Monthly Archives: January 2008

2.9.2 Submitted to BabelZilla for translation (l10n)

January 22, 2008
By Mike

To all of you who have very kindly offered your services to translate Wizz RSS, I have finally submitted 2.9.2 to BabelZilla for localization I have reworked ALL of the localization for the release of Wizz RSS 3.0 (2.9.2 is the third beta release of Wizz RSS 3.0), and hopefully the localization strings will...

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2.9.2 Updated

January 22, 2008
By Mike
2.9.2 Updated

I’ve made an updated release of 2.9.2 available for download. I’ve fixed up a few little things and I’ve added two features that many people have asked for over the years. Additional feature 1 There is now an option to display the sidebar on the right-hand side of the screen. Please note: Enabling this...

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Watch List performance

January 12, 2008
By Mike

Probably one of the biggest gripes about Wizz RSS has been the performance of the Watch List. Well, to be more precise, the gripes have revolved around the fact that when the Watch List runs, it chews up all available system resources, resulting in a sluggish or totally unresponsive Firefox user interface. The problem...

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Whaaaaat?! No bugs?!

January 11, 2008
By Mike

It’s been about 4 days since I made 2.9.2 available for testing, and, from what I can see, about 300 people have installed it. I was expecting a flood of bug reports, but so far, not a single one If you are using 2.9.2 with Firefox 3.0b2, please look very carefully for bugs. I...

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2.9.2 for Firefox 3.0b2

January 7, 2008
By Mike
2.9.2 for Firefox 3.0b2

Right! For all of you who have been waiting patiently, here is Wizz RSS 2.9.2 (3.0.0 Beta 3) for Firefox 3.0b2. BEFORE YOU GO RUSHING OFF TO INSTALL IT! If you have been using 2.9.1, or even if you only tried to install it, you MUST remove the file named wizzrss.sqlite from your Firefox...

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Wizz and the competition

January 1, 2008
By Mike

It isn’t often that I miss a posting in the Wizz RSS forums, but today I found a little gem that was posted by vistatech on 23 December 2007. Of course I refer to the posting as a “little gem,” because it isn’t often that anyone takes the time to write anything complimentary, let...

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