Deepest Sender

Anyone there? Will Deepest Sender be updated and renewed for Firefox?

2015-12-18T20:35:12Z

The subject says it all... Newest Firefox won't verify Deepest Sender.

Linux, Firefox 12, Deepest Sender 0.9.8 — keyboard navigation through text is broken

2012-05-09T04:55:11Z

Actually it navigates through toolbar above it. Source input editor is ok, for e. g.

UPD.: The issue's been resolved.

LJ Sync and Post History

2011-11-17T07:09:30Z

LJ seems to have done something to the challenge/response login mechanism that breaks Post History and LJ Sync. This is quite annoying. I am poking through trying to figure out how to get around it, but for now, if your copy of Firefox hasn't decided to update itself and break all your addons, try going to the account options (on the DS login page, hit the Options button) and unchecking the "use challenge/response authentication" part. This should get things working again for now if you're really desperate, however it's pretty insecure (not as bad as plaintext, but close - it just sends an MD5 hash of the password to the server). A proper update will be on its way... soon.

LJ Sync Error - Invalid Password

2011-11-16T05:14:19Z

Is anyone else having this problem with LJ Sync? I haven't used the feature in a while, and when it starts up, it gives the error


Javascript Application: Invalid Password

However, the PW I use for DS *is* accurate, and lets me log in/update my journal normally (for instance, I'm posting this entry via Deepest Sender.) I've been looking around online, and even tried other versions of DS on other versions of Firefox (via PortableApps downloads installations) but nothing is working... What gives? :S I'd really wanted to back up my journal; Petrus doesn't seem to do it, the WIndows backup program I tried requires .NET Framework (which won't run on Linux under WINE) and I just prefer using Deepest Sender for backups, anyway. :S Help?

deepestsender @ 2011-06-29T20:12:00

2011-06-29T10:12:47Z

Finally updated Deepest Sender for Firefox 5! Also fixed up the toolbar buttons, so one will now be in the addon bar and you can right click on the toolbar and use the customise thing to add up the top if you want. Also fixed the weird display bugs regarding right-click menus.

And, this time the auto-update thing should work if you have a MozDev version (I actually remembered how to do it properly this time).

deepestsender @ 2011-04-08T23:46:00

2011-04-08T13:47:04Z

Just version-bumped DS so it'll work in Firefox 4. Absolutely no other changes have been done, so it won't appear in the addon bar or anything like that. I will probably eventually add that when I'm bored enough.

If you downloaded from Mozilla addons previously, you'll need to manually grab it from the Deepest Sender site. I'm sick of complying with AMO's rules and code reviews so it's no longer on there.

Hopefully I signed the updater file properly and if you previously downloaded DS from MozDev, it should work (I was testing and couldn't get it working - wasn't sure if it was due to me screwing up or things taking a while to get through to MozDev mirrors). If it still errors out after a few hours let me know and I'll investigate.

Support for Firefox 4?

2011-03-22T18:00:30Z

Has anyone tried using the 0.9.3 version of deepest sender with FF4 on Windows 7 (64-bit). Curious to know if others have tried and what their experience has been so far. I haven't yet. I am hoping there are some of you out there who are more courageous than I am. :)

Solved! Deepest sender not showing user pics and/or tags not labled

2010-11-30T16:05:38Z

symptom: after a firefox and/or deepest sender upgrade, one or more of the following occurs: user picture is gone, ability to post in other groups you are member of is gone, tags aren't labeled.

I don't know exactly why this happens but I think has to do with a corrupt user profile. I haven't tested that theory and probably won't, but someone else might want to try by rebuilding the profile. I chose a more nuclear option below...

Fix/work around: Uninstall Firefox and delete the mozilla folder with all the saved settings. Reinstall firefox and reinstall deepest sender. A fresh clean install solved my problems. For this to work you have get rid of the chrome folder or it will just revert back to your old settings and the problem will remain when you reinstall.

0.9.3

2010-06-02T06:24:13Z

Basically I did some work on DS back in February, saved it all to CVS, then my motherboard died and I got a new one and reformatted and couldn't remember my CVS password and was too lazy to set up Firefox for development blah blah excuses excuses. Anyway I threw together this version based on that work - the geolocation stuff is a bit messy but I'll fix it up in a future version.

What's new (from memory):

Geolocation of posts using Firefox's geolocation stuff (hint: hit the "..." button next to Current Location). It won't look up where you are unless you click the button to search. It can be turned on and off via the options window. Important: for more information on privacy etc, see the Geolocation page at Mozilla. This feature is currently unavailable for SeaMonkey (it's part of Gecko 1.9.2 - well, geolocation itself isn't, but the XPCOM interface to it is).
The cursor should now appear normally, instead of having to alt+tab between windows to get it to pop up.
Removed eval() code from the startup window as AMO are having a whinge about it.

In the DS options, you can set what fields you want to appear for "current location" if you elect to use it. Just delete the bits you don't want, or rearrange them, or whatever. The interface for this is pretty clunky, but like I said, I'll fix it eventually.

That's it. You can grab it from MozDev or wait 600 years then check AMO in the off-chance they got around to approving it.

Deepest Sender 0.9.2

2010-02-01T20:01:22Z

Finally updated. Changes:

Redid namespaces in atom.js so posting to Blogger works again.
Updated for Firefox 3.6.
Working under SeaMonkey 2.0.2.
Added sidebar code back to SM (if you want to use the sidebar version of DS, either do it through xSidebar or when DS is installed, browse to chrome://deepestsender/content/install.html).
Removed old SeaMonkey specific workarounds (install.js, alternate options window, locale selection) becaise it's all good now.
Middle clicking on the userpic now opens a tab with the LJ in SM.
Editing posts in WordPress doesn't reset the date anymore.
When loading up a WP post to edit, the draft status will change properly.
"Posting to:" bug is solved.
Clicking a userpic shouldn't go to a 404 anymore.

You can get it from MozDev, or if you like waiting for things, AMO will probably get around to approving it in 2015.

Barring any screwups from me signing the update file (let's face it, no DS release has ever gone out smoothly), those of you who have previously downloaded from MozDev should soon get an "updated extension available" message. Fingers crossed everything works properly.

EDIT: Looks like I forgot to add hashes to the update file, and originally posted this note to my own journal last night instead of here. The tradition continues!

does anyone else have this problem?

2010-01-28T00:08:50Z

When I paste YouTube embed HTML into DS, it looks all fine and dandy until I post, at which time it posts all text and code up to the first <object> tag of the YT HTML. I haven't seen any other complaints about it recently but it's been happening to me at least for the last couple of months. This may only happen when I try to center the video with <center> tags. FF 3.5.7, OSX 10.6. :\

This does not seem to happen when I write a post on the site, though recently I've been thinking it's an LJ problem rather than a DS problem, cause I used to be able to do it just fine.

Does this happen to anyone else?

solved, thanks. :)

deepestsender @ 2010-01-27T22:30:00

2010-01-27T11:30:32Z

New version should hopefully be up tomorrow. Sorry for the delay, my life has been turned upside down as of a few days ago + there was a bug that was harder to track down than I anticipated. Tomorrow I'll go through the translations that people have submitted and bundle the ones that work, then it'll get uploaded.

EDIT: Oh, and I'll try and get Seamonkey support back.

Support for Firefox 3.6?

2010-01-22T02:27:18Z

I was just about to update my Firefox install from 3.5.(whatever is the latest) to 3.6 when the update utility flagged Deepest Sender 0.9.1 as incompatible. Thought I would ask if/when this might get addressed...

I'm a big fan of this FF add-on. I've been using it for almost as long as I've been using LJ (which is about 3 or 4 years now).

I don't mind waiting to upgrade to FF 3.6 until this is ready. I'm in no major rush.

Thanks in advance!

Feature request - ScrapBook functionality

2009-08-03T15:01:20Z

Hey, I'm a frequent DS user, since the beginning. I love its cross-platform support, because I'm using it on 4 Linux boxen, and one WinXP VM. :-) I have a feature request, if it would be possible. I realize that DS is primarily a LiveJournal client. But would it be possible to integrate some FotoBilder/ScrapBook functionality in it?

In specific, I'd like the ability to give DS a URL to an image online (that is not hosted by me), and have DS transfer the file to ScrapBook for me to link to.

My use case is when I find a cool pic online, rather than hotlinking (which is considered rude), I'd like to transfer it to my ScrapBook and link to that version of the picture. I currently do this manually, but why can't DS do it for me?

I see this changing the UI in only one place, in the "Insert an Image" dialog. Add a checkbox for "transfer to my ScrapBook and link to it there", or something like that. Maybe include a small amount of help regarding this option, and why it's important to use it. However, the option should only be enabled for people who actually HAVE ScrapBook. Additionally, if a picture is right-clicked and the "send to DeepestSender" menu item is clicked, that should also trigger the same dialog with the same checkbox.

As far as under-the-hood implementation, you'd first need to simply download the picture. That's easy. But then, uploading to ScrapBook is where things get non-trivial. My idea would be to look into the command-line ScrapBook client (fotoup.pl). Also, not everyone has access to ScrapBook. All paid users do, but I think other users can pay just for that feature, so some logic would need to be added to see whether it's possible with the currently logged-in user.

At the point where you check to see if someone has a ScrapBook and are able to upload files to it, you've got the makings of a basic ScrapBook client. So it expands DS slightly. Future additions to the ScrapBook functionality could include tags (diff from LJ's tags, but you've got a UI for tags already), picture/folder sharing options (pulls the same groups as LJ, but I'm not sure if the implementation is the same, however like tags, you also have a UI for this already), picture titles (subject lines), and picture descriptions (HTML isn't parsed in these, so the "source" window UI element could be used to duplicate that).

That's just some ideas. I'm not much of a coder (at all), or else I'd contribute changes myself. However, I am pretty good at writing specs, so I've done what I'm good at. :-)

0.9.1

2009-07-08T12:34:35Z

New DS is up on MozDev, and it's sitting in the sandbox at AMO waiting for approval. If you downloaded it from MozDev originally, then the extension updater thing should do its thing properly (I hope - it's been over a year since I last did all the update-signing thing so I might have done something wrong, but it seems to work for me). If it's unable to download (worked straight away for me, so maybe they updated how all that stuff works in the past year), then it's possibly still syncing to whatever mirror you were trying to download it from, so try again later.

Nothing new (aside from that annoying-as-hell LJ user bug, you know, the Ctrl+K one not giving expected results), but I will start working on it again, otherwise it'd be a total waste of spending half a day trying to get everything set up for development.

LJ user tag button doesn't work

2009-07-08T07:49:11Z

I thought it was just me, and some inane fluke of my XP/Firefox combination, but now I read it on my flist as well: the button for the LJ user tag in DS doesn't work. I have to code it by hand in the source window.

And as I am posting, I must say a button for the 'small' and the 'strike' tags would come in REALLY handy, as I use them a lot -- the other two most frequent reasons I change to source view.

Is there, perhaps, a new version of DS somewhere that has these, but isn't known to Mozilla yet and has to be installed by hand?

Set default category? Easy blockquote?

2009-07-02T17:57:26Z

Hey, DS folks --

I'm liking Deepest Sender, but I have a couple of questions (or maybe requests):

Is there any way to set the default category? I have a handful, and DS always defaults to the first alphabetically, which happens to be one I rarely use. I was hoping I could set it for something more common, or have it default to the last category used. Is that possible?

And... is there an easy way to add a blockquote? I see I can indent text, but I was looking to use the blockquote (or cite) tags. Can it be done?

Many thanks!

deepestsender @ 2009-06-30T22:53:00

2009-06-30T12:53:13Z

As the nerdy ones of you know, Firefox 3.5 will be coming out Real Soon Now. DS will be updated to work with it in the next few days (I don't actually have any development stuff set up here at the moment). Actually maybe next week sometime, I'm off to NZ on Friday and won't have time over the weekend.

Also, thinking about cutting out the Blogger/WordPress stuff. It was an interesting experiment, but let's face it, the support/features for it in DS are terrible and probably doesn't even work anymore.

deepestsender @ 2009-06-03T15:47:00

2009-06-03T19:49:27Z

Okay, I'm a bit confused.

Ever since my Firefox update Deepest Sender hasn't worked for me anymore. I uploaded the newest version and installed it but nothing happens after that and I'm not sure why. It doesn't give me the log in page like it should. Anybody have any ideas what this could be and how to solve it?

javascript error message posting to blogger

2009-04-05T14:10:45Z

Hi All,
Tried to get this in yesterday but I think I've pooped my deepest sender, so now posting from the website.
I'm new to the whole plugins thing, can't understand code for toffee or tea, and now I'm here.
I get this error message when I try to post an entry to the new blogger account I made.

[JavaScript Application]
Error sending post: [Line 2, Column 8] Invalid root element, expected (namespace uri:local name) of
(http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom:entry), found (:entry
OK
Can anyone PLEASE shed any light on this?
Going crazy here because my screenreader won't work with blogger and so I can't post!

Thanks much for any help.

Ezzie

deepestsender @ 2009-04-04T16:28:00

2009-04-04T15:28:02Z

Hello,
I have a question, but have no idea where to start finding an answer as I am useless at coding anything and I'm not really sure how to use bugzilla or whatever.
The error message comes up when I try to post to my blogger account:

[JavaScript Application]
Error sending post: [Line 2, Column 8] Invalid root element, expected (namespace uri:local name) of
(http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom:entry), found (:entry
OK

Does anyone know what I need to do to fix this?
Thanks.

Weirdness in the text area.

2009-02-24T10:20:55Z

Okay, I'm not sure if this is a deepest sender thing, or something else wrong with my Firefox, but I first noticed the problem in deepest sender, so I'm going to ask here first in case any of you fine folk have encountered this problem too.

The text area for my entry in the deepest sender window is all wonky, in that the actual area it'll let me type in is a very small center part of the whole area that should be able to accept text.

I've also seen this problem with EditCSS when it opens in the sidebar. It only recently developed, since I upgraded from Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. If anyone has any ideas on what happened, I would greatly appreciate the help.

A bit confused (Unable to post to blogger)

2008-12-17T07:19:53Z

Well. I've read the instructions, the help and the FAQ. I've headed over to bugzilla where I found this bug report.
It describes the problem I'm having exactly and includes a screen shot of the error message which reads: "Must specify either an [sic] content or summary element for a post".
The only difference between the bug report and my problem is platform. I'm running a Mac OSX. The thing is, the report was filed in September and hasn't been commented on or answered in any way that I can see. So I have this lovely little addon that works great for my LJ, but doesn't work with my blogger and I'm sooo bummed.
Help, please?

Sync

2008-11-06T02:02:35Z

Is there some secret to getting the Livejournal Sync function to work?

Facebook Update Support

2008-11-05T15:18:59Z

So, the Livejournal Connect Facebook App has been discontinued, due to LJ adding some support for Facebook updating. That's just peachy for those who use the web-based posting thingy, but it'd be nice if support for this could be included in clients like Deepest Sender. Any chance of this happening?