GIMPS Opener

Open GIMPS exponent numbers

Copyright © 2022 Teal Dulcet

Firefox, Chromium and Thunderbird add-on/WebExtension to open Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) 2ᴾ-1 exponent numbers.

• Allows opening exponent numbers in:
  • mersenne.org (2 - 999,999,937)
  • mersenne.ca (2 - 9,999,999,967)
• Supports opening multiple exponents in single page (mersenne.ca only)
• Type exponent numbers directly in the address bar/omnibox (Firefox and Chrome only, use the exp keyword)
• Shows a live preview of the exponent(s) that would open
• Supports exponents with an optional M prefix and optional comma or space digit separators
• Ignores numbers that are not prime
• Supports opening exponents 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

To contribute to GIMPS, please see the Distributed Computing scripts.

❤️ Please visit tealdulcet.com to support this extension and my other software development.

⬇️ Download from Addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and Addons.thunderbird.net (ATN).

Use on Thunderbird requires renaming the thunderbirdmanifest.json file to manifest.json. Use on Chromium/Chrome requires the downloading the webextension-polyfill and renaming the chromemanifest.json file to manifest.json.

Contributing

Pull requests welcome! Ideas for contributions:

• Convert to Manifest V3 (MV3)
• 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 performance
  • Use WebAssembly to check if the numbers are prime
  • Use faster algorithms, such as a combination of Miller-Rabin for detecting composites and Lucas for detecting primes (see the factor command from GNU Coreutils)
• Support opening exponent numbers on mersenne.org greater than 999,999,937
• Support opening exponents for Fermat numbers
• Sync settings in Thunderbird (see bug 446444)
• Support Firefox for Android (see bug 1595822 and bug 1427501)
• Localize the add-on

Thanks to Viliam Furík for creating the GIMPS logo.