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I’ve released a new version of Movie Ratings which only contains one fix for an issue involving selecting text in Gmail (thanks Elton) hence the 1.4.1 numbering instead of 1.5. I’ve also applied for public release of the extension to take it out of the sandbox, but there are a lot of people in the queue so it’ll be a while.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9279

Also, some requests for features that might make it into 1.5 include:

• IMDB support (this is a huge maybe as I’ve heard IMDB makes it difficult to pull ratings)
• Go straight to the rating if the searched movie is an exact match. I purposefully did not have this before since there are cases where movies have identical names. This feature has been requested and it won’t hurt to add it so I will make it a configurable option. Also, I have an idea for changing the UI that will deal with the cases where movies have identical names.

Version 1.4 of Movie Ratings has been released. There is not much change in this version. The last release was supposed to be the final release before it goes public, but I guess nothing is ever “final”. Hopefully this release is as close as I can get. Changes include:

• You can now change the context menu text from the Options button in Tools->Add-ons.
• Small UI changes.
• Numerous bug fixes.

Enjoy!

Please continue testing the extension. You can get it from here: Firefox Add-On Sand Box

Check out the Bug Post for bugs in the current version.

Version 1.3 of the Movie Ratings Firefox extension has been released. This is hopefully the last major release of the extension before I release it publicly. A lot has changed under the covers as the extension has gone through a complete rewrite to fix some bugs that were found, and to make it more stable. Changes include:

• Complete rewrite. More stable.
• UI changes.
• Now able to get the rating for text in a text box.
• Added a time out message if search takes longer than 8 seconds.
• Extra rating information is now shown in a tool tip when mouse is over the rating box.
• User settings for hiding the tray icon and changing how the rating box closes are now available through the “Options” link for Movie Rating in the Add-On Manager located under Tools->Add-Ons.
• Bug fixes.

Please continue testing the extension. You can get it from here: Firefox Add-On Sand Box

UPDATE: Already found a bug. If a movie does not have a consensus review then “null” is displayed where the consensus review would be. This is not a major bug so it will be addressed in the next version.

UPDATE 2: Check out the Bug Post for more bugs.

Happy New Years! There are some bugs that have arisen in the Movie Ratings Firefox extension. Here is a list of known bugs for each version that will be fixed in the next updates. I will cross them off as I fix them. If you find any others post them in the comments and I will add it to the list. Thanks!

1.5.2 Bugs

• None so far.

1.5.1 Bugs

• HTML being displayed. Rotten Tomatoes has changed their markup. A fix will be out soon.

1.5 Bugs

• HTML displayed when a movie has no rating.

1.4.9 Bugs

• HTML being displayed in movie title and hover.
• Rating image is not displayed.

1.4.8 Bugs

• None

1.4.7 Bugs

• Rotten Tomatoes has an issue with non-word characters.

1.4.6 Bugs

• HTML code appearing instead of rating.

1.4.5 Bugs

• None

1.4.4 Bugs

• Text appears white with certain Personas themes with white text.

1.4.3 Bugs

• None

1.4.2 Bugs

• None

1.4.1 Bugs

• If you turn on the automatic close feature, while the rating box is showing, you will not be able to close it unless you restart Firefox.

1.4 Bugs

• Highlighted text or right clicked links in Gmail will not be recognized.

1.3 Bugs

• If a movie does not have a consensus review but does have a rating, “null” is displayed where the consensus review would be.
• If a movie has a 100% rating (“Man on Wire”) it displays N/A instead.
• Time out text is not centered.
• If new search is performed while a current search is going the timeouts screw up.

1.2 Bugs

• The extension does not recognize highlighted text in a text box.
• In some situations, the extension hijacks the browser window and does not let you do anything else until you close it.
• If multiple extensions are open that float in the browser window the MovieRatings extension will appear on top of them if the window is resized or minimized and maximized.
• “Invalid Chrome URI: /” message appears in the Firefox error console.

Version 1.2 of the Rotten Tomatoes Firefox Extension has been released with numerous improvements. Changes include:

• Bug fixes.
• You can now right click on a link instead of highlighting it. Regular text must still be highlighted.
• New rating information on movies.
• Back button to go back to search results.
• The movie title in the rating page now links to its Rotten Tomatoes page.
• “Tomato” tray icon. Configurable in “Tools->Movie Ratings”.
• You can now close the window by clicking anywhere outside the box. It is turned off by default. Configurable in “Tools->Movie Ratings”.

I’m still looking for testers. You can download it from Firefox Add-On Sandbox.

Thanks to Mario Müller and Adam Bossy for suggestions and pointing out a bug.

Changes coming soon:

• Configurable Tray icon
• Configurable options for closing the box.
• Ability to simply right click links (great for Netflix) instead of highlighting and right clicking.
• Search box.
• Linking to RottenTomatoes.com

If you would like to see any changes or additions feel free to post in the comments.

I’m a heavy user of Netflix and I wasn’t too happy with the user generated ratings for movies. I would always have Rotten Tomatoes open in another window to see their ratings. Needless to say I became annoyed at having to go search Rotten Tomatoes each time so I hacked together a Firefox extension that would do it for me. I hope it makes your lives a bit easier. Let me know what you think!

You can download here.

Bug Post

Change Log

Version 1.5.2

• Fixed yet another HTML appearing issue. I need to find a better approach…

Version 1.5.1

• Fixed an issue where HTML appeared for movies without ratings.

Version 1.5

• Removed the HTML that was displayed in the title and the hover movie stats.
• The rating image was not being displayed.

Version 1.4.9

• Now compatible with Firefox 3.6.

Version 1.4.8

• Non-word characters are now replaced with a space.

Version 1.4.7

• Fixed issue with HTML being displayed instead of the rating.

Version 1.4.6

• Now compatible with Firefox 3.5 beta 4.
  

Version 1.4.5

• Fixed a bug where text appeared white in certain Personas themes.

Version 1.4.4

• Some more under the hood changes. Nothing major.

Version 1.4.3

• Some under the hood changes. Nothing major.

Version 1.4.2

• If an exact match is found it will go straight to the movie rating skipping the search results. You can always go back to the search results if it’s not the movie you’re looking for. This feature can be turned off in the options under Tools->Add-ons.
• Bug fixes.

Version 1.4.1

• Fixed issue with not recognizing selected text in Gmail.

Version 1.4

• You can now change the context menu text from the Options button in Tools->Add-ons.
• Small UI changes.
• Numerous bug fixes.

Version 1.3

• Complete rewrite. More stable.
• UI changes.
• Now able to get the rating for text in a text box.
• Added a time out message if search takes longer than 8 seconds.
• Extra rating information is now shown in a tool tip when mouse is over the rating box.
• User settings for hiding the tray icon and changing how the rating box closes are now available through the “Options” link for Movie Rating in the Add-On Manager located under Tools->Add-Ons. Bug fixes.

Version 1.2

• Bug fixes.
• You can now right click on a link instead of highlighting it.
• Regular text must still be highlighted.
• New rating information on movies.
• Back button to go back to search results.
• The movie title in the rating page now links to its Rotten Tomatoes page.
• “Tomato” tray icon. Configurable in “Tools->Movie Ratings”.
• You can now close the window by clicking anywhere outside the box. It is turned off by default. Configurable in “Tools->Movie Ratings”.

Version 1.1

• Some under the hood changes.
• The box no longer overlaps the browser scroll bar.