“Vulnerability safe” versions
Right, I have patched two different versions of Wizz RSS. Hopefully these versions are now vulnerability safe, but I’m not going to guarantee that! Version 3.1.0.5 is a for those who are still using Firefox 3.5.n, and version 3.2.0.0 is a beta for those who are using Firefox 3.6b1 or later.
Before installing either of these versions, please read the following, which applies to both of these patched versions: -
- I have made absolutely no attempt to address the namespacing issue, and I have no intention of addressing it either. The namespacing issue has absolutely no impact whatsoever on the vulnerability issue. A non-technical explanation of the namespacing issue for the non-technical types: Because Wizz RSS does not comply with the namespacing guidelines, it is possible that Wizz RSS code could interfere with the workings of Firefox or with the workings of other add-ons you have installed. This is not a new issue! Wizz RSS code has always been like this.
- I have implemented nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment() as recommended by Wladimir Palant. For the non-technical types, you can find out more about nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment() here.
- Because nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment() doesn’t seem to work as advertised by the Firefox “security experts,” I have also retained the “blacklist-based input sanitizing at its best” (Wladimir Palant’s sarcastic words) - as poo pooed by Jorge Villalobos. The fact that nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment() doesn’t seem to work as advertised is borne out by the fact that removal of the “blacklist-based input sanitizing at its best” (i.e. Sole reliance on nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment()), causes vulnerabilities that were fixed in 2007 to reappear. Please read http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2009/11/17/so-much-for-nsiscriptableunescapehtmlparsefragment/ for more details.
Hopefully, what I have done with the code will address the vulnerability issues for once and for all - But I sure ain’t no security expert, so I’m not going to guarantee that!
If you are using Firefox 3.5.n, you can install Wizz RSS 3.1.0.5 here Please note that I have not tested this distributable as I’m currently using Firefox 3.6b2, which I’m not going to uninstall. The fix in 3.1.0.5 is exactly the same as the fix in 3.2.0.0.
If you are using Firefox 3.6b1 or later, you can install Wizz RSS 3.2.0.0 here
November 17th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
Thank you; that installed without a hitch!
I’m glad we will be able to keep using WizzRSS.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Many, many thanks Mike. I’ve just installed the new extension and all appears to be good
However, when I tried to save my feeds to the server I got the message that the service is no longer available. No probs though, I’ve just done an OPML Export instead and will keep that as my backup.
WOOHOO, maybe there is a god after all!
Best Regards
Mike K
November 18th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Thanks Mike!
November 18th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Thanks for all your efforts. Much appreciated for a super add on.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Thanks for your great efforts Mike - the update installed Ok in my Firefox 3.5.5.
Keep up the good work
November 18th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
K, no problem, installed on 3.5.5 as well.
Thanks.
November 18th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
i want to set up new version
November 18th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
@beckham: Just click on the link, either 3.1.0.5 or 3.2.0.0, to install it.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Thank you!
November 18th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Installed 3.1.0.5 OK and kept my current feeds intact. No problems yet
November 18th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Thanks so much!
Don’t know if I risk too much, but version 3.1.0.5 installed smoothly under FF 3.0.15 - after modifying min version in the rdf.
Up too now working without any trouble, thx again!
November 18th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
@Karsten: You might find that things like drag ‘n drop don’t work. i.e. Moving feeds around the category/feed tree using drag ‘n drop, and also adding feeds by dropping them onto the category/feed tree.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
When will the new version be available via the Add-ons “Find Updates” feature?
November 18th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
@Jon: Never
November 19th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Help! Everything seemed ok but now my entire Wizz window (first 3.1 then same after upgrade to 3.2) is empty. Cannot import, cannot add feeds.. Sigh. Is this because Firefox folks blocked it? I hope not! Any hints on how to restart this welcome - very welcome!
November 19th, 2009 at 6:01 am
Whoops sorry. Somehow the regular menu in the sidebar had disappeared (?) –The two bars I’m used to (Wizz RSS - found - saved, and the home, feed search etc bar were invisible, and a third menu I was unfamiliar with had appeared. Well, clearly my mistake, and all is well! Apologies; ignore the previous comment.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:04 am
@Helma: Please see http://www.wizzrss.com/helpwiki/index.php/Wizz_RSS_Sidebar
It will explain where the tabs and the mini-toolbar went to.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Hello,
When I install “Wizz RSS 3.1.0.5″ Fire Fox send this message
“Impossible d’installer Wizz RSS News Reader 3.1.0.5, car il/elle n’est pas compatible avec Firefox 3.0.15.”
I’m using Firefox 3.015 version, somebody can tell me how to install this safe version of WizzRss
By the way, Thank you to the author of WizzRss, a very practice soft !
Patrick
Bordeaux - France
(sorry for my bad English but i improve it !)
November 19th, 2009 at 10:28 am
@Patrick: Wizz RSS 3.1.0.5 will only install on Firefox 3.1b2 to 3.5.*
You can hack minVersion in install.rdf to get it to install on earlier versions of Firefox, but I really don’t recommend that you do that.
The best thing for you to do would be to upgrade to Firefox 3.5.
November 19th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Thank you very much, Mike!
November 19th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
3.1.0.5 installed fine for me in 3.5.3 and seems to be working fine. My only issue is that every time I open FireFox it still opens the Wizz RSS warning page saying there are incompatibility and security issues. This must be something in the Wizz RSS code as a popup comes up saying Wizz opened a page, just like it normally would with a new version. Is there a way to stop this happening, since I’ve chosen to use this version?
Regards,
David
November 19th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
@David: Please read http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2009/11/16/uninstall_page/
November 20th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Hello Mike,
Thanks for sticking in and making a more secure and great working RSS reader for FF.
BTW: For me the warning page can be removed. I have been warned enough
Bas.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
@Bas: It’s not you that I’m worried about.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
It’s unfair how you were treated and what’s being demanded of you over new protocol and incompetent “experts”. So thank you for making this final version for us users, Mike.
November 20th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Thank you, thank you, Mike!!!
A quick reminder for forgetful minds like mine: make an OPML backup before upgrading so you don\’t loose your feeds
Chris.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Mike: Thanks -Somehow I must have selected found items, then clicked away the wizz-found-saved menu. But the timing made me think it had to be Firefox stepping in and killing my Wizz sidebar:-) Learned something new!
November 21st, 2009 at 4:44 am
thanks~!
November 21st, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Just want to add my thanks to the list. Having tried a few alternatives in the past week, my relief to have Wizz back is considerable.
November 21st, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Any idea why, after installing the updated version, a set of feeds for a particular site (e.g., http://www.dpreview.com/feeds/forums/forum1006.xml) would no longer display feed contents in the browser window when clicked on in the preview pane? (I know that sounds convoluted.)
For that site, even though each of the individual feeds shows all its posted items in the preview pane of the sidebar, clicking on an entry takes me to the feed’s home instead of to the particular post. But, if I operate in preview mode and click on any particular feed in the normal browser window, it takes me to the appropriate web page.
Very strange, and never an issue before.
November 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Thanks for the bugfix version, it is appreciated!
Henry
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:34 am
@Mike: From what I can see, the feed contains no descriptions for its items. i.e. All of the description tags are empty. Apart from having no descriptions, the feed seems to work just fine for me.
November 22nd, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Mike, thanks for the reply. I know about the descirptions, but could you take a look at this example: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1018&message=33764375
When I click on the post title in the preview pane, it seems that Wizz is loading only “http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1018″ — not the whole URL. When I view the feed home in the browser window, though, the entire URL is there.
I don’t know diddly about HTML, so I can’t tell if there is a problem with the feed or with Wizz. Just wanted you to know.
Thanks much.
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Smooth install. Mike, Wizz RSS is great.
What can be done to help you along with fixing it?
Regards,
Jaap
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:48 pm
@Mike: I’m with you now and see the same problem. Somewhere in my cobweb filled mind I seem to have very vague recollections of dealing with the same problem once before. The item URL is being truncated at the & (which is the HTML entity for an ampersand). I’ve coded a quick fix - Are you using Firefox 3.5 or 3.6?
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Whew! I thought I had screwed up something on my end. Using 3.5.5 here. Do I need to update? Thanks.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:18 pm
@Mike: I’ve just uploaded a patched version of 3.1.0.5. Please reinstall it and see if the problem goes away.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Works perfectly now. Thanks so much!
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
After receiving a warning about security vulnerabilities in Wizz RSS at Firefox 3.5.5 startup, I clicked on the link to this website and installed version 3.1.0.5 which according to Addons management is the version that is installed, but every time I startup firefox I still get the warning about security vulnerabilities and the link to this site to install the patched version. Given that I have the patched version installed why am I still getting this warning?
November 24th, 2009 at 6:19 am
@Steve: The warning is a global thing. It isn’t dependent on the version you are using. Even Wizz RSS Lite users will get the message. As long as you have upgraded to 3.1.0.5 or 3.2.0.0, you can ignore the message. The reason why I continue to display the message is explained here - http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2009/11/16/uninstall_page/
November 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I understand you Mike, but the nag tab is beyond annoying
Can you please, please, please, pretty please give those of us who made an educated decision to keep WizzRSS a way to get rid of it, please please, please, pretty please and for the sake of our sanity!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Thanks Mike, I can live with the warning now that I understand the reasoning behind still producing it.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:10 am
@Max: For the sake of my sanity, just hang-in there for a few more days. Once I’m sure that even the “smart” ones (You know the ones I mean? Those who think they are too smart to read the information I push in their faces) have seen the message, I’ll turn it off.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:46 am
@Mike
Thanks for the reply!
Oh yes I know which ones you mean.
And now that I know that you’ll eventually be turning it off, I’ll quit whining.
Thanks so much for letting WizzRSS live. It is much more appreciated than you might think.
P.S.: I am no longer as fond of the Mozilla people as I used to be, now that I have read your story.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Huge crashes !
I dont understand yet what’s the cause since i updated the version to the last one !
I hope that is not Wizz fault !
November 27th, 2009 at 10:28 am
@silvio: I haven’t seen any strange behavior. I also hope that it isn’t Wizz’s fault.
November 27th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
FWIW, I have not seen any instability at all using FF 3.5.5, although it does seem to take a bit longer to load feeds once they’re clicked on. Nothing major, though.
November 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Thanks for the feedback Mike. I’m using FF 3.6b4 and I haven’t seen any instability either. The longer load time is probably being caused by all elements being pushed through nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment()
November 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Thanks, Mike, for your work!!
November 29th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
It’s still suddenly crashes !
Even the one at my office that is installed on a portable version of Firefox !!
What’s interesting is that i have Firefox+Wizz for more than 1 year, i think ! The problem came short after i installed this patched version, that’s why i think here can be the problem !
For now every time it crashes (i didn’t see this huge crashes in my entire user history for more than 3 years of firefox) i keep send’em crash reports but still no answers !
Why when i open Firefox is opening a tab telling me that i need to uninstall my Wizz ! Why ? I just patched !!?
To get more insight i have the following add-ons:
All-in-One Sidebar - (also at my Office)
Download Helper
FoxClocks - (also at my Office)
Greasemonkey
MinimizeToTray - (also at my Office)
SpeedDial
StumbleUpon
TorrentFinderToolbar
WebDeveloper
WebMail Notifier - (also at my Office)
Wizz RSS - (also at my Office)
XMarks - (also at my Office)
It remain for me to uninstall-reinstall the Firefox (clean instal) and step by step install the add-ons … But it will be a fuccing borring job !
November 30th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@silvio: I fully understand your reluctance to do a clean re-install, unfortunately, sometimes it is the only way to get rid of the Firefox funnies.
Major version updates, especially those that include changes to Places (Which is just about all of them), have never done a very good job of migrating the Places data cleanly. I’m not sure about this, but I suspect that this results in corrupt data in the Places database, which probably causes many of the Firefox funnies. There is probably a way to clean-up the Places database, but I have no idea how to do it - apart from deleting the whole thing, which more-or-less amounts to the same thing as a clean re-install.
November 30th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I really tried to migrate to Google Reader, but after a few hours, I gave up, and I am back. Decided the irritation was too much for minor risk avoidance. Would a user-appeal to AMO do any good?
Still showing an older “experimental”(?) version on AMO. Probably should have that one removed to prevent confusion. But I guess it is not easy to stumble on.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/policy/0/424/21428
November 30th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
@Peri: You can appeal to AMO if you like, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s time to move on. After five years of being an avid Firefox fan, I’m now even becoming disillusioned with the browser. Every major release of Firefox, since and including 3.0, seems to get worse and worse. 3.6 seems well on target to take the “buggyness” cake, so I’m using Google Chrome myself.
I’ve done everything I can, through the AMO developer interface, to shutdown all versions of Wizz RSS. If people are still able to find/download experimental/older versions, it’s not my problem
November 30th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Some humorous information with regard to AMO - It might serve to lighten the mood
I was on #AMO on IRC one night, trying to get an answer to some-or-other question. As usual, the people on #AMO were about as responsive as a dead dog. Another add-on developer joined the channel and when I saw that he received the same treatment as everyone else, I started exchanging light-hearted banter with him. Something he said made me laugh like crazy, but unfortunately it was very very true. He said, “AMO is like pouring a bucket of ice water over a hot blooded programmer.”
December 1st, 2009 at 1:30 am
Mike, There is no way I will uninstall Wizz RSS. The concept of being without it is just… I don’t know, it just doesn’t click. Wizz RSS is just so natural to me. That is it.
December 1st, 2009 at 2:01 am
Hey, Mike.
Sorry to bother you with a question given what you’ve been going through, but is there any resolution for me if my links appear to be gone from the backup server? Tried to do an opml export and a restore. The latter says no longer available which wouldn’t be a problem, but the opml file is empty.
Any thoughts or am I out of luck.
Very sorry to hear about all the FF problems. Potentially a loss of a great app.
Thanks, much.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:06 am
@Roy: Don’t worry, all of your saved feeds are safe ‘n sound on the Wizz server. In a few days time (Once most of the hoo haa has died down), I’ll reactivate access to the saved feeds. In the meantime, if you need the stuff you’ve saved to the Wizz server, email me your username. I’ll get your stuff out of the database and email it to you.
December 1st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Thanks for the update Mike. It is working for me under Linux and Windows. After having looked again for another feed reader that would work for me I have again concluded that WizzRSS is the most usable feedreader available. I particularly like the easy access to enclosures as well as text. Your situation caused me to take a look at Chrome. I would be glad to see WizzRSS for Chrome.
Thanks again.
December 1st, 2009 at 5:18 pm
@Francis L: At this point in time I think it’s pretty much impossible to develop a half decent feed reader for Google Chrome. I’ve been using the C# version of Wizz RSS that ties into Internet Explorer.
December 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 am
Thank you, Mike. I’m in no hurry.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Please email me the instructions telling me how to uninstall this file and I will do it.
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
@Roby: All Firefox add-ons, as far as I’m aware, uninstall in exactly the same way. If you need details on how to uninstall an add-on, please see http://www.wizzrss.com/helpwiki/index.php/Uninstalling_Wizz_RSS
December 6th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Installed without a hitch in Firefox 3.5.5. Thank goodness as I was getting fed up trying alternatives that were all rubbish arrrgggghhhh….
December 11th, 2009 at 5:18 am
Any chance you’re working on a Chrome version of Wizz? Now that Chrome has extensions, Wizz is pretty much the only thing keeping me with Firefox.
December 11th, 2009 at 7:22 am
@Mike: I have had a quick look at extensions for Chrome. From what I’ve seen, Chrome’s support for extensions is pretty rudimentary - It doesn’t even have support for a sidebar - although, I understand that future versions of Chrome will provide extended support for extensions. So I guess I’ll just wait and see what happens with Chrome.
December 13th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I know I am being annoying, but so is the nag page from WizzRSS.
Is there any hope of it ever going away?
Old nag pages used to no longer appear when WizzRSS was updated to the latest version, why is this one?
December 14th, 2009 at 12:27 am
@Max: I’m not 100% that this will work, but try it (I’d need to dig into the code to confirm that it’ll work). On the Firefox about:config page, look for a pref called WizzRSSLastCheck and change its value to something like 2260396000000 (I changed the first digit from 1 to 2). This should stop Wizz RSS checking if it should display the Welcome page.
The reason the Welcome page is still being displayed is because I coded a change on the server side to return a random number every time Wizz RSS checks. The uninstall message has been displaying for almost a month, and, believe it or not, some people are only taking notice of it now.
December 15th, 2009 at 5:28 am
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: chrome://wizzrss/content/toolbar.js:736
I keep getting this error with WizzRSS 3.2
December 15th, 2009 at 8:56 am
@Jeff: Try this - On the Found Items tab, click the Clear Watch List cache button. i.e. The red X.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
I like wizz rss and I upgraded and I want to keep it, but the damn annoying ‘please uninstall wizz rss’ page pops up EVERY time I start the browser and now I am really very close to uninstall the thing - please let me know if this stupid page opening can be stopped.
mike
December 16th, 2009 at 7:23 am
@mike: Please see my comment directed @Max, above. I’m not 100% sure that it’ll work, but it should… I think.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Sorry Mike
I intended to report back on your instructions, but didn’t get around to it until now.
this indeed gets rid of the nag screen, thank you very much for that!
All the best to you and happy holidays.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:23 am
@Max: Thanks for the feedback.
@mike: There you go. Confirmation that it will indeed work.
December 16th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Hi Mike,
I tested your WizzRSSLastCheck workaround (ie changing the first digit from 1 to 2) to avoid the “please uninstall wizz rss” page.
However, my change gets overwritten every time I restart my Firefox and the page pops. Is that normal?
I’m using Firefox 3.5.6 and Wizz RSS 3.1.0.5.
Thanks in advance.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
@Max and chris: I’ve just checked the code. Making the suggested change to WizzRSSLastCheck will not work. The nag screen will still be displayed.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
@Max, mike and chris: Please see http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2009/12/16/steps-to-stop-the-nag-page-from-displaying/ for instructions that will stop the nag page from displaying.
December 17th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
The instructions at http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2009/12/16/steps-to-stop-the-nag-page-from-displaying/ seem to work but are extremely complicated. Could you possibly release a version 3.1.0.6 or 3.2.0.1 that would accomplish the same thing? Keep up the good work.
December 20th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I can’t tell you how pleased I am that you’ve done this - I’ve used several RSS reader, but NONE of them compare to the ease of use of Wizz. Many thanks Mike (and don’t let the b******ds wear y’down!).
December 27th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Is this a problem on an Mac also?
Anyone have instructions on how to remove the WizzRSSLastCheck thingy?
December 27th, 2009 at 8:27 am
@Johnnie: It is a universal problem.
Please see http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2009/12/16/steps-to-stop-the-nag-page-from-displaying/ for steps on how to stop the nag page from displaying.
December 27th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
@Mike: It doesn’t say on how to fix on Snow Leopard.
December 27th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
@Johnnie: The “fix” should be exactly the same for Snow Leopard. Just the path to wizzrss.jar will be different. Wherever your Firefox profile is, in that folder you should find extensions\{D5EDC062-A372-4936-B782-BD611DD18D86}\chrome - That is where you’ll find wizzrss.jar
December 27th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Votre traduction est lamentable!!!Ce qui la rend souvent incompréhensible….
JMBW
December 27th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Ecoute boissenin
Mike est de l’Afrique du Sud et au moins il a fait l’effort de traduire.
Au lieu de gueuler ici, il vaidrait mieux si tu demanderais quelqu’un qui connait l’Anglais a te traduire.
WizzRSS est pas seulement gratuit mais un effort tout a fait volontaire. Efin, parce que evidemment tu ne connais pas des autres lagues non plus, tu n’as absolument pas de droit de te plaindre ici.
C’est hallucinant comme les francophones peuvent etre arrogant et ingrat, mais malheureusement tres bien connu.
December 29th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Thanx Mike, I have tried a kot of news readers this one is the best!
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:07 pm
So glad that I’ve found the fixes!! Started using Sage for a while - no where near as good as Wizz - and felt there was missing something from life!
Keep it up - and don’t leg those noggins grind you down!
January 5th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
hi mike,
first of all i want to thank for all your work on wizzrss! i use(d) it for years and nearly died after that uninstall message appeared… and i uninstalled wizzrss first - hoping that you would come up with a solution one day. in the days between i was looking for some alternative and - of course - there is none by far which is as great and handy!
so i was sooo thankful when you released the “vulnerability safe” versions. i use it ever since and i am happy again. thx a lot lot lot for that :)))
i dare to ask on the “steps-to-stop-the-nag-page-from-displaying”-thing on a mac again as the workaround won’t work properly on my system (os: snow leopard, ff 3.5.6, wizzrss 3.1.0.5). perhaps some other mac-users managed to get it working and read my post
well, i went to
/Users/MYACCOUNTNAME/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/SOMECOMBOOFDIGITSANDLETTERS.default/extensions/{D5EDC062-A372-4936-B782-BD611DD18D86}/chrome/
and did exactly what you wrote in your tutorial (i think), but after restarting firefox wizzrss is “gone” which means the wissrss icons won’t show up again in the navigation toolbar as well as the wizzrss sidebar with all the feeds; also “wizz rss toolbar” won’t show up in the toolbar menu anymore.
when i check ff add-ons it says wizzrss is still installed, and when i do about:config it seems all wizzrss values are there with the same values as before except for one value which has changed:
preference name: extensions.{D5EDC062-A372-4936-B782-BD611DD18D86}
status: default
type: string
value: chrome://wizzrss/locale/wizzrss.properties
normally value is: A fairly good RSS and Atom news reader.
i tried to change that value in the “broken” version and restart ff, but that won’t work as well.
after installing wizzrss over the “broken” version, it works again except for the nag-page
i do the renaming of wizzrss.jar by
- in the finder changing my rights on the file via “get info” from “read only” to “read & write”.
- then by hitting the enter key in the finder and change the name by typing wizzrss.zip and then saying “yes” to the system’s question “use .zip?”
i do the unarchiving of the zip with snow leopard’s archive utility.
i do the zipping of the wizzrss folder with the “compress”-function in the mac-menu.
might somewhere in those steps be the problem? or perhaps i only need to change some value(s) in about:config?
any suggestion would be very much appreciated, and in case there will be none, of course i’ll go on using wizzrss - _with_ that nag-page
thx a lot
lyrabee
January 5th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
@lyrabee: Don’t worry about it too much. Within the next day or two I plan to start a buy-a-nag-free-version-of-Wizz-RSS “campaign.”
I was planning to turn the nag page off, but on 2nd thoughts decided it might serve as a good incentive to raise a bit of money which will go towards covering the costs of running the Wizz RSS server.
The “purchase price” of the nag-free-version will be any amount you wish to donate. If you’ve already made a donation, you should receive your nag-free-version via email within the next day or two.
January 5th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
*big hug* :)))
January 11th, 2010 at 12:46 am
Thanks a lot for your work and the frankness on your pages & actions
January 21st, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Version 3.2.0.0 is not compatible with FF 3.5.7, so my browser reports….
January 21st, 2010 at 3:05 pm
@Pierre: 3.2.0.0 is only for Firefox 3.6. Please install 3.1.0.5 for Firefox 3.5.
January 21st, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Yes, I read it (too late / tongue in cheek / bite). Anyway, THANKS!
January 26th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Any hope of a “Vulnerability Safe” lite version (for FF 3.6)? I miss not having so many options…
January 27th, 2010 at 7:24 am
@Collin: Sorry, Wizz RSS Lite is dead. You’ll just have to use the full version.