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Old 07-30-2008, 04:15 PM
David McRitchie
 
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Re: How to see number of current lines and total num of lines in thecurrently displayed page

"V S Rawat" ...
> David McRitchie_ wrote:
>> "Document Map" 0.6.1 (20KB) extension by James Graham
>> Displays the current page's heading structure in the sidebar, allowing rapid
>> navigation between...
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/475

>
> If the author is reading this, please update this extension and add more
> features. One great feature to add would be to allow us to copy the
> entries from the sidebar to save somewhere, may be show line nums with
> each entry, may be make it clickable link (it already is).


Mentioning line numbers again; where in Firefox do you see any mention
of line numbers, they are meaningless. In fact even if you meant source line
numbers, you won't get agreement between listings of source of same page.

The list is created on the fly, from heading levels, there are no actual HTML links,
in fact most people aren't even using id="xx" so you can link to a specific heading,
please don't ask for more features to make a great extension become bloated and useless.

Yes the author should update the version number, even though I think it is
nonsense if nothing was changed in Firefox to make it not work. Changes have been made
to make it easier for the author to simply update the version, but I'm sure the process
will change when more authors of the best extensions are no longer around. Really
more of a Firefox issue than an author issue. You use all kind of ancient applications
including command line instructions and even though operating system has changed
the old things still work as long as they did not violate interfaces.

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