Background: I use PM + NoScript, Ghostery etc. for going around on the big bad web. But it can be time consuming and frustrating when I want to see a video or the comments on a particular page. We often have to repeatedly whitelist a nested series of javascript-origin sites and so on. Sometimes even that doesn't work. So now instead I open a 2nd Browser only for that one page. This extension simply makes opening that 2nd Browser more convenient, needing only one or two quick clicks and no copy/pasting. It's meant as a convenience.
I wrote it for myself and use it every day. Maybe someone else might also find it useful. (I polished it a little for public distribution, such as by adding a first-run screen and an icon.) More than being individually useful, it would be nice if extensions published here lead to other people also writing extensions for Pale Moon - and thereby helping in the movement to resist the big, spying browsers.
This extension demonstrates how to run another program from an SDK extension. That's in:
2nd-browser.xpi\resources\2nd-browser\lib\main.js
or once installed, more conveniently seen at:
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resource://2ndbrowser-at-burningsun/2nd-browser/lib/main.jsUsage: after install, use the options in Add-ons Manager to select whichever 2nd Browser to use. Call the 2nd Browser for the current page with the SDK button (it's a text "widget" for now) on the right of the status bar, or right-click any link.
I've been using it on latest PM Windows x64. I use a less restricted profile of PM as the 2nd Browser, since that seems best
Firefox gets more and more... distasteful.
