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We’re pleased to announce the release of Snowl 0.3, the third major release of the messaging-in-the-browser experiment. This release features closer integration with Firefox’s existing feed functionality and many improvements to the list view to make it easier to subscribe to and follow feeds.
When you click on the feed icon in Firefox’s location bar, Firefox normally shows you its feed preview page. If the page provides both RSS and Atom feeds, Firefox makes you pick between them first:
Snowl 0.3 replaces Firefox’s feed preview page with its river of news view, so once you click on the feed icon, you’ve subscribed to the feed in Snowl and can start following it immediately. It also detects identical RSS and Atom feeds and doesn’t make you pick between them.
The list view improvements include support for deleting messages, unread message counts, custom collections that you can define yourself, and collection filtering:
Try out Snowl 0.3 and let us know what you think! But don’t forget that this is a labs experiment, not a finished product, and there are bound to be bugs and other issues.
Post your thoughts on Snowl to the discussion group, and file bug reports on the problems you encounter. Or join us for discussion in the #labs IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org. And if you’re interesting in hacking on Snowl, check out the source code.
- Myk Melez on behalf of the Snowl team
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- [Bug 521640] mozilla firefox crashed after importing a large opml file to snowl
- [Bug 516152] Providign a portal-like presentation for Snowl
- [Bug 498151] Subscribe via feed button subscribes all exposed feeds
- [Bug 497289] no longer possible to select multiple sources in river view
- update makefile to latest available version; update Fx version compatibility to latest dev build version
- only publish the distribution directory; replace the extension ID in processed .in templates
- new logo from Sean Martell that works on backgrounds of various colors
- undo incomplete and incorrect update to localizations that replaced missing strings with their English equivalents; i've checked the complete update into the snowl-0.3 branch, but the trunk should remain free of English replacements in localizations so we can upload a version with the missing strings to Babelzilla and get them translated; development versions should be English-only, though, since they will bust on localized machines
