Brief - feed reading extension for Firefox

Are you using your distro's version of Firefox? Remember Brief will only work with Firefox versions found at Mozilla's site.

Distros often modify Firefox for their own needs that result in broken extensions and themes during OS updates. Though if you want to get to the bottom of this problem, try a new profile with nothing but Brief and a few Live Bookmarks installed to it.

While on this new profile, monitor the Error Console (Tools > Error Console) for any error messages related to Brief. Record those error messages and report them back here. If you have no trouble in your new profile, then something is conflicting with Brief in your original profile.

If you have problems in your new profile, then there's the possibility your distro broke Brief during OS updates -- provided if you're using the distro's version of Firefox.  You may want to conduct the new profile test with the Firefox version from Mozilla's site as well to make sure there really aren't bugs in Brief.

Same Problem here.
 
The console shows this:
Fehler: uncaught exception: [Exception... "'Error: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [mozIStorageConnection.createStatement] Stack: undefined Database error: no such module: fts3' when calling method: [nsIBriefQuery::getFullEntries]"  nsresult: "0x8057001c (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_JS_OBJECT)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://brief/content/feedview.js :: FeedView_refresh :: line 786"  data: no]
System:
Gentoo, Firefox-3.5

Oliver, have you told Brief to check the folder in Places (Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks) that contains your Live Bookmarks? You can check to see by opening Brief's Options and going to the Feeds part of Brief's Options.

Just wanted to say I've got this same problem.  Brief worked great until I upgraded to brief 3.5 (now 3.5.1).  I'm running Gentoo AMD64.

Same problem here. Gentoo AMD64, Firefox 3.5.1.

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "'Error: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [mozIStorageConnection.createStatement] Stack: undefined Database error: no such module: fts3' when calling method: [nsIBriefQuery::getFullEntries]" nsresult: "0x8057001c (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_JS_OBJECT)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://brief/content/feedview.js :: FeedView_refresh :: line 786" data: no]

when trying to read news and nothing shows in the normal area. Blank profile except for Brief shows the same.

EDIT:

Should have checked more, the error with fts3 missing seems to have been reported here http://brief.mozdev.org/drupal/node/207 and there's a gentoo bug for it: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207701

Brief worked great (on Windows, not Linux, Firefox 3.5, Brief 1.2.1) after downloading it yesterday.  However, today when I marked an item as Read, it was instead deleted.  At one point I accidentally hit the wrong button when heading for the Headlines View button, apparently hitting the Mark All As Read button instead, and ALL items were DELETED from all feeds.  No matter what I did I could not get them back.

So I decided to try deleting the brief.sqlite file, and I'm now back in business.  Just thought you'd like to know.

Um...  What viewpoint are you in?  Remember Brief has three special folders and four views.  Three of the four views will not work in the special folders.

The special folders:
Unread Folder - Shows all unread items from all feeds. Headlines View works in this folder.
Bookmarks Folder - Shows all starred items from all feeds. Headlines View works in this folder.
Trash Folder - Shows all items deleted from all feeds. Headlines View works in this folder.

Now the four views:
Headlines View - Compacts the display to a brief headlines view. Select an item in order and click the expand arrow by it to view the item's entire contents.  This view can be used in the special folders.
View Unread - Shows only the unread items in a feed.  This view can't be used in the special folders.
View Bookmarks - Shows only the starred items in a feed.  This view can't be used in the special folders.
View All - Shows all items in a feed.  This view can't be used in the special folders.

If you're in the Unread Folder or are in a feed with View Unread set, items you mark read will disappear from view. To see them again, go to their feeds and shift the view to View All.

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Try a new profile with nothing but Brief and a few Live Bookmarks installed to it.  While testing Brief in this new profile, do record any Brief related errors that appear in the Error Console (Tools > Error Console) and report those errors back here.

If Brief works as it should in the new profile, then something in your original profile is conflicting with Brief.  If Brief doesn't work as it should in the new profile, then there may be bugs in need of stomping.

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