Redirector A Firefox add-on that allows you to skip confirmation pages after posting messages.
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A Firefox add-on that allows you to skip confirmation pages after posting messages. Redirector can be useful for instance to skip confirmation pages after posting messages on message boards, skipping ad pages that appear before you can view content on certain sites, redirecting from http to https on sites where you always want the https version, or just anywhere where it takes you two or more clicks to get to what you want.Previous versions supported XPath expressions in the redirect url but version 1.5.2 and later versions don't. The reason is that as far as I know no one was using the feature and it was causing some problems so I decided to remove it.As of version 1.0 there are two types of redirects, fast and slow. Previous version always redirected when the original page had loaded. So if you wanted to redirect from page X to page Y, you first saw X load and then it went to Y.That's what we call a slow redirect. In version 1.0 you won't see X load, when you click a link for X you will go right away to Y. These are called fast redirects. There are two notable exceptions that still use slow redirects. They are:· Redirects where 'Only if link exists' is specified. In this case we have to load page X first to see if the link exists and so can't do a fast redirect.· Post requests. If you're posting to page X then we can't do a fast redirect because then the POST would never happen. For instance, if you were logging in to page X with a POST method and wanted to redirect to page Y after the login, then if we had a fast redirect the POST would never happen and you wouldn't be logged in. Post requests need to use slow redirects so the web will continue to function as expected.To add a new redirect, right click either anywhere on a page and click 'Add current url to Redirector' or right click on a link and click 'Add link url to Redirector'. You can also go to Tools -> Redirector -> Add and add a new url there, but then you won't get the example url filled in.To edit and delete redirects, goto Tools->Redirector, or choose Options on the Addons window.To disable Redirector temporarily, click on the R that's in your statusbar. Requirements: · Firefox 3.5 to 3.5.* What's New in This Release: · Option to unescape matches in include patterns. This means that if you have a pattern like http://foo.com/?url=which redirects to $1 (the content of the *) and the match is escaped, like http://bar.com/path then previously the redirect would fail. Now you can use the option "Unescape matches" which will turn http://bar.com/path into http://bar.com/path which makes it usable as a redirect target. · It is now possible to re-order the redirects. · Individual redirects can be disabled, as disabling all redirects at once. · Import and export of redirects to text files is now possible. · Redirects now work on url's that are the result of 30x redirects from web servers. Previously when you entered for example http://foo.com into the address bar and the website sent back a 301 redirect to http://foo.com/new/path then the http://foo.com/new/path url was never checked against the redirects. Well, now it works. · Improved GUI. All configuration options are for example now available in the GUI, it is split up into tabs instead of having everything in the same place and the window is resizable. · Improved performance. Both wildcard and regular expression patterns are now stored as compiled regular expressions, instead of being created from string patterns during every single redirect. Some more checks have also been added to make sure that we exit as soon as possible in those cases where redirects should not apply. · More protection from shooting yourself in the foot. The dialog to create redirects will now warn you if your pattern doesn't match your example url, or if your redirected url also matches the redirect, possibly causing an endless series of redirects. During redirection it is also checked whether the redirected url matches the same redirect that created it, if so a warning is displayed to the user and the redirect is disabled. This will stop the user from issuing endless requests to the same url. It is still possible to have one redirect from A to B and another from B to A, the current safeguard functionality doesn't detect cycles like that. · Refactored to get rid of 'eval' and 'wrappedJSObject' so it passes all validations at AMO. · Note: This new version only supports version 3.5.of Firefox. It is highly likely that it would work without problems on the 3.0.series, but since I am not putting in the effort to test on those version, I will not report them as being supported. If anyone feels like testing this, let me know and if everything works I'll add them as supported versions on AMO.

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