On 17 November 2009 I blogged about vulnerabilities with nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment() here – So much for nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment(). At the time, nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment() was being recommended by Wladimir Palant, Jorge Villalobos, and others, as the only way to display web content, within the trusted chrome context, while eliminating all potential security issues. Yeah right! Not only were...
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Wizz RSS 4.0.0.0 for Firefox 4.0.n is available
Thank you to those (very few) people who took the time to beta test Wizz RSS 4.0.0.0. The issues that were reported have been fixed, and the bug with the scroll bar in the item pane (A Firefox bug – https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584703) also seems to have been fixed. I have set maxVersion of Wizz RSS...
Incompatibility with Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.5pre.100907a
Thanks to Eric, who today made me aware of a problem when using Wizz RSS and Tab Mix Plus – http://wizzrss.blat.co.za/2010/09/08/wizz-rss-40-beta-maxversion-bumped-to-40b5/#comments. If you are one of those who use Tab Mix Plus and Wizz RSS, don’t worry, you haven’t gone crazy There is some pretty serious weirdness when both add-ons are enabled. Eric reported...
Wizz RSS 4.0 beta maxVersion bumped to 4.0b5
For those of you who are using beta versions of Firefox 4, I have just put a version of Wizz RSS online that will install on 4.0b5. The scroll bar weirdness persists, but the latest news on Bugzilla ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584703 ) indicates that a fix has been landed for testing. Maybe 4.0b6 will include...
Wizz RSS 4.0 beta maxVersion bumped to 4.0b3
I have just updated the Wizz RSS 4.0 code so that it’ll install on Firefox 4.0b3. Apart from bumping maxVersion to 4.0b3, nothing else has changed. The vertical scroll bar bug in the item pane (XUL listbox widget) persists. I guess a bug fix wasn’t landed in time for the release of 4.0b3. Oh...
Bug fix in Wizz RSS 4.0 beta
Obviously those who have been testing Wizz RSS 4.0 beta haven’t been doing a very good job Today I picked up a bug that impacted on adding feeds using drag and drop. The constant DESCRIPTION_ANNO is now, in Firefox 4.0b2, defined as PlacesUIUitls.DESCRIPTION_ANNO The bug would also have impacted on importing Firefox Livemarks into...
Wizz RSS 4.0 beta for Firefox 4.0b2
I have just finished getting Wizz RSS running on Firefox 4.0b2. I have not done compressive testing, so please report any bugs or funnies you may find, so that they can get fixed! Here is a list of some of the things that have changed in Wizz RSS 4.0: - 1. The HTML sanitization...
Blowfish encrypted bookmarks for Firefox
Longtime Wizz RSS users might be aware of the fact that I wrote (Many years ago) an add-on for Firefox that can be used for encrypting bookmarks. I know that many Wizz RSS users used it, once upon a time Anyway, if you are interested, I have once again dusted off the code (Mainly...
Watch List functionality change
A few weeks ago I received an email from someone (Sorry, I can’t remember who it was – Yeah, I’ve got a crappy memory) asking if I could modify the Watch List functionality. They asked specifically that I modify the functionality, so that it wouldn’t be necessary to click the Found Items tab to...
A few more bugs fixed
Thanks to Rich, who insisted that functionality available in previous versions was now missing in 3.2.0.0, I discovered, and have fixed, a few other bugs. I have also reinstated the missing functionality. Thanks Rich! The bugs: - 1. Element IDs were duplicated in the context menu of the item panes on the Wizz RSS...