snowl

Snowl 0.3

Myk Melez — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:55:30 +0000

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

Snowl 0.3pre3

Myk Melez — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:22:05 +0000

Snowl 0.3pre3, the third preview release of the next version of Snowl (the messaging-in-the-browser experiment), is now available. This version includes a few new features and a number of bug fixes.

In the river view, you can now see a day, a week, or a month’s worth of messages via the time period picker in the toolbar:

In the list view, you can now see how many new/unread/total messages you have, and both messages and collections can have icons indicating various states (new, refreshing, error, etc.):

Other enhancements include performance improvements and better support for searching for messages in non-English languages.

This is the last preview before the final release of 0.3. From here until that release, the focus will be on bug fixes and polish.

Try out Snowl 0.3pre3 and let us know what you think! But don’t forget that this is a preview release of a labs experiment, not a stable release of a finished product, and there are bound to be bugs and other issues.

- Myk Melez on behalf of the Snowl team

Welcome to the new Snowl weblog!

Martell — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:50:32 +0000

With the launch of the new Mozilla Labs website, each Labs project now has its own custom, independent web presence and weblog. The site as a whole is built on a standard WordPress Multi-User install, with two custom themes designed by Sean Martell and built by Neil Lee and Ryan Doherty. These themes allow us to customize and update each site much more easily than before. We hope you like the new look, and if you would like to stay on top of what’s happening with Snowl, you can subscribe to the web feed on this page.