Panic Button 1.5.1 released!

A new, albeit minor, release of Panic Button is now out, and is available from the AE Creations website as well as Mozilla Add-ons.

If you already have 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 Updates.

What's New

• After installing Panic Button, the Panic Button toolbar button will be automatically added to the browser toolbar, if it is not there already
• Bug fix: Missing title bar grippy for the Restore Session toolbar on Linux
• Styling improvements to the Restore Session toolbar icons, mainly for Mac users; the toolbar icons now provide visual feedback when they are being clicked on

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Panic Button should be directed to the AE Creations forums, now hosted on Google Groups.

One More Thing...

Panic Button is now a Featured Extension on the Mozilla Add-ons website!

Panic Button page on Mozilla Add-ons.

Clippings was previously a Featured Extension on Mozilla Add-ons.  Now, another one of my extensions has been selected for this coveted honor!  A big thanks to all my users for their support, comments, suggestions and bug reports, as well as the translators at Babelzilla for localizing Panic Button into several languages.  You guys ROCK!!!

Clippings 3.2 released!

A new release of Clippings is out, and is now available from Mozilla Add-ons and the Clippings website.

If you already have 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 Updates.

What's New

• Compatible with Firefox and Thunderbird version 14 or newer. Clippings is no longer compatible with Firefox 3.6 or Thunderbird 3.1.
• Bug fix: Missing Clippings submenu on the context menu since Firefox and Thunderbird 14
• Mac OS X shortcut key prefix has been changed to Command+Option. Previously, it was Control+Option, but it stopped working in a previous Firefox/Thunderbird release.

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Clippings should be directed to the AE Creations forums, now hosted on Google Groups.

Coming soon: a minor release of Clippings

Finally, some good news.  A new minor release of Clippings is in the works, which fixes the disappearing Clippings menu from the context menu in Firefox (when the cursor is in a web page text box) or Thunderbird (when composing a new message).

This issue was caused by a change introduced in Firefox and Thunderbird 14 which broke Clippings.  As a result, Clippings is currently incompatible with Firefox and Thunderbird versions 14 and 15, and the bug fix requires a new release.

In addition, the new release fixes a long-standing bug on Mac OS X where the shortcut key prefix, Control+Alt+V, stopped working several versions ago of Firefox and Thunderbird.  Mac users have had to work around it by installing KeyConfig, and then specifying their own replacement shortcut key prefix.  With the new release of Clippings, the shortcut key prefix on the Mac will be changed to Command+Option+V, and KeyConfig will no longer be necessary to be able to paste a clipping using shortcut keys.

The new release has been submitted for review by Mozilla Add-ons reviewers. An announcement will be made here once it is made available for download.  In the meantime, users should confirm that automatic add-on updates are enabled so that they get the new release when it is available.