[tor-talk] New version of the Tor Flashproxy Badge Firefox Extension

[Christian Sturm]

Hello,

I just wanted to give a quick heads up on my Firefox extension. It's now 
not really a badge anymore (maybe someone knows a better name?). I 
replaced the icon and aso I included the Flashproxy JS into the 
application and gave it a lot of lifting (300 lines instead of 1000), 
removing mostly the badge and some not really used features.

I did this not for the sake of forking, but because I wanted to replace 
the badge stuff with an event based interface, so I can make it more 
like an extension. Also users told me they wanted to see numbers of how 
many people they helped and things like that. One could also add a 
configuration interface. Another thing is that I think just using the 
badge forces me to have the extension bound to the UI. I really hope 
this doesn't come off like an evil fork, because I mainly wanted to have 
a small working JavaScript class for Firefox.

Also this has the benefit of executing trusted JavaScript (not just 
downloading and executing it when the extension loads), which may be 
considered a security benefit. The HTTPS version never worked for me on 
Firefox. I think on Chrome it works just fine.

What would be really cool would be some kind of logo and a better icon. 
Currently I just use a small roundish thingy (people didn't like the 
look of the badge). So if anyone has fun with designing that would be 
really cool as I am awful at this.

The last thing that was requested was putting the source code on GitHub 
and now it is:

https://github.com/reezer/tor-flashproxy-badge

The add-on itself can be found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tor-flashproxy-badge/

Hope you enjoy. Feedback is welcome!