Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 released!

A new release of Clippings for Thunderbird is now available to users of Thunderbird 68, which was released today.

Read on to learn what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7, things you should know about it, and how to get it.

What's New

• Compatible with Thunderbird 68
• You can now choose how you want the date or time to be formatted for the $[DATE] and $[TIME] placeholders; for example, the date with the day of the week included, or the time given in the 24-hour clock. To add a formatted date or time placeholder to your clipping, open Clippings Manager, turn on the Placeholder Toolbar (Tools → Show/Hide menu), then from the toolbar, click Presets and select Formatted Date/Time
• Special characters (question mark, parentheses, quotation marks, asterisk, common currency symbols, etc.) can now be used in default values for placeholders. Note that the pipe symbol (|), curly braces ({}) and square brackets([]) cannot be used.

Known Issues

• When creating a clipping from the New Clippings dialog and selecting a destination folder, the new clipping may appear under the top-level Clippings folder instead of the selected folder.
• In Clippings Manager, when moving or copying a clipping or folder to another folder, the tree list won't automatically expand to show the new location of the clipping or folder.

Things You Should Know About

• Rearranging clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree is currently not working. Instead, 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 arrange the items in the selected folder.
• 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 60

Clippings 5.7 is compatible with Thunderbird 68. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 60.x. Users of Thunderbird 60.x should install Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, available from 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 5.7 to Thunderbird.

Current users of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6.2 or older: After upgrading to Thunderbird 68, your previous version of Clippings will be disabled.  To upgrade to, go to Add-ons Manager, then right-click on the entry for Clippings in the list of installed extensions and choose Find Updates.  Clippings should be re-enabled once the upgrade is downloaded and installed.

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. 

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 release candidate 3 released!

This is the third, and hopefully last, release candidate of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7, the next version of Clippings which will be compatible with Thunderbird 68. This contains a fix to the XPI installer file -- but aside from that, the functionality is the same from the previous release candidate. Unless there are any more last-minute showstopper bugs, this may become the official release.

Read on to learn what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7, changes from previous releases, and how to get it.

What's New

See the blog post for release candidate 1 for a list of all the new features in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7.

Known Issues

• When creating a clipping from the New Clippings dialog and selecting a destination folder that is created by clicking New Folder, the new clipping may appear under the top-level Clippings folder instead of the selected folder (issue #41)
• In Clippings Manager, when moving or copying a clipping or folder to another folder, the tree list won't automatically expand to show the new location of the clipping or folder.

Things You Should Know About

• Rearranging clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree is currently not working. Instead, 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 arrange the items in the selected folder.
• 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 60

Clippings 5.7 is compatible with Thunderbird 68. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 60.x. Users of Thunderbird 60.x should install Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, available from the AE Creations website.

How to Get It

Users having Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 release candidate 1 or 2 already installed should be automatically updated to 5.7 release candidate 3, if automatic add-on updates are enabled in Thunderbird.

For those who want to try the release candidate, head over to the Clippings 5.7 release candidate 3 page on GitHub. Right-click on the link for clippings-tb-5.7rc3.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 5.7 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. 

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 release candidate 2 released!

This is the second release candidate of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7, the next version of Clippings which will be compatible with Thunderbird 68.  This release candidate fixes a few last-minute bugs. Unless there are any more last-minute showstopper bugs, this may become the official release.

Read on to learn what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7, changes from previous releases, and how to get it.

What's New

See the previous blog post for a list of all the new features in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7.

Known Issues

• When creating a clipping from the New Clippings dialog and selecting a destination folder, the new clipping may appear under the top-level Clippings folder instead of the selected folder
• In Clippings Manager, when moving or copying a clipping or folder to another folder, the tree list won't automatically expand to show the new location of the clipping or folder.

Things You Should Know About

• Rearranging clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree is currently not working. Instead, 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 arrange the items in the selected folder.
• 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 60

Clippings 5.7 is compatible with Thunderbird 68. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 60.x. Users of Thunderbird 60.x should install Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, available from the AE Creations website.

How to Get It

Users having Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 release candidate 1 already installed should be automatically updated to 5.7 release candidate 2, if automatic add-on updates are enabled in Thunderbird.

For those who want to try the release candidate, head over to the Clippings 5.7 release candidate 2 page on GitHub. Right-click on the link for clippings-tb-5.7rc2.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 5.7 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. 

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 release candidate 1 released!

This is a release candidate of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7, the next version of Clippings which will be compatible with Thunderbird 68. Unless there are 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 5.7, changes from previous releases, and how to get it.

What's New

• Compatible with Thunderbird 68
• You can now choose how you want the date or time to be formatted for the $[DATE] and $[TIME] placeholders; for example, the date with the day of the week included, or the time given in the 24-hour clock. To add a formatted date or time placeholder to your clipping, open Clippings Manager, turn on the Placeholder Toolbar (Tools → Show/Hide menu), then from the toolbar, click Presets and select Formatted Date/Time
• Special characters (question mark, parentheses, quotation marks, asterisk, common currency symbols, etc.) can now be used in default values for placeholders. Note that the pipe symbol (|), curly braces ({}) and square brackets([]) cannot be used.

Things You Should Know About

• 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 arrange 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 60

Clippings 5.7 is compatible with Thunderbird 68. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 60.x. Users of Thunderbird 60.x should install Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, available from the AE Creations website.

How to Get It

Users having a previous beta release of Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 already installed should be automatically updated to 5.7 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 5.7 release candidate 1 page on GitHub. Right-click on the link for clippings-tb-5.7rc1.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 5.7 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. 

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6.2 released!

Another update to Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 has been released and is available for download from the AE Creations website.

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

Please note: Clippings for Thunderbird is not available from Thunderbird Add-ons.

What's New

• This minor release prepares Clippings for eventual upgrade to a new release that will be compatible with Thunderbird 68.

Things You Should Know About

• 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. 

Compatibility

Clippings 5.6.2 is compatible with Thunderbird 60. It is not compatible with the recent Thunderbird beta releases.

If you want Clippings for Firefox Quantum, you'll need to install Clippings 6, available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website.

Help and Support

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

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 beta 2 released!

This is the second beta release of an upcoming version of Clippings for Thunderbird that will be compatible with Thunderbird 68, and comes with a few improvements over the first beta. 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 5.7 and how to get it.

What's New

• Compatible with Thunderbird 68
• You can now choose how you want the date or time to be formatted for the $[DATE] and $[TIME] placeholders; for example, the date with the day of the week included, or the time given in the 24-hour clock. To add a formatted date or time placeholder to your clipping, open Clippings Manager, turn on the Placeholder Toolbar (Tools → Show/Hide menu), then from the toolbar, click Presets and select Formatted Date/Time
• Special characters (question mark, parentheses, quotation marks, asterisk, common currency symbols, etc.) can now be used in default values for placeholders. Note that the pipe symbol (|), curly braces ({}) and square brackets([]) cannot be used.
•  Fixed in 5.7b2  Regression issues with the Paste Clipping By Name dialog
•  Fixed in 5.7b2  Find Clippings/Folders in Clippings Manager doesn't work (issue #37)
•  Fixed in 5.7b2  Missing add-on icon in Add-ons Manager (issue #35)

Things You Should Know About

• 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 60.x

Clippings 5.7 is compatible with Thunderbird 68. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 60.x. Users of Thunderbird 60.x should install Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, available from the AE Creations website.

If you want Clippings for Firefox Quantum, you'll need to install Clippings 6, available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website.


How to Get It

Current beta users should be upgraded to this release automatically, if automatic add-on updates are turned on in Add-ons Manager.

Users trying out the beta release for the first time should head over to the Clippings 5.7 beta 2 page on GitHub. Right-click on the link for clippings-tb-5.7b2.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.