firefusk is a firefox extension for going through sequentially numbered image files.

NOW WORKS WITH FIREFOX 3, but please follow the v1.6 instructions below or will not install.

v1.6 update notes

until i get onto mozilla addons, here's what you have to do: type about:config into the url bar, hit enter. right click, create a new boolean property called extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set it to false. That way you can still run firefusk, even though i didn't sign it with a certificate.

ALSO: i'm localizing firefusk, so if you happen to know a non-English language and would like to translate the dozen or so words in it, drop me an email and i'll send you the list.

as always, feel free to drop me email at jonathan.soma@gmail.com for bugs, suggestions, and other chatty detritus.

how do i use it?

right clicking on an image or image link will bring up a context menu which has a 'firefusk' option in it. it's pretty self-explanatory.

what are the options?

the 00x option is about whether you want leading zeroes or not - if you start with Picture129.jpeg and decrement 50, it needs to know whether you're looking for Picture97.jpeg or Picture097.jpeg; it's on by default.

there's also an option about whether you want firefusks to open in new windows or new tabs. tabs should be the default.

what are the links on the firefusk page?

for the sake of aesthetics, all broken links are hidden on the new page that's loaded when you firefusk an image until you click the 'toggle broken links' link. the 'image link' is there for bookmarking ease.

what are the bugs/planned improvements?

doesn't work in firefox 3 that took so long to fix, half due to me being out of the country and half due to incredible laziness

At the moment, decrementing is kinda broken. Sometimes.

get stuff like example.com/images[1-20]/lolcat[002-010].gif to work

first up is making it so it doesn't automatically select the new tab that's created when you firefusk something, and also there will be an option to open the result in a new window instead of a tab. i should get those two done by aug fifth or sixth, with a couple more improvements, and release version 1.0.

ability to manually input images to process

for some reason the recent and saved lists don't update until you open a new window. i'll fix that.

basic functionality in 1.5

how do i install it?

if you're using firefox, click here. otherwise, get firefox and come back later.

oh yeah and ...?

drop me questions/suggestions/feature requests at jonathan.soma@gmail.com - if you put firefusk in the subject line it'll probably let me get to it more quickly, too. thanks to those of you who have sent me mail, it's great!

feel free to check out my other assorted projects at xoxosoma.com, or for some reason visit the mozdev firefox page.