Past Versions of Clippings
The following links to previous versions of Clippings are provided for historical reference. You should always install the latest version of Clippings that is compatible with your version of Firefox or Thunderbird.
Clippings for Thunderbird
- Version 7.0
- - The Clippings toolbar button in the message compose window has moved from the status bar to the Composition Toolbar. The Clippings toolbar button no longer appears in the main Thunderbird window.
- - You can now add separators to organize your clippings in the Clippings menu
- - New option to show the shortcut key of a clipping in the Clippings menu
- - New placeholder for embedding a clipping in a clipping
- - Sync Clippings enhancements: sync data is now compressed, allowing you to sync more of your clippings; also, improved handling of read-only sync files (requires Sync Clippings Helper version 2.0 or newer)
- - On macOS, automatic positioning of windows and dialogs, and saving of the Clippings Manager window position and size, are now fully supported
- - On Linux, the option to minimize the Clippings Manager window when it's inactive has been removed
- - When new users install Clippings for Thunderbird, it will only ask for the extension permissions it needs for basic functionality, and will ask for additional permissions if turning on Sync Clippings or creating a new clipping from the clipboard for the first time
- - Many behind-the-scenes improvements to ensure compatibility with future versions of Thunderbird
- Version 6.3.7
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, the Reload button on the Synced Clippings folder is hard to see when using dark mode color themes
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.3.6
- - Compatible with Thunderbird 128
- Version 6.3.5
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.3.4
- - Added special handling of import files created from future versions of Clippings
- Version 6.3.3
- - Bug fix: Error when redoing new clipping creation by drag 'n drop into Clippings Manager (issue #161)
- Version 6.3.2
- - Bug fix: Backup reminder notifications are appearing even if the "Skip reminder if there were no changes since last backup" option is turned on (issue #152)
- Version 6.3.1
- - Updated Dutch localization
- Version 6.3
- - Symbols and emojis are now supported in placeholder default values
- - Formatted date/time placeholder values show up correctly in languages other than English
- - Placeholder prompt dialogs now display the name of the selected clipping, so that you know you've selected the right one
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.6
- - Bug fix: Error notification doesn't appear if Sync Clippings Helper was uninstalled without turning off Sync Clippings
- Version 6.2.5
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.4.1
- - Added Spanish localization
- Version 6.2.3.1
- - Fixed an issue with the German localization of the Sync Clippings help dialog (issue #134)
- Version 6.2.3
- - Bug fix: Restoring from backup file fails with invalid import file (issue #133)
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.2
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.1
- - Updated Dutch localization
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2
- - Improvements to keyboard navigation in windows and dialogs
- - Improved reliability of undoing and redoing actions on a synced clipping or folder after reloading the Synced Clippings folder in Clippings Manager
- - Minor visual refresh for buttons and dialogs
- Version 6.1.6
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, edits to a clipping or folder that was copied to the Synced Clippings folder aren't being saved (issue #122)
- Version 6.1.5
- - Updated the Moment.js library, which is used to process formatted date/time placeholders
- Version 6.1.4
- - Now available in Chinese (Simplified)
- - Minor cosmetic fixes for macOS
- - Bug fix: In New Clipping dialog, jumbled menu buttons on some non-English locales (issue #121)
- Version 6.1.3
- - Now available in Ukrainian
- - Bug fix: Synced Clippings folder menu icon is hard to see in Dark Mode (issue #119)
- Version 6.1.2
- - Bug fix: Edited synced clipping isn't being synced from Thunderbird (issue #118)
- - Bug fix: Misaligned checkboxes on Linux (issue #117)
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.1.1
- - Cosmetic improvements to dialog buttons on macOS
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.1
- - Improvements to Clippings Manager. On Windows, Clippings Manager now remembers its window size and position
- - Improved support for multiple displays on Windows. Clippings popup windows and dialogs will now be positioned within the Thunderbird window from which they were opened, instead of always centered on the primary display. This feature is experimental on macOS and Linux, where it is turned off by default
- - New option to skip backup reminders if there were no changes to your clippings since the last backup
- - In Clippings Manager, the Details Pane can be shown or hidden by pressing CTRL+D (Command+D on macOS)
- - User interface improvements to more closely match the rest of Thunderbird, as well as improved support for Dark Mode system themes on macOS and Windows (requires Thunderbird 91 or newer)
- - Bug fix: First-time backup dialog doesn't regain focus after Save As dialog dismissed
- - Added support for Dutch, French, German, and Portuguese (Brazil)
- Version 6.0.3
- - This release prepares Clippings for eventual upgrade to a new version that will be compatible with Thunderbird 91
- Version 6.0.2
- - Now available in German
- Version 6.0.1
- - Cosmetic improvements for Clippings Manager (issue #87)
- Version 6.0
- - Compatible with Thunderbird 78
- - The Clippings Manager window and the New Clipping dialog have a similar look and feel as the same found in Clippings for Firefox
- - It's now possible to drag and drop clippings and folders in the clippings tree list in Clippings Manager
- - In the New Clipping dialog, you can now preview the clipping when applying the options to create as unquoted text or remove extra line breaks
- Version 5.7.3
- - Displays a message when Thunderbird starts up about availability of Clippings for Thunderbird 6.0, which is compatible with Thunderbird 78
- Version 5.7.2
- - Displays a message when Thunderbird starts up about Clippings for Thunderbird 6.0 coming soon
- Version 5.7.1
- - Displays a message when Thunderbird starts up about Clippings 5.7 not being compatible with Thunderbird 78
- Version 5.7
- - Compatible with Thunderbird 68
- - You can now choose how you want the date or time to be formatted for the $[DATE] and $[TIME] placeholders; for example, the date with the day of the week included, or the time given in the 24-hour clock. To add a formatted date or time placeholder to your clipping, open Clippings Manager, turn on the Placeholder Toolbar (Tools → Show/Hide menu), then from the toolbar, click Presets and select Formatted Date/Time
- - Special characters (question mark, parentheses, quotation marks, asterisk, common currency symbols, etc.) can now be used in default values for placeholders. Note that the pipe symbol (|), curly braces ({}) and square brackets([]) cannot be used.
- Version 5.6.2
- - This minor release prepares Clippings for eventual upgrade to a new release that will be compatible with Thunderbird 68
- Version 5.6.1
- - Bug fix: Error message appearing at top of shortcut key HTML export (issue #23)
- - Bug fix: Maintain sort order of clippings/folders in sync file and Clippings 6 shadow copy (issue #24)
- Version 5.6
- - Compatible with Thunderbird 60
- - You can paste a clipping using the Clippings 6 shortcut key prefix, ALT+SHIFT+Y (Command+Shift+Y on macOS), in addition to the traditional keys CTRL+ALT+V/Command+Option+V
- - Added a setting in the Data Source tab of the Clippings preferences dialog for enabling Sync Clippings
- Version 6.5.9
- - Bug fix: Backup reminder notifications not appearing except at Firefox startup. This issue affects users who keep Firefox running continuously (issue #503)
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.5.8
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, the Reload button on the Synced Clippings folder is hard to see when using dark mode color themes
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.5.7
- - Bug fix: Message bar icons in Clippings Manager are almost invisible in Firefox 128 when using dark mode color themes (issue #474)
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.5.6.1
- - Bug fix: On Linux, pasting a clipping with placeholders doesn't work (issue #463)
- Version 6.5.6
- - Bug fix: Ampersands (&) don't appear in the Clippings menu for folder names (issue #422)
- - Bug fix: On macOS, pasting a clipping using keyboard paste or containing placeholders doesn't work in full-screen browser windows (issue #432)
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.5.5
- - Added special handling of import files created from future versions of Clippings
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.5.4
- - Bug fix: Error when redoing new clipping creation by drag 'n drop into Clippings Manager (issue #443)
- Version 6.5.3
- - Bug fix: Unexpected change in appearance of checkboxes and drop-down menu buttons in Firefox 124 (issue #442)
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.5.2.2
- - Bug fix: Clippings no longer works on Twitter (also known as X) (issue #441)
- Version 6.5.2.1
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.5.1
- - Updated Dutch localization
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.5
- - Symbols and emojis are now supported in placeholder default values
- - Formatted date/time placeholder values show up correctly in languages other than English
- - Placeholder prompt dialogs now display the name of the selected clipping, so that you know you've selected the right one
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.4.5
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.4.4.1
- - Updated a third-party software library
- Version 6.4.4
- - Updated Spanish localization
- - Bug fix: Critical error instead of warning appears when trying to turn on Sync Clippings without first installing Sync Clippings Helper (issue #416)
- Version 6.4.3.1
- - Fixed an issue with the German localization of the Sync Clippings help dialog (issue #410)
- Version 6.4.3
- - Bug fix: Restoring from backup file fails with invalid import file (issue #133)
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.4.2
- - Bug fix: Clipping is double-pasted in YouTube Live comments (issue #401)
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.4.1
- - Updated Dutch localization
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.4
- - Improvements to keyboard navigation in windows and dialogs (issue #369)
- - It's no longer necessary to restart Firefox after changing the "Run in Private Windows" setting for Clippings (issue #381)
- - Improved reliability of undoing and redoing actions on a synced clipping or folder after reloading the Synced Clippings folder in Clippings Manager (issue #384)
- - Added ability to import data from Text Snippets (Chrome extension) (issue #374)
- - Minor visual refresh for buttons and dialogs
- Version 6.3.6
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, edits to a clipping or folder that was copied to the Synced Clippings folder aren't being saved (issue #383)
- Version 6.3.5
- - Updated the Moment.js library, which is used to process formatted date/time placeholders
- Version 6.3.4
- - Now available in Chinese (Simplified)
- - Minor cosmetic fixes for macOS
- - Bug fix: In New Clipping dialog, jumbled menu buttons on some non-English locales (issue #377)
- Version 6.3.3
- - Now available in Ukrainian
- - Bug fix: Synced Clippings folder menu icon is hard to see in Dark Mode (issue #119)
- Version 6.3.2
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.3.1
- - Bug fix: Clippings stops working after changing the "Run in Private Windows" setting (issue #287). If the Clippings toolbar button is clicked after changing this setting, a message box will appear, instructing you to restart Firefox.
- - Improvements to German localization
- - Other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.3
- - Improvements to Clippings Manager. On Windows, Clippings Manager now remembers its window size and position
- - Improvements to support for multiple displays on Windows. Clippings popup windows and dialogs will now be positioned within the browser window from which they were opened, instead of always centered on the primary display. This feature is experimental on macOS and Linux, where it is turned off by default
- - New option to skip backup reminders if there were no changes to your clippings since the last backup
- - In Clippings Manager, the Details Pane can be shown or hidden by pressing CTRL+D (Command+D on macOS)
- Version 6.2.10
- - Bug fix: On Firefox 89, the search by name textbox in the keyboard paste dialog isn't focused when switching from shortcut key mode (issue #341)
- Version 6.2.9
- - Bug fix: Missing message box icon in Firefox 88 (issue #339)
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.8
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.7
- - Now available in Ukrainian
- - In New Clipping dialog, can't insert line break in clipping content by pressing Enter (issue #334)
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.6.1
- - Bug fix: Clipping double-pasted into rich text editors on some websites (issue #330)
- Version 6.2.6
- - Clippings now works in custom web components with input fields in the shadow DOM (issue #320)
- - Improvements to reliability of clippings creation and pasting in HTML editors
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, the Reload button on the Synced Clippings folder shifts slightly when the mouse cursor is on the folder label (issue #323)
- Version 6.2.5.2
- - Bug fix: Settings not loading on startup after update to version 6.2.5 (issue #322)
- Version 6.2.5
- - Now available in Dutch
- - Fixed the appearance of the clippings tree and checkboxes in Clippings Manager, New Clipping dialog and extension preferences page when color overrides is turned on in Firefox (issues #318 and #321)
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, copied clippings or folders may appear out of sequence in the destination folder (issue #316)
- Version 6.2.4
- - Improvements to Spanish localization
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.3
- - New Spanish localization
- - Minor fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.2
- - Improvements to Dark Mode appearance of Clippings Manager (issue #296)
- - Bug fix: Text in focused drop-down menus is hard to see in Dark Mode (issue #296)
- - Bug fix: Unsupported file formats are not rejected when selected for import or restore from backup (issue #295)
- - Other bug fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2.1
- - Bug fix: Clippings does not trigger input event when pasting, which sometimes prevents pasting from working on some forums (issue #289)
- - Other bug fixes and improvements
- Version 6.2
- - Clippings now supports Dark Mode system themes on macOS and Windows. The dark-colored theme is automatically applied to Clippings windows and dialogs (for example, Clippings Manager and the extension preferences page) when Dark Mode is activated on your system.
- - You can now choose how you want the date or time to be formatted for the $[DATE] and $[TIME] placeholders; for example, the date with the day of the week included, or the time given in the 24-hour clock. To add a formatted date or time placeholder to your clipping, open Clippings Manager, turn on the Placeholder Toolbar (Tools → Show/Hide menu), then from the toolbar, click Presets and select Formatted Date/Time.
- - For Sync Clippings users, there's a new option to only show synced clippings and folders on the Clippings menu. To activate it, go to the extension preferences, then under Sync Clippings, click Settings.
- - Brought back the ability to redo an action in Clippings Manager. To redo an action (undo an undo), press F2.
- - New option to add the date to the backup file name.
- - Many other fixes and improvements
- Version 6.1.5
- - Imported clippings and folders now maintain their original sequence (issue #256)
- - Exporting clippings from Clippings Manager now saves the ordering of clippings and folders (issue #261)
- - Special characters (question mark, parentheses, quotation marks, asterisk, common currency symbols, etc.) can now be used in default values for placeholders (issue #73). Note that the pipe symbol (|), curly braces ({}) and square brackets([]) cannot be used.
- - Bug fix: Sporadic "no active browser tab" error when pasting clipping with custom placeholders (issue #262)
- Version 6.1.4.1
- - Bug fix: On Firefox 66, clipping sometimes doesn't get pasted when using shortcut key (issue #259)
- Version 6.1.4
- - Added the ability to handle the Paste Clipping keyboard shortcut if it is set from the Manage Extension Shortcuts page in Add-ons Manager, found in Firefox 66 and newer
- - In the placeholder prompt dialog, the visibility of the focused drop-down menu for placeholders with multiple values has been improved
- - Added support for Portuguese (Brazil)
- Version 6.1.3.1
- - Bug fix: On Firefox 65, unable to use up- and down-arrow keys to select autocomplete menu options in the Keyboard Paste dialog when searching for clipping by name (issue #257)
- Version 6.1.3
- - Bug fix: Keyboard shortcuts in Clippings Manager and keyboard paste dialog are unresponsive in Firefox 65 (issue #254)
- - Bug fix: Message box alert icons missing in Firefox 64 on Linux (issue #234)
- Version 6.1.2
- - Automatic checking for updates to the Sync Clippings Helper application, if Sync Clippings is turned on
- - Improvements to German translation
- - Bug fix: First-time backup notification not appearing (issue #251)
- - Other minor fixes
- Version 6.1.1
- - Bug fix: Issues with backup reminder settings in extension preferences and first-time backup dialog (issue #247)
- - Bug fix: After turning off Sync Clippings, the old Synced Clippings folder incorrectly retains its special icon (issue #244)
- - Bug fix: Message box alert icons missing in Firefox 64 (issue #234)
- Version 6.1
- - The keyboard paste shortcut key prefix (default keys ALT+SHIFT+Y or Command+Shift+Y) can now be changed. On Windows and Linux, it can be set to ALT + SHIFT + (A-Z, 0-9, period or comma). On macOS, it can be set to Command + Shift + (A-Z, 0-9, period or comma).
- - Clippings Manager now saves the ordering of clippings and folders; they can be reordered by drag and drop in the Clippings Manager tree list. The clippings and folders will also appear in the Clippings browser context menu in the same order.
- - Synchronize your clippings between Firefox and Thunderbird, or other Firefox instances, with the new Sync Clippings feature. Sync Clippings lets you synchronize a subset of your clippings so that they appear in both applications.
- - You can now export your clippings to CSV format. This can be done from Clippings Manager (click Tools → Export).
- Version 6.0.7
- - Bug fix: Placeholder prompt sometimes fails to paste clipping (issue #233)
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, copied folder doesn't appear after copy (issue #231)
- - Other minor fixes
- Version 6.0.6
- Compatible with Firefox 61
- Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, newly-created clipping doesn't show the correct label icon in the tree list if it was created from the New Clipping dialog (issue #208)
- Version 6.0.5
- - Bug fix: On Linux, popup windows (placeholder prompt, New Clipping dialog, etc.) are not focused when they open (issue #193)
- - Other minor fixes
- Version 6.0.4
- - Added support for Greek, Polish and Spanish
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, export confirmation dialog doesn't show the correct file name of the export file, if it was changed from the default name (issue #186)
- - Bug fix: In the keyboard paste dialog, scrolling through the autocomplete menu with arrow keys doesn't work (issue #181)
- - Other minor fixes
- Version 6.0.3
- - Brought back the shortcut key list in Clippings Manager and the keyboard paste dialog. Also, the Placeholder Toolbar in Clippings Manager has returned
- - Added support for German
- - Fixed a potential security vulnerability affecting Clippings Manager and the placeholder prompt dialog
- - Other minor fixes
- Version 6.0.2.1
- - Bug fix: Export files (Clippings 6 and HTML Document formats) are blank for some users (issue #152)
- - Fixes for a few Clippings Manager bugs that were affecting Linux users
- Version 6.0.2
- - Brought back placeholder prompts
- - Clipping labels have also returned
- - Added ability to backup and restore clippings from Clippings Manager
- - Resizable tree list in Clippings Manager
- - You can now undo edits to clipping/folder name and clipping content in Clippings Manager
- - Added ability to maximize the Clippings Manager window
- - Bug fix: On Linux, the Clippings Manager window is always on top (issue #162)
- - Other minor fixes
- Version 6.0.1.2
- - Bug fix: Clippings Manager ignores CTRL+A/Cmd+A (issue #155)
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, don't accept non-URLs when saving changes to source web page address (issue #107)
- - Show detailed error message when an error occurs while exporting to Clippings 6 or HTML
- Version 6.0.1.1
- - Bug fix: Creating a new clipping from the New Clipping dialog doesn't work when added to a new folder created from the same dialog (issue #148)
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, copying a folder doesn't copy its clippings and subfolders (issue #145)
- - Improved the error messages that appear when Firefox privacy settings are too restrictive, preventing Clippings from working correctly
- - The "Check spelling" setting in extension preferences is now enabled (it was previously disabled and there was no way to change it). Turning off this setting will turn off spell checking of clipping contents in Clippings Manager and the New Clipping dialog
- Version 6.0.1
- - The Welcome to Clippings page will now detect if the Clippings database is inaccessible (due to Private Browsing mode turned on in Firefox, or the database is not set up correctly), and will display a message with instructions on how to fix it
- - The New Clipping dialog and Clippings Manager page will now detect if Private Browsing mode is turned on; and if so, display a message saying that Clippings won't work in Private Browsing mode
- - Bug fix: Pressing the Delete key in Clippings Manager deletes the clipping/folder instead of deleting a character in the name or content textbox (issue #127)
- - Bug fix: Can't dismiss folder picker popup in New Clipping dialog (issue #135)
- Version 6.0
- - Rewritten as a WebExtension, and is compatible with Firefox 57 (Firefox Quantum) and newer
- - The limitation on creating and pasting clippings in web pages with HTML frames has been eliminated with this release
- - Improved clippings and folders search in Clippings Manager
- Version 5.5.2
- - Last version that is compatible with Firefox 56 and older. This version is also compatible with Firefox ESR 52.x and Thunderbird
- - Updated German localization
- Version 5.5.1
- - Bug fix: Clippings does not work on non-English locales (issue #105)
- Version 5.5
- - For Firefox users - information on how to prepare for the upcoming upgrade to Clippings 6, available from the Clippings context menu or in Clippings Manager
- - Added ability to export to Clippings 6 and CSV files from Clippings Manager
- - Support for the new Clippings 6 file format when importing from Clippings Manager
- - The Clippings backup folder name is changed to "clippings-backup" so that it is not hidden on macOS and Linux
- - New "Show Backup Location" button is added to the extension preferences dialog, Data Source panel
- - Redesigned status bar icon for Thunderbird
- Version 5.1.2
- - Added message box that appears when attempting to create or paste a clipping from a web page that is inside an HTML frame, with workaround instructions
- - Bug fix: New From Selection doesn't work on Outlook.com (issue #77)
- - Bug fix: On Mac OS X, extension preferences dialog needs more padding at bottom edge (issue #75)
- Version 5.1.1
- - Bug fix: Pasting clipping into Gmail message editor doesn't work on Clippings 5.1 (issue #71)
- Version 5.1
- - Compatible with multi-process browser tabs in Firefox (sometimes referred to as Electrolysis or e10s)
- - Other minor fixes
- Version 5.0.2
- - Added Dutch localization
- - Bug fix: UI text in the extension preferences dialog (Data Source panel) for the Source Web Page Addresses groupbox was always in English on other locales
- Version 5.0.1
- - Bug fix: In Clippings Manager, cannot move folder by drag and drop (issue #55)
- - Bug fix: The General tab panel of the extension preferences dialog is blank; this was occurring for the Finnish locale only (issue #60)
- Version 5.0
- - Clipping color labels
- - New name search mode lets you quickly locate a clipping that you want to paste by typing its name and selecting it from an autocomplete menu. To activate it, press CTRL+ALT+V (or Command+Option+V on Mac OS X). Switch between shortcut key and name search modes by pressing the TAB key
- - Save the source URL (web address) of a clipping. In the New Clipping dialog, click Options and select the checkbox option "Save the address of the source web page". Available for Firefox only
- - Placeholders with default values. Example:
$[placeholderName{defaultValue}]
. When pasting a clipping with such a placeholder, the dialog prompt will supply a default value which you can accept or change - - Placeholders with multiple selectable values. Example:
$[placeholderName{value1|value2|value3|...}]
. When pasting a clipping with such a placeholder, the dialog prompt will display a drop-down menu where you can select from the available values - - New Placeholder Toolbar in Clippings Manager, for novice users discovering the convenience of placeholders. Turn it on by clicking Tools → Placeholder Bar in Clippings Manager
- - You can now insert a clipping directly from the shortcut key help window, if accessed from the shortcut key prompt
- - Improvements to Clippings Manager to maximize the area in the window for editing your clippings. The details pane (with the shortcut key, label and source web page address of a clipping) is hidden by default; to display it, select Tools → Show/Hide → Details Pane
- - A fresh new look for the Clippings toolbar button in Firefox and Thunderbird, the Clippings context menu and Clippings Manager
- - Visual enhancements to the Clippings context menu on Linux
- Version 4.1.2
- - Bug fix: Error on startup in Firefox 36 (issue #22)
- - Other maintenance fixes
- Version 4.1.1
- - Bug fix: Clippings does not work (missing context menu item, shortcut key prefix unresponsive) on Firefox 35 nightly build (issue #18)
- - Bug fix: Shortcut key list is duplicated when Print or Save is repeatedly invoked in the Clippings Shortcut Keys window (issue #14)
- Version 4.1
- - Integration with the Australis user interface, introduced in Firefox 29
- - Auto-incrementing placeholder reset menu is moved to the Clippings submenu of the browser textbox or message compose context menu
- - Bug fix: Placeholder prompt does not appear if the placeholder name contains special characters (issue #2)
- - Cosmetic improvements to the Clippings Manager user interface, especially on Mac OS X (issue #1, issue #8)
- - Remove the option to export clippings to Clippings 1.x format, because nobody uses Clippings 1.x anymore (issue #3)
- - New extension icon for the Add-ons Manager listing
- Version 4.0.1
- - Bug fix: Disappearing clippings after upgrade to version 4.0 (bug 25520)
- - Customizable data source location. The location of the data source can now be changed using the new, redesigned extension preferences dialog
- - Auto-incrementing placeholders (more information in Clippings Help)
- - Search for clippings in Clippings Manager using the Find Bar
- - Data source backup and restore from Clippings Manager
- - Tab-modal placeholder prompt dialog for Firefox. With this enhancement, it is possible to interact with other browser tabs in the same window while prompted for a clipping placeholder value
- - Auto spell checking of clipping text (in New Clipping dialog and Clippings Manager)
- - New extension option to enable or disable the shortcut key prefix, CTRL+ALT+V (or Command+Option+V on Mac OS X)
- - Shortcut key help. Press the usual shortcut key prefix, CTRL+ALT+V (or Command+Option+V on Mac OS X), then press F1 to get a list of shortcut keys and the clipping they are assigned to. This list can be printed, or saved to an HTML file.
- - In Clippings Manager, hide the status bar by default
- - On Firefox, add the Clippings toolbar button to the Add-on Bar, if it is not there already
- Version 4.0
- - This release was withdrawn due to bug 25520
- Version 3.2
- - Compatible with Firefox and Thunderbird version 14 or newer. Clippings is no longer compatible with Firefox 3.6 or Thunderbird 3.1.
- - Bug fix: Missing Clippings submenu on the context menu since Firefox and Thunderbird 14 (bug 25075)
- - Mac OS X shortcut key prefix has been changed to Command+Option. Previously, it was Control+Option, but it stopped working in a previous Firefox/Thunderbird release.
- Version 3.1.7
- - Updated Swedish translation
- - Bug fix: Shortcut key prefix is different on Swedish locale. This is fixed so that it is now CTRL+ALT+V, as advertised (bug 24375)
- Version 3.1.6
- - Bug fix: Missing entries in chrome manifest for Danish and Swedish localizations (bug 24334)
- Version 3.1.5
- - Bug fix: Clippings Manager window position and size not being remembered. Fixed on Windows and Linux (bug 24190)
- - Bug fix: In the New Clipping dialog and the Clippings Manager window, the "Text" textbox scrolls unexpectedly when focused (Firefox 4 and newer) (bug 23866)
- - Bug fix: Can no longer drag and drop text into Clippings Manager list (bug 24276)
- - Other minor fixes
- - Added Danish and Swedish translations
- Version 3.1.4
- - Compatible with Firefox 4 beta 11
- - Bug fix: Clippings sub-menu sometimes not appearing in context menu on Firefox 4 (bug 23680)
- - New toolbar button for Firefox 4, which has the same functionality as the status bar icon on Firefox 3.6 and older. To add it to a toolbar, right-click and select Customize, then drag the Clippings toolbar button to the desired toolbar. The Clippings toolbar button can also be added to the Add-on Bar.
- Version 3.1.3
- - Compatible with Firefox 4 beta 6
- Version 3.1.2
- - Added ability to adjust the Clippings Manager tree list width; click and drag the splitter to the right of the tree list to change the width
- - If a clipping contains multiple occurrences of the same placeholder, you will only be prompted once for the placeholder value
- 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