I uploaded the newest version of the add-on earlier today to AMO, so once it gets approved, you’ll get a nice update. The following issues were fixed in this release:
- (Thunderbird) Fixed subject encoding issues that sometimes occurred with messages.
- (All) Added a de localization.
- (Thunderbird) Stopped displaying RSS feeds due to the vast number of notifications that were sent. This is only temporary until a delayed system for dispatching notifications is created that will handle a large load of notifications (Growl will actually handle this in 1.1, so it may not be worthwhile)
Today I just committed a patch to trunk that properly selects the message when you click on a notification in Thunderbird. I’m not going to release that just yet as I want to play with it myself a bit.
18 replies on “Growl Extension v1.0.2”
Where can I get it? the subject encoding and clickable growl in Thunderbird sounds very interesting.
As always, nice work Shawn. This is one of my favorite extensions next to RTSE and Adblock Plus.
@fishy
It hasn’t been approved yet, but you can install the old version which will be updated soon enough:
Firefox
Thunderbird
did this extension ever work with the gmail notifier (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/173) extension? for some reason i could have sworn i used to get growl notifications when i had new mail and now i don’t anymore.
maybe i’m just crazy…
does this extension expose any kind of api that others may just hook into to send out alerts? if not, could one be added?
@Jay
It exposes nsIAlertsService, which usually isn’t exposed on the mac. Many extensions do use that.
Hi Shawn,
I have been successfully using the extension with Growl 0.7.6 with default notification Music Video. However when I upgrade to Growl 1.1.1, it does not work with Music Video. I wonder if you are aware of this issue and if not, if it would be possible to look into it?
Thanks very much,
maccamb
@maccamb
There have been a lot of concerns about the Music Video one. I don’t think it is this extensions problem (it just uses the Growl framework code), so I suggest you get a hold of the Growl developers (http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss).
Feature request: Can you have it NOT report Junk messages to Growl? Or is it technically difficult to do this?
What’s more annoying than spam, is getting real-time, on-screen notices about anatomy enlargement and other unpleasant subject lines.
Otherwise – I love the notifications. Better than a bouncing dock icon!
@Myke
There’s code in there to check for it, but I’m aware that it doesn’t seem to work well. Once I’m done with exams, I’ll try to take a look at it again to see if I can improve things at all.
Hey Shawn – Thanks for this wonderful Thunderbird add-on. I was wondering if any progress has been made re: junk email notifications? I’m actually quite new to Thunderbird and when I found out about growl notifications I was quite excited but after seeing endless numbers of junk mail pop up on my screen, my excitement soon turned as you can imagine. I appreciate that it may be some work to fix up. Please let me (us) know
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@Tim
You know, I think I landed a fix for it in the code repository, but then never released a new version. I’ll look into doing that soon (maybe this weekend, although I have two projects due for school Real Soon Now).
Eh Shawn — That would be awesome! (Good luck with your studies as well)
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… so…. finished with all your homework? ;)
Ugh, no. It’s on my todo list though so I won’t forget about it this time!
Oh, okay. No pressure ;)
Thanks for the great extension, and hoping your homework is going fast and well. :)
I too want the spam filter feature. I get a ton of spam every day, and the growl notifier is useless to me without this feature. Thanks so much in advance!
*twiddles thumbs*