Bloglines Toolkit 1.6.7 »
I'm announcing one more update for the Bloglines Toolkit. This one should be the last for a while, and is mostly cosmetic, having to do largely with copyrights, licensing, other dates and such. Still, there is also some clean-up work in the code as well.
Thanks to Yasha, we have managed to locate and squash a couple of small bugs, related to various things that have been in the code for a while, and also fix a couple of outstanding issues that have been introduced with the release of the latest version of Firefox.
This version of the Toolkit seems fairly stable - those of you running auto-update should already have the update by now, so there is no need to update the extension. It's just an announcement so that you know it is available. Those of you who do not have version 1.6.7 may want to update now, as it will fix a few small issues and get you up-to-date for future enhancements.
If you are one of those who is having issues with unread items, there is unfortunately very little that I can do about this - it appears to be a problem with the Bloglines web services, which is going up and down. It has happened at least twice as I am writing this.
Luckily, you can check your account easily enough by running this in any web browser:
http://rpc.bloglines.com/update?user=youremailaddress
This will return a string that includes your unread count. If it does not work for some reason, then you have found the problem. In testing myself, I found that it is only working regularly perhaps half the time.
This is definitely going to be an issue, because it is where the Bloglines Toolkit gets the count to use in the status bar. This number from time to time will also be well off your actual unread count - something else that the Bloglines Toolkit cannot address. Sorry. You'll need to take that up with the folks at Bloglines.
Comments (15)
Notifier problem. The little 'B' icon in lower right browser frame is no longer functioning. Clicking it does nothing and the red dot for unread feeds isn't appearing.
Other features of the Toolkit seem to be working and I *can* get to Bloglines with the contextual menu.
I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.8, Mac OS X 10.4.8, Notifier 1.6.7.
Thanks for creating the Toolkit!
Posted by Peter Fleck on November 19, 2006 10:31 AM
Bloglines Toolkit 1.6.7 does not function for me. It doesn't check for new Items.
Posted by Eljo on November 19, 2006 10:54 AM
As with the above comments, the Notifier stopped working either with 1.6.6 or 1.6.7. Hoping you can fix it, I use this fabulous extension daily! Thanks for your great work.
Posted by Nic on November 19, 2006 11:28 AM
I'm still using 1.6.2. No new items during the past week. Could be a change at bloglines.com rather than a bug in the extension.
Posted by Heribert Slama on November 19, 2006 2:47 PM
Just upgraded from 1.6.2 to 1.6.7. No checking for new items, other functions ok.
Posted by Heribert Slama on November 19, 2006 3:41 PM
The message did not appear in the previous message. The message is this:
!DOCTYPE overlay SYSTEM "chrome://btoolkit/locale/btoolkit.dtd"
Posted by Leandro Cunha on November 19, 2006 8:46 PM
Chad, thank for the info you posted about problems with the Notifier count, and yes, it started working again today (as I'm sure you're aware), yay! So thanks again for your great extension, and I'll hit up Bloglines themselves next time this happens!
Posted by Nic on November 20, 2006 9:24 AM
Are you going to make a version for FFX 2.0?
Posted by Skip Dodson on November 30, 2006 8:56 PM
It's been compatible with Firefox 2.0 since 1.6.4, a version that was released well over a month ago. Everything since then is just fixing bugs.
Posted by Chad Everett on November 30, 2006 10:01 PM
Hi Chad, today I downloaded Firefox 2.0, but your great toolkit doesn't work anymore. I tried to download the latest version of the toolkit and I get a download error -228. Any Idea how I can solve this?
Posted by Dick Stapersma on December 8, 2006 7:35 PM
Unfortunately, no. I just tried to reinstall it myself and it worked fine. Perhaps you should uninstall and remove the existing extension. Make sure to restart your browser in between.
Posted by Chad Everett on December 9, 2006 12:20 PM
I found the cause: Bloglines still distributes an old version of your toolkit. On your blog there are several links to the new version, some give a download error, some don't. I have the latest version now and it works fine. Although the feed-updates of Bloglines seem to suck, lately. Thanks for your efforts.
Posted by Dick Stapersma on December 9, 2006 6:36 PM
Hi Dick - I've checked every download link that I can find, and every single one of them appears to a) be the same as the next and b) work. If you can give me some details, I'll check them out, but other than that, I'm not sure what I can do.
As to the Bloglines version, I'm afraid that there isn't anything that I can do there. To my knowledge, they haven't updated their hosted version for a while. If you have an older version of Firefox, it should install and then upgrade. If not, well, it won't, but there isn't a lot I can do, unfortunately. Sorry.
Posted by Chad Everett on December 11, 2006 9:06 AM
Hi!
I've been using your Bloglines Toolkit since version 0.9, in English, but now I've done a Catalan Translation. I wonder if you could put it in your next release of the Toolkit.
You can contact me at my email, or my webpage.
Thanks!
Posted by Xavi Ivars on December 28, 2006 1:08 PM
Hi Xavi - Thanks for your interest, the updated Toolkit is on its way to you now. I've also added the Toolkit to the Babelzilla project, so that anyone who wants to translate the toolkit should be able to do so easily.
Posted by Chad Everett on December 28, 2006 6:42 PM