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FireFox Lemmy Community by New Tool (addons.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago by heavyboots@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone,

So I have created a "sublemmy" add-on for lemmy.ml that lets you quickly jump to a community from the address bar in FireFox. Just type 'c firefox', for example, and it will go there and sort the community by new. Useful if you have a few communities you want to check regularly and quickly from any new browser window.

The one caveat is that this tool only works for the website lemmy.ml because that is the site hardwired into the search string, alas. Not sure if there is a way around that (that would maybe take 2 arguments instead of one?) but that's where it's at for now.

Link is included if anyone wants to use it!

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[–] Sleeping@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this up on Github, if not are there any plans to open source the project?

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's literally just a manifest file. In Chrome, you can do it in the Search Engines area, but for some reason it has to be an add-on in FireFox. If someone wants to take it and run with it, I have zero problem with that, TBH. I just posted it since I wrote it for my own convenience in FireFox.

This is the "code" (which is 90% about hello, I am an add-on!).

{

    "manifest_version": 2,
    "name": "Lemmy.ML Community By New",
    "version": "1.0.1",

    "description": "Sorts the searched-for lemmy community by new. So 'c printsf' will return the printsf community already ordered by newest items first.",

    "icons": {
        "48": "icons/icon-48.png"
    },

    "chrome_settings_overrides": {
        "search_provider": {
            "name": "Lemmy Community By New",
            "search_url": "https://lemmy.ml/c/{searchTerms}?sort=New",
            "keyword": "c",
            "favicon_url": "https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/fa6d9660-4f1f-4e90-ac73-b897216db6f3.png"
        }
    }

}

[–] Sleeping@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! While it may just be a manifest, I believe that allowing access no matter how small the project is always a solid option. Who knows, maybe one day a beginner coder may come across this and wonder how to replicate it for their own uses, and while I'm sure there are other sources they could reference having another is always helpful.