Welcome to the Forex Currency Converter Firefox Extension ("add-on") provided by FXware.
When enabled on your Firefox browser, this add-on will automatically identify numbers such as prices and other currency information within the contents of the webpages that you are browsing and make such numbers "clickable" so that you can convert them into another currency or commodity instantly. For example, when you are visiting one of your favorite shopping or auction sites, this add-on will let you click on any price tag displayed on your screen and convert that amount to one of the 180+ currencies available using up-to-date foreign exchange rates right on your browser without the need to open another window or tab.
Other popular features of this add-on include:
• Ability to select how you want the numbers appear on your browser screen – solid-underline (default), dotted-underline, or no-underline from the add-on options menu
• Auto-populate the conversion amount from the web page that you are visiting
• Identify your locale based on the version of the Firefox you are using and configure "decimal separators" accordingly (e.g., if you are a user from the United Kingdom, the decimal separator will be a "period"; if you are a user from Spain, the decimal separator will be a "comma", etc.)
• Remember your last conversion and use those FROM and TO parameters for your next conversion request so that you don't need to make the same selections each time
• Ability to invert the conversion you make and access to daily, weekly, monthly, and annual charts depicting the historical exchange trends of the currency pair that you selected
• Smart identification of currency figures (add-on will not highlight every number on webpage; it will omit figures such as time, dates, percentages, phone numbers, temperature degrees, SKU numbers, etc.)
This add-on is a web based service and does not download any currency exchange rate information to your computer; however, it requires an active internet connection. The conversion page that displays the exchange results includes advertisement/sponsor links.
For more information or support, please visit us at www.fxware.com, where you can also find our other forex tools and utilities including converters for your Blackberries, iPhone/iPods, and other mobile devices, web widgets, and Facebook applications.
Works with:
- Firefox: 2.0 – 3.0.*
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Support
Support for this change-around is provided by the developer at http://www.fxware.com or by sending an e-mail to fxware@creatonic.com
Reviews
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One or No Click Affair
Excellent add-on!!! Why not make it work on Mouse Over using earlier selected target currency and showing the conversion result instead of "Convert this amount" title? Clicking would allow currency selection just like it does now. Also you could remove underlining and show it when mouse moves over the numbers.
by Starko67 on March 28, 2009 -
This is a great plugin. Just one thing though - it is enabled by default when firefox starts, but often I don't want to automatically convert all the numbers on a page to a currency. I usually just enable it when I am looking at currency related sites (shops etc). With the current behaviour, when I start my browser and reload a previous session, because currency converter is enabled, I have to wait for all my 80 or so tabs are loaded and then have to reload ALL TABS to remove all the currency converter links in the pages. For this reason, it would be great if a checkbox option in the Currency Converter settings was added. such as, "Enabled at startup", which sets whether Forex Currency Converter is enabled when the browser starts. If this enhancement were made, I would certainly change my 4 star rating to 5 stars! Thanks for your obvious hard work. Best of luck! Hal
by Hal on March 16, 2009 -
Please submit this extension to BabelZilla.com, where people can translate it to many languages (for free).
by DaxSRBIJA on March 1, 2009
Advanced Details
Version 1.3 — March 5, 2009 — 18 KB
Updated code to address the following:
1. Browser Back Button used to not work at all once a conversion was made. The back button now functions properly; the user may need to press the back button more than once, depending on how many consecutive conversions are performed.
2. The conversion amount was defaulting to "0" in certain cases where there was a "," and a "." in the price (e.g. "$5,000.00"). This issue is now fixed and tested against other related use cases as well.
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