ThumbStrips

Welcome to ThumbStrips

jmandell — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:15:59 +0000

Version 1.5.1 for Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3
Download count: 46,011 Last: 7-2-2009 at 4:03am

What is it?
A Firefox extension that creates a filmstrip of thumbnails – – ThumbStrip, get it? – – so you can see your history, and stop guessing at page names in the history sidebar. You can even share your ThumbStrips!

How do I install it?
It installs like any other Firefox extension – – you just need to accept the EULA first. (If you aren’t familiar with Firefox extensions, just click the link, then click “install now” when it appears. Installations take a few seconds, then restart Firefox to get going.)

How do I start using it?
The ThumbStrips icon will automagically appear in your toolbar. Click it to view your ThumbStrip, right-click to start and stop recording.

How do I get rid of it?
It uninstalls just like other extensions. Go to Tool > Add-ons, select ThumbStrips, and then click Uninstall. Restarting Firefox then removes it.

How do I get help for it?
Just comment here on the blog OR
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System Requirements
Firefox 2.0 or later, PC or Mac

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Note: We moved previous comments over to their own page when we moved ThumbStrips here, to its own blog.

Oops… We broke sharing, sorry.

jmandell — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:11:21 +0000

I hate “Oops” because it is almost always preventable with good planning which means that didn’t happen. We recently moved IntuitLabs.com (where ThumbStrips is hosted) to another hosting company. The move went very smoothly, so smoothly that I did not fully test every feature of ThumbStrips including sharing. Sharing was our attempt to give users a place to upload their ThumbStrips and find others to download. In the more than 12 months that we implemented this feature we only had a few dozen uploaded and most of those were our own tests. This tells me that either we went after something you didn’t really need/want OR we found the right problem but didn’t solve it well enough.

Either way it is not working anymore. We did a preliminary analysis and found that there is a database configuration issue that will take some time to fix. Given our priorities I am not sure when or if we will be able to fix it. I am sorry for those few that did give it a shot, and feel free to let me know how we could improve that feature.

So when you go to the Configure -> Save/Share menu you can ignore the checkboxes for “Share this ThumbStrip” and “Email this ThumbStrip”. To email a ThumbStrip, just save it to your computer and email the .film file.

Thank you for understanding,
Jonathan

Fashion Your Firefox includes ThumbStrips!

swilliamson — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:58:15 +0000

If you’re like me you use and love Firefox. You probably have a few add-ons and hopefully one of them is ThumbStrips. The popularity of Firefox add-ons can be overwhelming if you visit the Mozilla site and quickly realize how many add-ons there are. Mozilla just launched “Fashion Your Firefox” that will help to streamline the process by which you download great add-ons.

Fashion Your Firefox is an edited, shorter list of Firefox add-ons, chosen by Mozilla staffers. There are a few categories to choose from and only a few add-ons in each category. If you check out the Fashion Your Firefox site, you’ll notice under the Digital Pack Rat category ThumbStrips is one of their choices!

If you get a chance, check out Fashion Your Firefox and the variety of great add-ons you can download for Firefox.

ThumbStrips Update 1.5.1

jmandell — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:39:18 +0000

Hello All,

We are happy to announce the latest version of ThumbStrips - 1.5.1.

What did we do?
* Made ThumbStrips Firefox 3 compliant.
Check out the latest version of Firefox 3 beta 5 here, it’s great!

* Added a simple way to add comments to your thumbnails
Just right-click and select “comment”. The comments will be saved with the thumbstrip and are searchable.

* Restored the sharing feature on the thumbstrips.com website
Go to configure - Save/Share - Share this thumbstrip on intuitlabs.com. This is a feature that we would love some more feedback on. We just threw together a way to share ThumbStrips and only a few people have used it so far

* Cleaned up some JavaScript errors.

Thank you all for all the feedback and testing that you have done for this latest release. We look forward to learning more from you in the future.

Oh where, oh where has my ThumbStrip gone…

jmandell — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:08:05 +0000

One of the comments we see often is “ThumbStrips should remember my last session.” The truth is that it does, but it is just hard to find (sorry about that). When you quit Firefox the most recent thumbstrip is located here:

Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\*username*\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\*.default\chrome\filmstrips\_ThumbStrips History from Last Browser Session.film
Mac OS X (Leopard): ./Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*.default/chrome/filmstrips/_ThumbStrips History from Last Browser Session.film
Linux: /home/*username*/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/chrome/filmstrips/_ThumbStrips History from Last Browser Session.film

This is the same location where your “My ThumbStrips” are saved.

We hope this helps you find your thumbstrips and we will work harder in the future to make this easier to find.

Here is some more info on where your Firefox profile information is stored for different OSs.

Thanks,
Jonathan

ThumbStrips on Linux

swilliamson — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:36:15 +0000

When we first developed ThumbStrips we made sure it worked on Windows and Mac machines. After releasing the first version we had users asking us if we support Linux. Since ThumbStrips is a Firefox extension, we thought the operating system that Firefox is running under shouldn’t matter, right? Well, some users confirmed that it did indeed work on Linux, but recently we’ve had some feedback that ThumbStrips was not working properly on some versions of Linux.

There have been almost 37,000 downloads on this site and over 230,000 downloads on Mozilla’s add-ons site. How many of you are running ThumbStrips on Linux? Are you experiencing any problems? We’d love to hear your feedback.

We have setup a Linux environment today to try and recreate the problems that our users are seeing and will keep you posted on our progress.

- Scott

Test Time - FF3 beta5

jmandell — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:24:20 +0000

It’s time to take our shiny new version out for a test drive and we would love some help from you to work out any remaining bugginess. After all, it is kinda your responsibility to help since it was you that made ThumbStrips so successful that we are continuing to work on it This new version’s primary goal is to be FF3 compliant, so if you are using FF3 (which rocks btw) and want to help out, please reply with a comment below or email us at innovation@intuit.com.

Thanks,
Jonathan

April Fool’s Day Outage (5-6PM est)

jmandell — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:48:13 +0000

No… this is not a joke. We will have a very brief, so brief you most likely wont even notice it, outage from 5-6 PM EST on Tuesday, April 1st. That means that both intuitlabs.com and thumbstrips.com will be unavailable.

Here’s a tip: not sure if that site you like is down or if it’s just you? Now there’s a way to tell: downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Happy New Year - Let’s kick it off with a new version of ThumbStrips!

jmandell — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:03:49 +0000

You asked for it and you got it! Thank you all so much for your feedback on our initial version of the visual web history tool we launched 6 months ago. We pored through the hundreds of comments and emails that we received and used that feedback to create the latest version of ThumbStrips. We even had a few of you test this latest release for us (thanks to those that volunteered).

What’s new in 1.5 (get it here)?

You can now drag and drop your thumbnails to create your own sort order.
Your sort order is now saved with the ThumbStrip.
We fixed performance issues (script errors) when saving a ThumbStrip.
Sites can be blocked from recording. You can now choose to block a particular page, an entire domain, or you can use the custom option to restrict a subsection of a site.
The toolbar has been redesigned for both form (looks cool) and function (takes up less space and is more intuitive)

Please let us know what you love, what needs to be improved, and why. Also, we would love to know what you use ThumbStrips for so others can learn how take advantage of it, so please comment on that too!
On a side note we have entered ThumbStrips in Mozilla’s Extend Firefox 2 Contest. Wish us luck!

Thank you all and have a Happy New Year!

Looking for a Few Good ThumbStrips Testers…

jmandell — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:22:35 +0000

Since its release in May 2007, Thumbstrips has been wildly successful beyond any of our expectations with over 50K downloads. We have received incredible feedback which we put to good use in coming up with our latest version. Now, we are looking for 6 of our users that would have fun testing our new version of Thumbstrips that is set for Beta this week. Please leave a comment (something like “me please”, “TS rocks”, or “count me in”). This is a first come first served basis, so please let me know.

Thanks for playing “innovation” with me,
Jonathan