To begin with, I often have to add photos to posts on forums, blogs, etc. As a storage of graphic images, I chose Yandex.Fotki .

And the process of uploading photos under Firefox is as follows:

• I select photos on the computer;
• Drag and drop files into the Firefox window (in the Yandex plugin plugin area );
• I press the button “Download”, select the album and again “Download”;
• Then, I open each photo and copy a direct link to the Jpg files;
• I paste the copied links into the textarea in a blog or forum, and then manually appending tags.

I see the publication process as follows:

• I select files on the computer;
• Drag them to Textarea, where you need to insert html or bbcode;
• I add comments to each photo and enjoy the result.

Maybe there is another way?
On the Internet there is a hosting of images imageshack.us . For him, even written a plugin that performs the above action, but it is impossible to correct the patterns in it. His second drawback is the frequent problem of displaying downloaded images.

My way
I thought, why not write a plugin for Yandex. Stock. Found an interesting post Creating extensions for beginners and began to learn the basics.
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In the evenings, for 1-2 hours over 5 days, I wrote and studied ...

At the moment, its features and capabilities

• Username and password entered in the JS file;
• RSA login and password encryption for Yandex. Photo is NOT standard. Therefore, I am currently using remote encryption on the side of my server, where I managed to compile the encrypt utility;
• The title of the photo is a link where the textarea is located where the photo was dropped;
• It works only under Firefox 3.6+ (Windows).

Plans

• Move the encrypt utility inside the plugins;
• Make cross-platform plugin;
• Creating your own templates and determining the type of template depending on the link (by domain or script name);
• Select the album in which you want to upload pictures;
• Automatic detection of albums for uploading to LiveJournal and to forums (You need to create albums with the name “Livejournal.com” and “Forums” in your Yandex.Foto);

And here is the result: Video demo on Vimeo
PS: I will collect XPI as soon as I create a window with settings for the plugin.

The purpose of this post:

I want to hear from you wishes on functionality, and I will also be happy to help on the following issues:

• How to run the program with parameters (inside the XPI plug-in), what would the port read the line that the program returns?
• ... I'll think of something else ...

Update: It turned out to rewrite the encryption script in the JS language :-)

Update2: I’ll refine the script so that it doesn’t keep the Yandex password in the settings, otherwise it’s a real security hole.

Part 2 - read here:

habrahabr.ru/blogs/firefox/83710