IPv6 on Firefox - visibility addon

[tbentropy]

Hello all,

Had fun getting my IPv6 Sage status last year, and then spent some time thinking about what I could do for IPv6 day... Ended up with the idea of an extension for the Firefox browser to indicate whether a site had AAAA records or not. Several months on and I've just finished a new version (and I'm working on continuing to update it given the next IPv6 launch day coming up, and a likely big boost to the number of people using IPv6!)

I'd welcome any comments/suggestions from people for features or improvements. The addon can be found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sixornot/

Thanks,

Timothy

[cholzhauer]

I just tried it out and the only thing I have is a suggestion to update your pictures. On FF 9 running on Windows 7, the indicator box is at the far right of the screen, to the right of the search box

[broquea]

This is the one people in #ipv6 on Freenode have been using as well: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipvfox/

I've got both installed, personally.

[cconn]

I was using ShowIP, which is a simple indicator in the bottom status bar of the IP address of the site being visited, red for IPv4 or green for IPv6.  Works.

I am going to try this one too, why not. ;D

[nickbeee]

I've been using 4or6 - happy to give this one a try though.

[tbentropy]

cholzhauer - The icon button can be dragged to almost any location like other Firefox UI elements :)

[mtindle]

Timothy,

Quick thanks from a lone network engineer in the NOC.  This has replace the old ShowIP extension for me and does a fantastic job.  Awesome little gadget I've used a lot just in the past week I've had it installed.

Thanks again!

[cheapie]

I actually found this completely independently of here, and it works great! My only suggestion is to be able to use the grayscale theme markings (like "46") with the colored backgrounds.

[sterkh]

is there a similar plugin for opera?
thx

[antillie]

Is there anything like this available for Chrome?

Nevermind. Should have googled before posting. The "ShowIPv6" add on does this for Chrome.

[cconn]

incredibly, showIP has privacy issues  ???

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/05/01/privacy-concern-showip-firefox-add-on/

SixorNot is suddenly more interesting, assuming it is not doing the same  :)

[kriteknetworks]

ShowIP is dns based, not connectivity based like ipvfox for firefox and ipvfoo for chrome.