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Agglom was used to display an invitation to download the Firefox Add-on Agglomerator in the main pages to all the users.

Unfortunately, the invitation was displayed by users that already installed the Add-on too. The challenge was to check with JS if the user already had the add-on installed and, if he had it, to hide the invitation.

Surfing the web I stumbled upon this page:
http://ha.ckers.org/weird/firefox-extentions.html

Thanks to ha.ckers.org, the feature has been pretty easy to develop. What we did was to include the invitation inside a DIV with a specified id (firefoxExtension). Right after the closing tag of the DIV we appended this image:

<img src=”chrome://agglomerator/skin/icon24.png”
class=”displayNone”
onload=”if(document.getElementById(‘firefoxExtension’))
document.getElementById(‘firefoxExtension’).style.display=’none’;” />

The IMG tag loads an image that is included in Agglomerator (the icon displayed in the toolbar to save and share the current browser session). If the extension has been installed correctly, the icon will be loaded and the onload event will be fired. This is then hiding the DIV with id=firefoxExtension. If the extension is not installed, the onload event won’t be fired.

This is a quick and dirty method and should work with all almost any add-on.

Hope it helps.

…and you can even access them wherever you are and share them with anybody.

Is just a few clicks operation with Agglomerator, the Firefox add-on from Agglom.com.

This is a web search that I just organized in less than 1 minute:

http://www.agglom.com/agglom/323/Best_cars_drawn_in_MS_Paint

This extension will add one button on the toolbar that, when clicked, will open a new window in Agglom.com with a list of all the URLs of the current opened tabs. You will be able to choose which ones you would like save and how to share them (you may share them with everybody, with your friends, keep them private or protect them with a password).

Once you save them, you’ll be able to view all the saved web contents (links, videos, images, wikipedia pages, etc…) in just one page and to share it with a Permalink.

Here is a useful video tutorial to get started with it:

Here is the link of the Firefox Extension:

• From Agglom: http://www.agglom.com/extension.aspx
• From Firefox Add-on (requires registration):
  https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/7935

On Agglom there should be a page dedicated to Bruno Bozzetto, one of my heroes. He designed and directed some of the best humoristic cartoons ever!

The page, with his video (you can see them all in fullscreen in sequence) is here:

http://www.agglom.com/agglom/37