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 5.6.1 released!

An 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

• Bug fix: Error message appearing at top of shortcut key HTML export (issue #23)
• Bug fix: Maintain sort order of clippings/folders in sync file and Clippings 6 shadow copy (issue #24)

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 5.6.1 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. 

What to do if Clippings is disabled after upgrading to Thunderbird 60

Users who are upgrading to Thunderbird 60 (latest release 60.3.0 at the time of writing) will notice that Clippings is disabled after the upgrade, and updating Clippings from Add-ons Manager doesn't work.  If this happens to you, don't panic!

Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6 is the latest version that is compatible with Thunderbird 60, and it is now available.  Because of changes to add-ons in Thunderbird 60, Clippings for Thunderbird will not automatically update, and you will need to download it from the AE Creations website.  Follow the step-by-step instructions given on the installation page for Clippings to upgrade.

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.

Learn more about what's new in Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6,  as well as important things you should know about it, in the release announcement blog post. If you have more questions, post them to the AE Creations Help and Support Forums on Google Groups.

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.

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.