{"id":14055,"date":"2004-07-20T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/firefox-all-music-guide-extension\/"},"modified":"2004-07-20T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T18:30:00","slug":"firefox-all-music-guide-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/firefox-all-music-guide-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox All Music Guide Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">All Music Guide<\/a>&rsquo;s somewhat ill-conceived redesign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/2004\/07\/all-music-guide-redesign-sucks.html\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a>, and it looks like someone has come up with a partial workaround.  Adrian Holovaty has written an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holovaty.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/07\/19\/2210\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;All Music Guide Corrector&rdquo; extension for Firefox<\/a> that fixes some of the layout-related bugs of the redesign, including:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>It cleans up the horrible JavaScript-only links sitewide, thus enabling 21st-century browsing techniques such as tabbed browsing and opening links in new windows.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>It hides the annoying Flash spinner thing atop each page.<br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>It changes the functionality of the &ldquo;Read more&hellip;&rdquo; links on band and album detail pages. On the old AMG, band and album pages contained full reviews. Now, they feature only the first few sentences, with a link to &ldquo;Read more&hellip;&rdquo; on a separate page. The extension changes the functionality of that &ldquo;Read more&hellip;&rdquo; link so that, instead of taking you to a new page, clicking the link will dynamically load the full band\/album review and insert it inline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess I should give AMG some credit; the site has gotten quicker since they presumably rebalanced their server loads.  The use of this extension makes the redesign somewhat easier to deal with, although it&rsquo;s still not as good as their original design.  Why they came up with a design that forces you to search through multiple tabs and pages for information that used to be all on a single page I don&rsquo;t know&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>This is also a great example of how the use of extensions in Mozilla products can improve browsing experiences by not just augmenting the browser&rsquo;s overall capabilities but in this case by improving a poorly conceived layout.  For the latest Firefox extensions, keep an eye out on the <a href=\"http:\/\/update.mozilla.org\/extensions\/?application=firefox\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Update Extensions Page<\/a>, and as always, if you haven&rsquo;t tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox<\/a> yet, now&rsquo;s the time! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.upian.com\/hotlinks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Links<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109034165012115110?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted about All Music Guide&rsquo;s somewhat ill-conceived redesign last week, and it looks like someone has come up with a partial workaround. Adrian Holovaty has written an &ldquo;All Music Guide Corrector&rdquo; extension for Firefox that fixes some of the layout-related bugs of the redesign, including: It cleans up the horrible JavaScript-only links sitewide, thus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/firefox-all-music-guide-extension\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Firefox All Music Guide Extension&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}