Panic Button 4.3 beta 2 released!

This is the second beta release of an upcoming update to Panic Button, and it fixes a bug that affects users upgrading from an older version. It is being made available for testing, and although it is fairly stable, expect to encounter a few inevitable bugs.

Read on to learn more about what's new in this release, and how to get it.

What's New

• Panic Button can now handle multiple browser windows when restoring the browser session after triggering the "Hide and Replace" action (issue #44). Note that browser tabs loaded with special Firefox pages, such as the Firefox options page and Add-ons Manager, cannot be restored
• New action to minimize the current browser window
• The default keyboard shortcut is changed to F8 to avoid a conflict with toggling Reader Mode on Windows 10 (issue #49)
• Improvements to Dark Mode icons
•  Fixed in 4.3b2  Post-upgrade page doesn't load (issue #55)
  

Things You Should Know About

• Panic Button 4.3 requires Firefox 78 or newer.  
• Panic Button won't work if Firefox is set to "Never remember history" in Privacy & Security settings.

How to Get It

To install this beta release, head over to the Panic Button 4.3 beta 2 page on GitHub. Look for the link to panicbutton-4.3b2.xpi, then click on it to install.

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Panic Button 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.

Panic Button 4.3 beta 1 released!

This is a beta release of an upcoming update to Panic Button. It is being made available for testing, and although it is fairly stable, expect to encounter a few inevitable bugs.

Read on to learn more about what's new in this release, and how to get it.

What's New

• Panic Button can now handle multiple browser windows when restoring the browser session after triggering the "Hide and Replace" action (issue #44). Note that browser tabs loaded with special Firefox pages, such as the Firefox options page and Add-ons Manager, cannot be restored
• New action to minimize the current browser window
• The default keyboard shortcut is changed to F8 to avoid a conflict with toggling Reader Mode on Windows 10 (issue #49)
• Improvements to Dark Mode icons
  

How to Get It

Panic Button 4.3 requires Firefox 78 or newer.

To install this beta release, head over to the Panic Button 4.3 beta 1 page on GitHub. Look for the link to panicbutton-4.3b1.xpi, then click on it to install.

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Panic Button 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 5.7.1 released!

A minor update to Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 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

• Displays a message when Thunderbird starts up about Clippings not being compatible with Thunderbird 78

Things You Should Know About

• Clippings 5.7 is compatible with Thunderbird 68. It is not compatible with Thunderbird 60. Users of Thunderbird 60 should install Clippings for Thunderbird 5.6, available from the AE Creations website.
• It is not possible to rearrange clippings and folders in Clippings Manager by drag and drop in the clippings tree. 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 78

Current users who want to continue using Clippings for Thunderbird should consider staying on Thunderbird 68.   For more information, read this blog post.

Help and Support

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

Panic Button 4.2.1 released!

A minor update to Panic Button 4.2 has been released and is now available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website.

If you already have an older version of Panic Button installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Add-ons Manager (Tools → Add-ons), click on the entry for Panic Button in the list of installed extensions, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Check for Updates.

What's New

• Improvements to Dark Mode colors in the extension preferences and restore session password pages

Things You Should Know About

• Panic Button 4.2 requires Firefox 68 or newer.
• Known Issue: On latest versions of Firefox, the Hide and Replace action doesn't work if more than one browser window was open at the time the Panic Button action was triggered. If you normally browse with multiple browser windows, consider changing the Panic Button action to Minimize All Windows.

Help and Support

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

Clippings 6.2.2 released!

Another minor update to Clippings 6.2 for Mozilla Firefox has been released, and is now available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website. This update fixes several issues with Dark Mode colors in Clippings windows and dialogs.

If you already have Clippings installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Add-ons Manager (Tools → Add-ons), click on the entry for Clippings in the list of installed extensions, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Check for Updates.

What's New

• Improvements to Dark Mode appearance of Clippings Manager (issue #296)
• Bug fix: Text in focused drop-down menus is hard to see in Dark Mode (issue #296)
• Bug fix: Unsupported file formats are not rejected when selected for import or restore from backup (issue #295)
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Things You Should Know About

• Thunderbird Users: Clippings 6.2 is not compatible with Thunderbird. You should get Clippings for Thunderbird instead. Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 is compatible with Thunderbird 68. Please note that Clippings for Thunderbird will NOT be compatible with the upcoming release of Thunderbird 78 -- more information in this blog post.
• Clippings 6.2.2 requires Firefox 68 or newer, and is compatible with the upcoming Firefox 78 ESR release.
• Some features may not be available when Firefox is in Private Browsing mode, or if the browser privacy settings are too restrictive.
• If you want to use Sync Clippings, you'll need to download and install the Sync Clippings helper app. More information and download links can be found on the Sync Clippings page on the AE Creations website. The Sync Clippings Helper app is currently available for Windows only.

Help and Support

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

Clippings NOT compatible with Thunderbird 78

Thunderbird 78 will be the next major release of this email client, and is expected to be released soon. This new version comes with major changes to extensions which requires them to be completely rewritten. Clippings for Thunderbird is affected as well.

At this time, Clippings will not be compatible with Thunderbird 78.  This may change as future versions of Thunderbird are released. Until then, Clippings for Thunderbird 5.7 will remain compatible with Thunderbird 68.x.

Clippings for Mozilla Firefox is not affected by these Thunderbird changes.

Turn Off Automatic Updates

If you're a current user of Clippings for Thunderbird, you'll need to stay on Thunderbird 68.x.  Once Thunderbird 78 is released, your Thunderbird installation may automatically update, which will cause Clippings to stop working.

To ensure continued use of Clippings, you should turn off automatic updates for Thunderbird. To do that, follow these steps:

1. Click the Thunderbird menu (☰ icon) and then select Options → Options
2. On the left navigation sidebar, click Advanced
3. Click on the Update tab, then click the radio button with the title, "Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them"

Turn off automatic updates for Thunderbird in the Thunderbird options page. Click on the image to zoom in.

Note: It is safe to update Thunderbird 68 to a new minor release (for example, 68.10.0).  But you should avoid updating to version 78.0 or newer, if that is presented as an update option.

AE Creations website address change

The web address (URL) of the AE Creations website has changed. It is now https://aecreations.sourceforge.io.

If you have bookmarked the old web address, there's no need to worry about updating them -- you will be automatically redirected.

With this change, all content will now be loaded securely. On Firefox, you'll notice the padlock icon appearing on the address bar, as well as the https prefix on the web address.

The AE Creations website is now delivered securely to your browser using HTTPS.

In addition, the AE Creations Blog will also be loaded securely. Look for the padlock icon and the https prefix on the web address when browsing blog posts.

Please post a comment below if you run into any difficulties with the website or this blog (for example, broken images or jumbled page content). Happy browsing!

Clippings 6.2.1 released!

A minor update to Clippings 6.2 has been released and is now 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 Add-ons Manager (Tools → Add-ons), click on the entry for Clippings in the list of installed extensions, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Check for Updates.

What's New

• Bug fix: Clippings does not trigger input event when pasting, which sometimes prevents pasting from working on some forums (issue #289)
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Things You Should Know About

• Clippings 6.2.1 requires Firefox 68 or newer.
• Some features may not be available when Firefox is in Private Browsing mode, or if the browser privacy settings are too restrictive.
• If you want to use Sync Clippings, you'll need to download and install the Sync Clippings helper app. More information and download links can be found on the Sync Clippings page on the AE Creations website. The Sync Clippings Helper app is currently available for Windows only.

Help and Support

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

Clippings 6.2.1 release candidate 1 released!

This is a release candidate of an upcoming minor update of Clippings. Unless there are any last-minute showstopper bugs, this may become the official release of Clippings 6.2.1.

Read on to learn more about what's new in this release, and how to get it.

What's New

• Bug fix: Clippings does not trigger input event when pasting, which sometimes prevents pasting from working on some forums (issue #289)
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Things You Should Know About

• Clippings 6.2 requires Firefox 68 or newer.
• Some features may not be available when Firefox is in Private Browsing mode, or if the browser privacy settings are too restrictive.
• If you want to use Sync Clippings, you'll need to download and install the Sync Clippings helper app. More information and download links can be found on the Sync Clippings page on the AE Creations website. The Sync Clippings Helper app is currently available for Windows only.

How to Get It

IMPORTANT! If you are already using Clippings and want to try the release candidate, back up your clippings first before upgrading.

To install this release candidate, head over to the Clippings 6.2.1 release candidate 1 page on GitHub. Look for the link to clippings-6.2.1rc1.xpi, then click on it to install.

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 6.2.1 beta 1 released!

This is a beta release of an upcoming minor update of Clippings. It is being made available for testing, and although it is fairly stable, expect to encounter the few inevitable bugs.

Read on to learn more about what's new in this release, and how to get it.

What's New

• Bug fix: Clippings does not trigger input event when pasting, which sometimes prevents pasting from working on some forums (issue #289)
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Things You Should Know About

• Clippings 6.2 requires Firefox 68 or newer.
• Some features may not be available when Firefox is in Private Browsing mode, or if the browser privacy settings are too restrictive.
• If you want to use Sync Clippings, you'll need to download and install the Sync Clippings helper app. More information and download links can be found on the Sync Clippings page on the AE Creations website. The Sync Clippings Helper app is currently available for Windows only.

How to Get It

IMPORTANT! If you are already using Clippings and want to try the beta release, back up your clippings first before upgrading.

To install this beta release, head over to the Clippings 6.2.1 beta 1 page on GitHub. Look for the link to clippings-6.2.1b1.xpi, then click on it to install.

If you want to use Sync Clippings, you'll need to download and install the Sync Clippings helper app. More information and download links can be found on the Sync Clippings page on the AE Creations website. The Sync Clippings Helper app is currently available for Windows only.

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. 

Panic Button 4.2 released!

An update to Panic Button has just been released, and is now available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website.

If you already have an older version of Panic Button installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Add-ons Manager (Tools → Add-ons), click on the entry for Panic Button in the list of installed extensions, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Check for Updates.

What's New

• New option for the Minimize All Windows action to open a new browser window after all browser windows are minimized. If this option is turned on, you can restore the minimized browser windows by clicking the Panic Button again from the new window.
• The extension preferences page now uses the Dark Mode colors on macOS and Windows.

Things You Should Know About

• Panic Button 4.2 requires Firefox 68 or newer.
• Known Issue: On latest versions of Firefox, the Hide and Replace action doesn't work if more than one browser window was open at the time the Panic Button action was triggered. If you normally browse with multiple browser windows, consider changing the Panic Button action to Minimize All Windows.

Help and Support

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

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Crowdin volunteer "AAlexx00001" for contributing the French localization of Panic Button!  If you are fluent in English and another world language and would like to help update or add a new translation, consider contributing a translation in the Panic Button project on Crowdin.

Panic Button 4.2 release candidate 1 released!

The next minor release of Panic Button, version 4.2, is planned for release in a few days, and a release candidate is being made available for testers and early adopters who want to get their hands on it sooner. Unless there are any last-minute showstopper bugs, this release may become the official 4.2 release.

Read on to learn more about what's new in Panic Button 4.2, and how to get the release candidate.

What's New

• New option for the Minimize All Windows action to open a new browser window after all browser windows are minimized. If this option is turned on, you can restore the minimized browser windows by clicking the Panic Button again from the new window.
• The extension preferences page now uses the Dark Mode colors on macOS and Windows.

Things You Should Know About

• Panic Button 4.2 requires Firefox 68 or newer.
• Known Issue: On latest versions of Firefox starting with version 71, the Hide and Replace action doesn't work if more than one browser window was open at the time the Panic Button action was triggered. If you normally browse with multiple browser windows, consider changing the Panic Button action to Minimize All Windows. Users on Firefox 68 ESR aren't affected.

How To Get It

To install this beta release, head over to the Panic Button 4.2 release candidate 1 page on GitHub. Look for the link to panicbutton-4.2rc1.xpi, then click on it to install.


Help and Support

Questions and comments about Panic Button 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. 

Panic Button 4.2 beta 1 released!

This is a beta release of an upcoming new version of Panic Button. It is being made available for testing, and although it is fairly stable, expect to encounter the few inevitable bugs.

What's New

• New option for the Minimize All Windows action to open a new browser window after all browser windows are minimized. If this option is turned on, you can restore the minimized browser windows by clicking the Panic Button again from the new window.
• The extension preferences page now uses the Dark Mode colors on macOS and Windows.

Things You Should Know About

• Panic Button 4.2 requires Firefox 68 or newer.
• Known Issue: On latest versions of Firefox starting with version 71, the Hide and Replace action doesn't work if more than one browser window was open at the time the Panic Button action was triggered. If you normally browse with multiple browser windows, consider changing the Panic Button action to Minimize All Windows. Users on Firefox 68 ESR aren't affected.

How To Get It

To install this beta release, head over to the Panic Button 4.2 beta 1 page on GitHub. Look for the link to panicbutton-4.2b1.xpi, then click on it to install.


Help and Support

Questions and comments about Panic Button 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. 

Panic Button issues with restoring browser session

There is an issue with Panic Button not being able to fully restore the Firefox browser session when the Panic Button action is set to "Hide and Replace."

If there was more than one browser window open when the Panic Button action was triggered, only the first browser window will be restored when clicking the Panic Button again, and the window showing the temporary replacement web page isn't closed.

This isn't happening if there was only one browser window open at the time the Panic Button action was triggered.

This issue is confirmed to be happening in Firefox 71. Users on Firefox 68 ESR aren't affected.

If you find yourself having more than one browser window open on a regular basis, you may want to consider changing the Panic Button action to "Minimize All Windows" to work around this bug.

Panic Button 4.1.2 released!

A minor update to Panic Button has just been released, and is now available from Mozilla Add-ons and the AE Creations website.

If you already have an older version of Panic Button installed, it will be upgraded for you if automatic extension updates are enabled. Otherwise, open Add-ons Manager (Tools → Add-ons), click on the entry for Panic Button in the list of installed extensions, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Check for Updates.

What's New

•  Added Indonesian localization

Things You Should Know About

• Panic Button 4.1 requires Firefox 60 or newer.
• The Close All Windows action doesn't actually quit the browser, unless there are no other open windows (e.g. bookmark manager)

 
Help and Support

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

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Crowdin user Goro for contributing the Indonesian localization of Panic Button!  If you are fluent in English and another world language and would like to help update or add a new translation for Panic Button, consider contributing a translation in Crowdin.

Clippings 6.2 released!

Clippings 6.2 is an update that comes with many improvements and brings back a feature in Clippings Manager that existed before Firefox 57 (Firefox Quantum) was released. It is now 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 Add-ons Manager (Tools → Add-ons), click on the entry for Clippings in the list of installed extensions, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Check for Updates.

What's New

• Clippings now supports Dark Mode system themes on macOS and Windows. The dark-colored theme is automatically applied to Clippings windows and dialogs (for example, Clippings Manager and the extension preferences page) when Dark Mode is activated on your system.
• 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
• For Sync Clippings users, there's a new option to only show synced clippings and folders on the Clippings menu. To activate it, go to the extension preferences, then under Sync Clippings, click Settings.
• Brought back the ability to redo an action in Clippings Manager. To redo an action (undo an undo), press F2.
• New option to add the date to the backup file name
• Many other fixes and improvements

Things You Should Know About

• Clippings 6.2 requires Firefox 68 or newer.
• Some features may not be available when Firefox is in Private Browsing mode, or if the browser privacy settings are too restrictive.
• If you want to use Sync Clippings, you'll need to download and install the Sync Clippings helper app. More information and download links can be found on the Sync Clippings page on the AE Creations website. The Sync Clippings Helper app is currently available for Windows only.

Help and Support

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

Acknowledgements

A huge thanks to the volunteer translators in Crowdin for updating the localizations for Clippings 6.2!  If you are fluent in English and another world language and would like to help update or add a new translation, consider contributing a translation in Crowdin.