Character count in firefox text area
June 24, 2005 11:39 AM Subscribe
Does anyone know of an extension or greasemonkey script that will count the number of characters in a text area, in firefox? I ask because I just had a ton of notes truncated because firefox limits the field to 4096 characters......! I've found some word counts, but no character counts.
In Cygwin, you can do wc /dev/clipboard to get a quick word/character account. On UNIX you can use xsel -p | wc. It should be enough to set up a global keyboard shortcut to do this.
The best thing to do would be to upgrade to the newest TiddlyWiki, which doesn't have this limitation. But GTDTiddlyWiki has forked and I don't know when they'll fix it.
posted by grouse at 12:20 PM on June 24, 2005
The best thing to do would be to upgrade to the newest TiddlyWiki, which doesn't have this limitation. But GTDTiddlyWiki has forked and I don't know when they'll fix it.
posted by grouse at 12:20 PM on June 24, 2005
Best answer: I made a somewhat crude GreaseMonkey script, if you want it.
You can get it here.
Seems to work fine, at least on the textarea I'm currently typing in :).
posted by mrgavins at 12:34 PM on June 24, 2005
You can get it here.
Seems to work fine, at least on the textarea I'm currently typing in :).
posted by mrgavins at 12:34 PM on June 24, 2005
I think the 4,096 character limit is an HTTP limit when using the GET method, and not a result of Firefox.
posted by waldo at 12:38 PM on June 24, 2005
posted by waldo at 12:38 PM on June 24, 2005
Dear mrgavins,
Your script is incredibly awesome.
Thanks,
rafter
posted by rafter at 11:59 PM on June 24, 2005
Your script is incredibly awesome.
Thanks,
rafter
posted by rafter at 11:59 PM on June 24, 2005
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posted by corpse at 11:39 AM on June 24, 2005