Showing posts with label Firefox Addon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefox Addon. Show all posts

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Google Voice Add-on for Firefox

I found an addon called Google Voice Add-on for Firefox 0.5.0 that functions like the one Skype installs into your browser. Click a phone number on any web page and connect automatically through your Google Voice account. Here's the authors description,
Click a phone number on any page to place a call using Google Voice. Displays your number in the status bar and lists your most recent call when hovered. Select text to send as a text message or dial and text from the status bar.

Well it will eventually work like that. Currently one has to select the number and double-click the Google Voice icon in the lower right corner, then click ok. Also an option to disable the 'Click Okay to Call xxx-xxx-xxxx' would be nice. Make it work like the feature you're copying!

One caveat is the addon requires that you Enter your Google Account e-mail address & password (In other words it's stored unencrypted in plain text in the browsers configuration files; blecch, what a gaping lack of security)! Hmmm, couldn't this just be a Google Toolbar Button?