Installing Waterfox addons (the "hard" way)

Apparently the guys at Mozilla have found/left a hole somewhere on Waterfox browsers engine (since its also from Mozilla but modified) to reveal the real user agent to websites.

(Note to self: check where is it and how to counter it)

Specific case is addons.mozilla.org: even if you have an user agent spoofer and you choose whatever Firefox version, it will not let download the addon you want.

So the trick is to have an old copy of firefox installed and use it to open the addon page you want. Then simply copy the link to install it, paste into Waterfox and remove the last part of the url so it ends with the xpi extension.

Autofill forms for Chromium and Firefox

Why/when do you need it:

• because you use the same web page from time to time and you need to fill a form with the same data (ie: user/pass)
• related to the above, once configured with a hotkey, logging in a site in is just a second
• security is not an issue
• a natural complement to Lazarus addon for Firefox
• if you are like me, who sticks to Firefox 40-48 because many addons does not work on newer versions, you might want to use Chromium for specific web pages

Firefox version:

https://firefox.add0n.com/autofill-forms.html

for Chromium

https://add0n.com/autofillforms-e10s.html

compared with the Addon for Firefox (version 1.1.8), Chromium addon is horrible beyond belief. I feel like some software developers are treating users as if they were morons incapable of thinking for themselves so they try to spoon-feed them with fancy dialogs and buttons limiting what they can and cannot do. Proof of that is the first item on the Features list: "Easy configuration with a simple interface"

geany plugins for 1.33

assuming:

• have geany 1.33 installed
• you want to use geany pluings for the same version
• you have downloaded and unpacked source distribution 
• you get an error while running ./configure under slackware64 14.2 similar linux flavor

if configure complains no "geany.pc", to solve this:

find /usr |grep "geany.pc"

take note where the "geany.pc" is located and append to PKG_CONFIG_PATH

ie if the file is located under /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

then you can run ./configure again without errors