local-filesystem-links

Overview

This is the alien-local-filesystem-links extension for Mozilla Firefox.

It contains:

• extension source code (src/)
• native app source code (native-host/)
• tests (test/)
• documentation (doc/)

Features

• Adds a click event to every link that is including file:// or smb:// in href tag. (smb not working yet)
• Shows a link icon close to the link. Icon can be disabled in preferences.
• Dynamic loaded content supported because link events are delegated with $(document).on(...)
• Supports links with double and tripple slashes (e.g. file:// or file:///)
• (Not available: Right click context menu that opens a text selection that contains a file link + option to reveal the directory of a directly linked file.)
• Whitelist option to enable local links only at a specific url e.g. *.trello.com
• Statusbar icon for displaying if links are active for current tab & for easier access to addon settings
• Option to change the default text link behaviour (open or reveal)
• Localization (current languages German, English, Russian)

Screenshots

License

• GPLv3 or later
• www.mozilla.org/MPL/ v2 or later

Start developing

See README.dev.md

Donations

If you like the extension and you want to support the development - please consider to donate. Any donations are greatly appreciated.

• AWolf81 - current main developer:

  • Paypal.me to AWolf81 (coding contributions)
  • What are we doing with the donations?
    • Buy a code signing certificate (needed for Windows) cost around 100 USD
    • Incentive / motivation - this helps to stay motivated.

• Feinstaub - original author and addon management:

  • No direct donations possible yet (waiting for something private and decentrally organized like GNU Taler)
    • Some people do not use Paypal, maybe because of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Kritik
  • Any donation that supports a Free Software community helps to maintain a technical and social environment where the development of software like this addon are possible. If you have no idea which community you would like to support, I recommend these organisations:
    • KDE: https://www.kde.org/community/donations/others.php
      • Vision: "A world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy."
      • supports Bitpay
    • Free Software Foundation: https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate
    • Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/donate
      • "helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects"
    • Mozilla: https://donate.mozilla.org/de/
  • For Germany, there are related organisations which help Free Software indirectly by supporting the underlying values:
    • DigitalCourage: https://digitalcourage.de/ueber-uns
      • "Digitalcourage arbeitet für eine lebenswerte Welt im digitalen Zeitalter."
      • "setzt sich seit 1987 für Grundrechte und Datenschutz ein"
    • Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung e.V.: https://www.fiff.de
      • "FIfF wurde 1984 [...] aus einer historischen Situation heraus gegründet, als es galt, das Schweigen einer Zunft zu brechen, die so maßgeblich an der Entwicklung automatisierter und informatisierter Kriegsführung beteiligt war."