Bug Opener

Open bug/issue numbers

Copyright © 2021 Teal Dulcet

Firefox, Chromium and Thunderbird add-on/WebExtension to open GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Bugzilla and Jira bug/issue numbers.

• Allows opening:
  • GitHub Issues, Pull Requests and Discussions (requires # prefix)
  • GitLab Issues and Merge Requests (requires # or ! prefix respectively)
  • Bitbucket Issues and Pull Requests (requires # prefix)
  • Bugzilla Bugs (optional case insensitive bug prefix and three or more digits)
  • Jira Issues (requires case insensitive prefix)
• Supports opening multiple bugs in single page
• Type bug/issue numbers directly in the address bar/omnibox (Firefox and Chrome only, use the bug keyword)
• Supports creating a nested context menu
• Shows a live preview of the bug(s) that would open
• Allows user to specify the installations/repositories for each issue tracker in the options
• Supports automatically adding a menu item for the current GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket repository
• Supports opening bugs in the current tab, a new tab (default), a new window or a new private/incognito window (Firefox and Chrome only)
• Supports lazy loading tabs (Firefox and Chrome only)
• Supports the light/dark mode of your system automatically
• Settings automatically synced between all browser instances and devices (Firefox and Chrome only)
• Follows the Firefox and Thunderbird Photon Design

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Download

• Addons.mozilla.org (AMO)
• Addons.thunderbird.net (ATN)

Install from source

Clone the repository:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/tdulcet/Bug-Opener.git

Firefox

Follow these instructions to install it in Firefox

Thunderbird

1. Rename the thunderbirdmanifest.json file to manifest.json
2. Follow these instructions to install it in Thunderbird

Chromium/Chrome

1. Download the webextension-polyfill (specifically download the browser-polyfill.js file from here)
2. Rename the chromemanifest.json file to manifest.json
3. Follow these instructions to install it in Chromium/Chrome

Other Extensions

• Open these bug IDs in BMO or GitHub (Firefox)

Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Ideas for contributions:

• Convert to Manifest V3 (MV3)
• Add support for more issue trackers
  • Support Monorail
• Add support for more GitLab specific references
• Refactor into more modules
• Support more than one top level context menu item (see bug 1294429)
• Support changing the omnibox keyword (see bug 1375453)
• Improve the options page
  • Check validity of input before saving values
  • Allow dragging the installations/repositories in each issue tracker to rearrange them
• Improve the performance
• Sync settings in Thunderbird (see bug 446444)
• Support Firefox for Android (see bug 1595822 and bug 1427501)
• Localize the add-on