infoRSS for Thunderbird 1.2.0

infoRSS for Thunderbird 1.2.0 is created by Didier Ernotte as a lightweight, non intrusive, RSS, ATOM, NNTP and HTML headlines reader for Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and thunderbird. The extension installs a small icon (looks like an earth) in the status bar.

The headlines are displayed in the beside this icon in the status bar or in a separate bar (top or bottom of the screen). The interface is very simple to use: drag and drop new url of feed onto the extension icon to add a new feed or click on the extension icon to select a specific feed to read. The feeds can be grouped to allow multi feed fetch.

Major Features:

1. RSS feed including RSS Gmail notifier (with https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom)
2. ATOM feed
3. NNTP feed
4. HTML feed (in fact any text document on internet: RDF, txt, HTML...). Extraction with regular expression
5. Support for SSL feed (HTTPS)
6. Customized refresh time per feed
7. Automatic or manual refresh
8. Customized number of headlines to display per feed
9. Customized number of character to display per feed (status bar is a limited area...)
10. Customized favicon per feed or group
11. Customized filter per feed : filter on title, subject, headline number, published date, received date
12. Enable/Disable filter
13. Group of feeds
14. Customized filter per group : filter for the group or combination with feed's filter and group
15. Full associated HTML article in a simple clic on the headline
16. Customized style sheet for headlines : font family, font size, background color, foreground color
17. Display headlines in the status bar or in a separate bar (top or bottom)
18. Manual resize of the status bar area
19. Automatic size adjustment with the window width
20. Skip headline
21. Automatic scrolling feeds in the headline area
22. Manual scrolling feeds in the headline area with scroll mouse
23. Manual scrolling by pixel or by headline
24. Right to left or left to right scrolling direction
25. Customized scrolling speed
26. Fade in/out headlines
27. All headlines in the main menu as a submenu
28. Automatic cycling between feed or group or within feed of a group
29. Skip empty feed in cycling mode
30. Popup when new headlines are published
31. Customized icon bar beside the headline bar
32. Mark all headlines as read
33. View all headlines at once
34. Flashing icon when refreshing
35. Read article in tooltip, a new tab or a new window
36. Tooltip on headline to see the full title, begin of article, all info or full article without opening a new tab
37. Tooltip in HTML mode for rich description
38. Tooltip that supports multimedia in ENCLOSURE tag : images are displayed beside the description, and audio and video files are played (podcasting, try feed http://inforss.mozdev.org/inforss.xml) with the firefox embedded multimedia plugin
39. Size and type of the enclosure in the tooltip on the enclosure icon
40. Tooltip on main icon to display the number of hedline / unread headline
41. Option to play/mute podcast
42. Display icon near headline in case of enclosure tag
43. Persistence of viewed and banned headline even after the session
44. Remote synchronization with FTP or WebDav server
45. OPML import and export from a local file or a distant ressource (on internet)
46. Export the repository in the bookmark hierarchy
47. Display the repository on screen
48. Display the RSS file in the browser by dragging the feed in the menu on the browser
49. Detect RSS feed in the current page and add an item in the menu
50. Contextual menu in Firefox to add a feed in the extension repository
51. Add any URL in the clipboard to the menu to simply add it to the repository
52. Detete a feed in the menu with drag and drop on the trash bin
53. Add a feed in a group with drag and drop on the group icon in the menu
54. Link to the main web page in one click
55. Customized FF add feed menu (orange radar icon) to add feed in infoRSS
56. Global activity switch
57. Activity switch at the feed/group level
58. Collapse headline bar if no headline
59. Thumbnail image of the main URL in the option dialog
60. Quick filter icon to filter in one click all displayed headlines
61. Auto or manual decoding in the HTML feed

Enhancements:

• Compatibility with Firefox 3.5
• Bug fix with Javascript injection vulnerability issue
• Bug Fix 21105 Blank screen appear when you click on the updated feed
• Bug Fix 21076 The open infotip window disappears when rotating RSS feeds
• New translation for sr-RS
• Updated translation for sl-SI 

Requirements:

• Firefox 2.0, Firefox 3.5,
• Mozilla suite 1.7.x,
• Thunderbird 2.0 on Mac OS X