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Adds feed reading, notifications, favicons, and other enhancements to Live Bookmarks. (Addon for Firefox)

LiveClick 0.3.0.0 Beta 1

I was hoping to have LiveClick 0.3.0.0 Beta 1 public by the time of Firefox 3’s official release, but the big day has arrived and the beta remains “pending review” on just got approval from AMO (Thanks, Brian!).

Download v0.3.0.0 Beta 1 (Firefox 3 users only)

0.3.0.0 Changelog (++ new since Alpha 4):
+ Livemarks (aka Live Bookmark folders) can be styled when fresh, read, and unread
+ Fresh style available for all Live Bookmark items
+ Read and unread styles can be mixed and matched
+ Live Bookmarks submenu added to Bookmarks menu
+ Option to mark all Live Bookmarks as read via Live Bookmarks submenu
+ Option to clear Live Bookmarks history via Live Bookmarks submenu
+ Option to open unread items in tabs via livemark menu; replaces “Open All in Tabs”
+ Option to open fresh items in tabs as LiveClick or via context menu
+ Option to keep livemark menu open after middle-clicking items
+ Option to mark items as read after viewing livemark menu, visiting site, or exiting Firefox
+ Option to alert after autoloading
+ New monitor: Tag new items (Smart Bookmarks)
+ Added a throbber icon to “Live Bookmark loading…” menu items
+ Added an error icon to “Live Bookmark feed failed to load” menu items
+ Framework in place to support Live Bookmarks in bookmarks sidebar and library
* Common LiveClick commands are now shown at the bottom of livemark menus by default
* “Open Feed” command no longer appears in livemark menu by default
* Numerous changes to strings and shortcut keys
** “LiveClick Options” menu item removed from Tools menu
* Rearranged LiveClick Options dialog

Fully localized: en-US, ca-AD, hu-HU, it-IT, ja-JP, nl-NL, pl-PL, pt-BR, ru-RU, zh-CN, zh-TW

Known issues:
- Livemark menu is not re-styled if menu is open after reloading
- Livemarks in chevron don’t recognize LiveClick
- Livemarks in chevron ignore option to mark as read/unread after viewing menu
- “Open All in Tabs” does not recognize livemark locations
- Livemark read states not saved when Firefox crashes
- Livemark favicons not saved after clearing private data
- Clicking an alert after autoloading opens feed instead of location
- Option missing to “Monitor this Live Bookmark” when adding a live bookmark
- Live bookmark item icons don’t match Linux, Mac styles
- Incomplete locales (de-DE, es-AR, es-ES, fr-FR, he-IL) have blank strings
- Conflicts with [Ext] Official GaiaOnline toolbar
- Conflicts with [Ext] CuteMenus when FlatStyle enabled

Firefox 3 bugs that affect LiveClick 0.3.0.0:
- 329534: Live bookmarks load way too aggressive (lock up browser)
- 364677: No preview for sniffed feeds that don’t have a channel/link or channel/id
- 428690: Two entries added to history menu when visiting a page that redirects
- 431029: shouldn’t be able to create new bookmark/folder/separator for livemark container
- 435124: Cannot move (drag, copy, or cut) live bookmarks that have no site location
- Cannot set a custom Site Location for a Live Bookmark (always reverts to feed’s home page)

Posted on Jul 08 2008 at 05:34 PM

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Please add funcktion to set voice alert.

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