Use is.gd in TwitterFox to Shorten URL
OK, tinyurl is short enough. But is.gd is even shorter.
Many tools use tinyurl to shorten URLs, because it was the origin of this wonderful idea. TwitterFox is such an example.
I prefer TwitterFox to twhirl because as a Firefox add-on, the url can be inserted into the tweet with a single click (Besides, word “twhirl” is hard to remember 
). But why didn’t it provide an option of URL shortener to use?
We can modify its source to achieve this, though. Open the file chrome/TwitterFox.jar!/content/twitternotifier.js and find the line where TINYURL_CREATE_API is defined. Change the constant value to “http://is.gd/api.php?longurl=”, which is the API of is.gd.
There are countless URL shorteners around the web. Just choose your favorite.
Tags: TwitterFox, url
November 9th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Tried to patch as suggested, but twitterfox still uses tinyurl.com.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Same happens to me, it still uses tinyurl.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Thank you, nice tip.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Nice howto. But this doesn’t work with new Twitterfox version. You can find an howto on my blog. Click on my name if you like too see that.