Growl Extension released!
Well, today I added support for Thunderbird (2.0b2 and greater) for my Growl integration extension. It also works in Firefox for the downloads. You can get it here, but you need to make the sandbox visible in order to see it (it isn’t a public release yet). You should not click the link to go to the extension since it logs you out of amo (another bug that I don’t know the number of, but will be fixed soon). Copy and paste it, and all should work out.
It only says support for Firefox on that page, but that’s only because of Bug 374890. It really does support Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird 2.0b2, and Flock 0.8!
It will display notifications for download start, download finish, download canceled, download failed, and new mail notifications (depending on which application you install it in). If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
EDIT: There seems to be some possible issues for those using 2.0.0.1 of Firefox. Please make sure you have the latest version!
EDIT2: OK, there seems to be some confusion about the url. Sadly, this is in the sandbox, which means there’s a nice complication. You have to log in/create an account at the site, go to your user preferences, and then enable the sandbox. From there, the url will work just fine – otherwise you’ll get an “Addon not found!” error (see Bug 374406 and friends)
RTSE 1.0.10 Out
They were kind enough to land the spell checking of XUL textboxes on to the 1.8 branch, so I’ve properly enabled it now in RTSE. You should get a notification about an update within 24 hours, or you can just download and install it again here.
Growl and Firefox
Well, about an hour ago I checked in some code into the Growl subversion repository for an extension that will get Growl working with Firefox. There is still a minor issue with it, and sadly the issue prevents it from working, but I think that can be solved sooner rather than later.
As of now, the only thing it does is enable the download complete notification to work. You might say “but we’ve already got that!“, but I assure you that my approach is much better. First of all, it doesn’t require that you have growlnotify installed anywhere. It uses the same code that I’m using for Bug 362685, with a few changes for it to work on the 1.8.0 and 1.8 branches (Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 respectively).
I’m starting off small, but it can get much more advanced as things go on. This will, of course, be more useful for extension authors (as consumers) as opposed to browser functionality (the only thing nsIAlertsService is used for is the download complete notification). I can add more notifications down the line though, and I also plan to support at least Thunderbird, and maybe even Sunbird too! I’ll try to keep anyone interested in this updated here.
RTSE v1.0.9 is Out
I got some time today to get the file fixed up and the build out to all the places (I have to upload it here and to SourceForge). I also have to allow time to post all the release notices in the various places. It’s all very time consuming, and I don’t have a lot of time.
Anyway, those of you who have jumped the gun like me and have Firefox 2.0 installed (it’s just a release candidate, so don’t get it unless you want something that is potentially unstable), I’m sorry but spell checking won’t work. Well, it works in the sense that it underlines the word, but it won’t offer suggestions. This is because of Bug 346787, which might make it into 2.0.0.1.
Update in the normal ways (download it here, or have the extension/addons manager do it for you), and be on your way!
RTSE v1.0.8 is Out
That’s right folks, a new release. It has some of the long awaited features such as same page replies, in-reply-to-linking, and a few other optimizations. Let me just say that I cannot wait to move to trunk. This 1.0 branch code is really crappy. I’m really glad my coding skills have greatly improved over when I first started this.
You can get the update by going to http://shawnwilsher.com/extensions/rtse/ and installing it, or by going to the extension manager, selecting RTSE, and selecting find updates.
If you want to view the source, you can do so here.
If you have any questions or bug reports, feel free to contact me.
