Comments on: Google Chrome extension: Total Recall

By: Chalo Goa

Chalo Goa — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:54:02 +0000

I am not a technical guy but want to use this form for several different purposes.

Can you guide me how should I make changes in the background.html to make it work.

Your help will be highly appreciated.

Regards,

By: ben.keen

ben.keen — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:13:56 +0000

Nice work!! Thanks for posting the fix.

By: Jay C

Jay C — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:58:17 +0000

Fixed problem by changing in background.html:

bgNs.db = openDatabase(bgNs.dbName, bgNs.dbVersion, ‘Total Recall’, 2 * 1024 * 1024);

also changed url getting saved to remove query string params by adding:

.split(“?”)[0] in the right places ….

By: ben.keen

ben.keen — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:57:15 +0000

Sorry Jay, but I just don’t have time to work on this little script at the moment. It’s very possible that a change in the browser has caused an incompatibility. Sorry about that!

– Ben

By: Jay C

Jay C — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:55:15 +0000

Doesn’t seem that forms are being saved … using chrome v16 on OSX Lion … ideas?

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:43:49 +0000

hey wanted to ask tht is it possible tht total recall nvr saves the url cause when i save the form it also copies the url with it and will activate only if the same url is entered again
cause the url which i access is dynamic and tend to change everytime i refresh the page
pls help
thanks in advance

By: ben.keen

ben.keen — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:35:45 +0000

Hi John,

Excellent, thanks for the info! I didn’t know the API had changed. I’ll check it out and release an update today or tomorrow. There’s a couple of small changes I’d like to make, so I’ll include those as well.

Thanks again, John!

– Ben

By: John Roland

John Roland — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:43:05 +0000

Hello,
Thank you for the great extension !
As some ppl say, it’s sadly not working with latest Chrome version, because of a change in the database api.
I’ve fixed it, it’s just a matter of changing the opendatabase call like this in the background.html file :

bgNs.db = openDatabase(bgNs.dbName, bgNs.dbVersion, ‘Forms database’, 1024*1024*3);

I’ve also change the dbversion value, but I’m not sure it’s required…

dbVersion: ‘2.0’

Hope it help,

John (From France)

By: Bas

Bas — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:24:33 +0000

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your reply. And yes, it is the same page with the same URL (this very page – http://www.benjaminkeen.com/?p=295 ). Where is the saved form data actually stored? I really wonder whether the extension is saving anything at all, so I’d like to check that out.

Regards,
Bas

By: ben.keen

ben.keen — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:14:34 +0000

Hi Bas,

Thanks for the feedback! One question: are the URLs for the page where you saved the content and the page where you tried to load it completely identical? If they’re different – even slightly – (e.g. one has index.html and one doesn’t, or one has a query string or hashmark) then the script won’t be able to reload the form.

Originally, I thought that this would be a good idea, but in retrospect it just kind of makes it confusing & looks like it’s not saving.

I think I’ll revisit this and make it a little smarter in how it identifies one page from the next.

All the best –

Ben