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cfinke / Feed-Sidebar

The Feed Sidebar is an extension for Firefox that displays the items from your Live Bookmarks in the sidebar.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4869/
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massive "notification bombardment", false information #42

Open cfinke opened 14 years ago

cfinke commented 14 years ago

On my Firefox 3.5.x / Mac OS X 10.5.x I often get neverending Growl notifications from feedsidebar. It's really annoying because I cannot work on a screen cluttered with notifications. I am not really sure but I think the following steps will reproduce the issue (but maybe not all conditions are necessary):

What steps will reproduce the problem?

  1. lots of tabs opened (the notifications will multiply when there are more tabs opened)
  2. a few feed subscriptions (again, multiplied notifications for more feeds)
  3. read most feeds
  4. wait for automatic feed updating
  5. enjoy hundred of thousands of notifications (with even false "new message count" numbers)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect exactly one notification for every feed having new (unread) messages informing about the number of new messages. Instead, I get many notifications (probably one message for every feed AND tab) containing the number of unread messages of ALL feeds (see screenshot). I also get notified of new messages in feeds where there are no new messages. It's clearly a feed sidebar bug as other notifications are shown correctly (from Firefox and other Apps).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Firefox 3.5.5 / Mac OS X 10.5.8, Growl 1.2, Feed Sidebar 4.1.2 (but appeared in earlier versions of every software involved, too)

Please provide any additional information below. It seems to me that feed sidebar tries to update the feeds multiple times during one automatic updating process. No data on that, just my feeling.

I think the problem also exists on Windows machines, but there, you can't really see the issue as only one message is displayed at a time in the internal Firefox notification bar, finally displaying the favicon and heading of the newest updated feed with the total number of unread messages.

The screenshot shows an example – but think of the screen being completely full of notifications, so that Growl has to wait a few seconds for older messages to disappear to display the rest of the messages (waiting in queue). Once it took like 30 seconds to display all notifications with a display-time-per-message of about 3 seconds

Issue imported from Google Code Author: fbender Published: 2009-12-01T23:12:03.000Z Status: New Link: http://code.google.com/p/feedsidebar/issues/detail?id=43

fbender commented 12 years ago

Hi, I'm the original author of this message. May you please remove or disguise my e-mail address? Thanks.

cfinke commented 12 years ago

E-mail address removed.

fbender commented 12 years ago

Thank you very much!

As a sidenote, Fx 18 (or 17?) removes Growl altogether and only supports Notification Center.

I'm using an external feed manager now, so I can't say whether the problem still exists.