Brief chooses the appropriate date and time format for displaying the entries’ publication date according to the preferred language. Versions before 2.4.0 used to do the same, but in a slightly different way that have been deprecated by Mozilla. There should probably be some fallback to a default locale, however.
Aside from setting a preferred language in the browser what would you suggest (feeds piling up and I cannot read them) - downgrade to the previous Brief version, if that is feasible? Or look for another feed reader instead, not knowing whether/when it will be fixed?
It is curious that the API should make the diffirence in Brief’s date/time format, considering that the browser’s language settings ("") were the same previously - how did Brief < 2.4.0 determine the appropriate date/time settings then?
It is curious that the API should make the diffirence in Brief’s date/time format, considering that the browser’s language settings ("") were the same previously - how did Brief < 2.4.0 determine the appropriate date/time settings then?
It was using date.toLocaleFormat(...), which is deprecated since Firefox 55 and removed in Firefox 58.
brief отключили после последнего обновления firefox, соответственно все ленты пропали. есть ли возможность их восстановить, и на будущее есть ли в brief опция бэкапа?
Brief скоро вернётся, и (если последняя версия до отключения была 2.4) подхватит старые ленты сам (если данные не удаляет Firefox, на что я очень надеюсь). Вообще восстановить можно из brief.sqlite, но готового кода для этого у меня нет.
спасибо за ответ, тоже надеюсь)
I just upgraded to FF 57 – which was dumb, because I should have waited for Brief to be ported to WebExtensions. Now I’ve got FF 57 without a working Brief, which is not acceptable.
Fortunately, I backed up my profile. So I now plan to roll back to an earlier version (FF 52 or FF 56 – is one recommended?) and wait for Brief to be ported.
Question: When Brief is ported to WebExtensions, will my feeds be preserved, including the status of individual posts (unread, read, and deleted)? Or will I have to re-create all of this?
Thanks for all your work!
I had the same problem when I auto-updated to FF7. I groaned !!! Installed another RSS reader. But then yesterday Brief reappeared. Add-on details says ‘Updated 20 November 2017’. Hurrah & a big THANK YOU to someone. The ‘another RSS reader’ has been removed.
Had same problem. Please see my new post below yours.
First, Brief is back.
Second, it should be able to pick up your feeds and entry status if the previous version was Brief 2.4 and you haven’t uninstalled Brief or cleared extension data in between. The migration should be possible from either Firefox 56 or Firefox 52.
Third, there are likely many bugs and you’re welcome to report them – I can’t fix a bug I don’t know about.
Less haste more speed! FF7 in my original post typo for FF57. All my original feeds picked up and working 100%. Thanks Denis for sorting it out.
As I mentioned earlier, I updated from FF 56.0.1 to FF 57.0 a few days ago.
Today, I went to Tools --> Add-Ons --> Extensions and clicked on “Check for Updates”. It installed a new version of Brief. I now have the Brief icon on my toolbar, and it opens the Brief window. Unfortunately, it’s a dead window: none of the buttons do anything (even clicking on “Options” has no effect), and none of my feeds are visible.
This is similar to what happened to me six weeks months ago when FF crashed and corrupted my Brief installation. Then, too, all the buttons (even “Options”) were dead. To fix it a couple months ago, I uninstalled Brief, reverted to the last known good backup, and started over (see my October 4 and October 7 posts above).
At this point I am leaning to permanently rolling back to FF 56 and using the old version of Brief forever. I don’t want to go through another two hours of work as I did on October 7.
Rolling back to 56 forever is not a good idea, you’ll probably catch malware sooner or later.
Does the Browser Console show any messages from Brief? You can disable Brief, clear the console and enable Brief again to see them without the other noise.
Remember that if you had lots of entries before, Brief may take a while on the first start - it was something like four or five minutes for me with about 150k entries. The initial conversion is not quick, unfortunately.
Tanriol, I took your advice on waiting. Here is what happened.
Disabled Brief. Exited FF. Started FF again. Browser console is blank.
Waited five minutes.
Enabled Brief. Browser console says:
- Key event not available on some keyboard layouts: key=“r” modifiers=“accel,alt” id=“key_toggleReaderMode” browser.xul
- Key event not available on some keyboard layouts: key=“i” modifiers=“accel,alt,shift” id=“key_browserToolbox” browser.xul
Waited twenty minutes.
Clicked on the Brief icon. The Brief window was dead: no response, even from “Options”.
Went to Tools --> Add-Ons --> Extensions, and clicked on Brief “Options”. I can see the options here. I changed one option (sort oldest items first in unread view). The change was received, since when I did it again I saw the checkmark.
Clicked on the Brief icon. The Brief window is still dead: no feeds listed, no bookmarks listed, and when I click on “Options” nothing happens (the drop-down menu does not appear).
Note that even if my own feeds were lost, the drop-down menu ought to appear when I click on Options, right?
New entry in Browser Console:
- gCurrentView is undefined brief.js:356
So do I understand correctly that you have the console active, you enable Brief and you receive no messages like Brief: opening database in persistent storage?
Здравствуйте, Денис.
Сейчас новый Brief показывает на иконке все непрочитанные, а раньше показывал только непрочитанные в “Все записи”. У меня практически все ленты исключены из “Все записи”, оставлены только самые важны и теперь не видно, что в них появились новые записи. Не могли бы вы вернуть как было?
Sorry – my mistake. I thought that Browser Console shows me all events since FF was started. Now I realize that it only tells me events that occur when the Console is open.
I disabled Brief, exited FF, restarted FF, opened Browser Console, and enabled Brief. At that point, it shows me Brief: opening database in persistent storage database.js:43
I then click on the Brief icon. The Brief window opens, and that message appears in Console a second time.
I click on every word in the window – Options, Organize, Refresh, All Items, etc - and nothing happens, and no Console messages appear.
I go to Add-Ons Manager and open the Brief options there, and change an option. I get the same message a third time, plus: Brief: update pref feedview.sortUnreadViewOldestFirst to false prefs.js:30
Every time I open the Brief window I get the “persistent storage” message, but nothing changes.
Ok, so it comes to the DB initialization, but does neither start an upgrade nor open the database.
Do you have any very restrictive privacy settings (always private mode / do not accept cookies from websites / something like that)?