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Past Versions of Clippings
The following links to previous versions of Clippings are provided for historical reference. You should always install the latest version of Clippings that is compatible with your version of Firefox or Thunderbird.
- Version 3.1.6
- - Bug fix: Missing entries in chrome manifest for Danish and Swedish localizations (bug 24334)
- Version 3.1.5
- - Bug fix: Clippings Manager window position and size not being remembered. Fixed on Windows and Linux (bug 24190)
- - Bug fix: In the New Clipping dialog and the Clippings Manager window, the "Text" textbox scrolls unexpectedly when focused (Firefox 4 and newer) (bug 23866)
- - Bug fix: Can no longer drag and drop text into Clippings Manager list (bug 24276)
- - Other minor fixes
- - Added Danish and Swedish translations
- Version 3.1.4
- - Compatible with Firefox 4 beta 11
- - Bug fix: Clippings sub-menu sometimes not appearing in context menu on Firefox 4 (bug 23680)
- - New toolbar button for Firefox 4, which has the same functionality as the status bar icon on Firefox 3.6 and older. To add it to a toolbar, right-click and select Customize, then drag the Clippings toolbar button to the desired toolbar. The Clippings toolbar button can also be added to the Add-on Bar.
- Version 3.1.3
- - Compatible with Firefox 4 beta 6
- Version 3.1.2
- - Added ability to adjust the Clippings Manager tree list width; click and drag the splitter to the right of the tree list to change the width
- - If a clipping contains multiple occurrences of the same placeholder, you will only be prompted once for the placeholder value
- Version 3.1.1
- - Compatible with Firefox 3.6.* and Thunderbird 3.0.*
- - Minor bug fixes
- Version 3.1
- - Paste clippings without overwriting the clipboard
- - Paste clippings containing HTML tags as rich text. Users can choose to paste as rich text or plain text (with HTML tags and character entities intact).
- - New extension preferences dialog (Tools → Add-ons, select Clippings in the list of installed extensions → click Options)
- - Clippings icon now appears in the status bar of Thunderbird's message view window
- - Separate build for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird. In this build, the common datasource feature is disabled.
- Version 3.0.2
- - Bug fix: Clippings context menu not displaying clippings when Menu Editor installed (bug 19204)
- - Display an error message if clippings paste fails
- Version 3.0.1
- - On Linux, the Clippings Manager window position is saved. Previously, Clippings Manager always appeared at the top left corner of the screen (bug 12044)
- - On Mac OS X, the instructions in the New Clipping dialog and Clippings Manager on how to paste a clipping using shortcut keys has been clarified
- - Fixed a Clippings Manager bug that caused an error when creating a new clipping if there were no clippings and common clippings was enabled (bug 18579)
- - Also in Clippings Manager, users are now prevented from exporting clippings to a datasource file of the same name in the same folder. This is to prevent a bug where clippings are appended to the data in the existing Clippings file if the user had chosen to overwrite it (bug 14518)
- - Memory held by host application overlay objects created by Clippings is now properly released whenever the host app window is closed
- Version 3.0
- - Common clippings data for Firefox and Thunderbird.
- - Shortcut keys. To paste a clipping with an assigned shortcut key into a web page form field in Firefox or a new email message in Thunderbird, press CTRL+ALT+V, then the shortcut key.
- - Clipping placeholders. You can define placeholders inside a clipping that you will be prompted to fill in when you paste the clipping. Built-in placeholders for the date, time, clipping name, user agent, etc. are also available.
- - Improvements to Clippings Manager's automatic save functionality, including on-the-fly updating of clipping edits/changes.
- - Double-click on a clipping in Clippings Manager to paste it into the most recent host app window
- - "Undo Undo" key in Clippings Manager changed to F2 (was previously F4)
- - Numerous bug fixes.
- Version 2.6
- - New check box in New Clipping dialog - "Remove extra line breaks" and "Create as unquoted text" (Thunderbird only)
- - Paste clipping as normal or quoted text (Thunderbird only)
- - Compatibility with Thunderbird 2.0
- Version 2.5.1
- - Compatibility with Thunderbird 2.0 beta 2
- - Minor bug fixes
- Version 2.5
- - Compatibility with Firefox 2.
- - "Open Clippings Manager" command renamed to "Organize Clippings"
- - Drag and drop text from external applications into Clippings Manager's tree list to create new clippings.
- - Improvements to automatic recovery.
- - Clippings Manager now remembers the width of the tree list between sessions.
- - Fixed: TB's message compose context menu reappears after deleting existing folder (bug 15219)
- - Fixed: Don't allow clippings to be created if its parent folder disappears (bug 15114)
- - Fixed: New folder data lost if cancelling out of New Clipping dialog (bug 14951)
- - Fixed: [clipman] Infinite recursion if moving or copying a folder to its subfolder (bug 14647)
- - Fixed: [clipman] Using drag 'n drop to move an item into a collapsed folder doesn't work (bug 14650)
- - Fixed: [clipman] Item count not updated after copy (bug 15280)
- Version 2.0.1
- - Fixed: Migrated Clippings 1.x data not saved after first-run unless a "save" action is performed (bug 14851)
- Version 2.0
- - Support for Mozilla Thunderbird
- - Folders and subfolders for organizing your clippings
- - Automatic backup and auto-recovery from corruption of data source
- - Export as Clippings 1.x series (for backward compatibility with Clippings 1.0 - 1.2.1) and HTML
- - Clippings Manager window dimensions now remembered between sessions.
- - Numerous bug fixes.
- Version 1.2.1
- - Bug fix: 2-byte characters not encoded correctly, causing them to be saved as garbage (bug 13424?)
- Version 1.2
- - New: Import and export Clippings data to/from a disk file (click Options in Clippings Manager)
- - Some behind-the-scenes improvements
- Version 1.1
- - Fixed: Clippings Manager display not updated when it is open while adding new entries (bug 12547)
- - Fixed: Uncaught exception after last entry deleted; error message appears in JS console (bug 11723)
- Version 1.0
- - Instantly reposition previously-deleted entry when undoing its deletion in Clippings Manager
- - Other minor spit-and-polish fixes
- Version 0.9.1
- - Force a datasource save whenever creating new entries using "New" or "New From Selection" commands, or when closing Clippings Manager
- - Manual save from Clippings Manager by pressing CTRL+S
- - Can now insert Clippings entries into rich edit fields such as the one used for message composition in Gmail
- Version 0.9
- - New Clippings submenu on browser context menu for Web page text fields and selected Web page text
- - "New Clippings Entry" dialog that appears when adding a new Clippings entry
- - User-configurable preferences for suppressing "New Clippings Entry" dialog and for setting the maximum length of Clippings entry names, accessible via about:config
- Version 0.8.2
- - Allow rearrangement of entries in Clippings Manager list by using Move Up or Move Down commands on context menu, or drag 'n drop
- - New Clippings entry by dragging and dropping into status bar icon
- - Remember location of deleted entry when undoing its deletion
- Version 0.8.1
- - New From Selection command
- - New and Paste New commands are now undoable
- - Experimental single-level Redo command (a.k.a. "Undo Undo"), invoked by pressing F4
- - Fixed Clippings Manager toolbar to remove the unsightly white line at the top edge
- Version 0.8
- - First public release
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