{"id":111,"date":"2005-01-27T16:24:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T21:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2005-01-31T18:40:25","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T23:40:25","slug":"targetalert-extension-for-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/targetalert-extension-for-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"TargetAlert Extension for Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/wp-photos\/firefox.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" alt=\"Firefox\" align=\"left\"\/>While reading a post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourtotalsite.com\/archives\/usability\/please_label_pdf_links\/Default.aspx\">YourTotalSite.com<\/a> about web designers not marking their PDF files, so you inadvertently click a link having to wait for the <strike>excruciatingly<\/strike> slow PDF plug-in to open. One of the comments recommended a Firefox plug-in called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolinfest.com\/targetalert\/\">TargetAlert<\/a> which will add a little icon beside all links to external documents (Word, Excel, PDF, mail, etc.). It&#8217;s a pretty handy extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever you load a web page that has a link to a file that ends in .pdf, TargetAlert will append an Acrobat icon to the end of the link. Thus, a link that normally looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\">Sample Link to a PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will look like this when using TargetAlert:<\/p>\n<a href=\"#\">Sample Link to a PDF<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techory.com\/blog\/wp-photos\/acrobat_pdf.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/><\/blockquote>\n<p>I even found a way to change the icons that display for certain documents. It&#8217;s a little involved&#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not tough, but you have to do some digging.<\/p>\n<p>Find the directory for the extension on your machine. On Windows (now sure where the extensions are on Mac) it should be in: C:Documents and Settingsuser_nameApplication DataMozillaFirefoxprofilesdefault___extenstions<br \/>\nYou may have to look around to find what directory that sepcific extension is located in. I just looked at the date installed.<\/p>\n<p>In the TargetAlert extension directory there should be a chrome directory with a .jar file in it. Use winzip to extract the contents of the .jar file. You should a bunch of images in content\/skin of the extracted directories. The skin directory contains all of the images for the little icons. There is a .gif and a .png for each icon. Open the ones you want changed in your favorite image app, save &#8217;em, re-compress everything back into a .jar file (use winzip again). Bam&#8230; you&#8217;ve got customized icons for TargetAlert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading a post from YourTotalSite.com about web designers not marking their PDF files, so you inadvertently click a link having to wait for the excruciatingly slow PDF plug-in to open. 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