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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 work" ? This extension is developed on a Mac (ok it's 10.3.7), but it works fine. What kind of problem have you ? not able to add rss feed ? problem whit the scrolling ? I would like to know a little bit more to see if it is a bug. Thanks

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[45] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 12:45 -0500

Beta version to test import/export feature. I have fixed some bugs:
http : // www . ernotte . com / inforss_0_8_2.xpi

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[46] Submitted by: Wizard on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 16:06 -0500

Really nice ext.! Good Job!!

Just 1 Question. What is the groups tab for? It is greyed out on my options. Also could you point me in the direction of an explanation of grouped rss, either im not getting it or its not working.
Thank!

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[47] Submitted by: SavageS on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 16:15 -0500

I don't usually like to beta test but I had to check it out for myself.

I was unable to get 8_2 to work for me so I changed back to 8_1. The extension didn't even startup like usual. The OPML import (append\replace) didn't work. I got a confirmation saying the OPML import worked but nothing appended and the replace button made my list go disappear. You might have an option window that shows the data found in the OPML and which checkboxed feeds they want to import. Make sure the RSS\atom feed is valid. (They wouldn't work if dragged to the extensions globe.)

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[48] Submitted by: SavageS on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 16:22 -0500

Wizard: The group tab is a future release or a "to do", so is the other grayed out buttons.

Group them if you want to show them in the "Read multiple RSS".

Pass the word along if you enjoy using this great extension! It will only be getting better! Thanks Didier

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[49] Submitted by: wizard on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 16:33 -0500

Thanks Didier!

Ive recomended this ext 15 times already! I know I'm being complete idiot, i understand how to select it all but where and how do you "Read multiple RSS"
Thanks

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[50] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 16:42 -0500

To wizard
"read multiple RSS" is an option in the first tab of the option dialog. To read multiple feed, you have to select this option, and then select each feed you want to see by selecting them in the "rss" tab (check box "grouped rss"). Be carefull with the # of news your want to see for the group vs the # of news for each individual selected feed (the first one must be greater or equal to the sum of all second one).

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[51] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 16:44 -0500

to savageS
I have tested the import/export with the SAGE extension, and it works fine here. If you have an opml file that make the extension not working, please send it to me and I will fix the bug.

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[52] Submitted by: wizard on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 18:16 -0500

I knew I was missing something!

Thank you very much and keep up the GREAT work!!!!

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[53] Submitted by: tester on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 18:30 -0500

( can anyone else try to add these ?)

How can I add these feeds wether or not they are true
feeds ? When I try to add them the usual way, that is
dragging the xml icon to the infoRSS "World Globe" icon
I get the following message, "This is not an ATOM nor a RSS feed!".

Also, on the top of categories for RSS.

. . this site at Washington Post gives you a list of categorized
news headlines. Although, infoRSS has option for "categories"
there is not one specific RSS feed on the provided web site that will
include all of these categories. It would be nice to be able to do this
manually. That is to create one feed called "WashingtonPost" in
infoRSS and add various catergories from this site and then we can
choose which categories to include in our scrolling news.

Is it right to assume that there are some websites that provide one RSS
stream with multiple categories, if so can someone provide a link so
that I can test the "catergories" option(s) in the "RSS" tab ?

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[54] Submitted by: tester on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 18:33 -0500

( can anyone else try to add these ?)
http : // www . 10news . com / rss / index . html

http : // www . washingtonpost . com / wp-adv /rss/ front . htm

. . this site at Washington Post gives you a list of categorized
news headlines.

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[55] Submitted by: SavageS on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 18:43 -0500

Tester: the RSS links should work for both of those but those specific pages aren't RSS feeds -they're HTML pages.

Your idea could fall under infoRSS "to do" list for "Read and parse HTML pages". I hope this helps.

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[56] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 20:00 -0500

To Tester
Thanks, there was a bug with your first url (10news) ans it is fixed now.
For the second url, you are right, there is no categories within the feed (only on the web page), and the catagory filter works with the category tag within the feed....
you can try the collegesports.com url you can find in the screenshot page

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[57] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 18th January 2005 at 20:04 -0500

The "group" feature will be completely redesigned in a near future. The user will have the opportunity to create as much group as he wants. A filter feature will be added too (for feed and groups), based on the headlines, article, date, categories, viewed, ... Stay tuned :-)

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[58] Submitted by: ArmEagle on Wednesday 19th January 2005 at 03:58 -0500

If I change a setting, then I see all old headlines again. And I also often see already visited headlines come back.

Now I read that the total #headlines should be [nr grouped seeds]*['avg' #headl per seed]. And had to remove 2 seeds to be able to do that (5 seeds * 4 items = 20, the max).

It also seems that the higlight delay isn't working anymore in 0.8.1. Since I set it to '1' (minute?), but the highlight isn't going away. Anyway, items that are 'old' should never get a higlight anymore.. But I guess this can better be configured with the new system.

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[59] Submitted by: ArmEagle on Wednesday 19th January 2005 at 04:05 -0500

Hmm, about those higlights not working..
I just saw that, what used to be the highlight color setting, now is the default background color, and I don't see specific highlight settings anymore.

Also the slidebars (like 'refresh time) don't work well here. Often after releasing the mousebutton when done dragging it, the values changes one higer or lower.

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[60] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 19th January 2005 at 10:00 -0500

to ArmEagle
1) Right, this is an old issue because I have only one thread for the moment. I'm redesigning the all thing to have three separate thread, one to fetch the feed, one to build the headline bar, and one to scroll it. By doing this, I should be able to to reset the content of the headline bar each time a param is changed.

2) you're right again, and this should disapear with the new group feature (no limit on the group, each feed will use its own limit), but before doing this I will increase the max # of news for the group.

3) Old means "old" for the extension, t0 is the time when the news is read, not when the news is published on the site. If you set 1 (= 1 minute), after 1 minute the background of the news should set back to normal. But this is done when the headline bar is refreshed. SO if you set a delay of 1 minute, but the feed is refreshed every 10 minutes, the background will turn to normal only after 10 minutes. As I mention above, this should be fixed in the new redesign.

4) the setting of the delay is done in the "general(2)" and "default" tab of the option dialog,

5) This is a built-in widget of firefox. I'm not responsible for this behavior. I guess the firefox team will improve it in the next release. For exemple, the default style sheet on the mac platform does not work with this widget, I have to set it manualy. I haven't tried on Linux.

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[61] Submitted by: SavageS on Wednesday 19th January 2005 at 15:02 -0500

I notice the same issue with the checkboxes as I did before but now with the Grouped RSS checkbox. I'll uncheck it on a feed, click the apply button go to the next or previous feed, go back to the feed I just edited and the check box is rechecked with the "fake" check.

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[62] Submitted by: Tester on Thursday 20th January 2005 at 12:51 -0500

When a feed is not available I keep getting this message:

processReqChange:[Exception..."Component returned failure code: 0x80040111
(NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)[nsIXMLHttpRequest.status]" nsresult:"0x80040111
(NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"location: "JS frame::chrome://inforss/content/inforss.jr::
processReqChange:: line 145" data: no]

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[63] Submitted by: Tester on Thursday 20th January 2005 at 14:05 -0500

I need to mention that my prior above message regarding unavailable feed is for inforss 0.8.1.

Also, I couldn't get 0.8.2 to work for me. Like the person above 0.8.2 didn't work, so I changed back to 0.8.1.

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[64] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 20th January 2005 at 15:40 -0500

To tester
Yesterday, there was a bug in the 0.8.2 because this version needed the firefox preference "inforss.traceinconsole" to be set to true or false (see url "about:config"); It was fixed before the extension went to the download mirror on the official site. Did you try to download the lastest 0.8.2 from the official site ?

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[65] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 20th January 2005 at 16:26 -0500

To Tester
When you have the "processReqChange:[Exception..." popup on your screen, do you have the "popup on screen" debug option set to on (see option dialog) ?

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[66] Submitted by: Tester on Thursday 20th January 2005 at 16:50 -0500

I'm pretty sure that error occurs when the feed is unavailable. This morning when trying to reach inforss homepage I couldn't reach the site and this error came up repeatedly when I tried to switch the inforss feed after clicking on the World Globe icon, but this isn't the first time I've seen this error it was just more noticeable when I was trying to reach the inforss homepage. I believe the site was unreachable this morning for a short while, does this sound right ?

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[67] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 20th January 2005 at 21:50 -0500

To Tester

yes you're right, but do you have set on the "display popup on screen" option to see this popup or no ?

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[68] Submitted by: Tester on Thursday 20th January 2005 at 23:34 -0500

>> but do you have set on the "display popup on screen" option to see this popup or no ?

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[69] Submitted by: Tester on Thursday 20th January 2005 at 23:35 -0500

Yes.

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[70] Submitted by: Spurious on Friday 21st January 2005 at 00:10 -0500

One thing which would really improve this would be to have the first item continue to scroll around the left-hand side rather than disappearing when it hits the edge. In addition, a way to remove items would be great.

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[71] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 21st January 2005 at 09:44 -0500

To Spurious

It's a technical issue and it's a simplier to make it that way. When all the feature are implemented, I will improve it.
What do you mean by 'item". You can remove feed from the menu by dragging them on the trash. You can "remove" headline after reading them by turning the "hide viewed headline" option on.

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[72] Submitted by: AdamC on Friday 21st January 2005 at 16:28 -0500

I can't get the multiple (grouped) RSS feeds to work properly. It scrolls through all the first feed's news and about three items of the second feed's, then either freezes or starts over with the first feed's. I never get through all the news. I have the group # of news at 40, and the three feeds #s total 23, so I don't think that's the problem.

OK,I just tested more - it freezes or starts over after 9 or 10 news items - every time, no matter how many feeds or which ones are set. Multiple or single feeds.

Any idea what the problem is?

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[73] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 21st January 2005 at 16:39 -0500

to AdamC
Check the refresh time for the "grouped rss" (tab "default" in the option dialog). If the refresh time is to short, the extension has not the time to scroll all items. This will be changed in the next release.

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[74] Submitted by: RobM on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 10:11 -0500

Great extension! I looked around for a while, and this one is the closest to my needs! :D

I have noticed a couple of things though (0.8.2) and have a couple of suggestions.

1) Everyone seems to be confused by the 'Grouped RSS' option - perhaps simply changing the label to 'Include in Multi RSS' might help this.

2) I don't seem to have much luck getting this extension to remember which headlines I've read - it seems to remember the first few (4 or so) but if I change mode from multi rss to single, it seems to forget which I've read.

3) As someone mentioned above, it'd be nice to be able to remove headlines - but to clarify this request I mean 'to remove without opening/reading' the headline - I use this extension to monitor some torrent feeds, and to open a headline means to download and execute the .torrent
I've actually unzipped the JAR and tried to have a fiddle with the code ;), and one of the things I changed was to make right-clicking a headline mark it 'viewed'. Perhaps it would be a nice feature to have in the offical release?
Of course the problem I have with my modification, is that I have to wait until the next refresh for the viewed headline to disappear.

Anyways, this is a great extension, and I'm really impressed with how activly you're developing it!

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[75] Submitted by: RobM on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 10:19 -0500

O, and I had some problems adding a few feeds ("Not valid RSS / Atom Feed") even though feedvalidatorDOTorg says they check out OK. I worked around this by using Sage to export them to OPML and then imported that into infoRSS.

The feeds in question:

www . AnimeSoc . co . uk / Forum / rss . php
www . kaizoku-fansubs . com / backend . php

I suspect it's something to do with the content-type specified the header from those sites.

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[76] Submitted by: AdamC on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 14:08 -0500

Yup, the grouped rss refresh time was it.

Thanks, great extension!

Is there any way to easily toggle the display on and off? Maybe with an icon that can be put in the toolbar?

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[77] Submitted by: Spurious on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 14:33 -0500

RobM said exactly what I meant by getting rid of headlines, being able to get rid of them without reading them.

A couple more little things (minor) which you might want to look into at some point:

1) The background color for the news. Personally I prefer it to be transparent, and on occasion, for seemingly no reason it does go transparent. An option to allow this wouild be great.
2) Custom icons for the RSS feeds. Simply an option to import a custom .dll or even .jpg/.gif file from your HDD.
3) An option to weave the headlines, (ie) if you have multiple RSS feeds showing, the program would mix the headlines together rather than showing all the headlines from one feed, then all from the next feed, etc.

Just some minor tweaks I'd've liked to choose. None of them are major problems, but would be a nice extension to an already great extension!

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[78] Submitted by: RobM on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 15:02 -0500

You can change the icon for a feed by locating the inforss.xml file (on WinXP you will find your mozilla profile in /Documents & Settings/usernam/Application Data/Mozilla etc), although I wouldn't say no to having a way of changing the icon in the GUI!

I've noticed that infoRSS seems to forgot what I've read everytime I restart firefox. Is this normal behaviour, or is it just me?

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[79] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 18:03 -0500

to RobM

1) Yes you're right, but I'm completely redesigning this group feature to have a real group concept (and more than one group). Stay tuned.

2) The problem with this version (and prior) is that when you change something, everything restart from scratch. The next version with the new technical design fixes this.

3) Ok, I put it in my todo list.

Thanks for your comments

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[80] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 18:10 -0500

to RobM

I have tried your 2 feed url and both are ok here. The first one was a bit slow to respond, so I get a timeout the first I've tried. But I've tried once again and the server was faster to respond. ... Do you have the lastest 0.8.2 version ? maybe try to reinstall this latest version.

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[81] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 18:12 -0500

to AdamC

Yes, the easiest way is to go the the main option dialog, first tab, and toggle the "inforss activity" option.

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[82] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 18:17 -0500

to Spurious

1) ok, in my todo list,

2) ok, in my todo list,

3) I don't really understand how you want to display the headlines ? if it's not feed by feed, what do you want ? random ? sort on publish date ? other ?

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[83] Submitted by: RobM on Saturday 22nd January 2005 at 21:17 -0500

I tried deleteing and re-adding them, and this time they seemed to work. Very odd. Ahh well :)

I've finally got it setup exactly the way I want, and I'm realliy excited to have all the news I care about being brought to me! Thanks for putting so much effort into this extension!

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[84] Submitted by: AdamC on Sunday 23rd January 2005 at 01:26 -0500

I tried toggling the inforss activity option, and it doesn't turn off my scrolling news. It just blanks for a second or two, then starts scrolling again with all the news marked as "new". It seemed that would be what that button was for, but for some reason, it isn't working.

Any other suggestions?

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[85] Submitted by: Spurious on Sunday 23rd January 2005 at 16:35 -0500

RE: Weaving the headlines.

An option which would set the headlines so that the first headline from each was displayed first, then the second from each, then the third from each, etc. This would allow you to always see something from each feed, rather than all of one topic, then all of another, etc.

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[86] Submitted by: Tester on Tuesday 25th January 2005 at 15:58 -0500

Didier,

When do you expect to have your next version ?

Thanks.

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[87] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 25th January 2005 at 16:22 -0500

To Tester

I'm working hard on it. I have completely rewrote the core engine in a more designed object oriented and multi-threaded way; The single rss feed is completed, and I'm working on the group concept, and I will finish with the filter concept. I hope I can get a first beta with the group tomorrow.

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[88] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 26th January 2005 at 23:20 -0500

To tester (and other)

a beta1 version of the next release is available at
http : // www . ernotte . com / inforss_0_8_3_b1.xpi
Make a backup of your inforss.xml file before testing it.
The filter and feed-html feature are not completely coded.

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[89] Submitted by: Test on Friday 28th January 2005 at 12:08 -0500

Didier,

Just a heads up, the beta version appears to be a little buggy,
atleast for me anyhow.

When I think I have a bug figured out something else appears
to go wrong.

On "RSS/Atom" tab, how do the "filter" tab options work (i.e. pull down box
items, plus & minus botton, etc.) ?

Some feeds work for a few minutes but then appear to go away after a few minutes.

I've also tried a fresh intsall by deleting the inforss.xml file and it still appears buggy.

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[90] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 28th January 2005 at 14:55 -0500

To Test
The extension is getting more and more complexe and I need some feedback from testers before releasing an official version.
The next version is a major release from a technical point of view, and a minor relase for a functional point of view.
As I mention in my last message, don't focus on the filter and html tab, it is not yet implemented, just focus on the feed and the group.
If you find that some feed are not running ok, could you provide me the url in order to debug them. Does this means that the others feed are ok ?

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[91] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 2nd February 2005 at 12:26 -0500

For those who wants to test the next release, the beta 2 is out. It includes the filter feature (only on feed now, not yet on group). the url is
http : // www . ernotte . com / inforss_0_8_3_b2.xpi
Thanks for your feedbacks

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[92] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 4th February 2005 at 14:25 -0500

For those who wants to test the next release, the beta 3 is out. It includes the new option dialog. The url is
http : // www . ernotte . com / inforss_0_8_3_b3.xpi
Thanks for your feedbacks

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[93] Submitted by: RobM on Saturday 5th February 2005 at 05:55 -0500

Just got beta 3 so far a couple of things occur to me:

Firstly, I'm really pleased with how responsive the headlines are when you click on them (dissapearing immediately), though I'm greedy and would still like to be able to, say, ctrl-click to remove headlines without opening (perhaps because I read the article elsewhere).

1) Groups seem to work much better and are much easier to understand, execpt I was confused because I thought I could check a load of feeds, and hit 'New Group' - I assumed the checked feeds would be added to the new group, instead of having to make a new group first and then populate it. It's a minor thing though.

2) The RSS/Atom option "# of news" does not do quite what I'd expect - though I expect you plan to cover this with filters: I expected that "# of news" would only read the first # of headlines, and not even consider the rest. Hence if I've read all # of the first headlines then I won't see anymore. An example:

I like to keep the infroRSS feed in my main group so I know when there's an update, but the problem is that I need to open every headline in the feed before it stops cluttering my status bar (again this could be partly solved by having a modified click to remove entries without opening them), ideally I'd just set it to only consider the first # headlines it encounters in the feed; and once I've opened/dismissed them I'd see no more infoRSS headlines.

And on a similiar note:
3) Whenever I restart or open a new instance of firefox infoRSS seems to have forgotten what headlines I've opened/dismissed, as well as which feed I was last reading (if I've changed it since the last time I closed firefox)

Thanks again for all the effort you put in, I'm really looking forward to the next release, and the filter options look promising!

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[94] Submitted by: RobM on Saturday 5th February 2005 at 05:59 -0500

Hold on, I just realised I didn't have "Hide old headlines" turned on in the options... :oops:

So, please don't worry about anything that may have affected above, I'll repost in a while once I've played some more, with "Hide old Headlines" turned on this time!

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[95] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 5th February 2005 at 14:14 -0500

to RobM

I have implemented a "close" icon just after the headline in the news bar. When you click on that icon the news is removed from the bar without viewing it. I haven't try it on Windows. Can you see it ?
The # of news means the number of displayed headline for a feed. If you set it to 3 and you already have seen the headline #1, and 3 you will see headline # 2, 4 and 5. Maybe I should add a filter on the headline number, and also you can manage this with the filter on the published or received date.
Right now, all these information (read headline, ...) are kept only in memory and are not saved on the hard drive, but I will implement that one day....
Tha "hide old headline" is linked with the "highlight delay". When the headline is too old (see the delay option), it is skipped. But maybe I should remove this option since we can do this with the filter.

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[96] Submitted by: RobM on Saturday 5th February 2005 at 16:46 -0500

I didn't notice any close button (Using 0.8.3_b3) under WindowsXP (Pro SP2). I've upped a screen shot in the hope it will be useful to you:

www .robmeerman .co .uk /downloads /infoRSS_screencap.gif

Thanks for explaining the 'Hide old headlines' option, makes a lot more sense now ;)

Apart from this 'close headline' button and getting it to remember what I've read, I'm perfectly happy with this lovely, useful, extension! Thanks (again)!

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[97] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 5th February 2005 at 17:16 -0500

The icon is taken from firefox's icon library. It is located at "chrome : // global / skin / closetab.png"; If you type that url in firefox, you should see the icon in the browser's content area. If not, it means that the icon is Mac specific, and I will include it in the extension package in the next beta version. Here is a screenshot of my laptop:
http: // www . ernotte . com / screenshot.pdf

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[98] Submitted by: Bradley Wold on Saturday 5th February 2005 at 21:33 -0500

I have not figured out RSS yet. How do I change my news from BBC news feed to something like USA Today, or MSNBC?

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[99] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 5th February 2005 at 23:31 -0500

There are different ways to do that
- drag and drop the url or an hyperlink of the url (icon, text, ...) onto the inforss icon at the bottom of the screen (looks like an earth)
- copy in the clipboard (ctrl-C or cmd-C) the url, then, click on the inforss icon and choose the option to add the feed,
- go to the mail web page of the site, and if a feed is detected by firefox (square orange icon in the status bar), click on the inforss icon and choose the option to add the feed.
- (in the 0.8.3 release), open the option dialog, click on the third tab, and click on "add new rss feed" and type the url.

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[100] Submitted by: RobM on Sunday 6th February 2005 at 05:44 -0500

That chrome url doesn't seem to work on my setup (Windows, default Firefox skin). I did some poking around, and I did find a few chrome urls with pics that work:

chrome : // global / skin / icons / Close.gif
chrome : // global / skin / icons / close-button.gif
and
chrome : // global / skin / icons / close.png

The latter (.png) is the one used for closing tabs (but it's quite bright red, so that might be a bit distracting on infoRSS), and the other two are very simple black-white "X" icons.

I've uploaded those three files to http : // www . robmeerman . co . uk / downloads / so you can have a better look.

I didn't find the icon in your screenshot, so I guess that is Mac-specific.

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[101] Submitted by: Didier on Sunday 6th February 2005 at 09:40 -0500

Ok, I find the mac closetab icon prettier than pc's... I will include it in the extension package so it could be available on every plateform.
I have to fix a dupe in global javascript variable between my extension and the "better search" extension and I'll publish the next beta later today.

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[102] Submitted by: Christof on Sunday 6th February 2005 at 14:04 -0500

Will there be version for Mozilla Suite?

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[103] Submitted by: Didier on Sunday 6th February 2005 at 19:19 -0500

Yes, I can take some time to look at a Mozilla version.

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[104] Submitted by: Test on Tuesday 8th February 2005 at 15:35 -0500

When I right click on scrolling news the web page gets shifted to the right and the scrolling news "bar" shifts to the left ( and stops).

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[105] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 8th February 2005 at 16:46 -0500

To Test

Which version of the extension are you testing ?
Have you other installed extensions ?
Can you reproduce this bug without other extension ?
right click on the scrolling news toggles between the scrolling and static news. The scrolling headlines area size is fixed by the user, the static headline area size is fixed by the number os headlines to display; If you have a lot of headline to display in the static way, the bar will try to use as mush space as he can (so it will shift to the left).
The content of the browser area should remain the same.

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[106] Submitted by: Tester on Tuesday 8th February 2005 at 22:38 -0500

I'm testing inforss_0_8_3_b5.xpi.

I have the following ext.:
tabbrowser pref. 1.2.2
cutemenus 0.4
forecastfox 0.5.9
ieview 0.84
resize search box 0.0.4
all-in-one gestures 0.13.4
auto copy 0.4.4
dictionary search 0.8
focus last selected tab
bandwith tester 0.4.1
. . I'd hate to uninstall(and reinstall) each one just to test . ..

Didier stated:
"If you have a lot of headline to display in the static way, the bar will try to use as mush space as he can (so it will shift to the left). "

. . . yes, I do display a lot of headlines at once, but that's why your extension is very good . . . should this be fixed or what is a solution so that when I right click it doesn't shift the contents of the browser ?

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[107] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 9th February 2005 at 10:04 -0500

I'm not able to reproduce your bug here. It should be a conflict extension somewhere. I have rename the id of the headline bar to be sure that I'm not change the size of another object of another extension but I can't test it because I have no bug here...
If you want to test it and give me feedback a beta1 version of the next release is available at
http : // www . ernotte . com / inforss_0_8_4_b1.xpi

Right-click on the headline is just a short-cut for "open option dialog" + set to on/off the scrolling mode switch. Do you have the problem with the other way too ?

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[108] Submitted by: SavageS on Wednesday 9th February 2005 at 12:08 -0500

Darn good job with 8_3!
It works and looks excellent. Keep up the great work!
The updated filter option with the new grouping and the full use of the scroll area for the newsfeed are wonderful. My only recommendation would be to clean-up the options window tabs and formating. I still get graphics overlapping issues in the Options window (feed\group) which are easily ignored. But all that can be done when you are closer to being done. Great work!
Your dedication and hard work definitely shine through!

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[109] Submitted by: User on Thursday 10th February 2005 at 14:48 -0500

version: inforss_0_8_4_b1

I get the following error message with the listed feeds (could someone try these ?):

Alert:
"annonymous : TypeError: obj[0].firstChild has no properties"

http : // www . 10news . com / rss / index . html
http : // www . nbcsandiego . com / rss / index . html

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[110] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 10th February 2005 at 15:13 -0500

Sorry for that regression. It used to work but I have added recently two lines to test another bug and I have forgot to remove them. Fix now.
http : // www . ernotte . com / inforss_0_8_5_b1.xpi (en-US ONLY!!)

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[111] Submitted by: curious on Sunday 13th February 2005 at 18:33 -0500

Here's something to think about:

If have multiple feeds and continue to add them and this can lead to a very long list.

Is there way to show or hide feeds in the list that is viewed when I click the infoRSS icon ? Otherwords, if I have a feed as part of a group I want to be able to hide it or not show it in the list of RSS feeds.

After-all I already have it assigned to "group" to which I can view.

I would find this additional feature (or something similar to it) very usefull as I continue to add more feeds.

Thanks.

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[112] Submitted by: Didier on Monday 14th February 2005 at 06:50 -0500

Great idea. It will be added in the 0.8.5 release.

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[113] Submitted by: Jawahar Swaminathan on Tuesday 15th February 2005 at 16:59 -0500

Great work with the RSS..

I'm trying to read a OPML file downloaded from

I save this locally and try to import the OPML file using Import (append). The button blanks out and nothing appears to happen.

I'm using version 0.8.4 on FF1.0 (running on Mandrake 10.1). Any help much appreciated.

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[114] Submitted by: Jawahar Swaminathan on Tuesday 15th February 2005 at 17:09 -0500

Oops.. Did not realise the URL is removed in the post

Here goes again

http : // info . indiatimes . com / rss / combined.opml

this OPML does not work when saved locally edited to remove some strange character before the xml tag.

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[115] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 15th February 2005 at 22:20 -0500

I take a look at your opml file. It seems that it is encoded in utf-8 with BOM (2 bytes at the begining of the file). You have to save it in UTF-8 without BOM encoding, but there is a little bug which is fixed now...
Thanks

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[116] Submitted by: Chris Matson on Wednesday 16th February 2005 at 01:13 -0500

Great plug-in Didier, just one problem. I clicked on a preference (from the globe) and it's disappeared!! Can't get it to come back! Tried re-installing... Damn. Not sure which option I clicked on now... any ideas where it went and how to get it back?

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[117] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 16th February 2005 at 09:42 -0500

Hi Chris
You said that you have click on the preference from the globe. Do you mean that that you have right-click on the globe to open the Option Dialog ? is that correct ? You said that it has disappeared ? Does that means that it poped and then it has disappeared a few second or minute later ? You said that you can't make it display now . Did you try to open the tool menu, click on extension, click on inforss and click on "option" button ?
You can also edit manually the inforss.xml file on your hard drive and change debug="false" to debug="true" and restart firefox. You should see more error popup if you have problem.

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[118] Submitted by: Andres Perez on Thursday 17th February 2005 at 11:07 -0500

Using 0.8.5b2. Love this extension!

Two suggestions:
1) was wondering if you're working on a feature to cycle through groups. maybe i missed the option, but it would be nice if after a few minutes or something, it would start scrolling the next available group in the list.

2) Especially for the html feeds, how bout converting html symbols (like & amp ;) in the headlines to ascii?

Thanks Didier!!

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[119] Submitted by: Lenn on Thursday 17th February 2005 at 13:14 -0500

Using 0.8.5b2 also. Great extension!

1) I agree also with the group cycling idea, would be nice ;)

2) When I'm in the "Group creation" tab, for a specific group, I only see the 7 first feeds to check... my other feeds are invisible :(

Thanks Didier too ;)

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[120] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 17th February 2005 at 15:13 -0500

To Andres
Great idea for the cycling group or feed. I will work on that sooner.
I have also notice that there are some html code in the headline; I'm also working on that.
Thanks

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[121] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 17th February 2005 at 15:14 -0500

To Lenn
I know there are some "layout" issue with the group tab, but you should see some slider at the right side of the tab to scroll. I will check what it look on window.

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[122] Submitted by: Chris Matson on Sunday 20th February 2005 at 03:11 -0500

[117]...it had disappeared. Now it's back...
After a couple of days away, with a fresh pair of eyes, I figured it out. In the inforss.xml file, in the first XML tag is a thing that says,

separateLine="false"

I had changed mine to true. It didn't work with true, but with false it shows up as it did before. I'm so happy now.

Keep up the good work, and best wishes...

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[123] Submitted by: Didier on Sunday 20th February 2005 at 17:52 -0500

If your "play" manually with the separateLine
option, "false" means that the headline bar is displayed in the status bar, otherwise, the "true" value means that it should be display at the top or botton location of the browser area depending on the "position" option. The two value for this option is "top" or "bottom".

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[124] Submitted by: wierts on Monday 21st February 2005 at 11:26 -0500

Hi,

I love ur extention, it used to work ,than my hd crashed and i had 2 re install, now i get an error massage: "repository has no proporties" what can i do about it?
tnx

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[125] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 22nd February 2005 at 07:01 -0500

Wierts,
Did you re install on a fresh new hard drive or did you recover did data ? Your repository seems to be corrupted; Try to locate your inforss.xml file and rename it whatever you want (your can sent it to me if you want, I can take a look and try to recover it); Then it you restart firefox everything should be ok

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[126] Submitted by: Lenn on Tuesday 22nd February 2005 at 08:58 -0500

Hi,

Extension still very interesting,
but after installing the beta6 (following the link for "version5"), I've a error each time I start Firefox :
"There is an error when reading the repository"

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[127] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 22nd February 2005 at 09:21 -0500

Lenn,
I don't know what's wrong with your inforss.xml file; Try to locate it on your hard drive and send it to me. I will take a look.

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[128] Submitted by: Palle on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 09:27 -0500

Hi
This is a very nice tool, helpful and discrete.

I have just one problem, how do I switch to my local language? (It's danish)

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[129] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 09:33 -0500

Hi Palle,

If i refer to your previous post just above I can see
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0:

So, I guess you are using the en-US locale version of firefox. All localized extension are based on the locale from the browser. If you want your extension in Danish, download and install the danish localized version of firefox, and you will see your inforss localized version :-)

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[130] Submitted by: SavageS on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 13:03 -0500

I notice when upgrading to your latest release that I must manually install the inforss xpi file, since the "automatic" Firefox way will just pretend and not really update your app. This only happens with your app when doing the software update "check now".

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[131] Submitted by: SavageS on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 13:22 -0500

With the latest upgrade to 85 I tried to use the filter policy and only the default "Use only active filters from associated feeds" works under the tab "Feed/Group". The other options freeze/stop your app after getting an initial Firefox script error msgbox which mentions that the script will slow down your computer OK\Cancel.

Changing back to default resolves any problems.

(The previous redrawing image issue on this tab was fixed beautifully.)

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[132] Submitted by: SavageS on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 13:42 -0500

HTML parser looks great! I did notice that if a tag is separated on 2 lines
Source excerpt:

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[133] Submitted by: SavageS on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 13:42 -0500

HTML parser looks great! I did notice that if a tag is separated on 2 lines
Source excerpt:
a
href ...

Regular Expression excerpt:
ahref ...

Since this is the first build with this I know it still needs work and explanation of use. The source should be uneditable and readonly, just so it doesn't confuse folks.

What are the parameters to pass through? \1,\2...?

Example link: http: // gotwoot.net / torrents.php

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[134] Submitted by: Didier on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 18:27 -0500

Hi SavageS,
I have realized this morning that the version number in my install.rdf was wrong in the last official version 0.8.5. Maybe this cause the problem. It's fixed since this morning.
For the filter, all the test I have run here work fine. Once again I need your help to debug this one. Could you send me your inforss.xml and tell me what group cause the problem.
For the HTML feed, the source must be selectable because when you select a portion of it and click on the "build" button, a first draft a the reg exp is build for you, but all the blank, carriage return, etc are removed, this is why if you want to match a "a href" you have to manually change "ahref" to "a href". There are some explanations on how to use it in the faq and the screenshot pages. The params are $1, $2, ... I have created a feed with your gotwoot site. I will send the inforss.xml file for it to let you take a look.

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[135] Submitted by: Steve on Thursday 24th February 2005 at 23:38 -0500

I can't seem to get 8.6b to install. I recently had 8.4 and tried to upgrade to 8.5 but that didn't work either. It seems that Firefox will open a new tab but do nothing more. Basically:

-when I had 8.4, I tried to upgrade to 8.5 yesterday, but when I restarted the browser, no change (the extension remained 8.4)

-today, when I tried to upgrade from 8.4 to 8.6b, a new tab opened and nothing else. Not sure how to manually install this extension.

Is this a common problem or am I doing something wrong? I'm just clicking on the link on the "Installation" page but nothing's happening.

ASteve

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[136] Submitted by: TimC on Friday 25th February 2005 at 03:07 -0500

Really want to get this Extension to work but experiencing some problems. Tried .84 (the version listed at the Mozilla Extension Page) and .85 from here. When I first setup (either version) and restarted FireFox I keep getting "Alet: Debug: TypeError: repository has no properties". Either right-clicking the infoRSS globe or the FireFox Extension:Option window. After I click OK it will display the InfoRSS Options window (although both versions display 0.8.4 in the options window). This error keeps occurring every time I try to access the infoRSS options. The only way, I found, to get rid of this problem is to Reset Repository. After that everything seems to work, until I either restart FireFox or delete any pre-existing feeds and it starts over again with the error. Deleting the inforss.xml does not seem to help either.

My Specs:
XP Pro - SP2
FireFox - 1.0 w/ Noia Theme

Other Extensions:
DOM Inspector 1.0
easyGestures 2.14
Ieview .84
Sage 1.3.1
LiveBookmarkThis .2
Paste and Go .4.1
Stumbleupone 1.9991
QuickTabPrefTooggle .0.4
ScrapBook .13.7
Download Statusbar .9.2
MediaPlayerConnectivity .2.0

And of course infoRSS .8.5

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[137] Submitted by: Wierts on Friday 25th February 2005 at 08:51 -0500

@timC

It is nice to hear i am not the only one with this problem. i tried to delete my inforss.xml file and install a fresh version of inforss but it did not work.

now i will uninstall all my extensions and start with inforss and see if there could be a conflict.

@didier i tried ur solution it did not wrok ik try the above else i will send u my inforss.xml

tnx

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[138] Submitted by: wierts on Friday 25th February 2005 at 09:12 -0500

i reinstalled all my extenstions starting with inforss and deleting inforss.xml before reinstalling and every thing works fine

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[139] Submitted by: Luis Zarza on Friday 25th February 2005 at 10:44 -0500

In Windows I can't add a "New html feed". The button text is grey, although I can press it. I press it, I type URL and name, and then it appears an Alert dialog with the number 2476. Is the parser for Windows disabled?

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[140] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 25th February 2005 at 10:52 -0500

Luis,

What version are you running ? If it's not the 0.8.5 version or 0.8.6b3, update to one of these; The "new html feed" button was displayed but disabled in prior version (I don't remerber which version); It works fine now.

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[141] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 25th February 2005 at 10:58 -0500

To Steve and other
When you delete manually your inforss.xml file, delete it when firefox is not started otherwise, firefox will recreate the "old" file again and again since the inforss.xml file is read only once during the start process, but often saved from its memory copy.

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[142] Submitted by: Luis Zarza on Friday 25th February 2005 at 11:00 -0500

Yeah... Now I realized. I was 0.8.4. I'm two times amazed of how quickly it's being updated, and how quickly you answered my comment. Now I have to figure out how to avoid a problem with the instalation of new version (something about an error when reading the repository). I think this problem has commented in earlier messages. I´ll look for it.

I previously programmed in PHP an script for parsing HTML pages, but I need to make an special script for each page. Your solution, as seen on screenshots, seems absolutelly great. Congratulations.

Thanks!

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[143] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 25th February 2005 at 11:01 -0500

I don't know what append with the update process. If you want to install the extension and firefox propose you to save the file instead, just save the file on your hard drive, then go to the firefox menu, "file" > "open file" and select the extension file. The rest will be the same as a network extension.

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[144] Submitted by: Steve on Friday 25th February 2005 at 11:22 -0500

Okay, I run this project at work and at home. At home, I still can't get it to work (either 8.5 or 8.6b to install.) However, at work, I exported the ompl file from 8.2. Then, after successfully upgrading to 8.5 I tried to import my old infoRSS ompl file. It didn't work, it says "The file is not in an ompl format". Then, I dl'ed the 8.6b version and installed that baby. It installed, but still cannot import the ompl file.

I tried re-installing 8.2 and importing the ompl format but that didn't work either. My current extension is version 8.6b.

At work, I have:
Tabbroswer Preferences 1.2.2
StockTicker 0.5.2
SessionSave .2 d1 * nightly 25
jsLib Lite 0.1.252
infoRSS 0.8.6b3

At home I have a whackload. But I'll try again at home later and report back.

Steve

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

[145] Submitted by: Luis Zarza on Friday 25th February 2005 at 11:24 -0500

Yeah... it worked:
I uninstalled InfoRSS, exit Firefox, deleted folder {f65bf62a-5ffc-4317-9612-38907a779583} and deleted inforss.xml. Then restarted Firefox, reinstalled InfoRSS0.8.5, and now I can use the HTML parser. What is strange is that the configution window for InfoRSS keeps saying it's InfoRSS 0.8.4. Now I'll test the parser. Thanks a lot!
Luis

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[146] Submitted by: SavageS on Friday 25th February 2005 at 11:36 -0500

Yes, the configuration window for InfoRSS does say it's InfoRSS 0.8.4 -it's not just you Luis. Great updates Didier on the faq and the screenshots!

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[147] Submitted by: SavageS on Friday 25th February 2005 at 11:40 -0500

I still get a It's for "It's" on one of my feeds. I see it scrolling across right.....now.

http: // www. kaizoku-fansubs. com/ backend.php

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[148] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 25th February 2005 at 11:56 -0500

Steve,
Could you send me your OPML file in order to trace what's wrong with your import process ?

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[149] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 25th February 2005 at 12:04 -0500

SavageS,

I take a look at the source of the feed you've just mention. The problem is that I see

It & amp ; #039 ; s coming...

There is two susbtitution in the statement.
In this case, when I read the title, the javascript XML parser will replace the & amp ; by the "&" character, and will not parse the same statement a second time to see if it can susbstitue another XML entity ( & #039 ;).
The problem comes from the RSS generator of this site.

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[150] Submitted by: Didier on Friday 25th February 2005 at 16:36 -0500

Ok, this last problem is fixed.

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[151] Submitted by: Tester on Friday 25th February 2005 at 17:59 -0500

with inforss_0_8_6_b3.xpi . . .

I've just noticed that when I click on an article title in the submenu it opens up two tabs with the same news article.

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[152] Submitted by: justin on Friday 25th February 2005 at 21:18 -0500

Excellent extension. I have a suggestion though, i want to be able to view multiple feeds at the same time. For example, if i have say a slashdot rss feed and a mozdev rss feed, instead of displaying one feed at a time, i'd like to see item 1 from slashdot, then item 1 from mozdev, then item 2 from slahdot, then item 2 from mozdev in an alternating fashion, with as many feeds as are configured. This way it's not the same feed scrolling for 1 minute then the next, then the next, it'll be more dynamic less boring

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[153] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 26th February 2005 at 01:02 -0500

Justin,

It's already in the pipe...

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[154] Submitted by: zop on Saturday 26th February 2005 at 05:54 -0500

I couldn't find a "open the news link in the current tab" option. Can you add that Didier? I don't enjoy closing thousand tabs after i'm finished reading all the news.

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[155] Submitted by: Didier on Saturday 26th February 2005 at 19:26 -0500

Zop,
Sure, check next release...

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[156] Submitted by: Steve on Saturday 26th February 2005 at 23:02 -0500

Dider, 8.6b.4 works fine, but I uninstalled EVERYTHING (including Firefox) and then reinstalled it all again. I realized as I was uninstalling (and looking for the "inforss.xml" file) that Firefox installs into two different places on my hdd: one on the drive I select then again on my OS drive. I uninstalled and deleted everything and started from scratch.

The ONLY thing I couldn't do was import the old inforss.ompl file from 8.2 I had on my drive. Don't matter, I redid my feeds anyway.

Thanks for your help (Y)

ASteve

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[157] Submitted by: Steve on Sunday 27th February 2005 at 12:50 -0500

One thing I've noticed is that every time I click on a title in the submenu, the articles opens in two tabs and sometimes shuts down others that I already have open. Odd.

ASteve

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[158] Submitted by: Didier on Monday 28th February 2005 at 09:23 -0500

Double tab issue is fixed.

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[159] Submitted by: Joerg on Monday 28th February 2005 at 12:02 -0500

Nice extension! One problem here: When pressing "new group", "New html feed" or "New rss feed", nothing happens. Complete uninstall (with deleting program- and settings-folder) does not help. Using FF 1.0.1 at Win XP.

Joerg

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[160] Submitted by: SavageS on Monday 28th February 2005 at 13:48 -0500

Didier, how tricky would it be to have the option for the "tooltip on headline" to display some of or all of the news article\body that is in the RSS feed? It would be easier, if you are already pulling back all the information in the RSS feed. Most of my tooltips are just the headline already which doesn't make the tooltip all that informative for me.

Just an idea, I'm not trying to cause a headache :)
Thanks

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[161] Submitted by: Suggester on Monday 28th February 2005 at 18:26 -0500

Diedier,

Don't take this the wrong way, but take a look at the layout for Forecastfox 0.7.0 (FF weather extension) options dialogue box, it may give you some good ideas about the layout for infoRSS.

infoRSS is coming along very nice.

Thanks

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[162] Submitted by: Didier on Monday 28th February 2005 at 19:18 -0500

Joerg,

Some user seems to experimente this problem. I'm investigating.

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[163] Submitted by: Didier on Monday 28th February 2005 at 23:08 -0500

SavageS,
on the option dialog your have 2 options for "tooltip on headline", one with the full headline, and one with the article in the feed (not the full article, but what the webmaster wants to fill in the feed). Do you want to have more that what we have in the rss file (ie. read the full article ?)

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[164] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 1st March 2005 at 00:13 -0500

Joerg,
I have look at the code located in the popup you gave me. It looks like a localized file is not found (inforss.properties). That could occurs when there is a problem during the installation. What I suggest you is to deinstall the extension, delete the {f65bf62a-5ffc-4317-9612-38907a779583} directory, and reinstall the extension. Maybe give a try to the 0.8.6 beta 6 (quite stable).

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[165] Submitted by: Joerg on Tuesday 1st March 2005 at 10:04 -0500

Hi Didier,
unfortunately it still does not work. Even complete uninstallation of FF, deleting both ff- and mozilla-folder does not help.
Maybe it's of interest that I'm using a german version of Windows...

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[166] Submitted by: Joerg on Tuesday 1st March 2005 at 10:15 -0500

Tested with FF 1.0: Does not work.
Tested with pre-1.0-build ("optimized" build by djeter): It works!
Later djeter-builds do not work.
Maybe there is a major change in FF since 1.0?

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[167] Submitted by: SavageS on Tuesday 1st March 2005 at 10:40 -0500

Thanks.

If there was an option to possibly pause when the mouse is over when viewing the article, and it would be neat to show more of the article in a wrapping popup window.

Suggester has a good point about the layout, but you may want to worry about that more when the app is closer to completion. Although with all the neat new ideas and with your dedication to this great app, it is hard to see an end to it. :)

It works well with the latest build of Firefox too!

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[168] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 1st March 2005 at 12:45 -0500

It seems to have some issue with some firefox 1.0.1 release (not all of them, I have FF 1.0.1 on a laptop that works fine, and another on a desktop computer that doesn't). The API of the prompt (nsIPromptService) may have changed... I have found a workaround and a new release will be ready soon.

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[169] Submitted by: Didier on Tuesday 1st March 2005 at 21:09 -0500

The new 0.8.6 beta 7 version should fix the "new group", "new rss", ... issue

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[170] Submitted by: Tester on Wednesday 2nd March 2005 at 04:58 -0500

I would like to be able to add a feed to a group by simply right clicking the infoRSS World icon and dragging the feed to the named group, just like the "Drag menu item to me to delete", but instead of deleting drag to a named group and adding it.

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[171] Submitted by: Joerg on Wednesday 2nd March 2005 at 10:12 -0500

Great work Didier, it works like a charm :-D
Thanks VERY much :)

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[172] Submitted by: Joerg on Wednesday 2nd March 2005 at 11:12 -0500

Ah, I have one suggestion: Is it possible to implement a function which marks *all* headline as read? This could be useful because if you have many feeds grouped together and didn't have the time to visit all headlines. The "close-button" right to each headline is nice, but a "close all-button" somewhere (maybe in the menu) would be nice, too :))

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[173] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 2nd March 2005 at 11:39 -0500

Tester,
Nice idea. I put that in my to do list for the 0.8.7 version. Now I'm focussed on releasing the 0.8.6 .

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[174] Submitted by: Didier on Wednesday 2nd March 2005 at 11:40 -0500