Plurk Firefox Sidebar

Works in Firefox 2 & 3

Plurk Firefox Sidebar I recently discovered Plurk.Â A micro-blogging site much like Twitter, only with more features, a cool layout and that headless thing!

I’m a fan of the interactive and innovative timeline of posts.Â However some people feel the timeline is a bit busy and go for the simplified mobile version.Â So I decided to take a bit of code and put the mobile version in Firefox’s sidebar for easy access.

The Plurk Mobile Sidebar comes complete with Firefox 2 & 3 support, a headless thing button for your toolbar and a keyboard shortcut.Â The actual features of the Plurk sidebar application are under Plurks control.

Download the Plurk Mobile Sidebar extension.

To install: Download the extension to your desktop. Then go to Tools -> Add-ons and drag plurk1.0.xpi to your add-ons window. It’ll install and you’ll have to restart Firefox.

To use: Go to View -> Sidebar -> Plurk Mobile Sidebar, or hit control+alt+p, or customize your menu bar to add the Plurk button.

Enjoy

Also available are the Socialthing and Facebook sidebars.

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Tags: extension, micro-blogging, plurk, social-media, twitter

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90 Comments to Plurk Firefox Sidebar

Great stuff there…. Going to start playing with it now… and Hey.. I made it into the pic.. wee haaa…. this Gpysy IS everywere

- theGypsy June 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Internet Explorer 7.0 - Windows Vista

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- Plurk Mobile Sidebar, Plurk en la barra lateral de Firefox June 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
WordPress 2.0.2

theGypsy - you are everywhere.

- Thomas June 4th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

Is it possible to see the number of characters left to type? (I believe there’s 140 limit)

- Sridhar Katakam June 4th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

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- Plurk en el sidebar de Firefox, sin extensiones June 4th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
WordPress 2.5.1

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- maestroalberto » Plurk Firefox Sidebar: estensione per usare Plurk dalla barra laterale di Firefox June 5th, 2008 at 2:36 am
WordPress 2.5.1

[...] There is however a clever sidebar addition for Firefox which utilises the mobile version of the site. You can download this addon by clicking here. [...]

- Plurking: The New Twitter? | Matt's Journal June 5th, 2008 at 5:52 am
WordPress 2.5.1

You can do the same thing, by adding http://www.plurk.com/m/ as a bookmark and selecting ‘open in sidebar’

- Paul June 5th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Windows XP

Thanks for the great sidebar! It looks and operates much like the mobile version of Plurk. Very handy.

- Rich June 5th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

the control+alt+p rocks! nice job thomas!

- chris dohman June 5th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows Vista

Very nice! Thanks.

- Herb June 5th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Flock 1.2.1 - Windows XP

Props to you my friend. This is an incredible ap and it takes away the tediousness of Plurk’s interface. This could be the exact tool that keeps me using Plurk and Twitter at the same time. I have to agree with Chris, the Ctrl+alt+P is a huge asset to this addon.

- Mike WIlton June 5th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.3.3

Useless.. why install one extension if you can bookmark plurk.com/m and configure it to open in a sidebar ??

- Oscar June 5th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

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- 140Char » Plurk sidebar tool for Firefox 2 and 3 already! June 5th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
WordPress 2.5.1

Thanks everyone for the comments!

Oscar, you could just bookmark the mobile version, but then you don’t get a keyboard shortcut or toolbar icon.

Sridhar - The features are controlled by the Plurk folks.

- Thomas June 5th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

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- Is Plurk the Twitter killer? - ChatsUSA June 6th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Netscape Navigator 4.0

sah-weet… altho i cant seem to find the little headless icon in my FF3

- suni June 6th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP

I love it! Thank you!

- Chic and Charming June 6th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

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- Caminyx » Blog Archive » Plurk, une alternative Ã Twitter June 6th, 2008 at 11:10 am
WordPress 2.3.3

also… the links people post, when clicked also open in the sidebar. so then I have to close and reopen the sidebar to go back to plurk … is there a way to fix that?

- suni June 6th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.3.2

suni - Customize your toolbar to add the Plurk button. As far as the links go, not sure how to fix that one.

- Thomas June 7th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Safari 525.20 - Mac OS X

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- Thinking Serious » Plurk Unleashed! June 7th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
WordPress 2.5.1

Thanks, and the shortcut would be

Alt+Ctrl+P

for windows firefox

- Matsuri June 8th, 2008 at 4:51 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

A feature i’d like to see.
Every time I click on a link from my plurk friends, the sidebar loads itself and never takes me back unless I’d restart the sidebar.

TL;DR
Link open to another tab in firefox

Thanks for this great extension ^_^

- Matsuri June 8th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

Matsuri - Glad you like the sidebar. Unfortunately, I don’t control the features. I just made the mobile version work in Firefox’s sidebar.

- Thomas June 8th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Safari 525.20 - Mac OS X

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WordPress 2.5.1

Great job!

- Laurent Bazet June 10th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows Vista

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Netscape Navigator 4.0

ooh… VERY cool. Just downloaded it - thanx for making it super easy, too!

- Dette June 11th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

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WordPress MU

Have you all checked out the basic Plurk search? http://www.twistermc.com/blog/2008/06/08/plurk-lurker

- Thomas June 11th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

Great!Great!Great!Great!
TxÂ´s

- Elfa Passante (Evelling) June 15th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.5.1

Hack’d one another in the sides.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.5.1

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- Plurkapalooza | crazy meezer June 20th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
WordPress 2.5.1

This sounds great!! Trying it out right now! Thanks!!

- tanya25m June 21st, 2008 at 1:54 am
Flock 1.1.4 - Windows XP

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- LOSTINLOVE.ORG » Oh please! June 21st, 2008 at 4:26 am
WordPress 2.5

This is the only one addons of Plurk on Firefox

- Francis June 21st, 2008 at 7:55 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Linux

hi all, i’ve just got refered here and downloaded and save to disk, i see that the extension is .xpi but my mac OS 10.4.11 does not seemed to have an application to launch it, any suggestions? thks.

- Gordus June 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Mac OS X

@Gordus:

1. (Not mandatory) Upgrade to the latest Firefox

2. Drag the .xpi and drop it into Firefox.

- Sridhar Katakam June 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows Vista

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WordPress 2.5.1

Very nice extension. works perfectly here.

I only ask if with this we no longer will access the plurk.com. I would leave by laziness. The good thing about these sites is to enter in the profiles and see the updates, comments, etc. I know that this can be done by the extension, but loses a little grace. Just like the plurk mobile

- Rayana June 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.3.3

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- Ciao Twitter, Bonjour Plurk. June 25th, 2008 at 1:18 am
WordPress 2.5

Can you Greasemonkey sidebar scripts?

- Hao Chen June 25th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.5.1

suni- Try clicking on the Plurk logo to go back to the timeline.

- Neagle June 28th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows Vista

I’m very interested, but Firefox (2, and I ain’t upgrading till my extensions do) is refusing to install it. It gives me an error 203 with no real explanation. Is it mocking my refusal to upgrade to 3?

- mo June 29th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows 2000

Mo - Not sure what an error 203 is. The extension works fine with Firefox 3 and should work in Firefox 2.

- Thomas July 3rd, 2008 at 6:21 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X

thanks for this creation.

- eyebags July 3rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.15 - Windows XP

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WordPress MU

still heavy …

I just need a GTalk bot ^_^

- aw July 12th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows Vista

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WordPress 2.5.1

doesn’t work with Firefox 3.0.1. !

- prsm July 18th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows XP

prsm Click the download link above, it’s been updated to work in 3.0.1.

- Thomas July 18th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Mac OS X

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WordPress 2.5.1

wow, it worked
thx

i wonder, how the refresh page worked?

- aVank July 31st, 2008 at 9:57 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.6

Nice plug in! Thanx!

- Youfan August 15th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows XP

Very useful plugin! Love it!

- Xee Momma August 16th, 2008 at 4:15 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows XP

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WordPress 2.5.1

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WordPress 2.6.1

I tried to download, but why does it only opens in flock?

- mandymandy September 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Mac OS X

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WordPress 2.6.1

Good 235rter2rwer23r

- dianne September 12th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Internet Explorer 5.5 - Windows ME

Thanks for sharing!

- ARS September 20th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 - Windows XP

merci Ã toi pourb cette image

- Infos September 26th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Internet Explorer 6.0 - Windows XP

I want this, but it doesn’t seem to be working with Mozilla 3.0.3

- Crystal September 28th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 - Windows XP

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