Comments on: Google Voice Add-on for Firefox

By: Josh Shupack

Josh Shupack — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:52:54 +0000

Hi Chad, first off, I love this plugin, it totally ROCKS!

I’ve been developing a similar extension and am using a lot of your code. I found a bug in some of the javascript funcions, the ones that check all the open windows:
delegateNewMaster
stopCallChecking
initChecker

in the while loop they reference com.chadsmith.googlevoice but they should really reference win.com.chadsmith.googlevoice

It’s not a big deal for your doe because the updates are so infrequent, but in mine what it does is if you have multiple windows open, each one has it’s own timer, which was really messing me up.

I also changed the start function so it will only scheduleCallChecking if there is no current call checking, I think that makes more sense, at least for me.

Let me know if you have any questions.

I’m also looking into turning this into a thunderbird extension.

Thanks again,

…..Josh…..

By: Bill Deng

Bill Deng — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:53:50 +0000

Hi, well done. But I get some problems. this add-on cannot identify phone numbers in the form like
+1 xxx xxx xxxx
+34 xxx xxxx xxxx
+1-xxx-xxx-xxxx
+1xxxxxxxxxx
maybe there are others number formats also.

Thanks.
Bill

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:12:07 +0000

Is it possible that you could enable dialing to a forwarding phone not listed on the google account. Maybe use the PIN to do it. I know I can call in from a phone not listed and give it the PIN to connect the call. Thanks.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:57:22 +0000

I think I have a new one!

First – thanks for the extension – I’ve used it since the Grand Central days, and I appreciate you going to the effort to create it.

Ok, here’s my bug – Win7, FF 3.6, GVAF 0.9.1 – the first telephone number on each webpage disappears when the page finishes loading. If I disable GVAF, the number doesn’t disappear. Any guesses?

Thanks again.

By: Link phone numbers to Google Voice in Firefox | GottaBeMobile.com

Link phone numbers to Google Voice in Firefox | GottaBeMobile.com — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:54:54 +0000

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By: mcihael bierman

mcihael bierman — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:24:36 +0000

Overall, awesome work. I’ve just sent a donation.

Would be great if the number to dial automatically had a drop down of the numbers from your google voice account so you could just pick which phone to dial.

Would also be great if the conversion of #s to dialable links was improved. Even Google Maps doesn’t work.

By: Liam

Liam — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:34:27 +0000

Still doesn’t work for me/ stuck on “loading calls”.

By: Jacques

Jacques — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:54:03 +0000

Thanks! This works great! the only thing I would love to change is the option for it to wait for my approval of the number before it starts initiating the call in case I click the wrong number or click on something that may not be a number at all even though the page thinks it is.

Thanks again!
Jacques

By: David Strong

David Strong — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:34:09 +0000

I’ve gone from loading calls to “CaptchaRequired” ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,used to work,,,is it me?

By: know.patience

know.patience — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:37:38 +0000

is it possible to add this on to thunderbird 3? it would be nice if i could click to call numbers in emails too.