AE Creations extension compatibility with Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5, the next release of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, is now available as a release candidate for users and web developers eager to preview the latest and greatest. There is something new for everyone -- like private browsing, support for geolocation, a new JavaScript engine, native audio and video support and other cool features. To learn more, check out this post from the Mozilla Blog.

Status of extension compatibility

All extensions from AE Creations -- Clippings, Panic Button, Send Tab URLs, and the newest member of the lineup, Delicious Post -- are compatible with the Firefox 3.5 release candidates, and will be compatible with the official 3.5 release when it comes out.

Delicious 1.0 released!

Version 1.0 of Delicious Post, a Firefox extension for posting a link or web page to the Delicious online social bookmarking service, has been released and is available for download.

Check out the Delicious Post page at the AE Creations website for details and download links. You can also find this information at Mozilla Add-ons.

Delicious Post is available in English (United States), Chinese (Simplified), French, Italian, Polish, and Portuguese (Brazil). Many thanks to the translators at Babelzilla for making it available in these languages.

Acknowledgement

Delicious Post is based on Patrick H. Lauke's del.icio.us post extension.

Delicious Post 0.9

This is the third development milestone of Delicious Post. Meant for early adopters craving the latest and greatest, this milestone release is being made available for testing, and should only be installed if you are willing to tolerate a few bugs. If that scares you, then don't install it.

» Download: Delicious Post 0.9 (17 KB; English (United States); compatible with Firefox 3.0-3.1b3)

If you already have an older version of Delicious Post installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Extension Manager (Tools → Add-ons), then right-click on the entry for Delicious Post in the list of installed extensions and choose Find Update.

What's New

• Compatibility with Firefox 3.0 beta 3
• Bug fix: Password not saved at first login attempt
  
• Bug fix: Submit dialog always centered on 1st screen on dual-monitor system(bug 20750)
• Bug fix: Submit dialog should work modelessly if background posting enabled (bug 20685)
• Other minor bug fixes

Known Issues

For the latest list of bugs, please see Bugzilla.

• XMLHttpRequest error handling when posting from the submit dialog isn't consistent with background posting (bug 20683)

Reporting Bugs

Post bug reports as a comment to this post. If you have a Bugzilla account on Mozdev, you can file a bug here.

Delicious Post 0.8

This is the second development milestone of Delicious Post. Meant for early adopters craving the latest and greatest, this milestone release is being made available for testing, and should only be installed if you are willing to tolerate a few bugs. If that scares you, then don't install it.

» Download: Delicious Post 0.8 (16 KB; English (United States); compatible with Firefox 3.0-3.1b2)

Please note: This is not yet compatible with Firefox 3.1 beta 3.

If you already have an older version of Delicious Post installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Extension Manager (Tools → Add-ons), then right-click on the entry for Delicious Post in the list of installed extensions and choose Find Update.


What's New

• Post bookmarks in the background
• "Do not share" checkbox
• Auto-fill bookmark description from selected text in web page
• Keep existing bookmark if URL already posted
• New extension preferences dialog
• Submit dialog can be modal or modeless (currently modal by default; can be changed via a hidden pref, extensions.aecreations.deliciouspost.modeless_submit)

Known Issues

For the latest list of bugs, please see Bugzilla.

• XMLHttpRequest error handling when posting from the submit dialog isn't consistent with background posting (bug 20683)
• Submit dialog should work modelessly if background posting enabled (bug 20685)
  
• Height of URL textbox in the submit dialog is too short (bug 20684)
• Error message when attempting to repost URL needs to be more friendlier and easier to localize (bug 20682)

Reporting Bugs

Post bug reports as a comment to this post. If you have a Bugzilla account on Mozdev, you can file a bug here.

Panic Button 1.1.2 released!

Firefox 3.1 beta testers can finally rejoice -- a new version of Panic Button has been released, and is compatible with the Firefox 3.1 beta releases! The new release is available for download from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website.

If you already have an older version of Panic Button installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Extension Manager (Tools → Add-ons), then right-click on the entry for Panic Button in the list of installed extensions and choose Find Update.

What's New

• Compatible with Firefox 3.1 beta 2
• Added Danish, Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian translations

Help and Support

Send questions and comments to the AE Creations forums.

Clippings menu selection problems

Some users have reported that the Clippings submenu on the browser context menu would often disappear when moving the mouse to select a clipping or folder on the menu. There have even been reports of crashes occurring when this happens.

This is caused by a bug in the Video DownloadHelper extension which causes problems with many context menus in Firefox. If you have this extension installed, upgrade it to the latest version (4.0.2 at the time of this post). This will resolve the issue.

Clippings 3.1 released!

Clippings 3.1 has been released and is available for download from Mozilla Add-ons and the Clippings website.

NEW for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird users: There is a special build of Clippings designed for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird. See the Download and Install page on the Clippings website for the download link.

If you already have an older version of Clippings installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Extension Manager (Tools → Add-ons), then right-click on the entry for Clippings in the list of installed extensions and choose Find Update.

Supported languages: English (United States), Chinese (simplified), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian.

What's New

• Paste clippings without overwriting the clipboard
• Paste clippings containing HTML tags as rich text. Users can choose to paste as rich text or plain text (with HTML tags and character entities intact).
• New extension preferences dialog (Tools → Add-ons, select Clippings in the list of installed extensions → click Options)
• Clippings icon now appears in the status bar of Thunderbird's message view window
• Separate build for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird. In this build, the common datasource feature is disabled.

Help and Support

To learn more about Clippings, check out Clippings Help which contains helpful resources such as a Quick Start Guide for new users. Send your questions and comments to the AE Creations forums.

Clippings 3.1 release candidate 2

This second release candidate adds a few minor last-minute changes.

» Download: Clippings 3.1 rc2 (192 KB; compatible with Firefox 2.0-3.1b2 and Thunderbird 2.0-3.0b1)

Because this is a pre-release, updates will not be available automatically.

Supported languages: English (United States), Chinese (simplified), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian.

NEW for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird users: There is a special build of Clippings designed for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird.
Click here to download and install the release candidate.

Changes from Release Candidate 1

• Added Chinese (simplified) localization
• In the portable app build, the Options → Common Clippings command in Clippings Manager is removed to prevent users from attempting to enable the common datasource feature.
  

Help and Support

Please see the Contact page on the AE Creations web site for instructions on where to submit feedback or bug reports.

Clippings 3.1 release candidate 1

Happy New Year! And what better way to start off 2009 than by announcing the first release candidate of the next minor release of Clippings.

» Download: Clippings 3.1 rc1 (190 KB; compatible with Firefox 2.0-3.1b2 and Thunderbird 2.0-3.0b1)

Because this is a pre-release build, updates will not be available automatically.

Supported languages: English (United States), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian.

NEW for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird users: There is a special build of Clippings designed for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird.
Click here to download and install the release candidate.

What's New

Here is a summary of new features in Clippings 3.1:

• Paste clippings without overwriting the clipboard
• Paste clippings containing HTML tags as rich text. Users can choose to paste as rich text or plain text (with HTML tags and character entities intact).
  
• New extension preferences dialog (Tools → Add-ons, select Clippings in the list of installed extensions → click Options)
• Clippings icon now appears in the status bar of Thunderbird's message view window
  
• New -- separate build of Clippings for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird. In this build, common clippings is disabled by default, since the common datasource would reside in the user's home folder on the computer, thus posing a privacy risk to users running Firefox or Thunderbird from a portable device (such as a USB flash drive) on public computers. With common clippings disabled, the clippings datasource will reside in the Portable Firefox/Thunderbird profile folder, which is located on the portable device.
  

Changes From the Previous Beta Release

In Thunderbird's message compose window, the Clippings submenu in the context menu in the subject line has been removed. This feature was introduced in the beta release, but problems in making it work means that it will have to be deferred to a future release.

Help and Support

Please see the Contact page on the AE Creations web site for instructions on where to submit feedback or bug reports.

Clippings 3.1 beta 1

There will be a minor release of Clippings to address a few common user requests and bug fixes.

This beta release is a preview of things to come. Meant for early adopters craving the latest and greatest, this beta release is being made available for testing, and should only be installed if you are willing to tolerate a few bugs. If that scares you, consider waiting until Clippings 3.1 is officially released.

» Download: Clippings 3.1b1 (180KB; English (United States); compatible with Firefox 2.0-3.1b2)

What's New

• Paste clippings without overwriting the clipboard
• Paste clippings containing HTML tags as rich text
• Window and dialog dimensions set in "em", not pixels; this allows windows and dialogs to be sized correctly on the screen
  
• New extension preferences dialog (Tools → Add-ons, select Clippings in the list of installed extensions → click Options)
  
• Clippings icon now appears in Thunderbird's message view status bar
• The Clippings submenu now appears in the subject line context menu in Thunderbird's message compose window. This means that you can paste clippings into the subject line of a new message.
  

Known Issues

• The Clippings submenu in the subject line context menu in Thunderbird's message compose window sometimes disappears (bug 20350)
  

Help and Support

Feedback on this beta release is welcome. Please see the Contact page on the AE Creations website for details on how to report a bug or obtain support.

Using Google Apps and Yahoo! Mail in Send Tab URLs 2.0

Send Tab URLs 2.0 comes with experimental support for Yahoo! Mail Classic (not the so-called "all-new" Yahoo! Mail) and Google Apps Gmail (hereafter referred to as Google Apps, and not to be confused with regular Gmail, which already works out of the box). Support for those two web mail apps is disabled by default, but can be enabled if you wish to try it.

Why?

Send Tab URLs has not been tested with Google Apps, as I have not been able to gain access to any Google Apps installations to use for testing. If Send Tab URLs can't be tested with Google Apps, then there is no assurance that it will work with it.

As for Yahoo! Mail, the problem of not being able to use a quick compose URL in the so-called "all-new" Yahoo! Mail precludes support for that web mail app. And the setup required to make Send Tab URLs work with classic Yahoo! Mail would be too difficult for "normal" computer users to bother with.

Nonetheless, testers and advanced users are welcome to try using Send Tab URLs with these two unsupported web mail applications. If that is you, then do so at your own risk.

To Enable Support for Yahoo! Mail (Classic)

1. Start Firefox. Then in about:config, set the pref sendtabs.mailclient.yahoomail.enabled to true.
2. Open a new browser window or tab and login to your Yahoo! Mail account.
3. Once you are viewing your Yahoo! Mail inbox, observe the URL in the Firefox address bar. Select and copy the URL up to, and including, the last slash character (/) in the URL. Be sure to include the "http://" prefix.
   
4. Return to about:config and edit the pref sendtabs.mailclient.yahoomail.mail_url, changing its value to what you selected and copied in step 3.

After following these steps, you should be able to use Send Tab URLs with Yahoo! Mail Classic.

To Enable Support for Google Apps

1. Start Firefox. Then in about:config, set the pref sendtabs.mailclient.googleapps.enabled to true.
2. The first time you send the URL list to Google Apps, you will be prompted for the Google Apps domain. Consult your system administrator if you do not know this information. You can change it later from the extension preferences dialog (from a Firefox browser window, choose Tools -> Add-ons, select Send Tab URLs and click Options -> Google Apps tab).
   

Things You Should Know About

The URL list generated by Send Tab URLs won't display properly when the Yahoo! Mail editor is in rich text mode. However, you can switch from plain text to rich text in Yahoo! Mail's editor to compose and send the URL list as an HTML email.

Send Tab URLs 2.0 released!

Send Tab URLs 2.0 has been released and is available for download from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations web site.

If you already have an older version of Send Tab URLs installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Extension Manager (Tools → Add-ons), then right-click on the entry for Send Tab URLs in the list of installed extensions and choose Find Update.

Supported languages: English (United States), Chinese (simplified), Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portugeuse (Brazil), Spanish, Turkish.

What's New

• Added support for Gmail
• Added ability to send the URL list to the clipboard
• Added support for the following email applications on Windows: Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Eudora 8
• Redesigned extension preferences dialog, containing new configuration options

Acknowledgements

Web mail support in Send Tab URLs is based on Email This!, a Firefox extension by Lazyrussian Productions. The code for launching Gmail is derived from John Joseph Bachir’s Gmail compose bookmarklet.

Many thanks to the Babelzilla localization team for their work in translating Send Tab URLs.

New AE Creations forums

Starting now, all questions, comments and feedback relating to Clippings, Panic Button and Send Tab URLs extensions should be directed to the new web-based forums.

Anyone can browse through forum posts and comments, but to create a new post or comment on existing posts, you must be logged in to the forums. New forum users can register for a new account.

All forum users are expected to abide by the forum rules.

The forums are a replacement for the mailing lists, which will be discontinued. The two mailing list archives (prior to December 2008) will remain available for browsing: AE Creations, Clippings.

Send Tab URLs 2.0 release candidate 3

This is the third, and hopefully last, release candidate of the upcoming 2.0 release of Send Tab URLs.

» Download: Send Tab URLs 2.0 rc 3 (45 KB; compatible with Firefox 2.0 - 3.1b1)

Supported languages: English (United States), Chinese (simplified), Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portugeuse (Brazil), Spanish, Turkish.

Changes from Release Candidate 2

• Support for Google Apps has been dropped. It will still be available by enabling a pref in about:config, but this pref has been disabled by default; more details on enabling Google Apps support will be available shortly. For now, Google Apps support is considered experimental, and Send Tab URLs may or may not work with it.
• Added Danish translation
• Compatible with Firefox 3.1 beta 1

Help and Support

Please see the Contact page on the AE Creations web site for instructions on where to submit feedback or bug reports.

Send Tab URLs 2.0 release candidate 2

Fixes to a few spit-and-polish bugs necessitated another release candidate.

If you already have a previous version of Send Tab URLs installed, you must uninstall it first before installing this release. Because this is a pre-release build, updates will not be available automatically.

» Download: Send Tab URLs 2.0 rc2 (43 KB; compatible with Firefox 2.0 - 3.0.*)

Supported languages: English (United States), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Turkish.

Changes from Release Candidate 1

• Improvements to how Gmail/Google Apps are invoked so that you can do other tasks in Gmail after sending the URL list (like logging out).
• Reworked the message box that appears when a long list of URLs to Gmail or Google Apps is being sent

Acknowledgement

Web mail support in Send Tab URLs is based on Email This!, a Firefox extension by Lazyrussian Productions. The code for Gmail/Google Apps invocation is taken from John Joseph Bachir’s Gmail compose bookmarklet.

Delicious Post

A while ago, I came across del.icio.us post, a simple Firefox extension that lets you post a link or the current page to del.icio.us Delicious. It has just the basics you need to quickly create a del.icio.us   Delicious bookmark to the current page, and while it lacked some features from the official Post to Delicious bookmarklet, it was still quite useful.

The author doesn't appear to be maintaining it anymore; but since the code is licensed under a Creative Commons license which permits modification of the work, I decided to start my own fork of this extension -- which, as it turns out, two others already exist (Post to del.icio.us and Jaggnito).

My version is named "Delicious Post" -- not only to distinguish it from the original extension, but to (grudgingly) reflect the new name given to this popular social bookmarking service.

» Download: Delicious Post 0.7.3 (10.5 KB; English (United States); compatible with Firefox 3.0-3.0.*)

This release introduces compatibility with Firefox 3, and includes some behind-the-scenes code fixes to give it a stable foundation for future planned enhancements. There are no new features in this release. Full details of changes can be found in the changelog.

Why?

Because eventually, I want to add a few additional features that are missing in the original del.icio.us post -- such as allowing private bookmarks, tag name autocompletion, and automatically using the selected text in the web page as the bookmark notes. But most importantly, I want to be able to use it on Firefox 3.

But I like del.icio.us post the way it was!

I suppose that you, and many others, do. That is why the additional features I have planned will be configurable so that they can be disabled if you prefer the primitive UI.

Will Delicious Post be compatible with Firefox 2?

No. The Mozilla Corp. plans on ending support for Firefox 2 in December 2008 (that is next month), and there is no point in making it compatible with a version of Firefox that will be officially retired in a month. I also want to make use of some APIs and developer features that is only available in Firefox 3 and above.

If you are still using Firefox 2, you should install the original del.icio.us post extension.

I found a bug. How do I report it?

Send bug reports to the AE Creations mailing list; please mention Delicious Post in the subject line. If you have a Bugzilla account on Mozdev, you can file a bug here.