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NEW! Panic Button (beta)

Don't want the boss to see you surfing the Web on company time? With Panic Button, a single click of a toolbar button will quickly hide all Firefox windows – bring them back by clicking a button on the Restore Session toolbar, and your browser session will be restored. The Panic Button action can also be invoked by pressing F9 (Command+F9 on the Macintosh).

» PLEASE NOTE that Panic Button is still in the beta testing stage. Meant for early adopters craving the latest and greatest, this beta release is being made available for testing, and should only be installed if you are willing to tolerate a few bugs.

Features

• Configurable Panic Button action. You can choose one of the following: Hide All Windows (the fastest option; a Restore Session toolbar appears after all Firefox app windows close so that you can bring back the browser windows later), Minimize All Windows (slowest option – but all windows, including ancillary app windows like Help, View Source, Bookmarks/Places, etc. can be restored), or Quit (close all windows and quit Firefox).
• You can set the Panic Button toolbar button caption and image (six toolbar image choices to choose from; more will be added later).
• The shortcut key for invoking the Panic Button action can be disabled; it is enabled by default. This is useful if you have another extension installed that uses that key.

Hint: The configuration settings described above can be changed in the extension options (Tools → Add-ons from the Firefox browser window, select Panic Button in the list of extensions and click Options).

Download and Install

» Panic Button 0.9.3 (25 KB; compatible with Firefox 2.0-3.0b5)

Supported Languages: English (United States).

After installing Panic Button, add the Panic Button button to the browser toolbar by choosing View → Toolbars → Customize on the Firefox menu bar, and then dragging the Panic Button to the desired location.

Panic Button is also available from Mozilla Add-ons.

Installation Help

If you see a yellow alert bar at the top of your browser after clicking the above install link, do the following:

1. Click the Edit Options button in the browser's alert bar.
2. In the dialog box that appears, click Allow to enable extension installation from this site, then click OK to dismiss the dialog box.
3. Click on the install link on this page to try again.

Users of Portable Firefox (Firefox browser optimized for USB flash drives) must save the above XPI file to disk and then manually install it using File → Open.

Known Issues

• The Panic Button action option to hide all windows doesn't work if a system native file picker dialog box (Open, Save As) is open in any of the browser windows at the time the Panic Button action is invoked (bug 18629). This bug doesn't occur on Firefox 3.
• Any preferences in the extension options dialog that are set will be applied to all browser windows that are open after clicking OK, except for the option "F9 key invokes Panic Button action" – changes to this option will take effect in new browser windows only or when exiting and restarting Firefox. (On Mac OS X, the option will be labeled "Command+F9 key invokes Panic Button action.")
• Customizations not being remembered between host app toolbar button changes (bug 18954)

Things You Should Know About

Any downloads in progress will continue in the background if clicking the Panic Button to hide or minimize all windows. If Quit was selected in extension preferences as the Panic Button action, downloads in progress will be cancelled.

Change Log

Version 0.9.3

- Improved default toolbar button icon

- Bug fix: Mac OS X - Extension preferences dialog is totally blank (bug 19025)

- Bug fix: Mac OS X - Restore Session toolbar doesn't work (bug 19026)

- Bug fix: Mac OS X - Quit action doesn't quit (bug 19027)

- Bug fix: Mac OS X - F9 key conflict with Exposé (bug 19024)

- Bug fix: Linux - Extension preferences dialog is missing an OK button (bug 19051)

Version 0.9.2

- First public beta release on AE Creations