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.