea about these GitHub repos, especially when it would come to creating my own. As I already mentioned in my thread, I personally am not really a coder but rather a code recycler, fixer, modifier and batch programmer. I like to repair things that no longer work correctly. Especially when they are close to my heart. In any case, thanks for your further explanations!

I do think so, too. The extension I already forked for my private use was abandoned by the author in 2015.

TBH, me neither. I am never really sure about things like that.

Thank you very much for your explanation! Looking at other forks of extensions, I never saw a detailed record (in the form of a patch/diff file) of the modifications the "forker" applied on the original source code inside those xpi files. I only noticed a statement like "forked from the extension ... created by ..." or similar. BTW, I decided to choose a new name.

It happens rarely, but today, I also have a question. It's about forking extensions. What do I have to consider if I want to fork an old, abandoned XUL extension under the MPL-2.0 licence? I already asked this question in my thread Extensions and custom buttons for UXP browsers - Corrections, modifications, adjustments, and special recommendations, but I think here in @roytam1's browser thread, the probability of getting an answer is higher, since software developers, programmers or code-experienced members are more likely to be found here. Any hints or explanations are welcome. Thanks in advance!

Hello to all extension "forkers" or experts! What has to be considered if one wants to fork old, abandoned extensions, which are free and non-commercial, whose code only exists in the form of their xpi file under the MPL-2.0 licence, and which are now exclusively available via the Classic Add-ons Archive or the Wayback Machine? TBH, I am never really sure about things like that. I personally am not really a coder but rather a code recycler, fixer, modifier and batch programmer. Therefore, any ideas or assessments are welcome. Cheers, AstroSkipper

You do not need to remove this post. It was just a hint if you have further issues with 360Chrome or other Chrome forks. The discussion here was mainly about web compatibility in terms of two websites, mediamarkt.de and saturn.de which were tested in 360Chrome and Kafan browser, too, just for comparison purpose.

Hello @WSC4! Issues related to 360Chrome and other Chrome forks should be posted in their corresponding threads. We have a lot of them. FYI, this thread is actually about @roytam1's browser editions.