tippy
Oct 20, 2005, 05:11am EDT
Update: tippy 0.2
Tippy - a simple firefox extension that adds favicons and tooltips to livemarks.
It also adds favicons and tooltips to the drop down menu for the back and forward button.
The main motivation for this was for mixed feeds like a blogsearch feed, a technorati feed, or a del.icio.us feed. I normally want to know where I’m going before I click a link. When I get some time, I also want to add part of the link description to the tooltip and add icons/tooltips to the “Go” menu.
It currently only works in the Firefox betas because I was too lazy to make a contents.rdf file.
I’m using parts of MochiKit in the extension (specifically, Base and Logging). I tried it out after Aaron explained to me that it’s not a huge framework, just some common utility methods and classes that are in almost any javascript project (e.g., hitch a.k.a. bind). It uses lots of closures which makes me nervous about memory leaks in IE, but that’s not as big of a concern in a Firefox extension.
antonio at Nov 15, 2006, 06:27pm EST
PLEASE make it compatible with ff2.0 it’s my best missed extension since the transition (that, and the multirow tabs) and again thank you for tippy :)
Eep² at Jul 15, 2007, 03:52pm EDT
Great by itself but if also installed with Back/Forward Status, the statusbar URLs don’t appear in the dropdown back/forward lists any more, which Back/Forward Status does). Can you make the tooltips optional and have the URL appear in the statusbar, too, please?
lazy guy at Jul 18, 2008, 06:36am EDT
Please can you provide a version for Firefox 3. such a great relase surely needs tippy it’s just awsome in its elegance, weight, and results, and totally one of my default customization. again thank you for it