clippings

17 March 2008

Common clippings data for Firefox and Thunderbird. This much-requested feature allows your Clippings data to be created, accessed and modified from both Firefox and Thunderbird. (More info.)
Shortcut keys. You can now assign a shortcut key to a clipping at the time of creation or by editing a clipping in Clippings Manager. Shortcut keys can be any letter (A-Z) or digit (0-9). To paste the clipping into a web page form field in Firefox or a new email message in Thunderbird, press CTRL+ALT+V, then the shortcut key. Mac OS X users: Hold down the Control and Option keys while pressing 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. (More info.)
Default clippings. System administrators and redistributors can bundle a default Clippings datasource file into a customized Clippings XPI to pre-populate their users' datasources when they install the customized XPI. (More info.)
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
Numerous bug fixes.

On Mac OS X, the instructions to paste a clipping using the keyboard are incorrect. The instructions should be as follows: Hold down the Control and Option keys while pressing V, then the shortcut key. To cancel shortcut key paste, release the Control and Option keys.
On Mac OS X, digits 0-9 for shortcut keys do not work. Use letters (A-Z) only.
On Firefox 3, it is not possible to adjust the width of Clippings Manager's tree list.
Shortcut key assignments are lost after migrating to the common data source.
Exporting Clippings data to a Clippings file that already exists may cause the data to be appended to the existing content in the file instead of overwriting it.

You must download and install Clippings for both Firefox and Thunderbird if you want to use Clippings in both programs. Installing Clippings in one program will not install it in the other.
If, before migrating to the common Clippings data source, you have a large number of clippings and folders in the root Clippings folder, migrating from Firefox and Thunderbird may result in a larger number of clippings and folders in the common data source, resulting in a rather lengthy Clippings submenu in the host application's context menu. Consider organizing your clippings (deleting unneeded clippings from the root folder and moving clippings to folders) before running the migration utility.
Sometimes, if the common Clippings data source is enabled and you make changes to a clipping from Clippings Manager invoked from one host app and then switch to another instance of Clippings Manager from the other host app, the update from the first host app may not be reflected in Clippings Manager from the second host app. Use Options → to update the display.
The Redo (a.k.a. "Undo Undo") function key in Clippings Manager has changed; the function key is now F2.

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