Extensions and custom buttons for UXP browsers - Corrections, modifications, adjustments, and special recommendations

[AstroSkipper]

TBH, I can't say anything about the old Reddit Enhancement Suite as I have never used it.

[AstroSkipper]

I have unfortunately noticed that strangely enough, the interest in custom buttons does not seem to be particularly high here. Therefore my question to all users of UXP browsers is how you feel about the custom buttons and whether you use them at all.  TBH, if there is no real interest though, I do not need to post more custom buttons here, either.  Especially the ones I created or modified myself. Personally, I am a fan of the legacy custom buttons and try to use them as much as possible. They use much less resources and cause much less conflict than extensions. Therefore, in my browsers, additional functions are first provided by custom buttons and only then the still missing ones by extensions.

Edited October 12, 2024 by AstroSkipper
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[billmcct]

Well, I for one use several buttons from long age before the website was shutdown.

I really have almost no use for any others. I have the old extension installed but disabled.

I also have the ability to create any I might have use for in the future.

PM 33.4.0.1 x64 AVX2 build

[Amigafever]

I've been meaning to look at custom buttons and your related links, but still haven't managed to. Don't stop posting about them! Unless of course it takes up a lot of your time.

Edited October 12, 2024 by Amigafever

[AstroSkipper]

19 minutes ago, billmcct said:

I have the old extension installed but disabled.

Personally, I use a much more recent Custom Buttons extension with a lot of additional features created by a well-known and very talented developer of custom buttons and extensions who was also very active in the old Custom Buttons forum that time.  This Custom Buttons extension is of course particularly interesting for developers of custom buttons.

Edited October 12, 2024 by AstroSkipper
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[billmcct]

1 minute ago, AstroSkipper said:

Personally, I use a much more recent Custom Buttons extension with a lot of additional features created by a well-known developer of custom buttons who was also very active in the old Custom Buttons forum that time. 

Post a link and I will be happy to check it out.

Bill

[AstroSkipper]

The Custom Buttons version I use has been modified by me. The original version was actually multilingual, but the locales were not complete and therefore faulty. Many entities were missing, and I didn't feel like correcting and translating all that.  Too much work. I prefer the English language in this area anyways. That's why I turned the multilingual version into a purely English one. I don't have the original link anymore, but maybe I'll write about this version here soon and upload my mod. I already posted a screenshot of this version: 

Edited October 12, 2024 by AstroSkipper
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[dmiranda]

4 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

my question to all users of UXP browsers is how you feel about the custom buttons and whether you use them at all.

Hi. In sp52 I use CB button Restart & Purge and Pref Toggler. I would use About- Menu, but it won't work in sp52. I would welcome and try other buttons. Cheers!

[billmcct]

24 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

The Custom Buttons version I use has been modified by me. The original version was actually multilingual, but the locales were not complete and therefore faulty. Many entities were missing, and I didn't feel like correcting and translating all that.  Too much work. I prefer the English language in this area anyways. That's why I turned the multilingual version into a purely English one. I don't have the original link anymore, but maybe I'll write about this version here soon and upload my mod. I already posted a screenshot of this version:

Great thanks,

Bill

[AstroSkipper]

1 minute ago, dmiranda said:

Hi. In sp52 I use CB button Restart & Purge and Pref Toggler. I would use About- Menu, but it won't work in sp52. I would welcome and try other buttons. Cheers!

Thanks for replying! I will post the new version 2.0 of Restart & Purge soon. I have reworked the code considerably, and after a lot of testing, this custom button now works perfectly. The old version wasn't bad, but the new one is definitely better and more compatible. I think there should no longer be any problems that could have occurred in very rare cases. BTW, there are a lot of alternatives for the About-Menu custom button in Serpent 52.

[AstroSkipper]

@dmiranda What do you think about this custom button?

Edited October 12, 2024 by AstroSkipper

[dmiranda]

It does look quire complete. I forgot I'm using another button that I think came in the custom buttons addon I got from this thread, which opens about preconfigured to both open about: config on pressing the button, and allows to search for specific entries, preconfigured to look for extensions.yetanotheraboutconfighelper. This one you are now showcasing puts together that an the about pages as well.

To a degree, the same concept as in pref toggler, which allows to switch on and off entries of my choice, thus consolidating many of the custom buttons you originally posted.

Nice job!

 

[AstroSkipper]

10 hours ago, dmiranda said:

It does look quire complete.

Yesterday, I found this old button code in my archive. As the code of the button looked promising, I translated it and modified it completely. I changed the tooltip, totally reworked the menu of the important about: pages and added a help menu. I created a version for New Moon/Pale Moon and a version for Serpent/Basilisk/Firefox as some about: pages are different in these browsers. This button has a special feature. When selecting a string or copying a string to the clipboard, a middle-click onto the toolvar button opens it in the about:config page.  All in all, it's a kind of recycling of old code so that it works again in our browsers. Thus, old code is not always useless and lost.  And the code of this button is so universal that it seems to run in all Firefox-based browsers. Anyway! I will also post this forked custom button here very soon.

Edited October 13, 2024 by AstroSkipper
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[AstroSkipper]

There's a well-known American moron whose saying I'll use here in a modified form anyway: Make old code great again!  

[AstroSkipper]

Restart & Purge v2.0 - A custom button for restarting the browser and, if necessary, purging the startup cache, created by AstroSkipper

Due to some abnormalities I observed when using my Restart & Purge custom button, I have now updated it to the version 2.0. I have changed and reworked the code considerably, and after a lot of testing, this updated custom button now works perfectly. One of the changes is that this new version of Restart & Purge now calls up the native restart code from the browser inside. The old version wasn't bad though, but the new one is definitely better and more compatible. I think there should no longer be any problems that could have occurred in very rare cases. Restart buttons are available in abundance and are nothing special. However, the most interesting feature of this custom button is the ability to purge the startup cache and restart the browser with one click. There are no corresponding extensions or functions with which the startup cache can be quickly deleted in the UXP browsers. In New Moon 28 not even the command line option -purgecaches works. So, an alternative way to delete the startup cache would therefore only be manually via the Windows Explorer or a file manager. My Restart & Purge v2.0 custom button performes a normal restart when left-clicked and additionally purges the startup cache when middle-clicked.
 
Here is a small screenshot of my custom button Restart & Purge v2.0 and its tooltip taken from New Moon 28:



As the code of Restart & Purge v2.0 has to be initialised, you won't find it in the tab "Code" but in the tab "Initialization code" of this custom button. Here is a screenshot of its code:



And here is the download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/1myts3tqkr6lgrv/Restart_%26_Purge_v2.0_10-12-24.xml/file
The download link contains an XML backup file of the Restart & Purge v2.0 custom button as the problem with the conversion of custom buttons into XML format has been finally solved by me. Simply open the XML file in the browser and click onto the install button! For the installation of this button, the extension Custom Buttons is required which you can get from this post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1226328
My custom button Restart & Purge v2.0 can be used with New Moon, Serpent, Firefox,even with the non-UXP browser Mypal 68 and some other browsers. And most probably also with Pale Moon and Basilisk (the call up of the native restart code should be the same as in the other browsers) which I can't test, though.

Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Edited October 13, 2024 by AstroSkipper