Comments on: Firefox Currency Converter – ViewMyCurrency 0.3892 (alpha) released

By: Will Moffat

Will Moffat — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:07:28 +0000

Hi Pheloxi, cheers, I had a look and found that the website uses the Italian Lira symbol, not the UK pound sign. If we find lots more examples then maybe I should add the Lira symbol to the GBP symbol list but I hope it doesn't come to that.

By: pheloxi

pheloxi — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:59:35 +0000

feedback: not all currency is is (ex)changed

at http://www.peaceoneday.org/icat/shop
—- I saw:
DVD ₤14.00 plus: “see right from the “shop description”
Delivery to the UK: ₤1.50*
Delivery outside the UK: ₤3.00*

* under the “shop description” is not (ex)changed.

—- expected to see:
DVD “default currency” (₤ 14.00) plus:
Delivery to the UK: “default currency” (₤1.50)
Delivery outside the UK: “default currency” (₤3.00)

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:21:30 +0000

Bug: Another Wikipedia bug

Conversion is fine but the euro sign is a link the Pound and not the Euro. I know this isn’t an easy problem but it’s worth mentioning…

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
——- I saw: ————
Bank robbers make off with at least €36.61 (£ 25) million in the Securitas depot robbery, one of the largest in United Kin
——- Expected to see: –
The same but the URL should be under the Pound and not the Euro.
———————–
Browser: [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7], VMC: [undefined], langs: [en-us, en],
———————–

By: Will Moffat

Will Moffat — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:26:49 +0000

Hi Tomer, thanks for the feedback. I’m showing the ISO 4217 code + symbol for each currency (so you see USD $, EUR €, GBP £ etc) and for the New Israeli sheqel it is ‘ILS ₪’. Does this make sense?

I show the ISO code because many currencies share the same symbol.

The missing menu is a serious bug that I haven’t seen before. Have you installed a Firefox theme? I’d like to solve this problem, could you contact me? (see my previous comment).

By: Tomer Kuper

Tomer Kuper — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:14:17 +0000

Hi Will. first of all good job on the extension, its great! but i do have tow problem.
The first is that NIS (new Israeli shekel) is still written as “ILS”.
Second, when i right click in the status bar i get a blank menu:
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5402/ff8gq.jpg
this is not new.. i got this from 2-3 builds ago..
thnx..

(FF version: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1)

By: Will Moffat

Will Moffat — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 07:06:08 +0000

Hi Ken, thanks for your comment. I can’t reproduce these problems, if you have 5 minutes I would be very grateful if you could Skype me, (username: ViewMyCurrency) or catch me on MSN (will_moffat@hotmail.com) so we can quickly figure out what’s going on.

By: ken meece

ken meece — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:41:52 +0000

$A is also used for australian currency

VMC doesn’t seem to work on google news pages

the feedback option doesn’t work — in FF anyway — because it doesn’t fill in the message on the website