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esal big prices were in the format DD DDD.DD [D = figure] , all the others have DD.DDD.DD or DD,DDD.DD . spotted it watching the stats page, and esal had prices such as .1 ron, or 0.2 ron. now this is fixed. good to know that the update from 0.8 to 0.8.1 happened automatically [2 friends confirmed], so that is tested too.

now i continue, as previously said in the 0.8 post, with the unit tests [i am sure it will save me in the future] , and amazon.back to work.

as this extension started to be used by many other people i don’t know , making it easy updatable through the firefox system was mandatory. there are still many people using old versions of my extension [mozilla statistics show me there are people using even 0.3 version]. i urge you all to move to 0.8. it is my fault, not thinking of this before, but now it is here. so, if you want to keep updated with the latest, and have bugs fixed easily, uninstall your altctrl version now, and move to 0.8 .

you can get it here: altctrl.e-forum.ro

new things in this version:

1. preferences, with a right click you can get the possibility to disable some of the stores you don’t like.
2. the stores are now ordered starting with the lowest price.
3. you can see products that are searched for here: altctrl.e-forum.ro/stats.php

good. for the next version there will be amazon and ebay added, plus more .ro stores, also i am developing a unit test system so i can easily find bugs and errors.

i will also be present tomorrow morning at opencoffee.ro where i will present the extension to some people. if you want to join, you cand find detailed info on their website.

i received a lot of feedback after presenting altctrl at http://devworld.ro . acting upon it will take some time. in the meantime i list here my priorities for it:

1. make the updates of the extension work. as all of you know, updates through mozilla,org website doesn’t work as it is still listed as experimental due to lack of reviews, so i will host the extension myself and make it updatable. i need https  and run sha1 on it, so i guess i will move it to its own domain [https://altctrl.e-forum.ro most probably].

2. add preferences. this is related to the fact that some users have a set of preferred shops and they do not want to search for prices at the other shops. also it is good because the list of supported online shops will grow and maybe users won’t like to search for all anyway.

3. the results will be ordered by price in ascending order.

4. the product that is searched for will be twitted anonymously on my account [jgabios] untill i find a better one  , i see altctrl is taken on twitter . i am new to twitter and “i haven’t absorbed that yet [cusack on high fidelity]“. i also think i will make a web page where you can see what people are shopping for.

many other things will come, for now it is enough. back to work.