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NewsFox for SeaMonkey included in the Softpedia Mac OS software database

2009-09-07T20:09:02Z

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Re: How to import feeds?

2009-08-12T04:03:41Z

socialdavid wrote:

When I highlight a group and try to import a OPML file, the feeds get dumped into the root Feeds folder.

This is the design.

How to import feeds?

2009-08-11T16:05:28Z

When I highlight a group and try to import a OPML file, the feeds get dumped into the root Feeds folder.

New feeds don't refresh

2008-10-26T12:56:24Z

Feeds appear to load using add feed button but don't add using RSS icon. New feeds have no articles and subsequently check but refuse to refresh. Only exception is the version history feed - this loads and updates OK. I think Newsfox functioned fine until Firefox was closed with all tabs.

Newsfox updated to 1.0.4.1 with Firefox 3.0.3 Private data cleared.

Thanks
shelterhelper

NewsFox resources

2008-04-11T20:44:01Z

NewsFox resources available:

Informational feed.
Installation page for finding beta and release candidate versions.
Homepage.
Feed posts for 2008, 2007.
NewsFox Bugzilla for reporting bugs/feature requests.
Forum.
NewsFox page at Mozilla add-ons(AMO).
Secure installation page at mozdev.org.
Babelzilla forum for translators.
Mailing list (Nabble.com) forum.
Feed validators: W3C and feedvalidator.org.
Format specifications for Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0.
Firefox Bugzilla for reporting Firefox bugs/feature requests.
Homepage visit statistics.

Upgrade Newsfox

2008-04-07T19:00:59Z

Hi, I'm Julio from brazil so sorry about my english mystakes...I had using newsfox for a long time and i like it, but it's becoming slowly and taking several time to become enable, I think this is happening since the thumbs upgrade so I suggest making this disabled or enabled in options and another s options thinking in people who had slow pcs...thanks and congratulations for the great work...

Notícias direto do New York Times, gols do Lance, videocassetadas e muitos outros vídeos no MSN Videos! Confira já!
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NewsFox 0.8.4 - Softpedia 100% FREE Award

2008-04-05T00:39:03Z

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Re: RSS 2 Feed not refreshing correctly METHOD TO FIX

2008-03-20T07:26:20Z

Andreas_Ebert@t-online.de wrote:

http://www.zroadster.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2

I forgot that we have a method to bypass cache problems with Firefox and feeds. Change your feed URL to

http://www.zroadster.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&%CURRENT_DATETIME%

This works.

Technical note: NewsFox changes '%CURRENT_DATETIME%' to a string of the current date and time. This makes the URL unique each time, so Firefox fetches it new. The server doesn't understand the '&%CURRENT_DATETIME%' part of the URL and just ignores it.

Re: RSS 2 Feed not refreshing correctly

2008-03-20T06:43:22Z

It seems to be a caching issue. If you go to "Clear Private Data" (or equivalent auf Deutsch) and clear the cache it should work fine.

I haven't spent the time to see if it is a feed problem or a Firefox problem (NewsFox is asking for the new data, but is not getting it). The feed does have a tag <ttl>60</ttl> which indicates the feed can be cached without rechecking for 60 minutes, even though they put out articles much more frequently than this. So my guess would be that Firefox is just following the feed recommendation.

RSS 2 Feed not refreshing correctly

2008-03-19T01:55:38Z

Hello,

this RSS 2 feed do not refresh correctly:

http://www.zroadster.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2

I am not getting the newest entries. If i refresh i am getting sometimes
one new entry, but never all.

Is this a bug in newsfox?

Thank you in advance
Andreas Ebert

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Re: suggestion

2008-03-11T12:26:42Z

Mihai F wrote:

isn't it possible to have folders embedded into other folders in newsfox ? i mean, to have feeds organized in a tree-like manner, like files and folders in Explorer. i like newsfox a lot, but i miss very much this feature.

This is not planned for NewsFox, see bug#17242.

Mihai F wrote:

i also tried to remove the feeds from the FEEDS folder, where all the feeds are stored (i didn't want to have the same feed in two places), but when i did that, feed fox wouldn't refresh the rest of the feeds, so that didn't work.

I would recommend never to open the FEEDS group. Then it just takes one line at the top of your display and stays out of the way. You do need to remember to put feeds in at least one other group when adding. Having feeds in more than one group is very useful: you could have groups daily, weekly, irregular and groups news, tech, biking, etc(whatever interests you have) and groups important, not_important for example. This is not planned for NewsFox, see bug#18704.

suggestion

2008-03-10T12:30:23Z

hy
i'm not sure this is the right place to write you, but here it goes :

isn't it possible to have folders embedded into other folders in
newsfox ? i mean, to have feeds organized in a tree-like manner, like
files and folders in Explorer. i like newsfox a lot, but i miss very
much this feature.
i also tried to remove the feeds from the FEEDS folder, where all the
feeds are stored (i didn't want to have the same feed in two places),
but when i did that, feed fox wouldn't refresh the rest of the feeds,
so that didn't work.

i'm sorry for my bad english.
hope to hearing from you,
mihai
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Re: rss marktplaats.nl

2008-02-29T07:58:14Z

L. van der Toorn wrote:

in version 0.6.5 is works great, but in newer versions the date is not given. It is giving a "illegal date"
is this a knows bug?

I could not find a feed on this site!

What is probably happpening is that the site does not use legal dates in the feed, and old versions of NewsFox just put in the current date when that happened. With new versions you can get NewsFox to replace illegal dates by going to the options menu -> Opties... -> and then check the box marked "Ongeldige datum" assuming you're using the nl-NL version.

You can check the validity of the feed at http://validator.w3.org/feed.

rss marktplaats.nl

2008-02-27T03:18:12Z

Hallo all,

in version 0.6.5 is works great, but in newer versions the date is not given. It is giving a "illegal date"

is this a knows bug?

Mvg

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Re: Manual Grouping

2008-01-18T15:04:51Z

Terence-16 wrote:

i have been using newsfox for quite a while now.
for every new releases / updates, ialways hope to see the ability to
manual group
the feeds to our likings but each time i was a little disappointed.

I am wondering if it is possible to implement the function to manually
group the feeds
into users created folders?

Not quite sure what you mean - feeds can be organized in user created and named groups. If you mean creating groups of groups(subfolders), see https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17242.

Terence-16 wrote:

Also, it would be really nice if users can
navigate through the 3 windows using the arrow keys only.
for example when in the feeds column, just hit right to go to the group
feeds there users can use the up / down keys to browse throught the feeds.
Hitting right key again will bring u into the content of the feeds where
again, using the up and down keys will allow users to browse the page.

The right arrow does other things already in XUL trees. Tab is the standard way to switch which element has the focus. There is a little problem when no article has the focus, for example when you first switch to a new feed. The first time you hit tab, the articles will get the focus, but nothing is selected. Here is one way to get around this: hit tab once, and then use control-up and control-down-arrow to move the focus among the articles. When you want to select an article, hit control-right-arrow.

Re: Manual Grouping

2008-01-17T20:51:07Z

Hi developers of newsfox,

i have been using newsfox for quite a while now.
for every new releases / updates, ialways hope to see the ability to
manual group
the feeds to our likings but each time i was a little disappointed.

I am wondering if it is possible to implement the function to manually
group the feeds
into users created folders? Also, it would be really nice if users can
navigate through the 3 windows using the arrow keys only.
for example when in the feeds column, just hit right to go to the group
feeds there users can use the up / down keys to browse throught the feeds.
Hitting right key again will bring u into the content of the feeds where
again, using the up and down keys will allow users to browse the page.

those are just my 2 cents input.
thank you newsfox team for such a wonderful plugin.
regards
terence
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Re: Crossed titles?

2008-01-05T16:53:19Z

A title is crossed out in NewsFox when there is no <RSS:guid> or <atom:id> tag associated with the article. The <guid> tag is not required in RSS, but NewsFox needs it in order to keep track of articles. If the <link> tag is unique, NewsFox will use that as a guid.

Title are also crossed out when deleted, but this can't be the case in your situation.

If this doesn't help, could you post an example feed(or excerpt). Thanks, R Pruitt

Crossed titles?

2008-01-05T07:56:33Z

Hi,

I'm just writing an RSS feed generator and installed NEWSFOX for testing purposes. While in general looks everything OK, I do not know why titles are crossed except the first:

Other feeds are normal and my feed is OK with other eraders as with the feed validator online.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards... Béla

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Re: Post Opera user - filter request

2007-12-30T19:41:31Z

There will probably not be an option to remove items from the feed to put them somewhere else. There may in the future be an option to add items to a storage feed by rules.

You can currently make a search group that includes all items with certain words or excludes items with certain words. See the discussion of search folders.

Post Opera user - filter request

2007-12-26T04:41:40Z

Good Day Everyone!

Is it possible to include in future releases filter feature which enables user to filter RSS feeds by keywords, something like spam filter which tells NewsFox to put such a such news which includes such a such word in title to such a such folder??? Something like spam filter in Outlook or Opera mail. I'm long time Opera user and I'm missing this feature in NewsFox. Thank you in advance. All the best and Marry Christmas.

Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

2007-12-22T08:20:09Z

Synchronization discussion continued at https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=14980#c6, merging discussions there.

CmdrTrix wrote:

Also, this would be nice, just before Tag Selected, Open Selected and Delete Selected:

(New feature: From the list of articles, if I could rightclick->"Bookmark Selected" instead of having to rightclick the URL below it would be great)

This might be possible. Personally, I'd just flag it, tag it, or put it in a storage feed.

Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

2007-12-18T03:15:04Z

R Pruitt wrote:

I talked with the FoxMarks folks and they are not sure what info will be synced in FF3, for example annotations (which would be the natural spot to store stuff) may not be.

It is completely understandable that there may be limitations and I would say that the only requirement would be for a feed to be stored as bookmark in a particular folder and that all new bookmarks sync'd by foxmarks into that folder would then be fetched by NewsFox. I really just want a list of RSS feeds to be mobile between home, work, my laptop and when i accidentally wipe my firefox bookmarks without backing up.

Accuracy of what has been purged, read, not read, etc is not necessarily that important. A nice to have would be the storage of the last time i fetched feeds in the bookmark's details however when I think about it and how I use newsfox I don't really think that it is really that necessary.

R Pruitt wrote:

There will be an option to get update times off the bookmark rather than the local one. If using the bookmark option, all articles will be downloaded, but only the ones timestamped after the bookmarked update time will be marked as unread.

This would be great. Having the storage of update times on the bookmark should be optional now that i think about it in more detail however if there are more recent times in your local datastore then use that one. The limitations around those marked as read/unread/purged is perfectly acceptable.

In actual fact, if there were particular feeds that I felt are very important and I wanted to keep them, I would want to store them as bookmarks. (New feature: From the list of articles, if I could rightclick->"Bookmark Selected" instead of having to rightclick the URL below it would be great)

I'm not sure what you mean by the following but I would not want to keep track of individual important items within the feed (e.g. pruning & read) as that is potentially hectic. Maybe just store configuration details of the feeds such as the frequency it should check the feed (e.g. every hour v.s. every 8 hours).

I might even consider the datestamp stored in the description unnecessary... so rather dont store that as it might cause unnecessary foxmark synchronisations. Always use information that you keep in your local datastore.

R Pruitt wrote:

Discussion: This does nothing to sync feeds, but you may have different feeds you look at on different machines and not want feeds to be synced. If you do want to sync feeds, export an OPML and then add to existing feeds on the other machine.

The limitations around those marked as read/unread/purged is perfectly acceptable. I dont expect the state to be synchronised across machines.

You could probably create three options within configuration.
1. Create feeds as bookmarks [yes/no]
2. Bookmark folder to store feeds [RSS Feeds]
3. Store timestamp details in bookmark description [yes/no] (maybe just leave this out)

Potentially, within the Options dialog for each feed store an option:
1. Store this feed's configuration in bookmarks [yes/no] (Checking this will take an existing feed and create a bookmark for it within the folder specified in #2 above. That way you can have specific feeds that you check on your machine at work.)

Also, this would be nice, just before Tag Selected, Open Selected and Delete Selected:

(New feature: From the list of articles, if I could rightclick->"Bookmark Selected" instead of having to rightclick the URL below it would be great)

Thank you,

-Timothy

Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

2007-12-14T11:43:11Z

I talked with the FoxMarks folks and they are not sure what info will be synced in FF3, for example annotations (which would be the natural spot to store stuff) may not be.

But I have been working on this for FF2. What I have is the following:

Proposal: When a feed is updated, the feed URL and update time are added to the description of a special NewsFox bookmark. There will be an option to get update times off the bookmark rather than the local one. If using the bookmark option, all articles will be downloaded, but only the ones timestamped after the bookmarked update time will be marked as unread.

Discussion: This does nothing to sync feeds, but you may have different feeds you look at on different machines and not want feeds to be synced. If you do want to sync feeds, export an OPML and then add to existing feeds on the other machine. This won't help with pruning, but you can add feeds from scratch for that. Example: when traveling I check a smaller subset of feeds, don't want the feeds synced, just the update times.

You may miss articles being marked as unread, because feed authors don't really treat timestamping as meaning the current time. Many feeds put out articles dated well ahead or behind when they are posted.

Ideas? Comments? Would this give you what you want(are willing to accept :))?

This is not really a feature I will use, but if there are ideas that can be implemented relatively easily (as proposal above), I am willing to put them in.

Re: glitch? please help

2007-11-20T09:51:33Z

Go to the URL http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot.

Do you get a dropdown list titled 'subscribe to this feed using'?

If so, is Newsfox on the list?

The following will help you if the answers are Yes and No. (Otherwise, it's not broken.) Go to the URL about:config and filter 'newsfox'. Double-click newsfox.internal.doneAutoSubcribe to make it false. Close Firefox and restart. Newsfox should now be in the dropdown list if you start at the top of this page. The Firefox code does not like RSS readers that are extensions, so it may not immediately show up in the feeds option.

glitch? please help

2007-11-18T11:51:21Z

i've looked around your site but can't find a solution. i'm stuck at the beginning of the instructions:

Overview
Adding feeds
* By choosing 'Newsfox' in the 'Feeds' panel of Firefox options(preferences), NewsFox can add feeds by clicking the RSS icon at the right side of the URL box when a feed is available.
==========

Newsfox isn't an option in the 'feeds' panel of firefox 2.0.0.9 with newsfox add-on installed. And i have no idea how to make it be an option.

thanks in advance.

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Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

2007-11-16T10:36:46Z

CmdrTrix wrote:

I use a few computers (home, work, laptop, etc) and use Foxmarks to synchronise my bookmarks. The problem is that my rss feeds get stored on a single machine.

I would want the rss feed and its state to be stored in a bookmark folder which is then distributed by Foxmarks. The basic state (check frequency, etc) could be stored in the description field. The actual messages I would not need to keep because I would bookmark them if they are interesting.

I did respond to your review at AMO, but developer responses have to be modded so who knows if and when it will show up. This watered down version of your recommendation#4 over there might be possible. I am thinking how it might be done. It won't be the whole file structure(which is what I assumed you meant at AMO) since even my newsfox folder is 15Mb, and I know much larger ones out there.

There are other syncing products that do more than bookmarks and mountable remote filesystems(?), but I've never tried any of them. You can also put your newsfox folder on a flash drive.

I do realize syncing is a necessary feature for a lot of people - it's just harder for us than for the online readers(they have no problem) and the readers that don't store articles.

Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

2007-11-16T01:03:52Z

I use a few computers (home, work, laptop, etc) and use Foxmarks to synchronise my bookmarks. The problem is that my rss feeds get stored on a single machine.

I would want the rss feed and its state to be stored in a bookmark folder which is then distributed by Foxmarks. The basic state (check frequency, etc) could be stored in the description field. The actual messages I would not need to keep because I would bookmark them if they are interesting.

-Tim

Re: All my feeds are gone!

2007-11-15T15:15:33Z

ernasty10050 wrote:

I just updated last night and all my feeds have disappeared :(
What happened? Please don't tell me I have to try and find them all again.

Please have a look at bug#18091, especially comments #1 and #4. Hope that helps. Otherwise respond over there. -thx

All my feeds are gone!

2007-11-15T13:00:12Z

I just updated last night and all my feeds have disappeared :(
What happened? Please don't tell me I have to try and find them all again.

RSS feed posts won't appear here

2007-11-15T07:23:25Z

The NewsFox RSS feed posts will no longer be copied to this mailing list.

The main point was to allow comments, and since no one has commented the practice will be stopped.

You can subscribe to the feed at http://newsfox.mozdev.org/rss/rss.xml.

Minor release: NewsFox 0.8.2

2007-11-14T14:57:01Z

Newsfox 0.8.2 is released. This is the parts of 0.8.3 that didn't require translation.

Feed parser improvements
Number of unread articles in search groups (bug#17354)
Tooltips in article pane
User defined default article sort
OPML export of single groups(context menu)
Firefox 3.0beta1 support
Minor fixes

Cleaner deletion method
Feed source displayed
Single refresh/cancel button
About link on help menu
User defined icons

The number of unread articles in search groups can be turned off in about:config: newsfox.override.showSearchUnread. The computations can be burdensome with many feeds/search folders or a slow computer. In 0.8.3, you will be able to set this preference group by group, and then this preference can be used to globally turn off #search unread.

Article tooltips can be turned off in about:config: newsfox.advanced.articleTooltip. There is some overhead with computing tooltips due to how Firefox 3 handles tooltips on trees, which is much worse than Firefox 2. The body tooltip shows up when hovering over the right 50% of the title.

To make a user defined default sort, set the about:config preferences newsfox.sorts.columnX and newsfox.sorts.directionX where X is 0, then 1, then 2, etc.. For example, the default is newsfox.sorts.column0="date" and newsfox.sorts.direction0="descending". To sort by date and then unread status (to put unread articles at the top), you can have
newsfox.sorts.column0="date" newsfox.sorts.column1="read" newsfox.sorts.direction0="descending" newsfox.sorts.direction1="descending"You do need to have newsfox.sorts.column0="none" in order to have no sorting, otherwise the default will happen. In fact, only the first letter of any of these preferences is ever looked at by NewsFox: newsfox.sorts.column0="d" is the same as "date". The columns are "flag", "title", "read", and "date".

Deleted articles are now marked with strike-thru text until the next feed/group is selected at which time they are deleted from display. This allows the column sorting in the article pane to remain the same, while the code remains clean.

NewsFox now checks for icons in the images subfolder of the user newsfox folder. For example, place a (16x16) png file in [your_prefix]/newsfox/images/check.png and it will be your refresh button in NewsFox. A list of such icons is in the beta release notes.

Beta release: NewsFox 0.8.2b5

2007-11-05T15:05:28Z

This beta release will become version 0.8.2 after bug fixes. There are no new translation strings in this release.

The usual disclaimers apply: this is a beta release so use it with caution on a backup of your Newsfox folder. I use it on my real Newsfox folder.

The new features (where to look for bugs to fix):

Feed parser improvements
Mostly improvements in atom parsing, but also cleaned up to deal with FF3 issues. All links from the text view should now open in a new tab/window. Let me know if you find one that doesn't.
Number of unread articles in search groups
This can be turned off in about:config: newsfox.override.showSearchUnread. The computations can be burdensome with many feeds/search folders. In 0.8.3, you will be able to set this preference group by group, and then this preference can be used to globally turn off # search unread.
Tooltips in article pane
This can be turned off in about:config: newsfox.advanced.articleTooltip. There is overhead with this due to how Firefox 3 handles tooltips on trees, much worse than Firefox 2 does..., but I didn't think it onerous enough to put in FF2 specific code. The angle brackets will be used for article tags coming in 0.8.3. The body tooltip shows up when hovering over the right 60% of the title. The size is 450x275pixels. The Firefox tooltip/popup code is a little questionable.
Source tag read in feeds
User defined article sort
Set the about:config preferences newsfox.sorts.columnX and newsfox.sorts.directionX where X is 0, then 1, then 2, etc.. For example, the default is newsfox.sorts.column0="date" and newsfox.sorts.direction0="descending". To sort by date and then unread status (to put unread articles at the top), you can have
newsfox.sorts.column0="date" newsfox.sorts.column1="read" newsfox.sorts.direction0="descending" newsfox.sorts.direction1="descending"You do need to have newsfox.sorts.column0="none" in order to have no sorting, otherwise the default will happen. In fact, only the first letter of any of these preferences is ever looked at by NewsFox: newsfox.sorts.column0="d" is the same as "date". Helpful to know if you can't spell descending and ascending. The columns are "flag", "title", "read", and "date".
Single refresh/cancel button
Why is this not the default button configuration in Firefox? Only one of refresh and stop is ever active.
New deletion method
Articles are marked with strike-thru text until the next feed/group is selected at which time they are deleted. This allows the column sorting in the article pane to remain the same, while the code remains clean.
OPML export of single groups
This is available on the context menu.
About link on help menu
Will be translated in 0.8.3.
FF3.0a8 support
There are still some bugs in FF3.0a8 affecting NewsFox: bookmark finding and window resizing among them.
User icons

NewsFox checks for icons in the images subfolder of the user newsfox folder. For example, place a (16x16) png file in [your_prefix]/newsfox/images/check.png and it will be your refresh button in NewsFox. You can find the names of icons from the source code page of NewsFox, or by looking inside the newsfox.jar file inside your extensions folder: chrome > skin > classic > newsfox > images (or look below). Mail.png and encl-*.png are not included, someone knowledgeable about CSS might be able to change these in textview.css.

add.png -add feed
addFolder.png 	     
brokenFeed.png      
cancel.png -stop refresh
check.png -refresh feeds
del.png -delete feed
delFolder.png 	     
delete.png -delete articles
feed.png -for unknown favicon
flag.png -article flagged
folderClosed.png 	  
folderOpen.png 	    
folderSearch.png    
help.png -question mark
home.png 	          
livemark.png 	              
markAllAsRead.png 	 
markAllAsUnread.png 
options.png -cog wheel
read.png -article read, unflagged
unread.png -article unread

R Pruitt (wa84it AT gmail.com)

Re: After latest update - I don't like the way it displays the page

2007-10-29T20:03:53Z

Discussion continued in NewsFox bug#18011.

After latest update - I don't like the way it displays the page

2007-10-29T07:34:24Z

Hi everybody,

I have some remarks regarding the way NewsFox now displays the web page
associated to RSS article.

In previous version, when viewing articles in the text format you could
watch the article's original web page in the same NewsFox's sub-window (i.e.
lower right window below artcles' list - same as in text format) by clicking
the article's web page link.

Now, after clicking article's link, Firefox opens article's original web
page in the whole tab where NewsFox was so if you want to return to
NewsFox's tab content you have to click "Back" button (or NewsFox button)
and that's annoying.
Now you have to set (either global or channel) the settings to show
article's web page content (not text) to see the web page in the NewsFox's
sub-window but then all articles are shown that way (entire web page
dowloads) and you do not have the choice to see only the one you are
interested in.
In my humble opinion it was much better organized in previous version. It
was quite logical then - you were viewing text summaries of each article and
if you wanted to see more on interesting article you were just clicking the
link and web page was opening in the same NewsFox's sub-window, just below
artcles' list, without closing entire NewsFox reader as it is now!!

Can we revert to previous "behaviour" please? ;-))

Best regards,

--
A. Kaczynski
kaczorek@...

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Release: NewsFox 0.8.1

2007-09-30T15:41:17Z

Newsfox 0.8.1 is prereleased at mozdev. This is basically the version that will be released later at addons.mozilla.org, but with fewer translations. There may be minor bug fixes before the release.

New feed parser: smaller, faster, and (bug#14444, bug#15632, bug#17671, bug#17681, bug#17768)
UTF-8 encoding of files (bug#17446)
User chosen NewsFox directory location
Date style options in global dialog, thanks Bernhard
Partial solution for external DTDs, see (bug#14929)
Atom xhtml displayed as xhtml in text view
Updated help (bug#17699)
Email article links (bug#15412)
Enclosure support
Minor fixes
- Textview.css improvements
- Expanded OPML import options
- Autosubscribe and autorefresh conflict (bug#17530)
- Tested with FF3.0a7
- Updated icons, thanks ADR (bug#17387)
- 'Add feed' has better selection after operation
- Article pane doesn't reload on refresh (bug#17798)

NewsFox no longer uses the Sage feed parser, but rather uses its own.

The UTF-8 file encoding is not backward compatible with previous NewsFox versions. This version will read prior versions, but you will not be able to use a newsfox folder saved with NewsFox 0.8.1 with previous versions of NewsFox.

You can now choose the location of the newsfox directory. For example, you can choose a location on a flash drive and take your newsfox directory with you.

There are now 3 date styles available for use in the article pane: ISO with no seconds, the short date as set on your system, and the long date as set on your system.

There are two new advanced user features: email articles and enclosures(podcasts). These are advanced user features because how the links are handled is determined by your system setup, and this is beyond the control of NewsFox. The chance of problems with these features being a problem with NewsFox is not high. :)

There is now the ability to email articles (title, link, body) using a mailto: link in text view. Mailto: links are limited to 256(?) bytes, so there is an about:config option to copy the body of the article to the clipboard.

The control of text view via the textview.css file has been improved. The following classes are defined: .newsfox-mail, .newsfox-title, .newsfox-category, .newsfox-date, .newsfox-link, .newsfox-enclosures, .newsfox-encl. So you can style individual pieces of the newsfox-box in text view. For example, to keep the categories from showing, place

.newsfox-category { display: none; }

in your textview.css file inside your newsfox folder. The class .newsfox-enclosures refers to the span containing all enclosures, and .newsfox-encl refers to a single enclosure.

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Re: RSS 2 Feed not refreshing correctly

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Re: suggestion

suggestion

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rss marktplaats.nl

Re: Manual Grouping

Re: Manual Grouping

Re: Crossed titles?

Crossed titles?

Re: Post Opera user - filter request

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Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

Re: glitch? please help

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Re: Improvement - Rss Feed storage in bookmarks

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Re: All my feeds are gone!

All my feeds are gone!

RSS feed posts won't appear here

Minor release: NewsFox 0.8.2

Beta release: NewsFox 0.8.2b5

Re: After latest update - I don't like the way it displays the page

After latest update - I don't like the way it displays the page

Release: NewsFox 0.8.1

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