BugMeNot 1.3 is kicking serious ass
Ok, this will be the last update for a while. Auto-submittal is working, the menu has been cleaned up, and it has a few options to tinker with. It’s running pretty efficiently now.
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January 20th, 2006 at 2:23 am
Thanks Eric - you rock!!
January 20th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Eric, thanks a bunch for all of your hard work on the BugMeNot extension.
January 20th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Hi,
Sorry to report that 1.3 is still not working properly with latimes.com. Some links like:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aussie20jan20,1,6354654.story?coll=la-home-sunday-opinion&track=mostemailedlink
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-bilmes17jan17,1,7287470.story?coll=la-home-sunday-opinion&track=mostemailedlink
are not detected by BugMeNot and return a “Unable to locate login form” even when I try to initialise BugMeNot manually via the Context Menu.
Please look into this.
Thanks.
January 20th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Just updated to the new one, it’s not working for me at all.
Instead of popping in a username & password as it did before, it now puts in a long string of text asking me if the login worked where the username and password field is.
Oh well.
January 20th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Zoe, both of your links work fine for me. I logged out of latimes.com before clicking, and after I submitted a login, I went directly to the article.
January 21st, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Doesn’t work for me at all…tried chicago tribune, LAT, NYT, and I always get “no account found for this site” message.
January 21st, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Hi Halcyon_daze, et al.
I had the very same problem here on my computer set as I stated a few days ago, right here on this blog. I was asking myself why it was not working for me but everyone else?!!
BUT… believe it or not: * Its DEFINITELY not a problem on BugMeNot 1.x plugin….. * The problem was with my set all along.
Yeap, so sorry (and so sad) to say it, but finally I realized that the actual problem here on my computer was the f%$#&ing “Norton Personal Firewall 2005″ which I have installed on my WinXP Professional (pt_BR)
Fact: When I deselect Norton Personal Firewall “pop-up window blocking feature”, voila!, BugMeNot 1.x works pretty fine!!! Oh yeah, If I leave this Norton feature activated (which usually is left “on” after NPFirewall installation) the BugMeNot extension complains with that oddly message: “no account found for this site” (which is not true for sure)
It was an “heuristic” approach of my own, but finally I got my BugMeNot extension working pretty fine here!!
Just try it: If you use Norton Personal Firewall or some similar “browser popup window blocking system”, try disabling it and go again with BMN 1.3!
Good luck,
marcio
January 21st, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Eric, Dimitri and team, congratulations again on your work!! BMN is quite far my favorite Firefox 1.5 extension
Cheers, folks!
marcio
January 22nd, 2006 at 10:59 am
It is great having BMN up and running again! One small thing that I have noticed is that on some sites, BMN’s auto submission cycles through the subsequent logins simply too fast for the site to recognize the submission. As a work around, I have checked the first option box to disable automatic submission of login form. I find that by manually clicking the login button, the extra second or two allows the site sufficient time to recognize the username/password and log me in.
January 25th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
The BugMeNot Extension is GREAT! Thank you!!!!
January 27th, 2006 at 3:22 am
Doesnt work for me here:
http://www.fairfax.com.au/index.ac
January 27th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
I tried 1.3. It doesnt work. On any site. i click login with bugmenot and nothing happens. no popups, no errors nothing.
January 28th, 2006 at 9:23 am
One of the best extensions there is. I love it! I love it!
January 31st, 2006 at 8:07 am
Hi,
If you want I can translate your extension(s) into Dutch (nl-NL).
I’m the dutch translator of many extensions.
Maybe it is possible for you to use BabelZilla
(http://www.babelzilla.org) for your translations. It is a great tool
and saves you (and the translators) a great deal of time.
Again, please consider using BabelZilla for your translation management.
Alf
February 3rd, 2006 at 4:21 pm
wow, it’s getting better and better. two small things:
* some sites have anti-bot tests in the login form (”enter this number” etc). Login fails if you submit without filling in that field and the user will think the password is not working. So there should be an option to disable auto-submit for these sites.
* the firefox password manager keeps popping up on bugmenot logins, I would love to have an option in the bugmenot extension to disable it. i don’t want to save bugmenot passwords as they often get disabled quickly.
A smarter database lookup would be great: check http://www.[sitename].[tld] if there’s no entry for http://[sitename].[tld] and vice versa
February 3rd, 2006 at 4:24 pm
I mean, disable the “save this password?” alert only for bugmenot logins. I want to keep it enabled for my personal passwords.
February 7th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
February 7th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
February 10th, 2006 at 11:15 am
I had the “no accounts” problem as well, and is was a Norton problem, as well. I have Norton Internet Security 2005, and the problem was in Norton AntiSpam, the popup blocker. You can very safely turn this off if you have your protection inside your browser, with noscript or adblock or what have you. I think it wouldn’t be a bad Idea to make an announcement of some sort that this problem is likely a firewall/security problem on the PC end, so people don’t give up on the extension.
February 14th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
I love you… this program >= everything else in the entire universe
February 14th, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Doesn’t work. Even NY times doesnt work. It says it found no freaking usernames and i should create one and submit it to bugmenot.com
Thumbs down. F
February 17th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Whatever I did with those sub-menus, I ended up deleting the one and only account for worldjournal.com and now I can’t read my Chinese news. :(
March 6th, 2006 at 2:47 am
I just discovered that, in my case, the constant “Unable to locate login form” messages I was receiving were due to an option in the PasswordMaker extension. Under the options for that extension I had to untick “show the contents of password fields hidden with asterisks on web pages”. Now BugMeNot works great on all the sites I have visited, including the latimes.com which someone metioned being a problem. I suspect that many similar problems can be traced to extensions or programs that manipulate the HTML output in some way to add some feature. There are a lot of these for Firefox so try disabling them to debug. HTH.
FF 1.5.0.1
BMN 1.3
Windows XP
March 26th, 2006 at 9:26 am
I am having troubles with BMN 1.3, but when I disable my firewall (Kerio version 4) it works great. Does anyone know of anything that can be done to the firewall to allow BMN to work, besides disabling it completly. thanks
March 26th, 2006 at 10:29 am
To clarify, when I try to get a user name and password, it comes back with “no accounts found”. Anyone know what ports are used for outgoing and incoming, then I can make sure that they are open in my firewall. Works great without my firewall, thanks.
March 29th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
I just have to say that I downloaded the firefox extension and it totally kicks ass
It’s probable on if the best extensions I have for firefox
you guys rock