Plugin Downloads : Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox : Comments

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

dmccall@gene.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:23:33 GMT

I am using Clearspace 1.6 and the plugin does not show up in my installed plugin list after I have uploaded it...

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:32:55 GMT

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!

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

dmccall@gene.com — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:45:46 GMT

Ok, thanks for the quick reply

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:08:55 GMT

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?

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:46:28 GMT

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,

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:19:05 GMT

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,

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

geocrash@gmail.com — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:46:08 GMT

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

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:27:50 GMT

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,

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

dmccall@gene.com — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:31:34 GMT

Any plans to create a Safari 3 plugin as well?

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

aaron@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:08:50 GMT

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.

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

dmccall@gene.com — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:13:36 GMT

http://pimpmysafari.com/plugins/

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:47:42 GMT

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! =)

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

dmccall@gene.com — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:11:36 GMT

I've got a new idea for your plugin... check it out here: http://www.jivesoftware.com/community/thread/25896

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:24:34 GMT

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....

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:36:32 GMT

So I better understand the project, why would you want this over using RSS, including the several Firefox RSS plugins?

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:15:19 GMT

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?

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:12:41 GMT

I'd also like to know if the plugin will be avaliable for firefox 3.0 soon?

Thanks!

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

diaan@organicdesignstudio.com — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:05:00 GMT

Me Three. I'd also like to know when Clearfox will become available for Firefox 3 (3.0.1 in particular at this stage). It has, after all, been out for a very long time.

Although, judging by the lack of response to comments on this page I guess this plugin isn't being maintained any more. Quite a pity.

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:43:12 GMT

I was able to get clearfox running with clearspace 2.5.1 and firefox 3.0.1 with minor hacks. In general it works as is, just had to make a couple changes to get it to recompile and force firefox3 to accept the plugin.

1) Modified LoginAction.java to delete the unused AuthFactory import because it doesn't exist anymore in com.jivesoftware.base and won't compile otherwise.

2) Modified the xpi/install.rdf to set maxVersion=3.0.*, so firefox won't complain that it's incompatible. You can also get around this by forcing your firefox installation NOT to check for compatibility, by adding the extensions.checkCompatibility boolean preference via about:config and setting it to false.

3) Firefox complains about extensions that don't provide an SSL url for 'secure updates', but you can also get around this by telling firefox not to care by adding the extensions.checkUpdateSecurity preference via about:config and setting it to false.

4) Recompiled clearfox using the new 2.5.1 jars and a slightly modified build.xml to point to the right places on my local clearspace build (lib directories, servletapi.jar instead of servlet-api.jar)

The newly built clearspace.jar loaded up fine in 2.5.1, and in my informal tests with both firefox 2.0.0.x and 3.0.x everything seems to be working. I didn't mess around with the meat of the plugin code so I'm unsure of any potential issues with either of the new platforms. Also note that changing these firefox preferences is sort of thwarting the firefox extension security model, so it's not an ideal final solution but at least you can do this temporarily to play around with it. If there's a place for me to upload my updated clearfox.jar, I can provide it for those interested.

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:24:47 GMT

Would you be able to email your jar? nathan dot minor at gmail.com ?

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:50:39 GMT

Same here. Would you mind emailing a link to the jar? s.apale@cgiar.org

Much thanks.

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

dmccall@gene.com — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:38:41 GMT

I would also like the 2.5 version. Please email dmccall at gene.com

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

communities@jivesoftware.com — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:52:43 GMT

A haiku for Aaron's plugin:

Clearfox rocks the house

But no love on 2.5

Oh to see again

RE: Firefox Sidebar Plugin: Clearfox

dmccall@gene.com — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:26:06 GMT

Eric, you crack me up!