There is one thing keeping me from switching to Firefox full time: the Chrome UI sounds extension.
-
Julian Fietkaureplied to Andre Louis on last edited by
@FreakyFwoof Hm, strange! The zip file I repacked is at https://stuff.jfietkau.me/ui-sounds.zip if you wanna try that.
Another possible way would be to use the web-ext packaging tool, but unless you already know a lot about programming browser add-ons, that may be more complicated than it's worth.
There's packaging instructions by Mozilla here: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/package-your-extension/ on the off chance they'll tell you something you don't know yet.
-
Andre Louisreplied to Julian Fietkau on last edited by
@julian This must be user error then, I went to Tools >Addons and Themese, clicked tools, then 'Install addon from file.' Is this not how it's done? Thanks for putting up with my ineptness haha
-
Julian Fietkaureplied to Andre Louis on last edited by
@FreakyFwoof Ah okay! Sadly no, it's not that simple. Mozilla had trouble with malware distributed as browser add-ons for a while, so in current Firefox versions (outside of the developer channel) you can't just install an add-on locally, it has to go through https://addons.mozilla.org.
So you'd need an account there, upload the zip file, specify whether you want it to be public or not, and then download the resulting add-on. Which is kind of a gray area without the programmer's permission...
-
Andre Louisreplied to Julian Fietkau on last edited by
@julian Aah, interesting. Explains why I couldn't get it to work then. The option in tools seems kinda pointless in that case. Well, thanks for letting me know.
-
Julian Fietkaureplied to Andre Louis on last edited by
@FreakyFwoof I went ahead and asked LordLuceus on GitHub: https://github.com/LordLuceus/chrome-ui-sounds/issues/2
They seem to still be active there, so that'll probably be a more fruitful path long-term. If they don't feel like publishing a Firefox version, I'm hoping they'll at least give it an open source license so I can do it.
/cc @PepperTheVixen
-
Andre Louisreplied to Julian Fietkau on last edited by
@julian @PepperTheVixen Sounds good, and I hope so. I would agree to it considering it's using my sounds.
-
@FreakyFwoof Hey Andre, I'm reviving this thread with some (potentially) good news.
LordLuceus never answered my question on GitHub, but as I was going through some old bookmarks earlier today, I saw that they quietly put an open source license on the extension code a few months back.
So I could do a Firefox release of it now, featuring your audio files, if that's still alright. Also, would you be available to test it?
-
@julian Someone already did one which works fine in firefox using the sounds, they just never put it on github or the store or whatever firefox uses. Should still work though. https://onj.me/browser-ui-sounds.xpi
-
@FreakyFwoof Oh excellent, good to know you're all set.
If this author isn't inclined to upload their add-on to https://addons.mozilla.org (I just double-checked and it's indeed not there), do you mind if I upload mine? Technically the license assignment that LordLuceus did would allow reuse of your sounds already, but I'd want to properly give credit. Did you create both of the sound themes or just the default one? Are the sound files released under any specific (e.g. Creative Commons) license?
-
@julian My sounds all come from my '44.1K' sound scheme for windows which still works fine in windows 11, available from http://3.onj.me/programs
-
@FreakyFwoof Ah cool, I'll link to that in the readme then. Thank you very much!
-
@julian If you like, feel free to link to my main site instead, contains more than just sound. Music, youtube etc. People can contact me through the form there as well if they wish. I do sound on commission too. https://onj.me
-
@FreakyFwoof Gotcha, will do!