RSS Menu no longer works after clean OS install

[sheckylovejoy]

Was having a lot of problems so I did a clean OS install and reinstalled all software, including RSS Menu, which I've always found useful. However, I have not been able to get it working. I just deleted and reinstalled, but it still won't work.

Behavior: Looks fine at first:

and clicking

But then after selecting nothing happens and the button becomes greyed out

Thanks

[scottishwildcat]

Thanks for the report. Which version of OS X and Safari are you using? And can you give me an example of a website where you're seeing this behaviour? (I assume it appears to be "all of them", but a specific one I can check against would still be useful...)

[sheckylovejoy]

Sorry, forgot that stuff

Mac Pro 2010 OS X 10.10.5 (14F1605) Safari Version 9.0.3 (10601.4.4)

[sheckylovejoy]

Also, FWIW, I also experience the weird behavior in issue #13. It's strange, but not a showstopper

[scottishwildcat]

Thanks. My dev machine is on 10.10.5 as well, so that at least gives me a fighting chance of figuring it out...

As for #13, last time I looked into it there didn't appear to be anything I could do about Safari's "Add to shared links" prompt, unfortunately.... have seen other people complaining about it too.

[sheckylovejoy]

Also, RSS reader is Readkit and it is set as default reader if that matters. Also, to clarify, everything worked fine previous to the clean install, but I did not transfer any preferences over to the new install, so everything got set back to default prefs

[scottishwildcat]

And just to confirm, you're using the latest version (2.2.0) of the extension, yes?

[sheckylovejoy]

[scottishwildcat]

Thanks. Can you try the debug version of the extension I've attached here?

• Uninstall or disable the current extension
• Unzip and install the debug extension
• Restart Safari (just so it's starting from a clean slate)
• Open some tabs that have RSS feeds
• Open the extension prefs, and click the "Download Log" checkbox

That will save a debug log file to your usual download location, that you can send me or paste here.

RSSMenu-220-debug.safariextz.zip

[sheckylovejoy]

Here's the log. Don't know if you could tell, but some of the sites I tried worked, while others just had the greyed out RSS Menu button

RSS Menu debug log.txt

[scottishwildcat]

That's useful, thanks. I still can't reproduce the problem so far, but the log does show that the extension isn't finding the same number of feeds for you as it is for me on a couple of those websites (longform.org and theringer.com), which seems a little odd. Will poke around a bit more.

Forgot to ask, do you have any other extensions installed?

[sheckylovejoy]

I've had these all even when it was working

[scottishwildcat]

Thanks. Have a couple of those myself, will download the other just to make sure there's nothing weird going on depending on what order they're loaded, or something daft like that.

[scottishwildcat]

Found and fixed a couple of bugs in the attached version that were certainly causing the button to sometimes be greyed out when it shouldn't have been (mainly when re-opening a recently closed page). Doubt it'll fix all the problems you mentioned, but give it a go and let me know if it's any better.

(I've beefed up the debug logging a bit more too, so if it's still not working, send me another log and we'll take it from there...)

RSSMenu-221-debug.safariextz.zip

[sheckylovejoy]

Thanks for the quick turnaround. I'm shutdown for the night but I'll look at it tomorrow.