It’s been a monstrous fifteen months since I last updated the Bloglines Toolkit. Frankly, there just isn’t that much of a reason to do so. Unfortunately, the Bloglines Notifier API just hasn’t changed that much. Ever. And since it hasn’t, there just isn’t that much to be done with the toolkit. I did have a branch of the tookit at one time that offered an unread count in the status bar, but since there was so much trouble getting the icon to look right in the first place, I eventually decided against releasing it, and figured I’d just stick with things the way they are.
So why is there an update now? For several reasons. First and foremost, to get some updated languages out there. Some of you may be interested to know that the extension is now available in 13 languages, thanks to the fine folks at BabelZilla. This release includes Danish (da-DK), Italian (it-IT), Korean (ko-KR) and Polish (pl-PL). Second, I wanted to see if things would work in Firefox version 3 (it does), so I updated the MaxVersion string, and made a couple of other tweaks as well. Finally, I updated the copyright dates and web site links.
That’s about it really – functionally, everything else is the same as it ever has been, just in more languages and updated to work in the latest version of Firefox (and it should continue to work in Flock too, but I don’t use Flock, so I don’t know that for sure).
Anyone who is interested in helping to continue the translation effort, head over to BabelZilla and sign up for a language. I’ll include them in the next distribution. Those of you who have already helped out, thanks much!
Get it now. Anyone monitoring for updates may have already been notified that a new version is available. If you haven’t, check for updates – it’s there now!
Comments
31 responses to “Bloglines Toolkit 1.7.0”
Hi Chad
looks like FF3.6 breaks the bloglines toolkit 1.7.1. Bummer…any plans to update it?
Thanks
Jeff
Excellent – thanks for the feedback! Sorry again for the problem.
If I could just figure out how to get everyone’s 1.7.0 updated, then downloading an entirely new version wouldn’t be necessary… but at least it works!
Thanks Chad. Good Work! It’s all working great now.
Thanks Chad. Got that now and upgraded Firefox to v3.5 – working fine
Cheers
Hi Bob – you can get it here.
Seems there is a mismatch between the update key and the signature (required for the update to work correctly) in version 1.7.0, so the automatic update won’t work correctly.
Even though this was supposed to be in place previously, I don’t think it actually took effect until version 3.5(something) of Firefox, which is why it hadn’t surfaced before. Once you install 1.7.1, it should take care of itself from then on.
Where do we get it from, Chad? Searching for updates in FF gives “an error occured trying to find updates for bloglines notifier’. Can’t find it using Google,either. Is there a link you can send us to?
Anyone waiting for compatibility with 3.5, I’ve just released an update (1.7.1) for that – also a few strings in translations. You can wait for it, or check for updates.
Hi Chad : Ditto from me with the request …or a “no”, if you know that you won’t. Either way, that’ll then get me to move to FF3.5 (else I’ll wait for a bit, to see if you reply). Cheers
Dear Chad, I have just updated my firefox for the 3.5.1 version, and the Bloglines Toolkit isn’t working anymore. Do you plan to make a new release for this version? Thanx in advance, Becker.
Hi Chad… Will you be making Bloglines Toolkit to be compatible with Firefox 3.5?