Inspired by a request made by VJ quite a few months ago, I decided to make a stripped down version of Wizz RSS available. Wizz RSS Lite… Hmmmm… Hopefully it’ll taste better than Bud Lite! The “Lite” version of Wizz RSS includes all of the usual functionality, but it excludes everything to do with...
Wizz RSS on Facebook
Monthly Archives: February 2008
2.9.3 Podcast bugfix
I have made an updated version of 2.9.3 available for download. It fixes all (I hope) of the bugs with Podcast/Enclosure feeds, which I have listed below: - 1. When reading Podcast/Enclosure feeds, 2.9.3 quietly fell over and died. 2. When trying to mark Podcast/Enclosure feeds as read or unread… Same as bug 1....
Podcast feeds are broken in 2.9.3
I’ve been working on a stripped down version of Wizz RSS. I have stripped out all of the weather stuff and all of the Watch List stuff, and I plan to make it available as Wizz RSS Lite. Wizz RSS Lite will be a totally separate Firefox addon. It was inspired by a request...
Linux.com: Firefox feed extensions
Thanks so much to Thomas Vincke for the email making me aware of this article on linux.com Thomas is a long time user of Wizz RSS. I once bribed him with some biltong that I sent all the way to Belgium Anyway, with regard to the linux.com article: - In the article, Bruce Byfield...
Localized version of 2.9.3
Many thanks to the guys at BabelZilla who can always be counted on to do quality translation work! Here is a localized version of 2.9.3 – http://blat.co.za/XPIs/wizzrss293loc.xpi So far the localized version includes support for the following languages: - en-US (Of course) el-GR Greek – Many thanks to Sonickydon it-IT Italian – Many thanks...
2.9.3 Updated
Thanks to Mikael, two bugs have been fixed in the 2.9.3 code and an updated version has been made available for download. 1. I missed a fix to one of the historyService.addVisit calls that is required to get Wizz RSS working on Firefox 3.0b3. The missed fix was causing the Watch List to fall...
The obsession with toolbars and buttons
I lost count years ago of the number of feedbacks I’ve received complaining about various toolbars and buttons. What is this obsession with toolbars and buttons? If you don’t to use a particular toolbar, just hide it! Simple! The main Wizz RSS toolbar can be hidden by clicking View > Toolbars, and then un-checking...
Volunteers to update the online help
As most Wizz RSS users will know, the online help at http://www.wizzrss.com/help/WizzRssHelp.php has been out of date for ages. I’m looking for a few volunteers to help get it up to date. I’d like to get the online help updated for the new version, Wizz RSS 3.0. So if you’d like to volunteer your...
2.9.3 for Firefox 3.0b3
A quick fix to get Wizz RSS working on Firefox 3.0b3. Sorry that it wasn’t as quick as I thought it would be, but the Firefox core development people seem to enjoy making extension development people’s lives as difficult as possible BEFORE you install 2.9.3, please do yourself a favour and read the following:...
Quick fix: Not going to be that quick
There are two problems causing Wizz RSS code to break with 3.0b3. i.e. A small change to the way historyService.addVisit works, and changes in the XBL bindings to the Places tree. At first, when I looked at code changes to fix Wizz RSS, it looked like a very straight forward 5 minute fix, but...