Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Verizon Minutes Used Firefox Extension Version 0.6

Version 0.6 has the following features:

  • configure what usage number is displayed in the status bar. Choices are: peak only, peak + off peak (for users whose off peak minutes are not free).

  • show the last call information for the phone number specified in the option menu when family plan total is displayed.
if you have experienced problem downloading it from the Mozilla Update site, you can get a copy from here.

if you are using firefox 1.5.0.1, please upgrade to version 0.7.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Verizon Minutes Used Firefox Extension Version 0.5

Version 0.5 has the following fixes, most importantly the fix to address users in the western region that haven't been able to get the extension to work. apologies to those users as you need to understand i have only tested it with a user account in the eastern region.


  • added the "region" option. for now you need to guess its value if it's not obvious to you. and if it doesn't work, try another region. so far i only identified two regions: east and west. (thanks to Brad Templeton for helping me use his account.)

  • fixed the infinite loop problem when login failed due to incorrect region.

  • corrected parsing error in collecting weekend and in-off peak minute usage. (thanks to Phil Figler for pointing it out.)

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Verizon Minutes Used Firefox Extension Version 0.4

version 0.4 has the following new features:
  • added option to display combined usage of the family plan instead of individual phone, thanks to suggestion from Bob K Mertz

Verizon Minutes Used Firefox Extension Version 0.3

this version fixed the commonly appearing problem with parsing minutes from the verzion web site. many thanks to Bob K Mertz for helping me nail down the problem.

this version is never published officially. you can get version 0.4 instead.

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Verizon Minutes Used Firefox Extension Version 0.2

Version 0.2 is published, with the following bug fixes:


  • Fixed displaying minutes/messages over 1000 (parsing the comma in the number)

  • Fixed TypeError: win.gVerizonMinutesUsed when accessing this extension's option from firefox's tools->extension menu. (A workaround: you can simply right click on the status bar area (with the verizon logo) and choose option there. it should work and allow you to input your user name and password. )