I have just finished updating Wizz RSS 3.0.0.9, the beta for Firefox 3.1b2, and this is what has changed: -
- I have included the preview.css submitted by Peter Lairo, so the feed preview page has changed a little bit.
- As per the request by Tim Banker I have removed all of the hardcoded styling, and moved it into wizzrss.css.
- Because of some weird change to 3.1, the Places code now seems to hold an exclusive lock on places.sqlite, which even prevents data from being read. This was also preventing the Watch List from running, because it couldn’t find any watched feeds (The watch list code looks for a places annotation that indicates if the feed is watched or not). I’ve worked around the problem and the Watch List should be working now.
I also spent about 4 days, in total, investigating the use of Firefox 3.1 worker threads. I was really hoping to have been able to move code that locks up the browser (e.g. The Watch List code) into worker threads, but it seems as though this isn’t going to be possible 
If you’d like to find out more about why it isn’t going to be possible, please read my blog post titled Are Firefox worker threads worthless?
PLEASE NOTE: This is a beta and it’s being made available for testing! Testing means that I expect those who encounter bugs to report them, with all relevant information, back into this blog. Please remember that I rely on YOU to help make Wizz RSS as bug free as possible. It just isn’t possible for me to test everything, so…