I’ve liked Mozilla’s Site Navigation Bar since it was introduced, and a while ago found Chris “cdn” Neale’s NavButtons extension. Since upgrading to Firefox 0.9, though, it hasn’t worked due to the new extension packaging format introduced by Ben Goodger. A version of NavButtons for Firefox 0.9 seemed unlikely, since Neale prefers his Link Toolbar (which, contrary to its name, sits in the status bar), so I decided to repackage it myself… and here’s the result. I decided to continue on from the original version numbering, so this is version 0.4; there’s really nothing different, though, other than the internal layout of the files. (NB: I’ve e-mailed Chris to ask if he’ll accept the revised code, but for now it’s all my doing and should be considered unsupported by him.)
Because I’ve had feedback from two people who have installed the extension and then not known what to do with it, here’s a slightly less short description. NavButtons adds several buttons into the Customize Toolbar palette that can be used to navigate to the previous, next, first, last and top entries, as well as up a level, in a collection of web pages linked together using (X)HTML’s link element. For example, from this page you can quickly navigate to Going all the way using the Previous button (the left arrow), Bad Apples using the Next button (the right arrow), and the main blog page using the Top button (the up arrow with a bar). (If I thought there were enough people coming by who would actually use it, I’d probably add an up link to the monthly entry index. But not tonight.)
