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Greasemonkey Script to get Jabber Room for Google Group Chat

Erik — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:23:28 +0000

So, today I was invited to Google Group chat for the first time. This would be really cool on a terminal that’s not equipped with an IM client, since it’s all done through the web with flash and magic. But, since I don’t like having 2 IM clients running at the same time (Pidgin and the Flash one from Google), I decided I needed to rip out the Jabber Group Chat Room name from the invite page. I got some tips from this site, and wrote a Greasemonkey script to do so.

All you have to do is copy the room name into the Join Chat window, and put in groupchat.google.com as the server. I hope you find it useful. If anyone knows how to make this a link that GNOME will throw at Pidgin, let me know. That would be awesome.

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FireGPG – GnuPG in Firefox’s Gmail!

Erik — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:27:00 +0000

OK – a little history. I wanted to write this extension some time ago, but couldn’t figure out how to make it work. Apparently, someone has spent the time to find out, and now I have to tear apart the code to find out how they did this. Anyway, this allows you to sign and encrypt any text in Firefox using GPG. It rocks. You can use the options dialog to select the private key to use. It also has support for GMail integration using little buttons instead of the right-click menu which is always available. Here’s a preview:

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GMail mailto: links in Linux with perl

Erik — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:44:08 +0000

So, I removed evolution today so it would stop trying to configure itself. Then, I went and found a perl script that would send me to a gmail compose page. Here’s the result:


#!/usr/bin/perl
# Open about:config
# Set the option "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto" to true
# Create the option "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" and set it
# to ~/bin/mymailer.pl
use strict ;
my $link = $ARGV[0] ;
$link =~ /mailto:(.*)/ ;
exec "firefox \'http://gmail.google.com/gmail?view=cm&fs=1&tearoff=1&to=$1\'";

Works wonderfully! I’m so happy I found this.