Yahoo script serving X-notifier 3.x for Firefox

By jeroen , 1 August 2017

So, I managed to convert vs 4.1.3 back to vs 3 and make it work for both my yahoo.com accounts (Classic / New Yahoo inteface). It involved re-implementing the cookieManager code of vs 3, because cookie handling in vs 4 is implemented differently: by calling the new XN4's function setCookies of XN4's Handler script.

You can download the adapted script from Dropbox:  Yahoo Script
(Left click and download thru the button that will appear at top-right next to the Share button)

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X-notifier 3.x for Firefox (deprecated)

Kalimist

8 years 11 months ago

YOU ARE AWESOME

Thank you very much!

Nocturnus

8 years 11 months ago

Your script works great. Thanks a lot, jeroen. You have a beer from me!

Simnet

8 years 11 months ago

Everything works fine now! Many thanks!

legaz

8 years 11 months ago

Thx.

 

xunguedo

8 years 11 months ago

Thank you very much.
To it me me works well, yahoo.com, yahoo.es, ymail.com.
Thank you

belteg

8 years 11 months ago

Merci beaucoup Jeroen.

This script works for Yahoo.com, Yahoo.fr  and Ymail.com.
You are a savior.
Thanks a lot.

jeroen

8 years 11 months ago

Thanks you all, for appreciating my effort. It sure feels good ;-)

Remember this only lasts until november... or whenever Mozilla decides to end XUL/XPCOM...

Anyone using yahoo.co.jp?

Nocturnus

8 years 11 months ago

Cool. You did a great job, so you deserve all the praises.

Jeroen, what we should do after november Mozilla cataclysm?

It seems japanese people are not using scripts...

jeroen

8 years 11 months ago

It is probably difficult for most japanese/korean people to read and write english. I expect CFB will test on his co.jp account when he surfices.

Let's first wait and see how far tobwithu can meet our hopes in vs 4. And that also depends on his plans in his life. He might be otherwise engaged and that is his good right!

I have an idea, but I cannot promise I will succeed carrying it out. It means I have to set up a complete addon developer environment in order to be able to debug internal scripts. Then I could try to convert some external (custom) vs 3 scripts to vs 4 and offer the package ewwink style as 'X-Notifier 4 Reloaded'. Or perhaps tobwithu could agree to include those scripts, providing we will maintain them.

But let's not get ahead of our(my)sel(f)ves... 8-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu9NjAP8M0Q

enesalpa

8 years 11 months ago

Finally!

Congratulations jeroen!

jeroen

8 years 11 months ago

Trying to re-implement the 2-step verification I noticed these things during testing:

  1. The XN Options for Yahoo includes a "Show login verification window" checkbox (that sets config pref showCaptcha, only used for Yahoo as far as I can see)
  2. My debugging never reaches the code part dealing with the 2-step where this pref value gets checked.

Either I am missing something or this part got deprecated long ago. Someone can tell me it was working before (and when)?

Since it's really a minor issue I will leave it out. It only means one has to click the greyed-out account once on a new/foreign computer in order to complete the verification.

Thanks, man. But, could someone fix office 365 and linkedin script? They don't work... :(

digideth

8 years 10 months ago

THANK YOU!

What is this Reloaded version?

 

jeroen

8 years 10 months ago

It is an attempted fork-off of  XN vs 3.5.23 where we keep the embedded scripts like gmail, yahoo, etc updated. One can achieve the same goal by including the updated script like  yahoo as an external script. And I doubt whether Cyberfox will keep allowing X-notifier vs 3 while I believe Cyberfox is software-wise a copy of Firefox at every release.

With X-notifier vs 4 at Firefox 57 all scripts have to reside in the addon (embedded). Really not that big of a change, since towithu made most external scripts. Perhaps he hoped to get more assistence going that way? We now rely on his willingness to include more scripts in the package.

asdasd

8 years 8 months ago

since today 6/Nov/2017 the revised Yahoo script stopped working for me. I am forced to manually login and confirm a code from my secondary email everytime I clear cookies.

 

never mind, had to enable "Allow apps that use less secure sign in" again...

 

 

jeroen

8 years 7 months ago

I added the folder view for the new yahoo interface.

For download, see 1st post above.

Simnet

5 years 9 months ago

Awaiting for your return ;)

Simnet

5 years 9 months ago

The yahoo script doesn't works, all accounts are missed. Something changed

Dear jeroen, many thanks for your work. The fixed script works partly. It opens tabs with inboxes well, but it doesn't show unread messages (count). The list remains gray. What could be?

jeroen

5 years 9 months ago

That's why I  have two accounts: just for testing X-notifier :-)
But I guess they are both on new now and I don't see the interface to return to old anymore...

Simnet

5 years 9 months ago

The problem was in Cyberfox browser. The yahoo mail alerts it as an unsupported and switches to the basic interface view. The PaleMoon browser that's still accepted as up to date for yahoo shows unread messages well. Thanks again.

Last time there was a Cyberfox update was 2.5 yrs ago.  I thought he would have come back and did more updates, but he had health issues I read.  I would switch to the newer Firefox for XN 4.x and Firefox 5602 for the XN 3.x verson

but it's portable version was fine for x-notifier checking purposes, to not overload the main browser, but now become unupported by general webmail providers