Comments for Wizz RSS

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Jean-Paul Vandekerkhove

Jean-Paul Vandekerkhove — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:53:19 +0000

Hello,
I do not know why, but it seems that Wizz RSS (and babel fish) run again under FF (v. 10). If Mozilla has changed its policy, that is in the good path now.
Mike, you should update your web page.
FF5 it’s too far away.

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Fantasio8

Fantasio8 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:04:25 +0000

Dear All,

Happy New Year!
I just went through the update to FF 9.0 with the compatiblity reporter add-on installed. Wizz is still working fine.

Best
M.

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Mike

Mike — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 05:33:05 +0000

You already have the source code. The distributable includes all of the source.

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by no_facebook

no_facebook — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:41:08 +0000

Also confirming: Addon Compatibility works… lost my rss feeds, but no problem… at least i can continue using WizzRSS…

maybe you could consider releasing the sourcecode to the world?

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:49:23 +0000

I confirm that using the Add-on Compatibility Reporter add-on allowed me to enable Wizz-RSS on FF8.0.

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Fantasio8

Fantasio8 — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:08:07 +0000

Hi Mike K,

I went again through the procedure to keep wizz alive on one of my other computers at home. This time I did not install the nightly tester. I only used the Addon compatibility reporter (I don’t know what it does exactly). Wizz was working too with FF8.0.
I had to restore the feeds with the OPML. But other than that I am still the lucky user of Wizz.
You might want to give it a try.

Mike, I still hope that you might change your mind. Several friends are asking when they come visiting to my office which addon I am using to follow the table of content of my preferred journals. I know for sure that 5 of them became users (they asked how to update to FF8.0).

Best
M

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:04:02 +0000

One day, when Mozilla wake up to the fact that they are their own worst enemy, I might consider Firefox development again. But somehow I doubt that will ever happen. My feeling is that Firefox will eventually go the same way that Netscape went

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Mike K

Mike K — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:28:18 +0000

I’m really sorry to say that despite having installed the “Nightly Tester Tools” add-on and to have checked “Force Add-On Compatibility”, I can no longer use Wizz RSS. That work-around functioned fine with the last iteration of FireFox, but since the upgrade to FF8, it no longer does the job, and I’m really pissed off about that.

I understand your irritation with Mozilla as a software devloper (that stuff remains a total mystery to me), but I also feel somewhat bereft now that I can no longer use Wizz RSS.

I have been forced to try several other RSS NewsReaders, and let me tell you that none of them come anywhere near to be close in their functionality and ease of use as your add-on did!

Anyway, thanks for the many months that I was able to use Wizz RSS. Perhaps, in time, you might reconsider your decision not to update it and make it work with the newer FF. I certainly hope so.

In the meantime, thanks for all that you have previously done. Very much appreciated by me, and I’m sure many others too!

My very best regards to you and yours …..

Mike K

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Fantasio8

Fantasio8 — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:12:28 +0000

Hi there,

I’ve tried several times to post replies on your blog Mike especially because I don’t like Facebook. It did not work. I got the same message as one of the bloggers on facebook.
I hope that this time it will.
First it was to say that I am using wizz rss every day at work and at home to follow the TOCs of scientific journals (I could not find any satisfactory replacement yet). It is probably one of the soft I am using the most frequently so it is very important for me to keep it alive as long as possible.
Second to inform the remaining users that wizz rss works with the ff8.0. I used the nightly tester tool to update from ff6 to ff7. This time I did not need to do anything wizz was still available.
One thing though that you kept repeating in your posts: please do not forget to export the OPML file BEFORE upgrading otherwise your feeds will be lost!

I hope this helps!
Best
M

Comment on Wizz RSS 4.0.1.0 maxVersion bumped to 6.0.* by Now What

Now What — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:10:38 +0000

Version 8 is out. Even with “force addon compatibility” checked Wizz (and others) remains disabled. In about:config I don’t see an entry for checking compatibility of version 8.