{"id":721,"date":"2009-07-21T20:07:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T03:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhagwad.com\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2010-10-09T02:12:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T20:42:02","slug":"firefox-ubiquity-character-count-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2009\/technology\/firefox-ubiquity-character-count-command.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Ubiquity – Character Count Command"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now that Ubiquity 0.5 is out, Erik’s Character Count Command<\/a> no longer works. So I have updated it and if you have Ubiquity Firefox, the command bar should have appeared on top for you. Here is the code:
\n
\nCmdUtils.CreateCommand({
\nnames: ['char-count'],
\narguments: [ {role: 'object', nountype: noun_arb_text, label: 'text to count chars in'}],
\npreview: function( pblock, args ) {
\n\/\/pblock.innerHTML = argText.object.length;
\npblock.innerHTML = \"The number of characters is: \"+ args.object.text.length;
\n}
\n});<\/code><\/p>\n

Hope you found it useful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Ubiquity 0.5 is out, Erik’s Character Count Command no longer works. So I have updated it and if you have Ubiquity Firefox, the command bar should have appeared on top for you. Here is the code: CmdUtils.CreateCommand({ names: [‘char-count’], arguments: [ {role: ‘object’, nountype: noun_arb_text, label: ‘text to count chars in’}], preview: function( … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,33,23],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nr","category-sa","category-technology","tag-firefox-ubiquity"],"yoast_head":"\nFirefox Ubiquity - Character Count Command<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Counts the characters in a selection using Firefox's Ubiquity 0.5 add on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2009\/technology\/firefox-ubiquity-character-count-command.html\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Firefox Ubiquity - 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