Today’s tool is another Firefox extension - Scribe. Scribe simply allows you to save your form information. Fill out the form, select File > Save Entry and it will prompt you for a location and file name. Save the file. Now when you re-open the form you can click File > Open Entry, select your previously saved file and your fields will be filled out!
I use this all the time when developing forms. It’s a huge time saver to be able to fill out a form once, save the data, and then quickly be able to fill out the form over and over again in development.
Unfortunately this extension seems to have been abandoned. It will not install correctly in newer releases of Firefox without a bit of hacking…
- Download the scribe.xpi file
- Raname the file: scribe.zip
- Uncompress it using whatever tool you prefer - I like 7zip
- Open install.rdf
- Scroll down to about line 16
- Change the line:
- To something like:
- Save the file
- Rename it back to scribe.xpi
- Drag and drop into a Firefox window
- The installer should run and the extension will be installed
I’m currently running this on WinXP with the latest release of Firefox with no issues.
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Hmm, doesn’t seem to work for me. Says it only works for FireFox 0.7 to 1.0.
Was that about a year ago?
Michael - I mentioned in the article that it does NOT work in current versions of Firefox but you can modify the .xpi file to make it work.
Hehe, oh dear. That was kind of obvious wasn’t it?
That’ll teach me to read posts at 6am
Thanks Jim