16 August 2018

Now available! Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6

Users of Thunderbird 60 can now rejoice: Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 has been released!

This new version of Clippings for Thunderbird is compatible with Thunderbird 60. Read on to learn what's new in Clippings 5.6, changes from previous releases, and how to get it.

What's New
  • Compatible with Thunderbird 60
  • You can paste a clipping using the Clippings 6 shortcut key prefix, ALT+SHIFT+Y (Command+Shift+Y on macOS), in addition to the traditional keys CTRL+ALT+V/Command+Option+V. 
  • Added a setting in the Data Source tab of the Clippings preferences dialog for enabling Sync Clippings, a new feature under development

Things You Should Know About

Please be aware of the following, as there has been changes in Thunderbird 60 that has caused some existing features of Clippings to stop working.
  • Rearranging clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree is no longer possible. Use the Move toolbar button to select a folder to move or copy to, or right-click and select the Cut, Copy and Paste menu options. To rearrange items within a folder, select the folder, click the Arrange toolbar button, then in the dialog that appears, you can use drag and drop to rearrange the items in the selected folder.
  • It is no longer possible to drag selected text to the Clippings status bar icon to create a clipping from the selected text. Instead, copy the text to the clipboard and then select New From Clipboard from the status bar icon's context menu.
  • To display the extension preferences dialog, open Clippings Manager, then select Tools → Options. The Clippings preferences dialog is not accessible from Add-ons Manager.
  • If a shortcut key is assigned to a synced clipping, and the shortcut key assignment conflicts with another clipping, the synced clipping will lose its assigned key in favor of the other clipping.

Not Compatible With Thunderbird 52.x or Firefox ESR 52.x

Clippings 5.6 is compatible with Thunderbird 60. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 52.x, nor is it compatible with Firefox ESR 52.x.

If you are using those older versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, you should install Clippings 5.5.2, which is still available.

If you want Clippings for Firefox 57 or newer, you need to install Clippings 6, available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website.

How To Get It

New users: Clippings for Thunderbird is available from the AE Creations website. Go to the Install page for Clippings, and then follow the instructions on that page to add Clippings 5.6 to Thunderbird.

Current users of Clippings 5.5.2 or older: After upgrading to Thunderbird 60, your previous version of Clippings will be disabled -- it will not be automatically upgraded to the new release. You should uninstall the old version of Clippings, then go to the Install page for Clippings on the AE Creations website, and then follow the instructions on that page to add Clippings 5.6 to Thunderbird.

Your existing clippings data will be preserved even after uninstalling the old version of Clippings, and it will be automatically migrated when installing the new version.

Users of the previous 5.6 beta releases and the release candidate should be automatically upgraded to this official release, if automatic add-on updates are enabled.

Clippings for Thunderbird is not available from the Thunderbird Add-ons website.

Help and Support

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

13 August 2018

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 release candidate 1 released!

This is the final stage before the official release of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, the next version of Clippings that is compatible with Thunderbird 60. Barring any last-minute showstopper bugs, this may become the official release.

This release candidate is being made available for testing purposes, and it should be relatively stable compared to the previous beta releases. Read on to learn what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, changes from previous releases, and how to get it.

What's New in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6
  • Compatible with Thunderbird 60
  • You can paste a clipping using the Clippings 6 shortcut key prefix, ALT+SHIFT+Y (Command+Shift+Y on macOS), in addition to the traditional keys CTRL+ALT+V/Command+Option+V. 
  • Added a setting in the Data Source tab of the Clippings preferences dialog for enabling Sync Clippings, a new feature under development

Things You Should Know About

Please be aware of the following, as there has been changes in Thunderbird 60 that has caused some existing features of Clippings to stop working.
  • Rearranging clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree is no longer possible. Use the Move toolbar button to select a folder to move or copy to, or right-click and select the Cut, Copy and Paste menu options. To rearrange items within a folder, select the folder, click the Arrange toolbar button, then in the dialog that appears, you can use drag and drop to rearrange the items in the selected folder.
  • It is no longer possible to drag selected text to the Clippings status bar icon to create a clipping from the selected text. Instead, copy the text to the clipboard and then select New From Clipboard from the status bar icon's context menu.
  • To display the extension preferences dialog, open Clippings Manager, then select Tools -> Options. The Clippings preferences dialog is not accessible from Add-ons Manager.
  • If a shortcut key is assigned to a synced clipping, and the shortcut key assignment conflicts with another clipping, the synced clipping will lose its assigned key in favor of the other clipping.

Not Compatible With Thunderbird 52.x or Firefox ESR 52.x

Clippings 5.6 is compatible with Thunderbird 60. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 52.x, nor is it compatible with Firefox ESR 52.x.

If you are using those older versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, you should install Clippings 5.5.2, which is still available.

How To Get It

Users having a previous beta release of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 already installed should be automatically updated to 5.6 release candidate 1, if automatic add-on updates are enabled in Thunderbird.

For those who have not installed a beta release and want to try the release candidate, head over to the Clippings 5.6 release candidate 1 page on GitHub. Right-click on the link for clippings-tb-5.6rc1.xpi and select Save As, then choose a folder location on your system (for example, the Desktop). Then follow these step-by-step instructions from the Mozilla Support website to install Clippings in Thunderbird.

Once Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 is officially released, all beta and release candidate users will be automatically upgraded to the official release. Make sure that automatic add-on updates are turned on.

Help and Support

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

If you find a bug, you may file a bug report on GitHub. Please search the issues list first to confirm that your issue has not already been reported.

11 August 2018

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 beta 4 released!

This is the fourth, and hopefully final, beta release of Clippings which is compatible with Thunderbird 60. It is being made available for testing, and although it is in a fairly stable beta-quality state, expect to encounter the inevitable bugs.

Read on to learn what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, changes from previous releases, and how to get it.

What's New
  • Compatible with Thunderbird 60
  • You can paste a clipping using the Clippings 6 shortcut key prefix, ALT+SHIFT+Y (Command+Shift+Y on macOS), in addition to the traditional keys CTRL+ALT+V/Command+Option+V. 
  • Added a setting in the Data Source tab of the Clippings preferences dialog for enabling Sync Clippings, a new feature under development
  •  New in 5.6b4:  Bug fix: If Sync Clippings is turned on and Clippings Manager is open when changing the data source location in the extension preferences dialog, the Synced Clippings folder will appear to be empty (issue #13)
  •  New in 5.6b4:  Other bug fixes and improvements 

Things You Should Know About

Please be aware of the following, as there has been changes in Thunderbird 60 that has caused some existing features of Clippings to stop working.
  • Rearranging clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree is no longer possible. Use the Move toolbar button to select a folder to move or copy to, or right-click and select the Cut, Copy and Paste menu options. To rearrange items within a folder, select the folder, click the Arrange toolbar button, then in the dialog that appears, you can use drag and drop to rearrange the items in the selected folder.
  • It is no longer possible to drag selected text to the Clippings status bar icon to create a clipping from the selected text. Instead, copy the text to the clipboard and then select New From Clipboard from the status bar icon's context menu.
  • To display the extension preferences dialog, open Clippings Manager, then select Tools -> Options. The Clippings preferences dialog is not accessible from Add-ons Manager.
  • If a shortcut key is assigned to a synced clipping, and the shortcut key assignment conflicts with another clipping, the synced clipping will lose its assigned key in favor of the other clipping.

Not Compatible With Thunderbird 52.x or Firefox ESR 52.x

Clippings 5.6 is compatible with Thunderbird 60. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 52.x, nor is it compatible with Firefox ESR 52.x.

If you are using those older versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, you should install Clippings 5.5.2, which is still available.

How To Get It

Users having a previous beta release of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 already installed should be automatically updated to 5.6 beta 4, if automatic add-on updates are enabled in Thunderbird.

For those who want to try a beta release of Clippings for the first time, head over to the Clippings 5.6 beta 4 page on GitHub. Right-click on the link for clippings-tb-5.6b4.xpi and select Save As, then choose a folder location on your system (for example, the Desktop). Then follow these step-by-step instructions from the Mozilla Support website to install Clippings in Thunderbird.

Help and Support

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

If you find a bug, you may file a bug report on GitHub. Please search the issues list first to confirm that your issue has not already been reported.

07 August 2018

Clippings compatibility with Thunderbird 60

Thunderbird 60 was released on 6 August 2018. The Mozilla Thunderbird Blog has more information on what's new in this release of the email client from Mozilla.

There have been many changes in Thunderbird 60 that makes Clippings 5.5.x, the latest stable release of Clippings for Thunderbird, incompatible with it. As a result, Clippings 5.5.x is not compatible with Thunderbird 60.

Clippings 6 is a WebExtension rewrite for Firefox Quantum. As such, it is not compatible with any version of Thunderbird.

Work is in progress on Clippings for Thunderbird version 5.6, which will be compatible with Thunderbird 60, but an official release date has not yet been determined.

Until then, Thunderbird users should stay with Thunderbird 52.x so that they can continue to use Clippings. Users who crave the latest and greatest Thunderbird release may want to consider trying out the latest beta release of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6.

03 August 2018

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 beta 3 released!

This is the third beta release of Clippings which is compatible with Thunderbird 60. It is being made available for testing, and although it is in a fairly stable beta-quality state, expect to encounter the inevitable bugs.

Read on to learn what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, changes from previous releases, and how to get it.

What's New
  • Compatible with Thunderbird 60
  • You can paste a clipping using the Clippings 6 shortcut key prefix, ALT+SHIFT+Y (Command+Shift+Y on macOS), in addition to the traditional keys CTRL+ALT+V/Command+Option+V. 
  • Added a setting in the Data Source tab of the Clippings preferences dialog for enabling Sync Clippings, a new feature under development.  New in 5.6b3:  Added ability to set the sync file location to be separate from the data source location.

Known Issues
  • If Sync Clippings is turned on and Clippings Manager is open when changing the data source location in the extension preferences dialog, the Synced Clippings folder will appear to be empty (issue #13). However, your synced clippings are not lost; to see your synced clippings, close and reopen Clippings Manager.

Things You Should Know About

Please be aware of the following, as there has been changes in Thunderbird 60 that has caused some existing features of Clippings to stop working.
  • Rearranging clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree is no longer possible. Use the Move toolbar button to select a folder to move or copy to, or right-click and select the Cut, Copy and Paste menu options. To rearrange items within a folder, select the folder, click the Arrange toolbar button, then in the dialog that appears, you can use drag and drop to rearrange the items in the selected folder.
  • It is no longer possible to drag selected text to the Clippings status bar icon to create a clipping from the selected text. Instead, copy the text to the clipboard and then select New From Clipboard from the status bar icon's context menu.
  • To display the extension preferences dialog, open Clippings Manager, then select Tools -> Options. The Clippings preferences dialog is not accessible from Add-ons Manager.
  • If a shortcut key is assigned to a synced clipping, and the shortcut key assignment conflicts with another clipping, the synced clipping will lose its assigned key in favor of the other clipping.

Not Compatible With Thunderbird 52.x or Firefox ESR 52.x

Clippings 5.6 is compatible with Thunderbird 60. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 52.x, nor is it compatible with Firefox ESR 52.x.

If you are using those older versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, you should install Clippings 5.5.2, which is still available.

How To Get It

Users currently having Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 beta 1 or beta 2 installed should be automatically updated to 5.6 beta 3, if automatic add-on updates are enabled in Thunderbird.

For those who want to try a beta release of Clippings for the first time, head over to the Clippings 5.6 beta 3 page on GitHub. Right-click on the link for clippings-tb-5.6b3.xpi and select Save As, then choose a folder location on your system (for example, the Desktop). Then follow these step-by-step instructions from the Mozilla Support website to install Clippings in Thunderbird.

Help and Support

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

If you find a bug, you may file a bug report on GitHub. Please search the issues list first to confirm that your issue has not already been reported.