Yahoo! IDs not yet supported in Delicious Post

Delicious users who have recently signed up for a Delicious account with a Yahoo! ID have reported that a "Authentication failed" error message appears when they try to post a URL using the Delicious Post Firefox extension.

As it turns out, the authentication mechanism that is used in the underlying Delicious API is different for users with Yahoo! IDs. The so-called "old skool" Delicious logins still work, however.

A fix for this problem is in the works and will be released soon.

A strange Clippings bug

On Firefox 3.5, dragging and dropping selected web page text containing a single word to the Clippings status bar icon will cause the browser to start loading a URL containing that single word. Normally, when dragging and dropping any text to the status bar icon, the New Clipping dialog box should appear.

This issue isn't happening when dragging and dropping a selection containing multiple words.

To work around this, use the other options available for creating a new clipping. They are described in the Clippings Quick Start guide.

Thanks to the reporter of this bug for bringing this to my attention. Readers interested in the details can refer to bug 21223.

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.