LJLogin logged-in-account switcher in need of TLC

[arcanetrivia]

This is a bit of a long shot, but I am hoping that somewhere in the influx of fresh blood from Tumblr there may be someone with the knowhow and the resources to do something about this.

Once upon a time slarti wrote a Firefox extension called ljlogin that let you switch between multiple LJ accounts on the fly without having to manually log out and log in. Unfortunately, while it used to work on Dreamwidth as well for a while, some change to the login specs on LJ or DW or both somewhere along the line meant that it broke some years ago. Even for use on LJ it has been officially defunct for more than two years, and defunct in a practical sense for more like three, because it was never updated to newer extension signing requirements. If you are a roleplayer who has a lot of journal accounts, it's an invaluable tool for painless switching between them. (In my case I just have two, but it was still very handy.)

The code is open source and slarti gave their blessing to someone picking it up and carrying on (with no support from them, however). Is there anyone out there who might like to undertake the task? (Ideally to make it work on both sites again, and not just DW.)


(unrelated: while browsing the comm tags to see if any would apply to this post, I noticed there are four variations of "Yuri!!! on Ice" with different numbers of exclamation points in different places. Mod might want to engage in some tag merging there.)