Monthly Archives: December 2007

2.9.1 and Firefox 3.0b2

December 28, 2007
By Mike

If you downloaded Wizz RSS 2.9.1 (3.0.0 Beta 2) from the forums and you’re wondering why it doesn’t work with Firefox 3.0b2, it’s because some aspects of Places within Firefox 3.0b2 have changed. Of course if you didn’t change maxVersion in install.rdf, 2.9.1 won’t even install on Firefox 3.0b2, but if you did change...

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Firefox 3.0 Beta 2

December 20, 2007
By Mike

Over the years that Wizz RSS has been around, I’ve lost count of the numbers of times I’ve been accused of writing leaky, slow, memory hogging and CPU hogging code. I have never claimed that the Wizz RSS code is perfect and I’m sure that many aspects of the code can be made more...

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Hacking maxVersion

December 8, 2007
By Mike

Many people have inquired about a version of Wizz RSS for Firefox 3. You can obtain a beta version of Wizz RSS 3 for Firefox 3 here – http://www.wizzrss.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=851 There is only one problem: The downloaded XPI will only install on Firefox/Gran Paradiso versions 3.0a7 and 3.0a8. If you want to install the beta...

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I must delete it???

December 3, 2007
By Mike

It is an almost constant source of amazement; the number of feedbacks I receive asking how to uninstall Wizz RSS. This despite the fact that uninstalling Wizz RSS is documented in the online help – http://www.wizzrss.com/help/WizzRssHelp.php?page=Uninstalling.html It seems quite obvious that there are many people who will install something without having any idea of...

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