Converter adds unit conversion to the browser context menu.

The Converter is an easy to use Firefox extension which performs on the fly, contextual conversions between the most common units of measurement.

The main target is the Imperial/metric divide, but some unusual, counter-intuitive units are also converted to more intuitive values.

Requirements:

· Firefox: 2.0 – 3.6.*

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The examples were improperly converted (various problems related to the values themselves).

· The Converter used to process fractions by evaluating them as JavaScript code. This was a minor security risk, since the evaluated string was already matched against regular expressions. But even filtered, evaluating untrusted strings in JavaScript is potentially dangerous, so I decided to switch to a safer approach: the Converter is now 100% eval()-free.

· The measurements in the example would both have been converted in previous versions of the Converter, regardless of your preferences. Now only the one in unfamiliar units will be converted (i.e. if you prefer Imperial, only "1 cm" will be converted; if you prefer metric, only "1 inch" will be converted). You can disable this feature from the preferences, by unchecking "Only convert unfamiliar units".

· By default, full page conversion of the measurement in the example would result in "1/10 cm (0.1 cm = 0.0394 in)". Starting with thi...