Virtual Identity 0.4.0 finally released
Posted by rene on 26 Mar 2007 at 07:56 pm | Tagged as: hacking , virtual id
after the new https://addons.mozilla.org - page is online, the now nearly one month-old version of Virtual Identity is released. Automated update should install the new extension on a lot of machines, so hope it works the way it should.
Hi,
[My config: TB 1.5.0.10, Win XP]
I just installed the 0.4 Which Came through the automatic update of my older version.
Unfortunately some other extensions do not work if 0.4 is installed.
- The first thing I realized: "Move Search Items" does not work
- Second: keyconfig does not work
I did not see any messages in the Error Console, Which seem to be connected to these problems and stopped testing if other extensions are not working as well. 0.4 is only working with TB 2.0?
Regards, Toby
Hi Toby,
checked with the extension keyconfig (v. 20,060,828) and functions for keyconfig (1.0.3) on thunderbird (1.5.0.10/linux). Seems to work ok, but have not tried it. At all of the virtual-identity extension should not play around with keycodes, only for compatibility with netscape it's set some keycodes (<! ENTITY fccMailFolder.accesskey "P"> <! ENTITY sentFolderOn.accesskey "e"> <! ENTITY sentInOtherFolder.accesskey "O">)
tried to check the "Move Search Items" problem (with version 0.0.6), but this one did not run at all on my thunderbird. But this non-working behavior does not seem to change if virtual Identity is installed.
Virtual Identity does not change really big things in the 3-pane message window, so I do not think the problem lies in the extension. And it should run fine with TB1.5 (So maybe earlier versions, not sure).
Rene
rene listen! I still have issue with the identy i have in meatspace! Once i figure that one out perhaps i will venture into this one!
Hi Tracey,
you can be sure that i had some (maybe virtual) identities reserved especially for you ... But maybe we first find a time and space to check out or 'meat identities' before and decide afterwards if it's worth to get rid of them
Hi rene,
knowing it's not due to incompatibility with 1.5 l of TB had a deeper look at it and it looks like the problems with "Move Search Items" and "keyconfig" had their origin in to incompatibility with "MR Tech Local Install 5.3.2.3".
Described Beside the problems with "Move Search Items" and "keyconfig" I realized that the menus where not complete (eg instead of the word "options" there was just a blank space). Disabling "Cute Menus - Crystal SVG" did not change anything but disabling "MR Tech Local Install 5.3.2.3" did solve the other problems.
Maybe you can reproduce this problem and find a solution.
Regards, Toby
hahahahahahaha!
Hey - since new update of VI, it's been getting my email wrong-LOT - especially on replies.
It keeps switching from a custom id to my main ID - which is causing, not only some embarrassment, but some security problems as well.
I'm writing to people under site-specific list or emails - and have two cases that are not working Reliably:
1) email address is on my thunderbird list of aliases, and
2) it's not.
It used to pick correct alias all the time if it came from my 'domain', but now it's been switching to my main email.
This just started happening with an update a few days ago. Whatever happened - PLEASE, change it back!
So, I preferred the "+" option to enter a non-listed alias - made it clear what was going on - the only thing that really needed fixing was it saving backups created under alias names.
Maybe auto-create the alias names? - I would not mind
But the problem used to be that it would put up the dialog everytime it was going to temporarily store my outgoing note - and if I was not watching - or even if I was, I'd just see a flash of a dialogue box, but if I was typing at the time, a space bar usually picked the default - and space between bars are lots of words.
Please make old behavior but, at least configurable ... at least it worked, but have lost email aliases talking with some people, recently, because they replyed to a _listed_ alias, and it substituted my main email addr (which I do not publish to most due to security concerns and spam separation) (I get 400-600 spam / day, but mostly to non-main email addrs, no I am not exaggerating .... I get daily stats mailed to me each night by a cron script that my junk folder processes each night.
HELP please ... great util, but we have a step backward!
Linda
PS - Can you have English translations of the captcha feedback messages - was not sure - but it appeared not to take my message the first time (script block which turned on), so I turned it off and tried again and got a shorter message, which "sounded" better ... but the long message could have been "thank you very much for your input", and short message could have been "screw off" .. :-), since I see my posting on refresh, I guess one of them was right!
Hi,
answered you by email. Please give my a bug-report with the new pre-release, I'll see what I can do to solve the problems.
Regards,
Rene
Thanks for virtual identity! Some feedback: I like the version 0.4. I wish I had a way to configure, when a virtual identity is used and when not: if someone Sents me an email to my address-default, but with any non default, name, eG
Sam_Sampllle
VI uses this name instead of the default name (Sam Sample, without typo).
Sorry for double posting: Is it the checkbox "ignore when comparing names for ..." in the options, what I am looking for: I'll check it out ....
Hi Lu,
already had some reply's on the name issue, so i changed the configuration for names in 0.4.1 a little bit. You can now say that virtual identity should ignore the name found in any header field (just add @ to the header-name) or / and set a default name if the name was empty. So try the new pre-release http://blog.absorb.it/2007/04/18/virtual-identity-041pre2-released/ (and there will be a in a few minutes 0.4.1pre3)
regards,
Rene
Simply wanted to drop by and say, that VI is still a great extension
Thanks
Thanks for the feedback, hope you enjoy the new version too. Please report at https://www.absorb.it/virtual-id if you find any problems or have some suggestions.
Regards, Rene