the AE Creations blog

05 September 2011

Clippings 3.1.6 released!

A new version of Clippings is available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations 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 Update.

What's New

Bug fix: Missing entries in chrome manifest for Danish and Swedish localizations (bug 24334)

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Clippings should be directed to the AE Creations forums.

02 September 2011

Has anyone used Send Tab URLs with Google Apps Gmail?

Send Tab URLs has had experimental support for Google Apps Gmail since version 2.0 (regular Gmail has been supported out of the box). Since I do not have access to any Google Apps environment, I haven't been able to test it, and so the UI for Google Apps support was not enabled by default. A past blog post describes how to enable Google Apps Gmail support.

Has anyone tried using Send Tab URLs with Google Apps Gmail? I would like to hear from those users who have. I'm interested in learning whether Send Tab URLs works with it -- and what, if any, issues were encountered. If there are many users that have enabled Google Apps support, I would consider exposing the user interface for Google Apps support in an upcoming release of Send Tab URLs.

Your feedback on experimental support for Google Apps Gmail in Send Tab URLs is most welcome. Please leave comments below. Also, please indicate if you would be willing to assist in testing. Thanks in advance.

19 August 2011

Clippings 3.1.5 and Panic Button 1.1.6 released!

New releases of Clippings and Panic Button are now out, and are available on Mozilla Add-ons and on the AE Creations website. These releases fixes a few bugs and adds translations for Swedish (Danish translations are added to Clippings).

Among the highlights:

Clippings 3.1.5: Fixes a problem where Clippings Manager doesn't remember its window size and position; also fixes broken dragging 'n dropping of text into Clippings Manager to create a clipping.

Panic Button 1.1.6: Fixes a bug (as described in this past post) where the custom toolbar button image doesn't get updated when adding the Panic Button toolbar button to the browser toolbar.

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Clippings should be directed to the AE Creations forums.

17 August 2011

Delicious Post bug: Simplified Chinese translation is incomplete

The Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) translation for Delicious Post is incomplete. As a result, users that are running the Simplified Chinese version of Firefox with this extension will see missing or blank text in the Delicious Post dialog boxes and menu commands.

I've requested the translator on Babelzilla to translate the missing Simplified Chinese translations. This fix will require a new release of Delicious Post. Apologies to those users who are inconvenienced.

01 August 2011

Compatibility with Firefox 6 beta

All AE Creations extensions -- Clippings (except for the special version for portable devices), Delicious Post, Panic Button and Send Tab URLs -- are now compatible with Firefox 6 beta. However, there is a minor issue with Panic Button which is noted below.

Panic Button Issue With Firefox 6 beta

If the Panic Button toolbar button is not added to any Firefox browser toolbar, and you change the toolbar button image (from Panic Button's extension preferences dialog), the toolbar button image is not updated until you add the button to a toolbar and then change the toolbar button image again. See the Bugzilla bug for more details.

21 July 2011

Delicious Post 1.1.1 and Panic Button 1.1.5 released!

New updates of Delicious Post and Panic Button are now available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website. The updates fix a few bugs and adds translations for Swedish.

Using Delicious Post 1.1.1 For the First Time After Upgrading

Delicious Post 1.1.1 fixes a bug where the Delicious password was incorrectly URI-encoded in Firefox's password manager.

As a result, if you are upgrading Delicious Post from an older version (1.1. or older), you will need to re-enter your Delicious password in the Post To Delicious dialog when posting a link or page for the first time after the upgrade. You won't have to do this again afterwards unless you change your Delicious password.

22 June 2011

[Updated] Compatibility With Firefox 5

Update: Clippings is now compatible with Thunderbird 5. Also, the portable edition of Clippings, available from the Clippings web site, is now compatible with Portable Firefox 5 and Portable Thunderbird 5.

Yesterday, Mozilla unveiled the newest version of Firefox. Firefox 5 is the first release from the new rapid release development cycle that aims to push out new releases more frequently.

All extensions from AE Creations -- Clippings, Delicious Post, Panic Button and Send Tab URLs -- are compatible with Firefox 5.

Future Firefox Releases

For now, the policy for extension compatibility with upcoming Firefox releases will remain unchanged. They will not be compatible with the nightly (Aurora) builds. Extensions will be made compatible with beta releases once they have been tested and confirmed to be working with the beta releases.

What About Thunderbird 5?

Clippings currently is not compatible with the beta release of Thunderbird 5. This will be fixed once it is tested and confirmed functional on that release.

28 May 2011

The forums are back!

Further to my last post regarding the outage in the AE Creation forums, I'm happy to report that the forums are now back online.

My apologies for the troubles the forum outage may have caused.

22 May 2011

Forum posts not displaying

Forum posts in the AE Creations forums have recently disappeared from view. Old postings do not show up when going to a forum.

This is reportedly a problem affecting all projects hosted on Mozdev, including the ones from AE Creations. The latest word I've received is that the Mozdev admins are investigating the issue.

In the meantime, feel free to leave general comments and suggestions for improvements to Clippings, Delicious Post, Panic Button and Send Tab URLs in the comments area in the Mozilla Add-ons page for the respective add-on. Bug reports should be directed to Bugzilla. Note that Clippings has its own Bugzilla database.

27 April 2011

[EDITED] The Delicious Post Extension: Implications of Yahoo!'s Sale of Delicious

Word came today that Delicious, the online social bookmarking website which Yahoo! acquired in 2005, has now been bought out by the founders of YouTube.

This caught my attention, since not only am I a loyal Delicious user, I am also maintaining a Firefox extension, Delicious Post, for adding bookmarks to Delicious. I was also interested to learn what this would mean for Delicious Post, because for quite some time I've been struggling to make it work with OAuth-based Yahoo! logins without much success. OAuth authentication is painful to implement, with so many steps to follow and a lot of room for errors, many of which are difficult to isolate given that they could originate from one's own code or from the code libraries being used (or unknowingly misused). The poorly-written Delicious OAuth documentation hasn't helped at all.

According to what I've read in a Delicious developer forum post, the old-skool Delicious logins will still function, but users with Yahoo! logins will have to migrate to using Delicious logins. So this means that I no longer have to worry about making Delicious Post work with OAuth authentication. Woo hoo!

What will this mean for current Delicious Post users? Since Delicious Post only supports the old-skool logins, current users can continue to use this Firefox add-on without any issues.

EDIT: Don't forget that you need to accept the new privacy policy and terms of service agreements in order to continue using Delicious beyond the transition from Yahoo! to AVOS, the company that is taking over Delicious. You should be prompted to do this when you visit your bookmarks on the Delicious website.

23 March 2011

Clippings for Portable Firefox 4

As promised, Clippings is now compatible with Portable Firefox 4. Follow the download link in the Clippings installation page to download it to your Portable Firefox browser.

About Clippings Portable Edition

This special release of Clippings is intended for Portable Firefox users. The difference is that the common clippings feature is disabled; the Clippings data is stored in your Portable Firefox profile directory -- typically on your USB flash drive or other portable media in which Portable Firefox is installed. This ensures that your Clippings data stays in your portable media.

Clippings Portable Edition can also be used with Portable Thunderbird. Simply use the same download link as given above.

22 March 2011

Firefox 4 is here!

The newest and the best-yet browser from Mozilla has just been released. Sporting a streamlined user interface, faster Web page display, and cool new capabilities for Web developers, Firefox 4 is now available from the Mozilla website.

All extensions from AE Creations are compatible with this new Firefox release. Some of the changes introduced by Firefox 4 necessitated new minor releases of Clippings and Panic Button.

Clippings for Portable Firefox Not Yet Available

The special portable edition of Clippings for Portable Firefox will be ready shortly. Watch this blog for further updates.

11 November 2010

Compatibility with Firefox 4.0 beta 7

The seventh beta of the upcoming Firefox 4 release was released yesterday (10 November 2010). Clippings, Delicious Post, Panic Button and Send Tab URLs have all been tested against this new beta release, and are now compatible with it. If you upgrade to Firefox 4.0 beta 7, no further action is needed to make these extensions work.

Missing status bar in Firefox 4.0b7

The first thing most users will notice when starting Firefox 4.0 beta 7 for the first time is that the status bar is gone. And as a result, the Clippings status bar icon is missing, and so is the Delicious Post progress icon (that cute little icon with the animation that appears when posting a URL to your Delicious account).

You can make the status bar UI for those extensions reappear by enabling the so-called Add-on Bar. To do so, choose View -> Toolbars -> Add-on Bar in the Firefox browser window. The Clippings icon and the Delicious Post status icon will appear in the same places on the Add-on Bar as they would have in the browser status bar in older versions of Firefox.

Please note that I am NOT responsible for the missing status bar in Firefox. Direct any comments about this Firefox UI change to the appropriate Mozilla forum discussion. See also this Mozilla Support forum post.

Support for Firefox 3.0 discontinued

Firefox 3.0 is no longer supported by Mozilla; therefore, compatibility with this older version of Firefox has been dropped. All AE Creations extensions now require Firefox version 3.5 or newer.

05 November 2010

Extension compatibility with Firefox 4.0 beta 6

With the sixth beta of Firefox 4 being out for some time, it was time to make my add-ons compatible with it. Clippings, Delicious Post, Panic Button and Send Tab URLs are now compatible with Firefox 4 beta 6.

Most of these extensions only needed to have their Firefox maxVersion values bumped up to 4.0b6. However, for Clippings and Panic Button, some minor work was needed to make them work as well as address a few bugs that surfaced in this Firefox beta release.

Thanks for your patience.

27 October 2010

Clippings 3.1.3 released!

A new version of Clippings is available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website.

Portable Firefox/Thunderbird users: Please note that the special portable version of Clippings is not available yet.

If you already have Clippings installed, you should receive the update if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, choose Tools → Add-ons from the main Firefox window, select Clippings in the list of installed extensions, right click and select Find Update.

What's New

Now compatible with Firefox 4.0 beta 6