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an unsuccessful dabble

Posted by brendo | Posted in All Posts, programming | Posted on 04-10-2007

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I had a dabble at modifying a Firefox extension this morning.

http://netusage.iau5.com/ – The broadband usage extension is open source, but doesn’t yet support my new ISP. I got the information that the developer would need to add it and thought I’d have a stab myself.

Patience wasn’t my friend this morning and I ended up giving up after about 2 hours of poking and editing, but not really knowing enough about it to be able to make it work. If you aren’t with Australis for your internet, it is a great extension! Hopefully the developer has more success than I did.