Happyrabo's dashboard

It works for me in Kubuntu with FF 3.0.3. Could it be that your school's environment has locked down the saving of profile information in such a way that the plugin is unable to activate?

For me, there's two reasons I like this option, aside from performance (perceived or real).

First, it's hard to shake a feeling of "my privacy is being violated" when I know that some information is being communicated to Vidoop every single time I browse any page anywhere. I don't have anything against you guys, but I would personally feel better if I was in control of when my browsing habits are communicated to a third party.

Second, I'm a web developer. Sometimes I'm firing up a browser solely to develop against localhost, and I have no need to sign in to Vidoop. When I do so, I get a bar at the top of each page telling me how Vidoop can fill in forms for me, and I really should sign in and whatnot. Then I get irritated and disable the plugin. Also, it's hard to evaluate the load time of my own pages when I have to account for the plugin's activity as part of the overall load time.

Thanks for considering this.

PS: I've never developed a Firefox extensions before, but if I were you, I'd try to cut down on bandwidth costs by embedding jQuery inside the extension, and injecting it into the page that way, if possible. As a result, the calls to the vidoop server will only need to download your non-jQuery code, instead of the entire library. Seems like that would improve performance and cut bandwidth usage on your server at the same time.

Would it be possible to have a mode for the Vidoop plugin where it does not attempt to auto-fill forms or logins unless I tell it to? That is, instead of sending data back to vidoop on each page I load, and injecting jQuery every time I load a page, it could do it when I click a "fill in this form" button.

I would feel much better about using this plugin if I had that option.