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- What is the current Brief version?
- How to install the latest Brief version?
- After updating to v2.3, Firefox can't find
chrome://brief/content/brief.xul - Why are items from certain feeds always marked unread and "(updated)" after a refresh?
- Brief does not use the feeds folder synced from Firefox Sync
The current version is Brief 2.5.5, which should work with Firefox 57+.
The current version for Firefox 52 to Firefox 56 is Brief 2.4.0.
Please install Brief from AMO:
You may also be able to install the most recent Brief development version using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/github-extension-installer/. That add-on allows direct installation from Github by adding a button "install to firefox" in the Github page. However, please note that in this way you try to install an unsigned version which may be disabled by Firefox.
brief.xul was replaced with brief.xhtml in 2.3. This error is expected if you try to open the old address.
If you had Brief open before restart on update, and the tab is restored after (maybe a pinned tab), you will see this error. You can close this tab and open a new Brief tab using the Brief button or shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+D).
If you have bookmarked Brief, please modify the bookmark or delete it and create a new one instead.
Feeds usually carry a "last update time" for every item for the feed reader to be able to know that something changed. Brief always checks if the last update time has changed and marks the item updated if so. This is often what you want, for example, if the author adds significant updates to an old post.
However, some feeds provide no publication or update times at all. Brief thus considers the items on refresh to have a last update time of "right now", which is certainly newer than "on the previous refresh", and marks them updated too.
To work around this exact problem Brief has a feed option ("Don't mark changed items back as unread") in the Feed Settings menu to never mark unread any updated items in the corresponding feed. They are still marked "updated", but do not litter the unread views.
This functionality was competely broken (as in "the updated feed items are never detected at all") since the release of Brief 2.0 and fixed again in Brief 2.2 (January 2016). Sorry that this bugfix caused unexpected problems :-(
Unlike the feeds mentioned above, Youtube does include a "last update times" in the feed. However, it updates it a bit too often -- looks like it's updated on every new comment, if not every like -- that it's almost useless. You may still want to use the same "Don't mark changed items back as unread" feed option if you're not interested in these minor events.
Brief 2.5 series synchronizes the feed list between installations on initial installation, but does not automatically update it afterwards. Bug #345 is tracking the latter problem.
Brief 2.5 had to disable all active content in the entries due to security problems. It will be possible to enable again when the corresponding Mozilla bug is fixed.