Auto Timer

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Other Information

(last updated: Apr 15, 2011)

If you are a programmer and wish to see more detailed information about this program, it is available. This link for programmers will give you access to an internal dialog that the programmer uses to perform unit tests. As more interesting information comes up, it will be available as well.

Future Ideas

Naturally there are many future enhancements in mind. See Revision History for a detailed list of what we have done so far.

Some other ideas we are working on are:

• • Track hours/minutes/seconds within a day.

  • When a time period is reached do something special, for example start flashing or put up an icon.

  • Cleanup the code more.

  • Extend the date entry to include more date formats

  • Store the stopwatch results for later printing

  • Possibly have a restore point for all settings

  • Record how much time web-pages take to load

  • Add configuration file upload and download feature so that so the timers configurations can be saved and restored

  • Add Preset configurations like:

    • Stopwatches-- all stopwatches

    • World Times - set 10 time zones around the world

    • Land Mark Dates - famous time since and after (911, Mozart's birthday, Columbus discovery of America, etc)

    • Unit Testing - for programmers to turn-on the internal unit testing feature. This is only for them to see some parts of the internal working of Auto Timer

Credit to Others

I would like to thank the following folks for their virtual help. Reading their source code, copying bits (sometimes big bits) of it and studying their structure. It made learning all this a whole lot easier. They helped with all areas including chrome, xul, manifest and the general structure of the code:

• • newprez: 'President Bush Countdown' by Mark Roth (I was only interested in the code not the politics).

  • foxmarks: 'Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer' by Foxmarks Inc. I use this all the time. A fantastic tool!

  • The mozilla doc site has tons of hints. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions

  • Totally hate the roach (!), but http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions is a great way to start learning about extensions.

  • Also recently I was looking at "countDown Clock" add-on. Particularity, I was interested in the feedback that the add-on was getting.

  • Would really like to thank the Mozilla reviewers for spending the time reviewing the add-on and giving really good feedback.

  • And finally, thanks to all the feedback from the community of users.