I was checking my email today and was alerted to a new service called Clipmarks. I’ve seen things like this before, but this implementation seemed pretty cool. And since I’m on the big blogging kick lately, I figured I’d check it out. I was amazed at what I saw on the install page:
A Firefox add-on released before the Internet Explorer version? This is the first time I’ve seen anything like this before – Firefox sure has made headway over the years! Regarding Clipmarks, I haven’t checked it out yet because like all Firefox add-ons, you have to restart the browser before it will work, and I have many tabs open and am in full work mode. It would be nice to not have to re-start Firefox whenever there was a new add-on installed.
Don’t you have Firefox set to save your current state on shutdown?
I do, but I’m not all that confident in Firefox’s ability to save text from forms, specifically the posting tool on Zune Thoughts. I guess I should try it and see it if really works…
< shuts down Firefox without hitting submit on this form >
Ok, that worked nicely. Impressive.
< tries again, this time with some text in the Zune Thoughts posting tool >
Nope, it didn’t bring back my text from the Zune Thoughts post, just like I thought. I must have gotten bitten by this problem another time and swore I’d never shut down Firefox until I was finished entering in my text. 😉
Ah! Zune Thoughts uses vB’s heavily Javascripted editor, for which it must be difficult to save state. Regular text fields do indeed save properly.
Well, actually, no, Zune Thoughts uses that custom CMS we built who’s name I don’t want to mention here because it may have to chance one day. 😉