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

NEW for Portable Firefox/Thunderbird users: There is a special build 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 (depending on which version of Firefox you are using):

On Firefox 3:

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.

On Firefox 2:

1. Click the Edit Options button in the browser's alert bar.
2. In the dialog box that appears, click Allow to enable extension installation from this site, then click OK to dismiss the dialog box.
3. Click on the install link on the page to try again.

Changelog

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