Sparky Add-on for Firefox Released Today
Today is the 10th anniversary of the Alexa Toolbar, originally released on July 17, 1997. Do you remember what the Net looked like back then? Netscape was the most popular browser. AOL had released it's first Instant Messenger program in Beta. Jodie Foster's new movie Contact was number one at the box office. Take a stroll through the past on the Wayback Machine to see what it looked like: Netscape. Yahoo. Excite.
To mark this historic day Alexa is releasing our first FireFox compatible toolbar, called Sparky. (Why Sparky?) Here's what it has:
Here's looking forward to another ten years.
To mark this historic day Alexa is releasing our first FireFox compatible toolbar, called Sparky. (Why Sparky?) Here's what it has:
- Sparkline - A very small condensed traffic history graph. Gives you a quick view to show whether the site is moving up or down.
- Rank - Shows the traffic rank of the site.
- Reach Indicator - Provides a qualitative view of whether a site's rank is good or bad.
- Related Links - Provides up to 10 Related links in the browser's File | Edit | View menu.
- Shortcuts - Clicking on Sparky brings up a menu of other handy shortcuts, including Alexa Detail pages, Cached Pages, Search Pages and more.
Here's looking forward to another ten years.
17 Comments:
Cool - 10 years eh? How about free access to the alexa data API's for a week to celebrate :-) j/k
Firefox releases 2.0.0.5, alexa is not compatable with this version :(
Not a good release time.
I hope to see version 1.2 come out shortly with 2.0.0.5 compatibility. I was so excited that I could finally get the Alexa toolbar in Firefox and boom I upgrade Firefox and then find out about Alexa.
Hopefully we will be seeing a new version come out soon so I can write an article about it, heh.
The Mr. Tech Local Install extension (http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/) allows you to easily override the compatibility check. I did so, and I'm trusting that Alexa did its job right and built the Sparky extension properly and that overriding the check is not a security risk.
look forward to seeing a version shortly that is compatible with Firefox 2.0.0.5
Hi Guys. A little bit off topic here.... Here's a how do you? question for you? I bought my site a year ago, and Alexa still has it listed under proverbiz.com (old owner of the site with an old screenshot) whenever I go check my stats. Is that going to affect my ranking? If yes, then how do I change it on Alexa?
Thanks for any info - Sharon at TheDivaNetwork.com
Sparky 1.1 *does* work with Firefox 2.0.0.5, at least on Windows.
look forward to seeing a version shortly that is compatible with Firefox 2.0.0.5
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Sparkly 1.1 kind of work on Firefox 2.0.0.5, however I get the error below (in the FireBug Console)
Hope this will get fixed soon.
Thanks for this great plugin.
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIFileOutputStream.init]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsSessionStore.js :: sss_writeFile :: line 2026" data: no]
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/nsSessionStore.js
Line 2026
You folks are just awesome! Thanks for fixing it for me :)
Thanks so much for the toolbar...I use Firefox and just discovered the toolbar today...great help in learning about my sites so I'll be motivated to improve them even more!
Claudia the Happy Nutritionist
hello
want ask you what should i do when
I redirect domain to newdomain
what should i do without lost alexa renak?
thanks
alexa traffic ranking didnot updated since 22 jul 2007.
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Not working on Firefox 2.0.0.5!!! Make firefox corrupt and i must restore back my Windows. :(
trying your service just started, hopefully will be ok
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Fantastic Add-on
Thanks for thinking of us!
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