MouseTracker

What is MouseTracker
MouseTracker is a tiny little extension for Firefox 1.5 and above that notifies you of the XY coordinates of your mouse/cursor within the browser window. It sits quietly in the status bar and does its thing.
Why do I need that?
Good question, and the anser is: You probably don't. However, perhaps a quick explanation of how this little helper came about would help you understand:
There I was, developing some Ajaxy/Javascripty front end kinda stuff, and I needed to popup a small div at the exact place that a user clicked. My prototype worked just fine, but in the project code, (where this hting needed to live), my coordinates weren't coming back as I'd expected. I promptly places a few strategic alerts and investigated the values that my function was returning. Nothing out of the ordinary, but if I could only find out if they were accurate..."Where does firefox think the mouse is?"
I search high and low for a tool that I thought was there, it had to exist...just a little something to tell me where firefox was thinking my mouse cursor was. I could've sworn I'd seen it. Finally, I gave up searching and figured I could write one myself, and actually learn something along the way. XUL to the rescue. A few hours later, (after some reading and several conflicting sources of information, I had a working extension.

As a side note, the value I was being given back from my function were indeed correct, but the way our application was modifying the DOM Tree via javascript, etc...the browser was thinking only element on the page was the one in which my click events were being captured...it's weird and still not solved...but anyway, I have this tool now, so if you can use it then please do so...tell your friends, your neighbors, hell put it on Digg, send me money...I'll be rich...FAMOUS. Nah, I just hope it helps you out in some way.

Are you going to develop it further?
Perhaps, for now it does what I need it to, but I suppose I should add a method to disable it so it isn't always running, (but I kinda like watching the numbers change). I may remove the "Coords" label and just leave the X:xxx Y:xxx label instead so it takes less room, but again, I'm not worried about it at the moment.
How did you get to be so cool?
Can't tell ya...and don't try it at home...you'll hurt yourself!
Why is the page so UGLY?
Because I'm too busy watching the XY coordinates change to make it look nice...wooo this is fun! Perhaps I'll get to that later...

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