RSSOwl 2.0 M8 RC1 available for testing

Milestone 8 is around the corner with great new features and we want to make sure to provide a stable release. That's why we ask for your help in giving this release candidate a try and to report any issues back to us. To help you make the decision to play around with M8 RC1, here is a list of some of the cool new features:

Copy or Move News into Bins
Create Keyword Subscriptions (e.g. del.icio.us)
Undo/Redo now available for most operations
Display all feeds of a folder at once
Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
More than 80 bugs fixed

Update: Thanks for testing, M8 is now available!.

Awesome - can it be self contained on a usb stick.

Submitted by redZ94 on Fri, 2008-02-29 15:38.

SO far so good. One question though... Is there any way to have it run off a usb stick? It seems run off a usb stick on my main pc, however when i move to another pc, all my feeds are gone. Any way to remedy this?

Thanks!

This is possible when you

Submitted by bpasero on Sat, 2008-03-01 14:12.

This is possible when you store the settings on the USB stick. See http://boreal.rssowl.org/#12a for more details.

xulrunner und Feeds als gelesen markieren

Submitted by zerberus on Sun, 2008-03-02 19:48.

Hallo Ben,

ich habe zwei Dinge am 8. Milestone zu bekritteln:

A) Ich habe den xulrunner 1.8.3.1. wieder deinstalliert, da ich nach der Installation keine Feeds mehr mit dem internen Browser öffnen konnte. Ich erhielt immer den Hinweis, dass die Seite nicht gefunden wurde. Ich nutze die Beta 3 des neuen Firefox 3.0. Nach der Deinstallation war alles wieder ok.

B) Trotz mehrmonatiger Nutzung stört mich nach wie vor die "neue" Funktion, Feeds als gelesen zu markieren. Ich "überfliege" immer alle ungelesenen Feeds und lese nur die, die mich interessieren. Am Ende habe ich in der alten Eule einfach auf "Alle als gelesen markieren" gedrückt und fertig. Jetzt muss ich immer alle Feeds öffnen, die Schaltfläche zum markieren drücken und wieder alle Feeds schließen. Auch wenn dies vielleicht genau so gewollt ist, wäre mir eine Option lieber, wie früher mit einem Klick alle ungelesenen Feeds als gelesen zu markieren.

Ansonsten ist der 8. Milestone einfach gelungen. Danke

Hi Zerberus,

Submitted by bpasero on Mon, 2008-03-03 08:55.

Hi Zerberus,

thanks for the feedback. Are you behind a proxy? Its a known issue that proxy is not supported when using XULRunner. This will be fixed before the final release.

Regarding B), I can see the issue here, because I am "suffering" from the same problem. However the way I solved it, is letting RSSOwl mark feeds as read automatically when I switch over to another feed. Can't you use that option?

Ben

Hi Ben, you´re right. I´m

Submitted by zerberus on Sat, 2008-03-08 22:24.

Hi Ben,

you´re right. I´m behind a proxy. So thanks for the feedback, that this is in your focus.

Your solution to mark feeds as read by switching a feed is to "radical". Instead of this I use the amasing new features: I use the new feed "New and updated feeds", the filter "unread News" and the sensationell Group-Option "Group by feed". At the end of a session I mark this feed as read...

I have one Question about the proxy-feature:
If I deactivate the proxy at home, the feeds are scanned perfectly but I can´t open the new news. The statusbar shows a comment, that the internal browser tries to connect the proxy.

At the end I just want to thank you again for this excellent software.

Great to hear you found a

Submitted by bpasero on Sun, 2008-03-09 14:08.

Great to hear you found a working solution for you!

Regarding the proxy: Could it be that you enabled the proxy in RSSOwl? Make sure to turn it off in RSSOwl as well after turning it off at home.

Proxy

Submitted by zerberus on Mon, 2008-03-10 16:28.

Hi Ben,

Yes, I have disabled the proxy in RSSOwl. The Feeds are all refreshed. But if I try to read a news and open it, the new window (the internal browser) stays empty. There is a hint in the bottom-line, that the internal windows tries to connect to the proxy.

Weird, you should file a bug

Submitted by bpasero on Mon, 2008-03-10 23:55.

Weird, you should file a bug at dev.rssowl.org.

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