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Instructions for installing Clippings in Thunderbird (Mozillazine knowledge base article)

Portable Firefox/Thunderbird users: There is a special version of Clippings designed for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird.
Click Here to download and install.

Supported languages: English (United States), Chinese (simplified), Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian.

Clippings is also available from Mozilla Add-ons.

Installation Help

If you see a yellow alert bar at the top of your browser after clicking the above install link, do the following:

1. Click the Allow button in the browser's alert bar.
2. In the dialog box that appears, click Install to proceed with the extension installation.

Changelog

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