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cfinke / TwitterBar

TwitterBar allows you to post to Twitter from Firefox's address bar.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4664/
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Feature request character count #77

Closed cfinke closed 13 years ago

cfinke commented 13 years ago

I should start by saying I'm a keyboardist and absolutely hate using my mouse if I can avoid it. I love hotkeys, command-lines and everything like that. Twitter bar is amazing for me because of this. It is one of the easiest ways I can tweet from my computer.

There was only one thing about it that bothered me for a little while. I couldn't find a way to display my character count. Then with a little searching I found there was a way, BUT it requires mousing over the icon. Woe is me.

I have thought of a few possible solutions to my problem and I hope you can find the time to implement one or all of them.

Easiest solution first: Make an option to require you to hit enter before sending a tweet after typing "--post" This would accomplisth what I'm looking for as typing --post does the same thing as mousing over the icon. This might also be a good idea just in general as I'm sure many people like to read over their tweet one last time before posting and might type --post before they were ready.

Second slightly more complicated solution: Always show the character count. This is probably less desirable as 99% of the time you'll be using the url bar "as it was intended" rather than tweeting but if the number was unobtrusive enough somehow I don't think it'd be too annoying to always see it. Maybe it could be put in the bottom status bar? Either way this should of course be an option not a requirement.

Also, I just noticed the character count that appears on mouse-over doesn't update until you mouse-off then mouse-on again. I hope that's something that could be changed/fixed to update automatically.

Thanks so much! And honestly even if you don't implement these changes this is still a fantastic little extension. Definitely one of my favorites. :)

Issue imported from Google Code Author: coopermanster Published: 2010-03-19T18:36:21.000Z Status: Done Link: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-twitterbar/issues/detail?id=77

cfinke commented 13 years ago

If you go to View > Toolbars > Customize, there's a character counter you can drag to your toolbar to have the character count always show up without needing a mouseover.

Comment imported from Google Code Author: cfinke Published: 2010-03-20T01:33:59.000Z Link: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-twitterbar/issues/detail?id=77#c1

cfinke commented 13 years ago

I don't have that character counter. What extensions do you have installed?

Comment imported from Google Code Author: coopermanster Published: 2010-03-20T15:22:39.000Z Link: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-twitterbar/issues/detail?id=77#c2

cfinke commented 13 years ago

Ah nevermind, I found it thanks.

Comment imported from Google Code Author: coopermanster Published: 2010-03-20T15:25:31.000Z Link: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-twitterbar/issues/detail?id=77#c3