Thanks to everyone who has been testing and reporting bugs. I appreciate all the feedback. It goes a long way to helping to make Wizz RSS better and more stable.
Right, 2.9.4 has been patched to fix six more bugs, and they are as follows: -
- Thanks to BlueHawk for reporting this one: When using the Open Unread in New Tabs functionality, Wizz RSS was trying to open the feed title as an HTML page.
- When trying to add a category to the root of the Category/Feed tree, Wizz RSS was falling over. This was caused by a change in the underlying Places code.
- When trying to add a feed to the root of the the Category/Feed tree, Wizz RSS was falling over. This was caused by the same problem as the above-mentioned bug.
- When using Wizz RSS for the first time, the Public List import would fail. This was also being caused by changes in the underlying Places code.
- Feeds marked as watched were not displaying the watched indicator in the Category/Feed tree.
- A regression bug: When reading all feeds in a category, if the last feed read failed, no feed items were being displayed.
There are still a few outstanding issues that need to be taken care of. I should sort them out within the next few days.
You can get the patched version 2.9.4 here – http://blat.co.za/XPIs/wizzrss294.xpi
Glad to hear that the problem is solved. Thanks so much
first off, thank you for the effort to make Wizz RSS available for firefox 3 beta.
I have been using Wizz RSS for a long time and was very satisfied. Now, I switched to firefox 3 and the Wizz RSS 2.94. I found it became much slower when I selected a feed. It would take about 7 seconds to just show the feed while in firefox 2 it was almost instant (I compared side-by-side with the same feed in both versions). During that 7 seconds, I noticed the HD LED is blinking heavily.
Can you look into this and try to get some improvment? 7 seconds (for a feed that only has 10 items) is just very annoying.
Again, thanks for your great work.
mj,
There have been a few people complaining about the speed. There is only one thing that I know of that could cause the problem. If you were using 2.9.3 there was a bug that is documented here – http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2008/03/14/getting-rid-of-item-description-accumulations/
If that doesn’t solve the problem, then I have no idea what’s causing it. I haven’t, as yet, experienced any speed problems. Not being able to replicate the problem means it’s pretty difficult for me to diagnose its cause.
I have just upgraded wizzrss from 2.9.3 to 2.9.4. This is not accepted as compatible by Firefox 3 beta 5. In addition (having reverted to Firefox 3 beta 4), I still cannot get the read status icons to “stick” unless I actually read a news item. If I “mark all items read” or “mark this item read”, the icon(s)initially change colour, but when if I go to another feed and then return to the original one, the icons have (often)reverted back to green. I do like wizrss – apart from this one problem, which makes it unlikely I can continue with it.
Prior to Firefox 3, I was using the Sage RSS feeder, and am therefore very interested in your attempted port to Firefox 3.
I am using Vista Home Premium, with Kaspersky Internet Security 7, PC Tools Spyware Doctor 5 and MS Windows Defender.
Wizz is great.
But there is beta 5.
I hope theres just the compatibility test to update.