ErrorZilla Mod for Mozilla Firefox
ErrorZilla Mod is a nice little extension for Mozilla Firefox that very simply,
adds an image to the error page for down domains, along with some helpful buttons:
"Try Again," "Google Cache," "Coralize," "Wayback," "Ping," "Trace," and "Whois."
I saw
a digg article about the original, ErrorZilla, today, but I didn't myself
really see a point until my buddy
Jimi sent me a link to
another digg article featuring a link to the Google
blog which explained the same extension. He made a comment about the picture having
to go. I agreed. It used to be the Mozilla dinosaur in a star. It was ugly, to say
the least. I changed it to the Firefox logo. But in addition, I also changed the
location of the "Whois" button. Now, it will use
DomainTools.com. So, after changing some simple things,
I rebuilt the extension and released it as ErrorZilla Mod.
Need help?
Submit your feature request, comment, or
bug report to me.
Download
Download ErrorZilla
Mod 0.39b! - 115 KB - Updated January 23, 2010
Select "Install Beta Version" to get the latest (0.39b). See below for details.
Currently, Mozilla's Addons site is the only location ErrorZilla Mod is available.
Click the download link above to go there.
Testimonials
I picked up a few of the comments from users at Mozilla's Add-ons website. None
of them were requested. All are real users that I do not know:
"This is such a useful idea, it makes you wonder why this isn't part of FF as standard."
The Bear
"This is a useful little add-on, to be sure."
somethingXcore
"It's the best 404 add-on! I love..."
dlerma
Note about Version 0.39b
Upon the release of Mozilla Firefox 3.6, I updated ErrorZilla Mod to version 0.39b,
allowing for full compatibility with Firefox 3.6.*. Unfortunately, Mozilla being
backlogged in their extension approval process has not had an opportunity to finalize
and approve this version, but they have given me no indication that anything needs
to be done on my end. I have emailed them asking to push the extension forward in
the approval process, and am currently awaiting their comments. For the time being,
you can install ErrorZilla Mod 0.39b by clicking on "Install Beta Versions" on the
Mozilla Addons page for ErrorZilla Mod.
Donations
Obviously donations are not
required for use, but are always welcome. I do spend a good amount of my time
working on these projects. Time spent away from my family and friends.
Donations made with the button to the right are secured by PayPal and will help
to justify the time I spend working on these projects rather than with people in
my life.
Changelog
- Version 0.39b — January 23, 2009
- Added support in the install.rdf for Firefox 3.6.*. No other changes made.
- Version 0.39a — August 15, 2009
- Minor bugfix. Changed extension homepage to make traffic to site easier to understand
for user interaction.
- Version 0.39 — July 1, 2009
- Added support for general SSL / SEC errors - behavior should revert to Firefox default.
Updated to new Firefox icon (for Firefox 3.5). Removed JAR file dependence. Updated
install.rdf to new format. Deleted legacy / some development content. Fixed "About"
dialog error. Streamlined.
- Version 0.35 — June 24, 2009
- Added support in the install.rdf for Firefox 3.5. No other changes made.
- Version 0.34 — August 10, 2008
- Adds support for a few different SSL error types that were previously unsupported
(on accident) -- Thanks to I. Kitzmann for pointing it out.
- Version 0.33 — June 30, 2008
- The Firefox logo returns to the error page
- A check is added to account for
invalid SSL certificates (to allow the display of the default "Add Exception" behavior
of Firefox 3)
- Version 0.31 — June 19, 2008
- Adds support for Firefox 3, and fixes issue with chrome:// graphic links being referenced
by a non chrome page. :)
- Version 0.2 — October 24, 2006
- Added 'Coralize' button to mimic original ErrorZilla.
- Version 0.1.1 — October 19, 2006
- Added support for Flock 0.4 - 0.8
- Added support for Firefox 2.0.0.*
- Version 0.1 — September 6, 2006
- Added support in the install.rdf for Firefox 3.5. No other changes made.