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.