Google Reader Watcher

2007-06-04

Koszti Lajos

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The Google Reader Watcher extension is based on one of my Greasemonkey scripts called Google Reader Checker

With the Google Reader Watcher extension you can check your feeds regularly and see which feeds have unread news. You can open the Google Reader directly from the statusbar, and not at last, you can configure the extension to login with your Google Account automatically.

If you want to translate the extension into your language, please use the translation system on Babelzilla.

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Source

You can view and download the source from mozdev: https://github.com/Ajnasz/grwatcher

Release notes

Version 1.7.2 April 26, 2012

Mark all as read works again

Version 1.7.1 April 7, 2012

Don't require to login request if user already logged in into google and the "I have more than one google account" checkbox is not checked
Fix opening window when user clicks on the notification
Send update request after changing preferences
Fix 3.6 support

Version 1.7 April 1, 2012

Fix a possible memory leak
Add OAuth support, so you can use the extension even if you enabled 2 step verification for your Google account..
New mouse handling behavior
Icon and menu items can work similar to simple links on webpages. Using shift + left click will open new window, middle click will open new background tab etc.

Version 1.6.3 January 7, 2012

Always show context menu

Version 1.6.2 December 19, 2011

Fix issues with Firefox 3.6

Version 1.6.1 December 6, 2011

Add the toolbar button to the last place on the navigation toolbar
Make sure the user can remove the button from the toolbar.

Version 1.6 November 19, 2011

Open Google Reader with the right account if you have more than one Google account (See Preferences/Account information)
Make check for unread feeds menu item the first, so it's easier to reach it and force the request (especially for users, who has no middle button)
Intelligent order of icon context menu. Fro example the "check for unread feeds" menu item is the closest to the mouse pointer if you right click on the icon. Even if the icon is on the add-on bar (bottom of the browser) or on some other toolbar (top of the browser).
Fix button on second browser window: Sometimes, if you opened a second browser window, the button didn't work.
Make possible to turn off the counter display

Version 1.5.2 June 22, 2011

Fix "Component is undefined" error

Version 1.5.1 - June 14, 2011

Remove statusbar icon, the toolbar icon should be used now
Several bugfixes

Version 1.4 - April 14, 2011

Improved compatibility with Firefox 4
Faster startup
Bugfixes

Version 1.3.6 January 8, 2011

Fix statusbar icons

Version 1.3.5 January 6, 2011

Fix counter issues

Version 1.3.4 January 4, 2011

Add Swedish translation, thanks to Mikael Hiort af Ornäs
Improve compatibility with Firefox 4

Version 1.3 December 3, 2010

Toolbar and statusbar buttons has the same functionality.
Improve comaptibility with Firefox 4:
- The statusbar won't be visible by default in Firefox 4, so the toolbar button should be shown instead.

Version 1.2.2 - May 31, 2010

Fix issues in Firefox 3.0

Version 1.2.1 - May 29, 2010

Updated Korean and Portuguese translations.

Version 1.2 - May 28, 2010

Previous version may caused some issues with other Google services.

Version 1.1 - April 17, 2010

Fix tooltip settings,
Remove empty placeholders in customize toolbar panel

Version 1.0 - April 6, 2010

The extension has been rewritten, currently it's faster and more stable. Only a few new thing introduced:

List of the unread items is shown also in the toolbar button
If saved your google password with Firefox, you don't need to specify your account details.
New icons.
Works with less requests

Special thanks to Endor, who helped a lot with the exhaustive testing

Version 0.0.15.5 - November 6, 2009

Fix "mark all as read" functionallity

Version 0.0.15.4 - November 1, 2009

compatible with Firefox 3.6

Version 0.0.15.3 - October 28, 2009

Updated spanish translation, thanks for Francisco Javier Cuadrado.

Version 0.0.15.2 - October 5, 2009

Fixing a bug when user changes the reader opening settings, and changes to open the new tab if he double clicks on the statusbar icon, it didn't opened, only in newly opened windows.

Version 0.0.15.1 - September 26, 2009

Replace setTimeout() calls with nsITimer to address security vulnerability of setTimeout.
Replace eval() calls with evalInSandbox to comply with security advisory.

Version 0.0.15 - September 17, 2009

Show confirmation window, when you choose the mark all as read option on the statusbar menu
Avoid conflicts with other extensions
Possibility to disable tooltip in the statusbar
Sometimes we get an empty response from the Google Reader when try to get the count of the unread items. In that case the extension tries to get the count once more, so the error icon won't be shown so often

Version 0.0.14.3 - April 8, 2009

The Google has changed their login method and the after that, the automatic login didn't work. This version is fixing the issue

Version 0.0.14.2 - February 5, 2009

Fix checking failure if one of the labels contains a special character (Thanks to Maxim Dobriakov for the bugreport)

Version 0.0.14.1 - January 18, 2009

counting also the shared items
you can open the a labels/feeds page from the right click menu
you can specify a delay, which defines that how much time should elapse after the browser started to start the first check
possibility to force the login before checking new feeds and opening the Google Reader
add localized descriptions
add da-DK locales, thanks for AlleyCat
fix compatibility with organize status bar extension
fix the filtering when feeds are not grouped by labels
password field won't be filled if it's not set
fix doublclick window opening issue

Version 0.0.13.2 - October 14, 2008

fix some compatibility issues with Firefox 2.*
add Korean language, thanks to ¿?¿?¿?

Version 0.0.13.1 - September 22, 2008

Make possible to use the Google Reader keyboard shortcuts right after you open the Google Reader tab from the statusbar, so you don't need to click on the page.

Version 0.0.13 - September 8, 2008

fix the label filter: if the tag contains white space character and the after/before the comma was a white space character, the filter didn't worked
fix Firefox 3 third party cookie related bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437174#c32
make it possible to show the real number of the unread feeds again

Version 0.0.12.1 - May 25, 2008

This release just a quick fix, because in the previous version I forgot to activate the cs-CZ and zh-TW locales.
I'm sorry for the mistake

Version 0.0.12 - May 25, 2008

sort feeds by label
filter the feeds by their label: the feeds which are labeled with the labels you specified here won't be counted and displayed. if you want to filter the feeds which are not labeled type here "-" (without quotes).
if the number of the unread feeds are more than 1000, the counter will show 1000+, as in the Google Reader
add mark all as read function into the right click menu
add Traditional Chinese translation - thanks toomore (BabelZilla)
code improvements and fixes

Version 0.0.11 - February 07, 2008

This version is fully compatible with Firefox 3 (beta) version
New locales: nl-NL - Hans (babelzilla), sk-SK - morpher (babelzilla)
Open window with null:// protocol bug fixed
Other small improvements

Version 0.0.10 - November 26, 2007

Bugfix:
- If the show counter when no unread item and the reset counter options are enabled, the counter disappeared when clicking on the statusbar icon. Thanks Nils Werner
Locales:
- Pedram Veisi - fa-IR (babelzilla
- promatik - pt-PT (babelzilla)
- dvdianov - ru-RU (babelzilla)
Feature:
- Toolbar button
- Enable to use non-secure connection

Version 0.0.9 - September 22, 2007

Check for new items when opening new window - bug FIXED
The Google Reader Watcher opens another Google Reader window if already opened one. - bug FIXED

Version 0.0.8 - July 26, 2007

Show error message when the login fail
Bug fixed: Count of unread item is too low
Allow the user to turn off the notification window
Allow user to sets the extension to show 0 when no unread feed
Update the feed count with middle click on the statusbar icon
Locales:
- pt-BR by zini (Babelzilla)
- el-GR by panda2005 (Babelzilla)

Version 0.0.7 - July 8, 2007

Bug Fixed: The extension's unread counter not equals with the Google Reader's unread counter - (Thanks for Sander Lepik)
New languages
- Sander Lepik et-EE
- 7bse de-DE (babelzilla)

Version 0.0.6 - July 5, 2007

Better window opening handler
Better error handler (especially timeout)
New languages:
- Ahmed Yilmaz - tr-TR
- chtitux - fr-FR (babelzilla)
- AtteL fi-FI(babelzilla)
- drry ja-JP (babelzilla)
- fiag zh-CN (babelzilla)
- pierfrancesco99 it-IT (babelzilla)
- Wareczek pl-PL (babelzilla)
- PAGF_LINUX es-AR, es-ES (babelzilla)
- zini pt-BR (babelzilla)

Version 0.0.5 - June 17, 2007

Opens Google Reader Watcher via single or double click on the statusbar icon
Activate the Google Reader tab when you open it
Your user name and password is stored in the same format as the Google do. So, if you already saved your account data into the Firefox password manager, you don't need to specify it again.
New configuration panel
New load indicator image
French translation (Théophile Helleboid)

Version 0.0.4 - June 3, 2007

Code cleanup
New feature: Remember login. It's equals the "Remember me on this computer" function on Google Account login page. If you enable this, the Firefox won't ask for your master password on Firefox startup (except if another extension ask).