Firefox Extension - External IP
External IP 0.9.9.5
External IP is a extension for Firefox that displays your current external IP address in the browsers statusbar.
External IP is set to check your IP address at browser startup and after that once every hour or on click on the right-click context menu.
New in version 0.9.9.5
- External IP is now updated to work with Firefox 3.5
Other Features
- Manually refresh External IP via a right-click context menu
- If your IP adress has changed; External IP will alert you (if you want)
- Easy copy of your IP adress via the right-click context menu
To-do list for future versions
- Add option to add or remove IP host addresses
- Add audible notification
- Add option to keep log of old IPs
- Add option to set font-color
- Add option to set IP checking interval
- Add option to set port
- Add option to show old ip to alert (Ip changed from ... to)
- Add more IP hosts to decrease server load and increase stability
- Ability to manually refresh external IP
- Copy IP address to clipboard
- Alert when IP Changes
Version History
New in version 0.9.9.4
- Now Compatible with Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 (3.0pre)
New in version 0.9.9.3
- Now Compatible with Firefox 3.0.b
- Small fix that prevents the extension from crashing if a host does not respond correctly
- None responding host address removed from the source code
New in version 0.9.9.2
- List of hosts to grab IPs from updated. Big Thanks to Björn, Johan Hedberg, Patrik and DynDNS for helping me out.
New in version 0.9.9.1
- Now old and new IP-address is displayed on alert when IP changed
- Added link to extension homepage
New in version 0.9.9
- Thanks to DynDNS one more IP-host was added to he source to increase the extension stability.
New in version 0.9.8
- One of the hosts that the extension retrieved the IP-address from was removed.
New in version 0.9.7
- One more IP-host added for stability (Thanks Burke).
- RegExp-check added to make sure that what is displayed is an proper IP address.
New in version 0.9.6
- Added ability to switch alert on/off
New in version 0.9.5
- Now Compatible with Firefox 2.0.
- In this version external IP alerts (via pop up) when the external IP address has changed.
- Added abillity to manually refresh external IP.
- Added ability to copy the IP address to clipboard via a right-click context menu.
