Interclue is live on addons.mozilla.org

Interclue went live to the public on a.m.o for the first time this weekend and has had over 2000 downloads from there in the first few days. That puts us into the top 10% of firefox addons by weekly download count.

Our official download/install page for Firefox is now https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4999 and future updates will also be made from that location.

Initial reviews posted by the Mozilla community during the “sandbox” review process were highly encouraging, and no doubt contributed to our download count. Here are a few we’re particularly proud of:

This one is a keeper!
by Max BBT on June 21, 2007 (rated 10)
I have to agree with the reviews below - pain free and very useful. Installed on Vista (v.1.1.1, now 1.1.2.4064). Had Cooliris before that but Interclue gives a lot more useful info as others have mentioned already, has more options and so far i have no problems, smooth. Have to add that support is excellent too - the author(-s) is responsive and a pleasure to deal with. Never thought i’d be interested in this kind of extension but suddenly i see this one as a keeper along with my everyday/version/profile standbys. Good job!

Way better than expected
by Danforth on June 20, 2007 (rated 9)
I’d tried CoolIris and uninstalled it pretty quickly, couldn’t live with it. I expected Interclue to be as awkward in its own way, but I can see where the work has gone in on the UI and added-value. Definitely a keeper. Best features: Its ability to get at the important page content so reliably from a range of sites and pages. No resources spent on hints for navigation links. Would like to see: Faster preview fetching, always. But it’s pretty good already. I’m using 1.1.2. It installed seamlessly and works fine on my Firefox 2.0.0.4/XP.

Works as advertised!
by Vyper on June 20, 2007 (rated 10)
I was using a different preview addon until I discovered this one. For what I do, I don’t need to see what a page I’m previewing looks like. I need to know it’s content. This addon does that beautifully with a bucketful of options and information you can include or exclude. If you use any preview addon, give this one a look.

Linkclue Positioning Issue in 1.1.2

We are aware of an issue regarding the placement of Linkclues on some pages in the new 1.1.2 release, and expect to have this resolved in the next version, which will be posted as an update for all existing users.

I’d love to just give you the URL, but we still haven’t made it out of the Sandbox area, so it’s a bit more complicated - you have to log in first. This is partly because we haven’t got enough user reviews yet. Apparently the glowing soundbites from reputable pundits on our news page failed to satisfy the user review requirement, because they’re really more interested in people saying things like “I’ve been using it for a couple days on Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Debian Etch on a 4ghz dual core box with a fast fibre connection at work and I haven’t noticed any significant problems. I haven’t played with all the options but the ones I did use seemed to work as advertised. Not as fast on my old pentium II at home, but it’s still usable and stable.” - or even more detail if possible. I guess that’s fair enough. They run through their own more detailed review process after seeing what people have to say, of course. I’m hoping it won’t take too long.

I’m also hoping once you’ve seen the size of the changelog blow you’ll be itching to try out 1.1.2 and willing to spend a few minutes to follow these steps:

1) Go to http://addons.mozilla.org
2) Near the top right, click “register”.
3) Fill in the registration details. It will email you a confirmation email
4) After confirming and logging in again, click on “My Account” at top right
5) Then check the checkbox that says “Show Sandbox” and hit Save.
6) You will now be able to reach the addon at this URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4999

I posted about it over at mozillazine hoping to find folks who already had a sandbox account, and they’ve kept us busy for a bit fixing up a few things that weren’t so much buggy as jarring and non-obvious. I’ll make another post here tomorrow with screenshots explaining the changes.

For now, here’s the complete changelog since 1.0.2, which is the version downloadable from this site. Hopefully it’ll be enough to interest you enough to follow the steps above and download it from the sandbox, and after using it for a bit you’ll be in a position to leave a review over there, so that the editors will be in a better position to approve it into the public area of addons.mozilla.org

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1.1 - Some new features that should make power users happy.

* You can now change the font used within the clueframe on the Advanced Tab
* The “open in new tab” button will change if it’s already opened in a new tab
* There is a new “show clues for current page” status bar button
* There is a new “show clues for referrer page” status bar icon. Hover over it to see the page you can from. Click it to actually go there!
* “Suggest another Button” Link in the Buttons list
* “Suggest another Metaclue” Link in the Metaclues list
* Linkclue: Link is Open in Other Tab (click to go to that tab)
* Clueview: .mp3 player
* Clueview: Plaintext (.txt) file viewer

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1.1.1 - Interface improvements, minor bugfixes.

Tweaks

* Expanded version numbering inside addon to new format major.minor.patch.checkin
* Integrated On/Off button with the Linkclue Mode Menu
* Changes to Linkclue Mode Icons
* Changes to Linkclue Cursors to match Mode icons
* Referrer page icon now requires a click to show the Clueviewer.
* Added uniqueIDs to update check so that we can count addons deployed.
* Updated privacy policy to cover uniqueIDs.
* Made the “file not found” image more distinct.
* Added 2 missing items to 1.1 changelog

Bugfixes

* Emailed url was sometimes incorrect.
* Html parser was broken on framed pages if one of the frames was broken.
* Fixed error summarizing guardian articles.

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1.1.2 - Usability and cosmetic tweaks, minor bugfixes

New Features

* Clueview remains stationary whilst the hotkey is pressed.
* Nicer web 2.0 style confirm dialog for add/remove metadata blocks.
* Added edit button/menuitems to statusbar context menu
* Added edit Smartclues options to linkmodes menu
* Allow power users to tweak their Smartclues Logic settings.
* The Status Bar button preferences are now on a seperate pane in the options

Tweaks

* Various minor changes to linkclue positioning logic.
* Better error messages for invalid urls (eg “http://invalid domain name.com/”)
* add “approve” to unsafe words blacklist.
* Various text changes
* Del.icio.us title link now opens “add to my delicious” dialog.
* Got rid of the mystery space on the toolbar.
* Changed the shade of green for “Everything gets clued”
* When you click on “open in new tab” the button icon changes to the “go to that tab” icon, do indicate that if you click there you will open that tab. (Pending: An option to just go there on first click)

Bug Fixes

* fixed a bug whereby the wrong hotkey was given in the tutorial text if a user had set their own custom hotkey.
* fixed a bug where summaries for anchored links were terrible if the anchor was not found.
* fixed a bug where the Del.icio.us tagcloud fails to timeout if summary is retrieved from the cache.