Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Feed Sidebar

  • My Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons

    Mozilla announced today that add-ons that depend on XUL, XPCOM, or XBL will be deprecated and subsequently incompatible with future versions of Firefox: Consequently, we have decided to deprecate add-ons that depend on XUL, XPCOM, and XBL. We don’t have a specific timeline for deprecation, but most likely it will take place within 12 to…

  • Firefox Add-ons for Sale

    A++++ seller, would buy from again!!

  • Interpr.it now speaks Mozillian

    I think the locale code for that is mo-FX.

  • Feed Sidebar 4.0 Released

    Beware! There’s a Feed Sidebar running wild!

  • Feed Suggester for Feed Sidebar?

    Would anyone besides me use this?

  • Feed Sidebar 3.2 Beta 3: A Gentler Feed Updater

    I’ve been working on decreasing the CPU consumption of my Feed Sidebar Firefox extension; one of its main problems is that when it’s time to update the feeds, Firefox can grind to a halt while the Sidebar starts to make tens or hundreds of HTTP requests. A solution I’ve settled on allows the sidebar to…

  • Feed Sidebar 3.2 Beta Update

    I’ve published an update to the beta of Feed Sidebar that I talked about here: Sort Your Feeds in Feed Sidebar. In this version (3.2pre2), I’ve made the following changes: Enhanced the sorting mechanisms so that updates occur more seamlessly. Added some accessibility fixes, courtesy of Marco Zehe. Fixed some security holes related to JavaScript…

  • Sort your feeds in Feed Sidebar

    A lot of people have asked for the ability to sort the feeds that appear in the Feed Sidebar extension for Firefox, so I’ve taken some time to integrate some basic sorting options. I would like to get some feedback on this feature before releasing it to the general Feed Sidebar audience, so I’ve uploaded…

  • Feed Sidebar Update

    Feed Sidebar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that displays the items from your newsfeeds in a sidebar. It can be downloaded for free from Mozilla Add-ons. I just uploaded an update for Feed Sidebar to Mozilla Add-ons. Changes since version 3.0.1 include: New Features Added an option to always have new…

  • Feed Sidebar updated for Firefox 3

    Firefox 3 introduced many new features for extension developers, and I decided to take advantage of some of them in order to update my Feed Sidebar extension. Version 3.0 of Feed Sidebar is now out, and these are the main features and changes I added: Look and feel: I updated all of the icons for…

  • Recommended by 4 out of 5 Mozillas

    Mozilla updated their recommended add-ons list today (see this blog post by Basil Hashem for the full story), but the main change I’d like to draw your attention to is that both Mahalo Share and Feed Sidebar were added to the list. Hurray!

  • Feed Sidebar 2.0

    Feed Sidebar 2.0 has been released. Upgrade now to enable filtering your feeds with the search bar and to experience the big improvements in performance and memory usage. Filter your feeds with the search bar. You can install it at Mozilla Add-ons.

  • Feed Sidebar 2.0pre

    If anyone who has been using Feed Sidebar is interested in testing out the next version, you can install this nightly build of Feed Sidebar 2.0pre. Besides massive improvements in performance and compatibility for various feed types, it sports a nifty new search bar that you can use to filter your feeds: (Clicking the magnifying…

  • Feed Sidebar updated with everything you wanted

    I’ve just released an update to the Feed Sidebar Firefox extension that adds essentially every major feature request that I’ve gotten since version 1.2 came out: Biggest improvement: Feed Sidebar now has its own history for tracking which items are read, rather than using the browser history. This means that you can clear your browsing…

  • Simple pleasures: Favicons

    I just noticed that /favicon.ico on the Weblogs, Inc. blogs finally redirects to /media/favicon.ico instead of 404’ing. This is something I requested a long time ago, and now my feed sidebar is looking a lot more colorful. Thanks Blogsmith developers!

  • Translation Tuesday

    There are a number of extension updates available today simply due to new translations: AutoAuth 1.1.1 French (fr-FR) Dutch (nl-NL) Spanish (es-ES) Japanese (ja-JP) Portuguese (pt-PT) Feed Sidebar 1.1.1 German (de-DE) French (fr-FR) Dutch (nl-NL) Italian (it-IT) Japanese (ja-JP) Russian (ru-RU) RSS Ticker 1.9.1 French (fr-FR) The updates can be downloaded from each add-on’s respective…

  • New Feed Sidebar feature: Age Limit

    What is the Feed Sidebar? It is an extension for the Firefox Web browser that displays all of the unread items from your news feeds (also known as Live Bookmarks) in the sidebar for easy management. One of the most frequent feature requests I get for the Feed Sidebar Firefox extension is the ability to…

  • Extension Updates: Feed Sidebar and AutoAuth

    I’ve pushed out updates to two of my Firefox extensions: AutoAuth and Feed Sidebar (formerly Feedbar). AutoAuth 1.0.1 includes a fix for a bug that was causing about:config dialogs for modifying values to close as soon as they were opened. Feed Sidebar 1.0.1 brings the extension out of alpha, and it includes several new locales,…

  • RSS Ticker (finally) updated to 1.9

    I’ve finally gotten around to updating RSS Ticker. Among other things like new locales and code optimization, this version includes a rewrite of the options dialog and its related code, so any reported bugs related to the Options dialog should be fixed now. This includes the known incompatibility with the All-in-One Sidebar extension. You can…

  • Announcing Feedbar (Firefox extension)

    About a year ago, I wrote my first RSS-related Firefox extension, RSS Ticker. It was intended to be used for getting instant notifications from a small number of feeds. As the number of feeds I follow has grown, I’ve found the ticker interface inadequate and frustrating, so I’ve been working on a new RSS extension…

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