October 26, 2009

Is it Drupal? Firefox Extension

While discussing the news about Whitehouse.gov moving to Drupal at work today, I had an idea to create a bookmarklet to help me figure out whether the site I am browsing is indeed a Drupal site or not. Then at lunch, Shawn (@shalosophy) had a great idea that this should be made into a firefox extension. And so was born the "Is it Drupal?" Firefox Extension.

The extension simply puts a Drupal icon in your status bar which is gray when on a site that is thought to not be powered by Drupal, and turns blue when a Drupal site is detected. This is my first foray into Firefox extension building so be kind.

And here it is for all to enjoy.

Install the "Is it Drupal?" Firefox Extension

Posted at 11:52 pm on October 26, 2009 — Tags: drupal | extensions | firefox

12 Responses

Andrew Levine

Gotta say this is awesome.

Oct 27, 2009 9:03 am

Jimmy Berry

Very cool addon. Any plans to put it in the official Firefox addons site?

Oct 28, 2009 2:03 am

Eelke

You may also be interested in the "Backend Software Information" Firefox extension. It does basically the same thing, but for many more software packages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10493Of course the accuracy may vary.

Oct 28, 2009 2:48 am

walter

doesn't detect that my own site is powered by drupal, and neither this one http://www.imperium-gastunum.com/drupal/
How is the algorithm determining wheter its drupal or not?

Oct 28, 2009 3:39 am

Anonymous

There is already one firefox extension named Detect Backend why you created again? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10493

Oct 28, 2009 6:10 am

Craig

I'd be interested in the bookmarklet you spoke of. I use Chrome instead of Firefox so I can't install the extension.

Oct 28, 2009 7:35 am

Ian

Just installed it, works great on the sites I went to! However it crashed my Delicious and Web Developer extensions - all I saw were blank toolbars and my Delicious buttons were gone entirely.

Oct 28, 2009 7:42 am

roger

@walter, there is a known issue that drupal installations in a subdirectory are not detected. I am working on better detection logic and will keep this page updated.