Instasaver for Firefox

Instasaver is the Firefox add-on for the Instapaper avid user.

UPDATED on 26/01/2015 - new bugfix release available on Mozilla add-ons

Instasaver lets you easily submit pages to to the Instapaper.com service

Instasaver in action

If you don’t like the urlbar button, you may use the additional toolbar button or right click on the page or use a keyboard shortcut. The new (1.7) version gets a minimal look and less verbose notifications, you may go back to the old style in preferences if you prefer.

![Toolbar button](/images/instasaver-toolbar.png) ![Additional Menu and keyboard shortcuts](/images/instasaver-context-menu.png) ![Old style icon + desktop notification on success](/images/instasaver-oldstyle.png)

I developed Instasaver as an alternative to the official bookmarlet, because I do not use the Firefox bookmark bar.

Keyboard shortcuts

Available keyboard shortcuts:

  • SHIFT + ALT + I, submit current page URL to Instapaper.com
  • SHIFT + ALT + R, display webpage content in read mode
  • SHIFT + ALT + G, go to Instapaper.com website

Preferences

Before submitting any URL, you should configure Instapaper credentials into the preference dialog. As said before, the new (1.7) version offers more customization options:

Preferences

Additional toolbar button is available via the toolbar customization page:

Toolbar customization

Install

You can install

[Instasaver 1.7 on Firefox add-ons](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/76427/ "Download Instasaver from Firefox add-on website")

or download the extension XPI or build from source.

Changelog

1.7.5 - 23/01/2015

  • fixed issues #4 and #5

1.7.2 - 01/08/2014

  • fixed: unable to save username/password on Mac OSX

1.7.1 - 30/07/2014

  • fixed no error shown if the instapaper service request returns a status code not in bundle (eg. no internet)

1.7.0 - 24/06/2014

  • fixed “Context menu not displaying”
  • urlbar icon gives feedback on URL submission success
  • urlbar icon can be hidden
  • desktop notifications on URL submission success are disabled by default
  • new look for icons (old style urlbar icon can be enabled in preferences)

1.6.2 - 27/08/2011

  • firefox 8 compatibility check
  • fixed “Unable to verify credentials on Instapaper”

1.6.1 - 27/08/2011

  • Firefox 6.0 compatibility

1.6 - 17/07/2011

  • revamped notifications (now system wide)
  • support for Firefox password manager (to fix intermittent problems with user/password not saved under Windows XP)

Feedback

What users say (extracted from my old blog):

Thank you for developing this extension and making it available for free James - 2011-03-16 14:15

Exceptional extension - contrary to the Firefox addons site: works for me on Firefox 6.0.2 -yup, sure does. leeleblanc - 2011-09-19 21:04

[…] Firefox extension I use also lets me strip all that extraneous stuff from within my web browser through the complementary […] I ♥ Instapaper | βλογάπη

On the Firefox add-ons site, Instasaver rating is four (out of five) star.

Found a problem? Please let me know via the issue tracker.

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