Comments on: Sage 1.5.2 Released

By: zqwerty

zqwerty — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:13:41 +0000

Ok thanks, looking forward to the new release.

By: Peter Andrews

Peter Andrews — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:27:45 +0000

Should have a new release out shortly.

By: zqwerty

zqwerty — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 08:23:56 +0000

Sage no longer working correctly in Firefox 40, all new versions beta.

By: pd

pd — Sun, 17 May 2015 23:33:08 +0000

Just installed Sage on my work machine after an absence from work and various problems with my machine plus being too busy to read RSS much.

Great to see Sage seems to still be working fine in Firefox 37.0.2 at least.

By: S: Hansen

S: Hansen — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:44:20 +0000

Sage was my favorite addon – until I recently discovered through a security expert that, as seen from the outside, it makes my computer/IP look like a bot.
There is no possibility to manually alter the refresh interval. Plus there is no guarantee that the user data collected stay “anonymous.”

By: TD

TD — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 22:30:49 +0000

+1. I’d hate to dump Sage

By: FireMind

FireMind — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:22:42 +0000

Please allow configuration of the automatic feed update on FF start. As a Info Security person, I’ve just wasted a couple of hours trying to track down what looked liked potential botnet traffic from a PC due to this feature. Please allow users to switch this behaviour off ASAP.

Other than that – thanks for a great extension – all the best for the future!

By: Poltiser

Poltiser — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 05:23:02 +0000

export – does not export anything (it would be desirable if I can choose the set to export)
I think you should know –
and how can I stop automatic updating of feeds (waist of time if I don’t need it)

your program is good and very handy
so far in many years those are the annoyances I found

Best regards

By: David

David — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 17:18:23 +0000

Version 1.5.2 also has another irritating bug…

This version was (I believe) a quick fix to make Sage compatible with Firefox version 21ish? In any case, the fix introduced a new bug. The feeds do not remember if they have been read or not. So essentially all feeds are always unread. Very irritating.

By: David

David — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 17:14:51 +0000

2 months and still no way to turn off the automatic update function. How hard can it be?????????????????

By: Aranos

Aranos — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:20:49 +0000

It’s also notably faster and less blocking than sage as it uses async feed loading.

Forgot one more point:
For now the rss feed url has to be changed in the code (set to a german news page for testing). It is opened by clicking the new orange icon in the addon bar (should open a new tab with the feed).

By: Aranos

Aranos — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:18:08 +0000

…Ok, forgot to mention the link:
https://builder.addons.mozilla.org/package/193621/latest/

By: Aranos

Aranos — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:17:12 +0000

Like I said (I used the nick Xeron on this blog before but as I am known as Aranos on the Mozilla site i will use this now) I wrote a addon with the changes I mentioned.
It’s fully working for correct RSS 2.0 feeds (Google News does a really bad job respecting the specs -> no description in channel) and also working with forms of Atom feeds (but using RSS parser atm).
It implements read states as hash table lookup which is working quite nicely. Link read states as before are possible too because you can color the links with css which can be changed easily.

Only problems so far:
- no sidebar (thanks Mozilla!…Sidebar API coming in like 4-10 Firefox versions, probably on Nightly in the next version or so -_-)
- no bookmarks (…same as above…no Places API)

It’s more or less a demo addon for now but it should be easily portable for sage as new and old addons can work together (but don’t know how to work with XUL yet).

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 18:22:11 +0000

Is there a reason why recent versions have removed the ability to put Sage’s Feeds Folder inside Firefox’s “Unsorted Bookmarks” section? It was great to have my sage feeds not need to appear in the bookmarks drop down menu.

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:37:54 +0000

+1 . Is there any option to disable automatic feed check ?

By: Kraken

Kraken — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 05:58:18 +0000

By: MrAli

MrAli — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:24:46 +0000

add right-to-left (RTL) languages support to sage, please.

By: Xeron

Xeron — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:54:18 +0000

In regard to what Don Pedro said:
Firefox 25 could be a deal breaker (for me) as there seems to be a complete ui redesign which includes a lot of deprecation of old stuff. This could be a problem for Sage and many many other addons (and it’s ugly as hell). Luckily Firefox 24 is an ESR but if Firefox will really make all the changes announced for 25 I (and probably many others) will be looking for alternatives (which hopefully support Firefox addons…^^).

Link: http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2013/05/27/major-compatibility-changes-coming-for-firefox-25/

By: Xeron

Xeron — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:41:49 +0000

1) I think this is a problem with firefox and not with sage as the sidebar is a normal ui element (by the way: this could be changing if the sidebar gets a mozilla sdk counterpart as the draft of it looks like it’s “more usefull” – free positioning, content can be styled in more ways, etc.)
2) This will get an option in the near future (https://github.com/petea/sage/issues)
3) I don’t know what you mean…the sage tab does not loose focus if you open a link with middle click…
4) I don’t get this either…if I click “mark all as read” it does work as intended (except for feed items without links but that is already on the bug tracker and was this way since the beginning)
5) huh???

About version dependence:
It isn’t…except Firefox 22 there was no major “break” since some time. It’s only if mozilla changes some core aspects used by sage.

By: Xeron

Xeron — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 19:30:41 +0000

Oh before i forget: I am not really happy with some changes (i said that before^^) so i understand what you mean but i am not (yet) disappointet with firefox as i like html 5 and css 3 (especially as i don’t like javascript which is not needed as much if you use css 3/html 5 instead).