Verizon Usage Monitor for Mozilla Firefox
Tired of paying ridiculous overage fees for minutes or
data used with your Verizon cellular plan? Verizon Usage Monitor is for you!
Verizon Usage Monitor is an extension for
Mozilla Firefox that will help prevent you from going over your wireless
plan's monthly allotment of minutes or data by enabling you to easily monitor your
minutes and data usage for your Verizon account. Simply being aware of your
current usage can help you either carefully consider future usage, talk to someone
on your account that has been using too many minutes, or call Verizon directly to
increase your plan.
The monitor will sit quietly in the status bar, at the bottom of any Firefox window.
After initial configuration, all you need to do to see check your usage is glance
at that portion of your screen. Setup is a breeze. Just give it your
"My Verizon" username and password, and configure exactly what type of data you'd
like to see, and you're on your way! Your login credentials to Verizon are
securely stored in Firefox's own password manager, and are never transmitted to
us or any other third party. They are only used to securely retrieve your
current usage directly from Verizon.
Verizon Usage Monitor will enable you to monitor the minutes and data usage for
a single line, multiple lines on a family share plan, or the data for a cellular
modem or broadband access device.
This extension is a re-coded and improved version of
Winston Huang's Verizon Minutes Used. This project
was created with Winston's blessing. It has undergone many updates, including
support for new Firefox 4.0 requirements, configurations changes, login reliability,
support for data usage monitoring, and more.
Update: (2010-08-31, 11:25 AM ET) Verizon changed the way Data Usage is displayed on their website in a way that makes it unavailable to versions of Verizon Usage Monitor earlier than 1.26. Please download version 1.26 or higher below.
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.
Known Issues
| "My Verizon" account credentials are not updated when changed or are using the old information |
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| Confirmed: |
2010-08-31 |
| Issue: |
When trying to change your My Verizon account credentials, the extension will not remove all instance of the old credentials and will usually use the old credentials anyway. This issue is due to how Verizon Usage Monitor stores the login credentials for the user in Firefox's built in password manager. |
| Fix: |
In development. |
| Temporary Workaround: |
Until a fix is available, you can remove the credentials from Firefox's password manager. In Firefox's options, on the "Security" tab, click the "Saved Passwords" button. Type "verizon" (no quotation marks) in the "Search" text box, and remove all saved passwords for the results. The next time you enter the My Verizon credentials into the extension, they will be stored appropriately. |
| FIX AVAILABLE: The status bar shows up with "null" or "error" when using a version before 1.26 |
Show Details |
| Confirmed: |
2010-08-31 |
| Issue: |
The status bar started saying "null null" or "error" in place of the value for data usage. This is because Verizon changed the way data usage is displayed on their website to a format that makes it unavailable to versions of Verizon Usage Monitor earlier than 1.26. |
| Fix: |
Upgrade to version 1.26 or later. |
Support
If you need help or would like to submit a bug report and the issue you are having is not in the Known Issues section above,
submit your bug report to me. If you would like to make a feature request, submit comments, or anything else directly about this extnsion,
send your message with this form.
Changelog 
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- Version 1.26 - August 31, 2010
- Reports current state more accurately in the statusbar
- Changed regular expression to retrieve data usage from Verizon's new summary screen changes
- Compatible with Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - 4.0b6pre
- Version 1.24 - August 16, 2010
- Added tabs to options dialog, to help accommodate users with shorter screen resolutions.
- On load, Verizon Usage Monitor will now open the options screen instead of immediately warning you about an incorrect login.
- About window content and layout changes.
- install.rdf description updated to reflect current version.
- Version 1.23 - August 15, 2010
- Added option to hide or display the usage description ("mins") from the statusbar.
- Version 1.22 - August 15, 2010
- Fixed bug where images setting of "none" was not being respected (thanks to Greg
for pointing this out)
- Image setting is now updated on refresh command, before usage is retrieved, to ensure
proper setting regardless of valid response from Verizon
- Version 1.21 - August 15, 2010
- Added data support for Verizon's different measurement scales (reporting megabytes
or gigabytes instead of only kilobytes).
- Version 1.2 - August 14, 2010
- Added support for data to the status bar tooltip, and allows configuring whether
to display data on the status bar tooltip itself.
- Made data line display show the configured "cell number's" data usage.
- Version 1.1b52 - August 8, 2010
- Added support for Firefox 4.0 Beta 3
- Redesigned options dialog
- Menu reordered
- Status bar menu creation method re-implemented to fix Firefox 4 beta 2's unsupported
background of the previous implementation
- Better Verizon login handling
- Initial Version - July 7, 2010
- Code based on Verizon Minutes Used 2.1 by Winston Huang (http://verizon-minutes-used.blogspot.com/)