ThumbStrips http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips Find what you seek, visually Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:46:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Welcome to ThumbStrips http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/welcome-to-thumbstrips/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/welcome-to-thumbstrips/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:59 +0000 jmandell http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/welcome-to-thumbstrips/ ThumbStrips

Version 1.5.1 for Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3 beta 5
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Download count: 40,932 Last: 7-24-2008 at 10:54am


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!

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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
Check out the topics that other users are talking about on Get Satisfaction

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.

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/welcome-to-thumbstrips/feed/ ThumbStrips Update 1.5.1 http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/thumbstrips-update-151/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/thumbstrips-update-151/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 16:39:18 +0000 jmandell http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/thumbstrips-update-151/ 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.

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/thumbstrips-update-151/feed/ Oh where, oh where has my ThumbStrip gone… http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/oh-where-oh-where-has-my-thumbstrip-gone/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/oh-where-oh-where-has-my-thumbstrip-gone/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 13:08:05 +0000 jmandell http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/oh-where-oh-where-has-my-thumbstrip-gone/ 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

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/05/oh-where-oh-where-has-my-thumbstrip-gone/feed/ ThumbStrips on Linux http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/thumbstrips-on-linux/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/thumbstrips-on-linux/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:36:15 +0000 swilliamson http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/thumbstrips-on-linux/ 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. <strong>How many of you are running ThumbStrips on Linux?</strong> 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

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/thumbstrips-on-linux/feed/ Test Time - FF3 beta5 http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/test-time-ff3-beta5/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/test-time-ff3-beta5/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:24:20 +0000 jmandell http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/test-time-ff3-beta5/ 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

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/04/test-time-ff3-beta5/feed/ April Fool’s Day Outage (5-6PM est) http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/03/april-fools-day-outage-5-6pm-est/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/03/april-fools-day-outage-5-6pm-est/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:48:13 +0000 jmandell http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/03/april-fools-day-outage-5-6pm-est/ 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

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2008/03/april-fools-day-outage-5-6pm-est/feed/ Happy New Year - Let’s kick it off with a new version of ThumbStrips! http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/12/happy-new-year-lets-kick-it-off-with-a-new-version-of-thumbstrips/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/12/happy-new-year-lets-kick-it-off-with-a-new-version-of-thumbstrips/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2007 21:03:49 +0000 jmandell http://iicom.intuit.com/blogts/?p=13 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!

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/12/happy-new-year-lets-kick-it-off-with-a-new-version-of-thumbstrips/feed/ Looking for a Few Good ThumbStrips Testers… http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/12/looking-for-a-few-good-thumbstrips-testers/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/12/looking-for-a-few-good-thumbstrips-testers/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:22:35 +0000 jmandell http://iicom.intuit.com/blogts/?p=12 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

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/12/looking-for-a-few-good-thumbstrips-testers/feed/ Let the voting commence! http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/08/let-the-voting-commence/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/08/let-the-voting-commence/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:11:03 +0000 hscatamacchia http://iicom.intuit.com/blogts/?p=11 We are working on the next release of TS, and have been scouring through your comments for ideas on what to fix, add, or change about TS. There are so many, but a couple big ones we’ve heard from a lot of folks (and will definitely be in this release):

  • “Figure out a way for TS to use less of my CPU” / “it takes too long to save a TS”
  • “Let me choose the sites I don’t want TS to record”

So here’s your chance, vote for the feature(s) you think should be in the next release - and tell us why:

  • Annotation - write extra details about the pages in your TS
  • Customized order - change the order of the pages, drag & drop maybe?
  • Menu bar - reduce the size of the buttons on the menu bar
  • Navigation - get rid of the arrow buttons, just use mouse or bottom bar to scroll
  • Plug-ins - let me show my TS in different places… Facebook app, Blog This button, others?
  • Website - make it easier to share my TS and check out what other people have posted
  • Customized preferences - let me set how I want TS to start up and work
  • Customized look - let me choose a different look & feel for my TS
  • Docking toolbar - let me move the whole viewer
  • History - tie TS to my history, and the history preferences
  • Other - don’t see the one change you really want… what is it?

Vote for as many or as few options as you’d like. Comment here on this blog, or over in the forum post - and remember, the feature with the most votes will be included in the next version of ThumbStrips.

]]> http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/08/let-the-voting-commence/feed/ “Hey, why does ThumbStrips…?” http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/08/hey-why-does-thumbstrips/ http://intuitlabs.com/thumbstrips/2007/08/hey-why-does-thumbstrips/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:42:24 +0000 hscatamacchia http://iicom.intuit.com/blogts/?p=10 There have been some great suggestions, comments, and questions posted on the ThumbStrips page over the last few days. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to share your thoughts, and in the name of being fair, I thought I’d tackle the top-3 most recent questions here:

Why does the ThumbStrips viewer only show the first page thumbnail and nothing else for me?
Yeah, this little bugger’s a pain. We’re working with a couple TS users directly to try and better troubleshoot this problem (thanks comroe & rondine!), and in this instance it was that TS wasn’t playing nice with McAfee SiteAdvisor. The short-term solution to get TS working is to disable McAfee, but we know that’s not a great long-term solution, so we are still working on this. If you have any ideas, let us know.

Why do I get an alert when I close Firefox - is that ThumbStrips?
Yes, it’s ThumbStrips doing an auto-save of your last browser session, and it’s not quite done at the time you are closing Firefox. We’ve seen a few comments where folks are asking for an auto-save feature, so you can rest assured - it’s there. My question to you guys - have you gone back and opened up a previous TS session? What did you do with it - did you add on more thumbnails, did you go back to a specific page, something different? We think the auto-save is a useful feature, but I want to know what you guys think.

Why doesn’t ThumbStrips open automatically when I open Firefox?
Well, we figured you open Firefox with a specific task in mind - whether it’s checking the news, searching for something, etc - so we didn’t want to get in the way of that. TS is running in the background when you open your browser, so you aren’t losing any of your browsing session - but we aren’t taking up your web “real estate” with the viewer all the time. That was just our thought - but I’m curious, if more people are browsing with the viewer open all the time, are you using it to jump between pages instead of the back / forward buttons?

That’s it for now, but keep that feedback coming in!

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