TryAgain extension
By on Feb 05, 2010 with Comments 0
TryAgain is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that automatically keeps retrying when a server is not found. When you reach Firefox’s built-in page saying ‘Server not found’, a countdown timer starts running and after a user-defined interval it page will refresh, hence retrying to find the server. TryAgain is a slim and friendly extension and is, at the time of writing, downloaded over 44.000 times from addons.mozilla.org.
The functionality of TryAgain was originally created in the shape of a greasemonkey script, created by my friends Eric and Paul Lammertsma. If you are more interested in the userscript rather than the extension, you can download it here.
Besides retrying TryAgain offers additional functionality: it presents two links that allow you to search for the missing web page in either Google Cache or the Wayback Machine, with just a single click of a button. The newest version of TryAgain contains a counter that shows how many refreshes have been done, and allows the user to limit that number to a certain maximum.
More detailed information can be found by reading the blog posts in the TryAgain category.
Version history
Version 3.2 – 37Kb.
Added Firefox 3 support. Chinese [zh-CN] locale added. Stops countdown when user starts typing in the address bar.
Bugs solved: TryAgain does no longer refresh the SSL Exception page.
From this version on TA is no longer compatible with FF2.0 and earlier version.
As of July 6th 2009, this version is compatible with FF3.5. no version number update.
Version 3.1 – 36Kb.
Bugs solved: now also works in frames and iframes. Russian [ru-RU] locale added.
Version 3.0 – 34Kb.
Complete reimplementation with cleaner and more efficient code. Adjustable limit to the number of retries. Option to hide the menu item. Pressing ESC will stop countdown. French [fr-FR] locale added.
Version 2.0 – 15Kb.
Additional functionality by Aldo Vargas: when the server is not found, two links enable the user to search for the requested web page in Google Cache or the WayBack Machine – with just one click.
This is the first version compatible with Firefox 2.0.
Version 1.2 – 36Kb.
Spanish [es-ES] and Italian [it-IT] locale added.
Version 1.1 – 35Kb.
This version will also stop when the user presses the ’stop trying’ button after the http request has been sent.
Version 1.0 – 32Kb.
Initial version. Original userscript packed into an extension.
Screenshot
Screenshot of version 3.1
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