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[1] Submitted by: Pat on Thursday 23rd December 2004 at 11:32 -0500

Congratulation Didier. This is a great extension.

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[2] Submitted by: Brien on Monday 27th December 2004 at 01:20 -0500

I have the RSS scrolling on the status bar -
haven't figured out how to stop the thing....
clicking on the Blue Icon opens up the
add RSS urls - nothing about putting the scroller
back to an Icon I can clik on to activate...... it does
have one..... doesn't it ?

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[3] Submitted by: Didier on Monday 27th December 2004 at 10:09 -0500

To Brien
Most of the controls of this extension can be set in the menu > tool > extension > inforss > option dialog. You can stop the scrolling option there.

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[4] Submitted by: Shudde on Wednesday 29th December 2004 at 08:47 -0500

Love the extension, just a suggestion... an option to remove the specific news item after click, so that those of us who dislike scrolling text can easily read through more items then fit easily on the statusbar.

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[5] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 29th December 2004 at 10:44 -0500

To Shudde
Good suggestion. I think about implementing it sooner.
Thanks

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[6] Submitted by: Rob McDougall on Thursday 30th December 2004 at 03:21 -0500

Love the extension, would like to see an option so that InfoRSS only reads from certain categories of an RSS feed.

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[7] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 30th December 2004 at 10:00 -0500

To Rob McDougall
I don't think I realy understand your question. Do you want to filter the headlines from a specific RSS feed according to the corresponding category (I'm not sure we have that kind of information), or read feed from different source that deals with a specific subject ?

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[8] Submitted by: Rob McDougall on Friday 31st December 2004 at 23:18 -0500

The first. Take for example, a sports feed from a large site, it spits out all the recent stories and has them broken down and sorted with the category tag, i.e. (category)Basketball(/category), (category)Baseball(/category), (category)Football(/category), my suggestion is to give the user the option to say "InfoRSS, I'd like for you to only return those in the Football category", or even an option to exclude certain categories so it returns every story except those in the Football category.

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[9] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 12:14 -0500

To Rob McDougall
Nice idea. I have read in the RSS spec that a category tag is optional in the item information. But could you provide me an example of a feed that use the optional category tag. I can't find any :-(. As soon as I can get an example, I will implement that feature.

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[10] Submitted by: Rob McDougall on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 12:25 -0500

Try CSTV's at

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[11] Submitted by: Rob McDougall on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 12:28 -0500

Meh, it doesn't want to let me post URL's...
CollegeSportsDOTcom/headline-rssDOTxml

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[12] Submitted by: ken case on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 19:32 -0500

won't let me delete it... (using firefox 1.0 on windows 98)

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[13] Submitted by: ken case on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 19:37 -0500

it just says it will be deleted after i restart firefox but then it never is... it's a nice extension, but i want it to go away right now, please tell me how to do that

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[14] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 1st January 2005 at 23:22 -0500

To Ken
Installation and deinstallation is not part of the extension, it's a firefox feature. I can't do anything for you. You can only try to remove it manually by removing the {f65bf62a-5ffc-4317-9612-38907a779583} directory for your hard drive.

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[15] Submitted by: ken case on Sunday 2nd January 2005 at 03:10 -0500

thanks. peace.

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[16] Submitted by: ArmEagle on Tuesday 4th January 2005 at 03:56 -0500

I like this extension, thanks!

But I have some issues.
- If you RMB click to stop the scrolling, the headlines in the 'tracker' disappear and it redisplays after about a second. Only to Left-align all headlines in the bar. But I expected the scrolling to stop, not to have the items display left-aligned.
- Not only a RMB click stops the scrolling, also a M(iddle)MB click. Not that big a problem, but I think it's better to separate things.
- The 'Option to show/hide viewed headlines' option doesn't work here. If I have that option enabled and LMB click a headline the headlines all disappear, and show again like before after about a second.
- A note about this. If it was working I still wouldn't like the headlines to disappear for a moment. If it makes a difference you could let a viewed headline scroll out of screen and then not display it again.
- The headlines disappear when 'reloading (add/remove headlines from the tracker)' anyway. Perhaps this could be speed up a bit/do the 'reloading' before hiding hte headlines?

These aren't all bugs so I decided to put it here.

I use Firefox 1.0

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[17] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 5th January 2005 at 11:08 -0500

To ArmEagle

> If you RMB click to stop the scrolling, the headlines
> in the 'tracker' disappear and it redisplays after
> about a second. Only to Left-align all headlines in
> the bar. But I expected the scrolling to stop, not to
> have the items display left-aligned.

The start/stop is more a toggle between the switch "Scrolling news On/off". When the mode is "Off", the first headlines are displayed left aligned. Do you want me to add a mode to stop the scrolling, but stay in scrolling mode ?

> Not only a RMB click stops the scrolling, also a
> M(iddle)MB click.

Fixed.

- The 'Option to show/hide viewed headlines' option doesn't work here.

Fixed for long headlines (bigger than the # of char param),

> A note about this. If it was working I still wouldn't
> like the headlines to disappear for a moment. If it
> makes a difference you could let a viewed headline
> scroll out of screen and then not display it again.

The problem is when a headline disappears, I have to add another one, so I have to refetch the info.

- The headlines disappear when 'reloading (add/remove headlines from the tracker)' anyway. Perhaps this could be speed up a bit/do the 'reloading' before hiding hte headlines?

Yes, I will correct it.

Thanks a lot for your comments.

Didier

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[18] Submitted by: ArmEagle on Thursday 6th January 2005 at 12:22 -0500

> The start/stop is more a toggle between the switch "Scrolling news On/off". When the mode is "Off", the first headlines are displayed left aligned. Do you want me to add a mode to stop the scrolling, but stay in scrolling mode ?

Well that was the behaviour that I expected. Especially if that prevents the headlines from dis/re-appearing. Not that I use it currently. I just used it by accident, because I normally use MMB to open a link in a new tab, which InfoRSS automatically does. Which resulted in the behaviour you fixed now.

> Thanks a lot for your comments.
I'm glad I could be of any help.

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[19] Submitted by: SavageS on Thursday 6th January 2005 at 13:06 -0500

On version 0.7.23:

1) For me it only worked for single RSS feed at a time and looked blank\empty for multi feed.
2) It needs an easier RSS setup and easier availability to the setting window. An Add\Edit\Remove display of all feeds\channels would be helpful.
3) The text only scrolled across a portion of the room the extension took up on my browser.
4) If it could look more seamless with Firefox that would be cool.
5) The slide-bars to choose the #s were tricky to work with and weren't always accurate. Click and type the number (within a range) would be nice.
6) It also could use a RSS feeds Import\Export option for my OPML or DSC files I've already collected. More options then just drag-and-drop URLs would be nice. (I see that OPML import is on your to-do list.)
7) The feed icons were sometimes huge when reading certain feeds- that made the whole bar huge. Limit the icon size or make a default size
8) Spelling of right and highlight. Words like that end in -ght. This probably goes with the whole translation thing.
9) This extension would stop my other StockTicker, but not ForecastFox, when it was on the statusbar. Your extension worked fine when it was on top and separated.
10) It would be an added bonus to make this more then just an RSS reader. Having the ability to convert HTML to headlines with regular expressions (i.e would be wonderful.

I like the default options as well as the overall options and of course the scrolling capability!

This is the best option for RSS feed extensions for Firefox, as it is the least invasive, the least obstructive and it scrolls! I'll be keeping an eye on the updates. Thanks Didier for all your hard work!

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[20] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 6th January 2005 at 16:43 -0500

To savageS

1) Could you locate the inforss.xml file on your hard drive and send it to me by mail. I have no problem using it at home but some users have problem that I can't reproduce.

3) same as above. Could you send me a snapshot of your screen with the problem, and tell me how to reproduce (send me your inforss.xml file),

5) This is the more controlled widget I have because the value is always valid. I don't have to display a free form text input, and then verify that the value is a numeric, within a range a valid value, and I don't have to popup error message. Pro and cons....

6) on my to-do list

7) Fixed ! could you send me url to test it ?

8) Fixed for right and highlight.

9) I will check.

10) Ok, on my to-do list.

Thanks a lot for your positive comments.

Didier

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[21] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 6th January 2005 at 17:13 -0500

To savageS

8) I have tested both InfoRSS and StockTicker, and they both work fine in my environment. Could you tell me more about this bug ? how to reproduce ? other extension, version of extension.

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[22] Submitted by: ArmEagle on Friday 7th January 2005 at 03:22 -0500

About SavageS
2)
I agree that it was a bit tricky to set multiple RSS feeds working.
After a while I found out I had to check-out the "Grouped RSS" option for every feed.

I didn't find any documentation (that I remember :) about setting up multiple RSS feeds. And it wasn't really intuitive to me.

I dunno, but maybe people would be interested in multiple groups of RSS feeds. So a tree model, or something comparable to the bookmark manager could be used then. And selecting the groups/(sub-rss feeds) could be done to select which ones you want in your tracker.

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[23] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 7th January 2005 at 08:13 -0500

To ArmEagle

I know that I have to write a doc, but this is the least interesting part, so I first focus on the development...
For the multi RSS feature, there is one FAQ that explains briefly how to use it.
I agree for the tree-model. I have to implement that soon.

Didier

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[24] Submitted by: SavageS on Friday 7th January 2005 at 12:17 -0500

I just emailed you Didier. Thanks!

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[25] Submitted by: SavageS on Friday 7th January 2005 at 12:31 -0500

In regards to 2)multi RSS feature- I like the image at the following link as an example for keeping track of RSS channels\feeds
at desktopsidebar.com (look at info on Newsroom Panel)

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[26] Submitted by: Marv on Saturday 8th January 2005 at 12:04 -0500

I am having problems using the plug-in.
I can't set my scrolling feature. The general tab in the options menu is grayed for all features on the tab. How can I get this to work?

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[27] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 8th January 2005 at 16:03 -0500

To Marv

The extension does not enable/disable (gray/normal) any tabs in the option dialog. Maybe something went wrong during the install. Try to re-install the extension. Or maybe there is an inter extension conflict.
Have you installed other extensions ?

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[28] Submitted by: Riccardo on Monday 10th January 2005 at 04:25 -0500

Hi,
i'm having problem with your extension.

I'm using 10 rss sites but i don't receive any news automaticatly, if i select a site, after 30 seconds i receive the news, but the toolbar remain in this site and don't retrieve news from the other sites, i must change manually the sites.

I try multiRSS and normal mode but the problem is the same.

Any hints?

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[29] Submitted by: Didier on Monday 10th January 2005 at 21:25 -0500

To Riccardo

Hi,
I can't tell you what's wrong with your config. Try to locate your inforss.xml file on your hard drive and send it to me by mail.
Thanks,

Didier

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[30] Submitted by: ozaki on Tuesday 11th January 2005 at 17:48 -0500

what is this cabbage patch kids carp?

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[31] Submitted by: ArmEagle on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 07:16 -0500

To Ricardo,
I guess you haven't selected "Group RSS" everywhere.
I hope that is enough hints.

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[32] Submitted by: SavageS on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 11:23 -0500

Nice job with the update! Is there a way I can enable the Group tab and the Import (append\replace modes) buttons or is this a future option? I esp. like the tooltip idea.

(I also just got an error using the Next Previous buttons on the RSS feeds and it hung between Portagame.com and Reuters.com -I had to kill Firefox. I'll email you if this happens again.I can't recreate it at this time.)

Keep up the great work, it's looking smooth.

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[33] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 13:22 -0500

To SavageS

These options are disabled now since there are not completely coded and tested. There will be enable in future release.
Each time you click on next/previous or change the RSS feed in the option dialog, the extension fetch the full feed to extract the categories. If the site is slow, it may hang a bit the extension. I will see if I can fix this.

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[34] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 13:24 -0500

To Ricardo

Be carefull too to the # of news in the "grouped rss" params. If you have the default value of 3, you will only see 3 headlines, no matter the number of selected feed (propably the first 3 headlines of the last selected feed). You have to play the that parameter too.

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[35] Submitted by: Otto on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 15:19 -0500

Didier \ or whomever else,

How can I do a complete clean install of infoRSS, meaning what files can I delete that are not deleted when I uninstall infoRSS via FireFox 1.0 ?

I have a few glitches , but I'm not sure if these are bugs or not, so I would to try a clean install before I post something as a bug.

Thanks,
Otto

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[36] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 16:05 -0500

to Otto
Your can try to uninstall it manually by removing the {f65bf62a-5ffc-4317-9612-38907a779583} directory on your hard drive. Then, you can remove the inforss.xml file and reinstall the extension.

Didier

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[37] Submitted by: SavageS on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 16:22 -0500

Didier: Is there a way to make the "Hide Old Headlines" value configurable variable instead of just a Boolean? Maybe a value from 1 day to 15 days. I'd like not to see headlines older then a day or so old.

Otto: I just did the simple uninstall, when I noticed a few glitches a few weeks ago, and it seemed to work better on the fresh install.

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[38] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 13th January 2005 at 16:33 -0500

To SavageS

Sure....

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[39] Submitted by: ozaki on Friday 14th January 2005 at 01:59 -0500

this is a great script. been looking for this exact type, you da man. it still gets kinda buggy when im tryin to move it, some times it gets stuck, or it hides my weatherfox extension. but i tinkered with it and now ill just leave it where it is. great extension bro. kudos.

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[40] Submitted by: Norah on Friday 14th January 2005 at 14:51 -0500

I am developing the Japanese version of a infoRSS.
It is made to complete by the end of this month.

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[41] Submitted by: Didier on Monday 17th January 2005 at 17:02 -0500

I have completed the coding of the release 0.8.2 which mainly include the import/export feature. I have tested it with some opml file, but since I don't have much OPML file to test, if any of you want to download the unofficial version here and test the import/export feature in the option dialog. A backup of the inforss.xml is done when you import a file.
Feel free to report any bug.
Thanks

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[42] Submitted by: Didier on Monday 17th January 2005 at 19:19 -0500

The unofficial url is http : // www . ernotte . com / inforss_0_8_2.xpi

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[43] Submitted by: Massimo on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 06:41 -0500

I have OS X 10.2.8 and inforss don't work on Firefox 1.0 italian...

Have you any suggestion to uninstall this extensions from my Mac?

Thanks

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[44] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 06:57 -0500

To Massimo
What do you mean by "don't wo