As most of you are aware, the online help has been broken for the last few weeks. It was broken because genius (Moi) deleted the database. Anyway, I’ve uploaded and installed a newer version of MediaWiki, and the online help is back online.
Getting people on the Internet to actually READ help information must be one of the most difficult things I’ve encountered. I guess most people are too lazy to read… OK, I’m being hypocritical because I know that I’m exactly the same 
Over the years there have been numerous incarnations of the online help. None of them have been ideal and all have drawn criticism ranging from, “You can’t spell!” to “The online help is a useless load of crap!” This time I thought I’d try something different: videos! Well they aren’t really videos in the true sense of the word, but rather Flash presentations generated by Wink.
Wink does have some limitations, but on the whole it’s a great piece of software, and as I get more accustomed to its workings, so I’m able to produce better presentations. I’m hoping that a picture will be worth a thousand words, and that the “videos” in the online help will better convey the message.
I probably haven’t even completed 40% of the help yet, but please have a look and feel free to offer any constructive criticism. Of course if you’d like to load Wink and contribute a few videos, you are welcome!
Hi there,
thanks for your warning, of course, as stupid user i managed to update before making an export.
Awesome that the online help works again, I actually tried to use it in the last view weeks for the first time, before that i used only a minimal set of the functions of wizzrss.
Thanks for this tool.
Sorry that you missed the warning to backup your feeds, but I did try to warn everyone
I’m hoping that the online help will make many Wizz RSS users more aware of how much functionality they have been missing. There is a and it even surprises me, while working through the online help, when I realize just how much I’ve forgotten about.
@Geoff: Turn your ad blocker off for http://www.wizzrss.com/helpwiki/ and things will work just fine.
Hi there Mike
I have a question about WizzRSS I’d like my english version back that suddenly appears in incomplete german.
Unfortunately it is not possible to register for the forum and I can’t find any contact information, which is why I try to get in touch here.
I would really appreeciate if you coud get in touch with me.
your longtime WizzRSS user from switzerland
Max
Hi Max,
I rely on people at Babelzilla for the translation work, so if the German translation is incomplete, maybe you’d like to contibute? If so, you can join the translation guys at http://www.babelzilla.org/
Here is a quick fix to get the de-DE locale to use the en-US translation: -
1. Close Firefox.
2. Find the chrome.manifest file. On a windows PC it’ll be in C:Documents and SettingsusernameApplication DataMozillaFirefoxProfilessome-weird-number.defaultextensions{D5EDC062-A372-4936-B782-BD611DD18D86}
3. Open the chrome.manifest file using a text editor.
4. Find the line that reads – locale wizzrss de-DE jar:chrome/wizzrss.jar!/locale/de-DE/
5. Change the /locale/de-DE/ to /locale/en-US/ and save the chrome.manifest file.
6. Restart Firefox.
Hi Mike
Thanks for the quick help.
Have you considered opening up the forum for registrations again or providing some other way of giving you feedback on the WizzRSS site?
Well, while the German translation is indeed quite incomplete, that wasn’t the point, I am so used to WizRSS being in English and to lazy to deal with a German translation that always ends up very clunky no matter what you do.
I lost the En-US locale of WizRSS because all of a sudden the WizzRSS toolbar was all screwed up (most of the icons not appearing and the sidebar and weather icon all the way to the right edge of the toolbar) and even removing and reinstalling WizRSS would not get it back.
Thanks again for your help and sorry for barging in here.
Max
@Max: You aren’t barging in! This is exactly what the blog is for
There have been a few people complaining about the screwed up toolbar. I haven’t seen it or managed to replicate it. If you fixed it, how did you fix it?
Hi Mike
Well, I found no other remedy than to completely wipe out and reinstall Firefox 3.5. Nothing else (uninstalling Wizz RSS, removing the about:config entries for it and the directory and reinstalling) worked.
that’s where my current problem comes from. I used to have a german FF installation with WizzRSS in English, wwhich no longer works.
Changing the locale in crome.manifest, as you described, yields a very weird result:
- The toolbar text is English
- The WizzRSS menu windows (options etc.) text is English
- Drop Down menu texts remain German, they don’t seem to follow the setting in chrome.manifest.
best regards and thanks for your help
Max
Oh and Mike
Can you please, pretty please, provide a way to kill that annoying “Firefox is set to clear your browsing history on shut down.
Wizz RSS will lose the read/unread status of feeds and items between sessions.” popup when all I am doing is clearing the cache on shutdown.
That one is really, really annoying.
Again, thanks for all your help
Max
Max, there is a pref you can set to stop the annoying message. Although I must admit I’m kinda glad it’s annoying
You have no idea how many “bug reports” I received from people telling me that Wizz RSS didn’t persist the read/unread state of feed items between Firefox restarts.
Hang on I’ll dig into the code and give you the pref.
Create a boolean pref called WizzRSSSkipHistCheck and set its value to true.
Mike, fair enough
with things like these I would agree it is better to err on the safe side.
And I’m sure you get tons of questions about that. But me, I’m glad there’s a work around, as I think I know what I’m doing, at least most of the time.
Max
I’m getting the same error as poster “Geoff” above – the “Your ad blocker is blocking content on this page” one.
The “turn off the ad blocker” reply is valid….except I can’t find how to as I don’t have one as an add-on or extension and there’s nothing in the Tools menu. Happens on Firefox, IE and Chrome and nothing I do to any of them will resolve it.
Why would an ad blocker be blocking the main content of the page anyway? At the moment I can’t read any of the help pages
@JunkMonkey: You are probably working through a proxy or firewall that is blocking ads. If so, you’ll have to talk to the proxy/firewall administrator and ask them to remove the wizzrss.com domain from the block.