Brief - feed reading extension for Firefox

Hi,

the other error message (about the winnt stuff) is triggered by the "Past Modern" theme and also not related to the brief problem.

I've tried several attempts with the testing profile and installed the addons from my default profile (where the 1min brief problem exists) inside the testing profile, too. I could not reproduce the issue there.

So I've uninstalled brief in the default profile, removed the brief.sqlite file and the brief settings from prefs.fs. I've then re-installed brief and the problem is no longer visible.

For the record: I had the same problem with the 1min refresh already in brief 1.2.2 so this might be a problem which simply does not exist in brief 1.2.3 anymore (and therefore only visible on setups with an older version upgraded later on).

Bye,
Drusus.

Hi,
 
today the problem started again. A closer look at the updates showed that only two feeds where updated every minute (this time). Checking the preferences of these feed I can see that they still show to be updated every hour (not every minute). This was inside firefox though so I have exited firefox and checked the sqlite databse for one of the affected feeds:
 
sqlite> select feedURL,websiteURL,isFolder,hidden,lastUpdated,oldestEntryDate,entryAgeLimit,maxEntries,updateInterval,dateModified from feeds where websiteURL="http://www.theregister.co.uk/";
http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom|http://www.theregister.co.uk/|0|0|1253988470756|1253813786000|0|0|3600000|1253941804000
 
So the database shows an updateinterval of 3600000. I assume that this is the expected 1 hour update interval, correct?
 
sqlite> select updateInterval from feeds;
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3600000
3600000
3600000
3600000
3600000
3600000
0
0
0
0
0
3600000
0
3600000
0
 
The prefs.js shows the default update interval of 1 day:
 
user_pref("extensions.brief.update.interval", 86400);
 
Yet the feed is updated every minute.
If the preference for daily update show the value 86400 then I would have expected 3600 (not 3600000) in the updateInterval database entry but of course this might just be a different unit used there.
 
How to debug this further?
 
Bye,
  Drusus.

Hi,
 
I got firefox from mozilla.com (Sun only ships firefox 2.x with Solaris 10).
I'm using firefox 3.5.3 downloaded from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.5....
 
Bye,
  Drusus.

Using Brief 1.2.4 I am also seeing certain feeds updating every minute.  For me it only happens on some feeds where the update interval was changed.  If the "Check for updates every..." box is unchecked for that feed then it correctly updates using the default interval.
 
I think it occurs when the feed has not been modified during the update interval.  For example if it is set to update every 4 hours, then when it checks the feed after 4 hours, if there is no new content (lastModified is unchanged), lastUpdated is not updated and it will check again every minute after that until new content appears.
 
These messages were in the Error Console:
Warning: Timed textboxes are deprecated. Consider using type="search" instead.
Source File: chrome://brief/content/brief.xul
Error: Permission denied for <resource://brief-content> to call method Location.toString on <>.