gDocsBar 0.5.6 update

This update fixes some major bugs and adds some features:

New Feature: Create new documents
New Feature: Webclips
New Feature: Templates
New Feature: Saved searches or Smart Folders
Added option to always open links in new tab
Added option to check for open documents
Fixed email validation issues
Fixed right-click issues
and much more…

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Comes with new Menu

Now you can create new documents, spreadsheet, and presentation right from the sidebar.

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Webclips

Now, you can save content from websites right into Google Docs. Select the content (text, images) and drag it onto the upload panel to upload clips. You can set the extension of webclips saved in the options panel.

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Templates

Introducing templates for Google Docs. To add your own templates, go to Actions>Manage Templates

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Smart Folders

Now you can save a combination of filter and search as a smart folder for easy, and faster access.

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Peter 03.12.08 / 4am

Congratulations for this update! I also suggested the new Menu. Very pleased with your extension!

Peter

Dan 03.12.08 / 10am

Great extension. One bug in the latest release: the options don’t stick; I can check the box to always open docs in a new tab and hit save, but it doesn’t stick… when I go back to preferences, it remains unchecked.

Jordan Booker 03.12.08 / 1pm

excellent add-on. This is extremely useful and runs very well. That’s it I guess. It’s great.

gDocsBar now turns Google Docs into a Web archiving tool | Site Toolkit 03.12.08 / 1pm

[…] can read more about the update on the gDocsBar blog. If you’ve got an earlier version of the extension installed, click on Tools > Add-ons […]

Hans Virus 03.12.08 / 6pm

Congratulations!One bue is that it couldn’t be opened in a new table when i used firefox(v2.0.0.12) .
Best,
Hans:)

knityster 03.12.08 / 6pm

it seemed that it can’t use in firefox3 beta3 ???

Tee 03.12.08 / 7pm

Congratulations! this is good work. Thanks for your effort.

A 03.12.08 / 7pm

Love it! I’ve been saving webclips as docs for research purposes and now I don’t have to copy, NewDoc, paste and then reformat!

Thanks!

Boya 03.12.08 / 7pm

Great Update!

Tried to copy text from a PDF but it didn’t do anything… is the webclip just for web content?

sandosh 03.12.08 / 8pm

Yes, webclips is only for web content

A 03.13.08 / 3am

This is a great idea just need to tweak it. When I drag text over, the spacing between paragraphs is lost and I end up having to insert carriage returns after every paragraph in order to get back to what it looked like on the web. I’m using Firefox - anyone else experiencing that?

Save Web Pages to Google Docs at Henricus 03.13.08 / 7am

[…] GDocsBar 0.5.6 - Note that this method works only with websites and won’t allow you to save clippings from Word Documents or PDF files onto Google Docs. […]

Save Web Pages to Google Docs | Code4DotNet 03.13.08 / 7am

[…] can now easily store web pages, images and other HTML content to Google Documents using gDocsBar - a recommended Firefox add-on for Google Docs […]

Uno strumento eccezionale: GoogleDocsBar! « Blog di Massimo Novi 03.13.08 / 12pm

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[…] Nueva Caracteristica: Create new documents […]

Webclips sul proprio blog 03.13.08 / 3pm

[…] nell’avviare Firefox, mi è stato proposto l’upgrade della GoogleDocsBar […]

S 03.13.08 / 4pm

When I sign on with my g-mail address and password I get “The username or password is incorrect. Please try again.” I know this is the right username and password. Anyone know what the problem may be?

eric 03.13.08 / 5pm

fantastic!

Thomas Gehring 03.14.08 / 5am

Hello from Germany,
maybe I am doing somthing wrong, but the actions menu does not seem to work. For example, if I click New Document, nothing happens!!
Please help, because I love your app. And I think the the new templates are just great. One more question on the templates: Can I choose a document in GDocs as an template or do I have to upload an file?

Thanks and greetings
Thomas

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LostInInaka 03.14.08 / 11am

Truly loved this in Firefox 2….patiently awaiting FF 3 support!

Guarda páginas web con Google Docs gracias a gDocsBar 03.14.08 / 12pm

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Craig 03.14.08 / 1pm

Could you have it when you click on a document it opens the document in google’s SSL?

Sam 03.14.08 / 2pm

Firefox 3 Beta 4 gives Error “No Secure Updates feature enabled” any fix ?

Jonathan 03.16.08 / 8am

Got an incompatible error when installing @ Firefox 3 beta due to lack of secure update capacity. Would like to use this, but how? Thanks.

Thomas Gehring 03.17.08 / 1am

Hi Craig,
when I click on a document it opens up, but not in SSl.

Greetings Tom

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Olivier 03.17.08 / 4am

It even works with Google Apps! I think you just help me be even more efficient to introduce office 2.0 usages to my clients.

Thanks a lot!

Maybe one suggestion: let the user specify his Google Apps domain so that the links to Docs Home, New Document, etc. work!

Eric 03.17.08 / 9am

Just updated to the latest version of the gDocsBar plugin and it seems to still be having problem with complex passwords. I tried two accounts from my browser, one simple password which works and the other complex which doesn’t work. My complex password is 13 characters and contains upper/lower, numbers, and special characters.

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Nick 03.17.08 / 6pm

Great job man. Just wanted to give you props.

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Pierre 03.18.08 / 10am

Nice extension!
Is it possible to make it compatible with Firefox 3 ?
It says that the extension does not provide secure updates, and if pass through it (put extensions.checkUpdateSecurity to false in the about:config), the login does not work.
Thanks in advance

Marc Weidenbaum 03.18.08 / 12pm

Hi. I think I wrote before, but I can promise I’ll write again.

The Google Docs Bar is just so perfect. I use it continuously, throughout the day, at work (I’m an editor) and home (I’m a writer) and in between (indirectly — I read web clips on my phone with the mobile Google Docs). The web clips thing is genius, and it’s wonderful to have that “create new doc” option — to me that was the one thing that was missing.

Maybe someday we’ll be able to right click on documents in the menu and perform actions on them, like file them in folders. That’d be very helpful.

Also, it’d be nice to have options to not display the dates and the folders on docs in list view, since then so many more docs would be visible.

Marc
marc@disquiet.com

Vince 03.18.08 / 7pm

Hey,
Just downloaded gdocsbar. Its pretty cool - but the Actions->New->Document link doesnt seem to do work - nothing happens.

Also it possible to have the toolbar startup with a particular folder selected?

Thanks
vince

Marco 03.19.08 / 4pm

Great extension! I am using Google Docs more and more and this is a great way of keeping track of them.

Just one thing: the add-on does not seem to automatically update. I have version 0.5.5 and when searching for an update it does not find 0.5.6.

Thanks
Marco

David Lomas 03.20.08 / 10am

Still got some issues with 0.5.6:

- Clicking ‘Save’ in preferences doesn’t - have to click OK instead
- Right click still opens document as well as context menu
- ‘Filter by’ in context menu doesn’t seem to do anything - just puts @author in the filter box

Hope these can be fixed - would really like to use this instead of the GDocs home page…

thanks,

Dave.

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[…] <h2>Webclips</h2><p>Now, you can save content from websites right into Google Docs.Select the content (text, images) and drag it onto the upload panel toupload clips. You can set the extension of webclips saved in theoptions panel.</p><p><img alt=”21.png” src=”http://gdocsbar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/21.png”></p><p><a href=”http://gdocsbar.com/blog/2008/03/12/gdocsbar-056-update/#”>Top</a></p> […]

Richard 03.22.08 / 9am

Hi,

Thanks for the GDOCS.
Do you have plans to create a version which would work with google apps.

With Regards,

Richard Verhoeff

Pascal 03.23.08 / 4am

Can you please add Firefox 3 support?

David 03.24.08 / 5am

This is one of the best extensions I have ever used! I don’t use the google notebook extension any more! This is much better. The only thing is that sometimes images don’t show up, but I am mainly concerned about the text anyway. Great Job!

Craig Hamlin 03.24.08 / 5pm

Needs to work with google apps for your domain. Would love to take it for a spin but I only use the domain docs application.

alex dante 03.25.08 / 1am

Hey there,

Like several others have posted here, I’m finding that some of the functionality in gDocsBar just isn’t working at all. I’m using 0.5.6 in FF2.0.0.12 under XP SP2.

1. Of all the tabs, only the filter/search tab works. The Upload/Completed tab has beside it a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark, clicking on this toggles between the two tabs but clicking on the tabs doesn’t. I can’t filter on doc types using tabs either.

2. Of all items in the Actions menu, only ‘Go to Google Docs Home’, ‘Smart Folders’ and ‘Preferences’ work. I can get to Templates by going through Smart Folders & changing the tab there (so that’s actually _two_ tabs that are working) but if I select ‘Templates’ directly nothing happens.

Nishant 03.26.08 / 9am

Any updates on Firefox 3 beta 4 support? Thanks!

mei than 03.26.08 / 10am

this is wonderful. id been looking for the longest time for something like this. is it possible to get it working on other browsers, and perhaps even combine it with other things (make a mashup) somehow? i’d love to help you on it.

jim 03.29.08 / 11am

Big improvement!

Will Branch 03.30.08 / 6pm

Your add-on will not install and I get the following error from the error console. Any ideas? I am using the latest version of FireFox… Really looking forward to using it. Thanks! Will

Error: e.location.getItemLocation(e.id) has no properties
Source File: file:///C:/PROGRA~1/MOZILL~1/components/nsExtensionManager.js
Line: 4144

Rapid 04.01.08 / 4am

Great App
Experiencing same issue as others:
Of all items in the Actions menu, only ‘Go to Google Docs Home’, ‘Smart Folders’ and ‘Preferences’ work.
FF 2.0.0.13

Khalid 04.01.08 / 11am

Hay grate work, but it dos not support Arabic

Suresh 04.01.08 / 12pm

Love the gDocs bar and your visual sense apparent on your website and the plugin.

I am using 0.5.6 on Firefox 2.0.0.13 on Windows. I can’t get the template feature to work for some reason. If I go to Actions->Manage Templates, nothing happens.

If I go to Smart Folders and click on the Templates tab from there, and then try to Add html files as templates, nothing happens.

manoj 04.03.08 / 7am

the new field i.e. the document,presentation, spreadsheet button in action tab are not working.
wat to do
pls tell me

sj 04.07.08 / 11am

not support to FF3?

mcflax 04.11.08 / 1am

hey
wonderful extension, clear layout, but I have 2 problerms:
- the “new menu” doesn’t seem to work
- when i try to open a document; de webpage google docs opens but I have to log in again; it doens’t go automatic

are there solutions for this

thanks

jerome 04.21.08 / 5pm

It’s look great but it seem to be unable to log ?
Any idea ?

David 05.01.08 / 10am

Awesome extension!!! I use it all the time. I am waiting to upgrade to firefox 3 because I am waiting for gdocsbar to support it.

arthur 05.05.08 / 9pm

This tiny tool makes gdocs much more powerful… removes need for a couple of other programs and web apps… I would love to have similar functionality for other google tools, like gmail, images….

M 05.07.08 / 6pm

Patiently waiting for a Firefox 3 update.

Fedora 9 moved to Firefox 3 Beta even after turning off the security requirement/https it says incompatible. I assume that it might be possible to install by modifying version numbers in the xpi or something?

Chris 05.08.08 / 5pm

So I’ve installed gdocsbar. I don’t see any sidebar. How do I start using it? If there is any guidance on the web site as to how to do this, it is is not immediately obvious. You might want to add a “getting started” help section…

Chris 05.08.08 / 6pm

OK, I figured out how to make the sidebar appear after gdocsbar is installed. This is non-obvious and could be better explained. Or make it the default setting to have the sidebar appear automatically on Firefox start-up.

After exiting out of the sidebar, how can I make it appear again (without restarting Firefox)?

Jude Hansen 05.09.08 / 3am

Hi. gDocsBar is a great add-on, I love it. When I try to update it in FF3b5, it says that I cannot install it because it doesn’t provide secure updates. This is a new feature in FF3. This issue may be on my end so I’m still looking into it but I thought I’d let you know.

thanks and thanks for writing the add-on.

Heverton 05.21.08 / 3pm

Why don’t install in verson 3.0?

Natale 05.23.08 / 12am

When I sign on I get “The username or password is incorrect. Please try again.” I am sure that username and password are the right ones. How to solve this problem?

Bart 05.26.08 / 2pm

Can the shortcut be customizable it’s a bit wierd right now… can’t press those 3 buttons with one hand.

KL 05.26.08 / 10pm

Can it become auto log in when I start Firefox?
Just Like the google tool bar.

Gil 05.28.08 / 11am

It’s a great idea! the only thing that doesn’t work, is I can’t see my pdf files.

Gil

keronos 06.01.08 / 5pm

Hi,
Is there anything I can do to update gDocsbar to work with firefox 3 ?

Vincèn 06.02.08 / 5am

When do you plan to make it compatible with current version of Firefox 3 ? as I really miss it now that I switched to Firefox 3

Thanks a lot

VIncèn

George 06.04.08 / 3am

Hi there,

A great extension… I’ve been using it with FF2 but have recently migrated to FF3 beta 5. Is there any news on FF3 support?

Thanks again.

Cheers

George

FeiFan 06.11.08 / 8am

can’t not use ff3!

Richard 06.11.08 / 8am

Real shame it gets blocked by the latest Firefox RC2 as not having “secure updates” - would love to use it when it’s ready for FF3.

Sam 06.12.08 / 7am

Google is releasing PDF-support. When will gDocBar?

Ian 06.13.08 / 8am

Any plans to make this FX3 compatible?

Vik 06.13.08 / 8am

I must have tried gdocs three days ago and it worked fine. Now, no files or folders show up after authenticating. I have tried this on multiple computers, also tried versions 0.5.5 and 0.5.6. Please advice.

chris 06.15.08 / 10pm

seems like even though gDocs now allows PDFs to be uploaded, gDocsBar gives an error when trying. any solution in the pipeline?

John 06.16.08 / 3pm

Will you support pdfs in the next release now that google allows uploading of pdfs?

Randy Aldrich 06.17.08 / 4pm

I Love GDocsBar but with Firefox 3 released today, will there be an update for GDocsBar? I can’t seem to get it to work.

David 06.17.08 / 8pm

I am big fan of this program. I am looking forward to it’s firefox 3 version. When can we anticipate it?

Adrius 06.18.08 / 8am

This add-on seems pretty cool! But I get the same problem as you guys trying to install it in FF 3

Kangoo.Roo 06.19.08 / 12am

FF3 support please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nate Aune 06.19.08 / 10am

This looks like a great plugin, but I’ve already upgraded to the FF 3 release, so I can’t use your plugin.

When do you expect to have Firefox 3 support?

thanks,
Nate

Stephan Sokolow 06.19.08 / 12pm

Doesn’t work in Firefox 3 final yet, I assume? …or is it because I’m trying to use a non-@gmail.com Docs account?

Nate Aune 06.19.08 / 3pm

When I try to install it in Firefox 3.0, it says “Incompatible extension: “gDocsBar” will not be installed because it does not provide secure updates.”

ggratton 06.20.08 / 10am

I’ve really enjoyed using Gdocsbar, and I’ve been recommending it on my site, great work. Now, however, I’ve downloaded Firefox 3.0 and I miss my Gdocsbar. Hope you will be upgrading soon.

marc 06.20.08 / 12pm

Just another dedicated gdocsbar user, hoping for a Firefox 3 implementation.

Naor 06.22.08 / 2pm

I was trying to d/l it, but FF3 says it can be installed since it doesn’t have secure updates ???? any ideas?

Jorg 06.24.08 / 7am

this seems phantastic! Unfortunately, i don’t seem to be able to get it to work on my
- mac powerbook g4
- Mac OS 10.4.11
- 1.67 GHz PPC
- FF 3.0

are you planning an update?

fei 06.24.08 / 9am

It doesn’t work with Firefox 3.

Kjell 06.25.08 / 4am

Thanks for a great add-on!
When do you plan to support FireFox 3?

Florian Fiegel 06.26.08 / 5am

When will there be a Firefox 3 compatible Version?

Kangoo.Roo 07.02.08 / 12pm

Please, hurry up with Firefox3 support!!!!

Maurice Hilarius 07.15.08 / 11am

Hi there.

Any chance you can update this for Firefox 3.0 ?

It is sorely missed!

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