ThumbStrips

8 Comments

• LAURA WEBB | April 16th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

  I like the thumbstrips I hate losing track of sites when searching and having to bookmark them when I don’t intend to keep the site that I would not visit often. I have my too many sites bookmarked that I have to go and delete all the time this saves time great ideal for surfing the internet for stuff.

  
  

• swilliamson | April 17th, 2008 at 11:05 am

  Today I installed ThumbStrips 1.5 on Firefox 2.0.0.13, which is running on Fedora Core 5 Linux. So far so good. I was able to install the extension and all of the functionality is working as expected. Is anyone running ThumbStrips on Suse Linux?

  
  

• miki | April 19th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

  totally awesome…what a pleasure…IE7 was crashing every time I had multiple tabs open …..Firefox is a dream to use and this add on is just great
  well done…intelligent and practical programming

  
  

• tof | April 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

  I’ve juste installed Thumbstrips extenstion running Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Ubuntu 7.10

  Most of functionalities work, except Save/Share:
  - “Save to my Thumbstrips” returns “Error: Invalid file name” whatever the filename with or without .film extension in the name.
  - “Save to specific location” does nothing.
  - “E-mail this Thumbstrips to a friend” returns “Error: Invalid file name”.
  - “Share this Thumbstrips on innovation.intuit.com” returns “Error: Invalid file name”.

  
  

• leo_ng | April 21st, 2008 at 12:23 am

  i hope u can add the “Clear Thumbstrips” to “TOOLS>CLEAR PRIVATE DATA” so that we can quickly and convenient to clear record in one time^^~thz~
  i come from Hong Kong~

  
  

• swilliamson | April 21st, 2008 at 9:06 am

  miki - Glad you’re enjoying TS!

  tof - Thanks for the detailed feedback, this is a huge help. We received another comment about saving trouble on Mac so I’m going to dig deeper into this issue. Emailing and share functions actually save before the thumbstrip is emailed/shared, so it appears there is something buggy with saving. Stay tuned.

  leo_ng - Thanks for the feature request all the way from Hong Kong!

  
  

• swilliamson | April 28th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

  Hi tof,

  I think I found something regarding “Save to my Thumbstrips” returning an error. When you save a ThumbStrip to “my Thumbstrips” the file is being stored with your Firefox profile. I noticed that the directory that stores the files on my Linux machine didn’t have the proper permissions. Once I updated the permissions, the file was save successfully. Can you give these steps a try and let me know?

  Here are the steps.

  1) Open a terminal and cd to the chrome directory in your Firefox profile where ThumbStrips is installed. Chances are you are using the default Firefox profile. My chrome directory is located at /home/scott/.mozilla/firefox/ooac2brg.default/chrome.

  2) You’ll notice in the chrome directory there will be a directory called filmstrips. This is where the ThumbStrips files are stored. Change the permissions on this directory to be read-write-execute for owner and group, and read-write for user by entering the command “chmod -R 775″.

  3) Try and save a ThumbStrip using the “Save to my Thumbstrips” option. It should save correctly.

  Hope that helps. I’m still digging on the other issues related to save/sharing, but my gut tells me it could be more permissions related issues.

  - Scott

  
  

• BT | May 21st, 2008 at 10:44 am

  Yes, changing the permissions allows it to save properly.

  If you are not going to code a workaround, perhaps you should post these instructions formally.

  
  

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