The GitHub page (https://github.com/OctoLinker/OctoLinker) says there’s a Firefox extension but this website doesn’t mention it at all, strangely (I just see an install link for Chrome). Am I missing something?
There's a text link all the way to the bottom to the 'Mozilla Addon Store' but I agree that it's confusing that the big install button only mentions Chrome (despite browsing with Firefox).
edit: At the bottom of https://octolinker.now.sh/ that is. On Github there's a similar text link + clickable Firefox icon in the 'Install' section.
I’m loving (what appears to be) this mass transition to Firefox and seeing companies not yet take it seriously. I knew coming into the comments that I would see this mentioned.
Hey, this install button is supposed to be dynamic and should change depending on your user agent. However this wasn't working and is fixed now. Sorry for this inconvenience
I was browsing a Ruby file today and clicked a variable name and github showed me where that variable was used elsewhere in the project. It was pretty cool.
I have to assume that's coming to other languages soon, in github itself. Looking forward to Python getting it
Such a great idea. Glad to hear GitHub itself is working on this problem, but OctoLinker fills a gap for sure. Just need Scala support now for it to be really useful...
Neat. I wonder how far we will take browsing source code on the web?
I mostly read source code on github now, because it’s much more convenient than cloning a repo locally. But I’m definitely missing out on certain features (eg what octolinker is implementing or diffing two files), which are trivial in vscode or vim
Fascinating, I have mostly the opposite experience: I get annoyed quickly when browsing code on GitHub because I can't properly search through code (which I do a lot when reading a new codebase) and then clone..
