A plugin within a plugin. Installs a sidebar in your Firefox (2.0 or greater) install that keeps you up to date with the latest and greatest content in your Clearspace install. You install the plugin in Clearspace and then point your browser to http://example.com/clearspace/cf-about.jspa to install the Firefox part of the plugin.
Technologies
This plugin is composed of two parts: the Firefox XUL / JavaScript code and the Clearspace plugin which is Java.
What's Included
The source code for both the Clearspace plugin and the Firefox sidebar plugin.
Requirements
Requires Firefox 2.0 or greater and Clearspace 1.6 or greater. The auto-update technology in the Firefox plugin will only work with Clearspace 1.7 (currently in beta).
Building and Deploying the Code
You can either install the plugin jar directly into your admin console or given the source code, you can compile the plugin using Ant:
> ant plugin -Dplugin=clearfox
Clearspace 2 Plugin Files
Clearspace 1.X Plugin Files Are Attached Below
Aaron Johnson says:
in response to: Dan McCall
hi dmccall,
The plugin currently only works with Clearspace 1.7, so it won't install in your environment. Just one more week until Clearspace 1.7! 
AJ
Dan McCall says:
in response to: Aaron Johnson
Ok, thanks for the quick reply
cpcsolutions says:
We are using Clearspace 1.7. When I install the plugin on Firefox 2.0.0.9 (running on Mac OS 10.4.10) it just puts a white bar (about 50px high) at the very bottom of the browser, underneath the status bar that tells you if a page is done loading of the link you are hovering over. There is no buttons on the top tool bar.
Any ideas?
Aaron Johnson says:
in response to: cpcsolutions
hi cpcsolutions,
That's weird, I wrote the plugin while using my Mac. I'm not sure why it would install at the bottom of your browser. Can you send me a screenshot (aaron@jivesoftware.com)?
Cheers,
AJ
Aaron Johnson says:
in response to: Aaron Johnson
FYI: I updated the src and jar available for this plugin: it's now at version 1.2, which has fixes for users who deploy Clearspace on Windows and one additional new feature.
Cheers,
AJ
Eric Eagle says:
Hi Aaron, I'm not a developer just a tester/user of clearspacex. Is there a Firefox plugin out or planned that will allow me to post to a clearspace blog from the browser without being at the clearspace dashboard, ala scriptfire or something? thanks, eric
Aaron Johnson says:
in response to: Eric Eagle
hi Eric,
You should be able to use any tool that support the MetaWeblog API, there are directions here for a number of tools, including Performancing, which is what ScribeFire used to be called:
http://www.jivesoftware.com/community/message/51991
Cheers,
AJ
Dan McCall says:
Any plans to create a Safari 3 plugin as well?
Aaron Johnson says:
in response to: Dan McCall
Is there such a thing as a Safari plugin? I'd be interesting in working on one, but I can't seem to find anything on developer.apple.com that talks about ways you can extend Safari.
Dan McCall says:
in response to: Aaron Johnson
ryan.rutan@ni.com says:
Any chance Clearfox will start to pickup comments/polls activities in addition to documents and discussion threads. Would be nice, to be able to have settings that filter...show me discussions, comments, documents, polls, etc... Neat plugin Aaron! =)
Dan McCall says:
I've got a new idea for your plugin... check it out here: http://www.jivesoftware.com/community/thread/25896
Heather DelCarpini says:
Is there an updated link for the page to install the Firefox part of the plugin? When I try to visit: http://example.com/clearspace/cf-about.jspa I get a broken page....
David Rees says:
in response to: Heather DelCarpini
So I better understand the project, why would you want this over using RSS, including the several Firefox RSS plugins?
brennant says:
Hi there - Clearfox is very useful to some of our users and they're asking if it will be made available for Firefox 3.0?
Nina Nochowitz says:
I'd also like to know if the plugin will be avaliable for firefox 3.0 soon?
Thanks!
I am using Clearspace 1.6 and the plugin does not show up in my installed plugin list after I have uploaded it...