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 responses to “Bloglines Toolkit 1.6.7”
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?
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.
Are you going to make a version for FFX 2.0?
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!
The message did not appear in the previous message. The message is this:
!DOCTYPE overlay SYSTEM “chrome://btoolkit/locale/btoolkit.dtd”
Just upgraded from 1.6.2 to 1.6.7. No checking for new items, other functions ok.
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.
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.
Bloglines Toolkit 1.6.7 does not function for me. It doesn’t check for new Items.
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!