Originally Posted by viiral Found a bug I'm not sure if its possible but i want a way to hide software.

Yeah I'm working on the international currencies bug. I'm hoping it'll be fixed in version 2.0 which is coming soon.

As for hiding software, do you want to hide ALL software? Like, the tab at the top, search results, all that?

Will those "Chrome only" features get enabled on Firefox at a certain point? Or it can't happen?

Originally Posted by Zmaj Will those "Chrome only" features get enabled on Firefox at a certain point? Or it can't happen?

It can happen, and I'm working on it. Almost all of the "Chrome only" features at this point have to do with Cross Domain scripting. This means that while you're on the store.steampowered.com page (like, the game's page) it has to pull information from another domain, such as steamcommunity.com or enhancedsteam.com, for things like sales history, metacritic scores, etc.

In Chrome, the permissions of the plugin allow for this. In Firefox addons, this seems to be a much more complicated problem. Once I figure it out, I should be able to put all of the current "Chrome only" features into the Firefox plugin.

Found an oddity in the Chrome version. When clicking through to the pages for the Free DLC items for Sanctum, the Price History ends up returning this: "/W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http:/"

Might need to do an internal check to see whether the item has a price before trying to grab history data.

Originally Posted by DPsycho Found an oddity in the Chrome version. When clicking through to the pages for the Free DLC items for Sanctum, the Price History ends up returning this: "/W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http:/" Might need to do an internal check to see whether the item has a price before trying to grab history data.

Thanks for the heads up! I think it should be fixed now. (Nice when it's on the web-service side, and not in the extension code - makes it way easier and faster to update!)

I feel like this may have already been requested, but is an Empty Cart button feasible? It's a hassle to remove a cart full of DLC if you change your mind or accidentally click the add all button.

Originally Posted by Genocidal I feel like this may have already been requested, but is an Empty Cart button feasible? It's a hassle to remove a cart full of DLC if you change your mind or accidentally click the add all button.

Actually, that's a great idea and hasn't been asked yet. I'll look into it!

Originally Posted by jshackles Yeah I'm working on the international currencies bug. I'm hoping it'll be fixed in version 2.0 which is coming soon. As for hiding software, do you want to hide ALL software? Like, the tab at the top, search results, all that?

Like the official DLC filter, just have a button that hides the software from the front page. i dont mind the software tab it just annoying to see software on the new games list.

Originally Posted by viiral Like the official DLC filter, just have a button that hides the software from the front page. i dont mind the software tab it just annoying to see software on the new games list.

I'll see what I can do, but the DLC filter is a function of their own Javascript, so I'm not sure if I'll be albe to override that or not. More on this soon.

Additionally, I've been working on the "International Currencies" bug. When I first developed this plugin, I wasn't exactly expecting people from around the world to use it! I think I've got all the code I need now to make this work with all of the currencies that Steam currently supports:

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That's pretty awesome with the currencies. I would also love an empty cart button. Would make turning away from those impulse purchases a little easier.

Originally Posted by CheapLikeAFox That's pretty awesome with the currencies. I would also love an empty cart button. Would make turning away from those impulse purchases a little easier.

Been looking into adding an "Empty Cart" button, but it wont' be as easy as I originally thought. It seems that they don't have any back-end code to support this. Why? I guess they don't want you emptying your cart! So it looks like the "remove from cart" links are singular javascript form post calls. So any sort of "Empty Cart" button will likely require you to refresh the page x number of times, where x = the number of items in your cart.



I'll keep looking into it though!

Okay so I've finally got a working "Empty Cart" button going. Rather than manipulating the code on Steam's back end, I've simply overwrote the the local browser cookie variable. So you press "Empty Cart" and BAM it goes away (it's still there on Steam's side, but considered "abandoned").

Additionally, "featured games" now highlight correctly.

Additionally, I'll be releasing the extension's source code as open source soon. More on this later!

Awesome work, thanks!

Great progress.. keep it up

Yes -- if I haven't said it yet, thanks for all of your work on this jshackles.

How possible would it be to add some restrictions/options to searches? Because while I like searching for just games. I would love to search for everything but trailers, demos, etc. Also games not appearing outside of a certain price range or not appearing in the search results if I already own them.

Not sure if any of it is possible, but just a suggestion if your thinking what else you could try to implement.

Originally Posted by Kaltic How possible would it be to add some restrictions/options to searches? Because while I like searching for just games. I would love to search for everything but trailers, demos, etc. Also games not appearing outside of a certain price range or not appearing in the search results if I already own them. Not sure if any of it is possible, but just a suggestion if your thinking what else you could try to implement.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look at it. I think filtering the search results would end up with them merely hidden, meaning that if you own all of the games on that search result page it would simply be a blank page. And if you owned most, it would just be a short page of results (even if there was a page 2, etc).

Interesting idea though, especially with the price filtering. I'll keep you guys updated on what I find out.

Steam has a filtered search option http://store.steampowered.com/search

Originally Posted by viiral Steam has a filtered search option http://store.steampowered.com/search

Not unless you want to remove only specific items from the search, or games within a price range such as $10 to $20.

I certainly appreciate all the effort poured into ES thus far, kudos.

Just thinking out loud here, but speaking of searches, would it be possible to implement a sort by largest discount similar to what GamersGate does? I know SteamGameSales does that, but SGS doesn't always seem up to date or just doesn't update some items sometimes (plus it's slow). It's just a handy feature to have available, especially during large sales where some items do not get featured.