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Truprint Firefox extension

Truprint, a photo processing firm in the UK, have leapt into the digital world with both feet (as have all the other photo processors) by allowing you to upload digital photos to their website for printing as actual real photos, which they’ll then send back to you. We’ve always used Truprint, and last night we thought we’d try out this new upload-and-print-out thing, what with all our cameras now being digital.

I was surprised and pleased to discover that, to upload to their site, they provide a little tool called QuickUpload. But it’s not an ActiveX control; it’s not a Windows-specific application. It’s a Firefox extension!

They do have an ActiveX one for IE users, but they’re also supporting Firefox. Bloody well done Truprint. This sort of thing should be applauded. I have mailed them to tell them so.

I also mailed them to mention that the extension said it’d take 10 minutes to upload our photos and it actually took two hours, but hey, all software’s got bugs.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 at 11:38 am and is filed under JavaScript and the DOM, Software, Usability. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

6 Responses to “Truprint Firefox extension”

  1. Could you post the email address you used to applaud them? I tried grokking their pages real quick for it, but I’m guessing it must be buried somewhere in a page after you sign up…?

    Thanks,
    Dennis

    Dennis Fisher
    36 hours later

  2. I mailed digital.service at truprint.co.uk; I did get the address from the website, but I forget where.

    sil
    38 hours later

  3. Hmmm, following this recommendation I’ve signed up to the service. (20 free 6×4″ prints!) When I go to upload photos there’s no option to use the QuickUpload tool as mentioned above and in their FAQ. I’m running Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Ubuntu 6.10 AMD64. Perhaps the tool is 32-bit only?

    Tony Whitmore
    12 days later

  4. Tony: hm. Don’t know, guvnor. Firefox extensions should work everywhere, as far as I know :(

    sil
    12 days later

  5. FWIW, Stuart, I believe ffox extensions can embed native code (or in one case that I know of, an entire JVM.) So they aren’t necessarily cross-platform.

    Luis
    3 weeks later

  6. I’ve been playing around with User Agent switcher and can confirm that you get offered this extension if you are using Firefox on Windows, but not on Linux. Having downloaded the extension using a UA string that claims to be Firefox on Windows but is really Firefox on Linux, the extension then fails to install.

    Suck.

    Tony Whitmore
    37 weeks later

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