fonosfera

Hi there!

New release with small improvements:

- Firefox 3.6 support, in case you’re running the bleeding edge. This has been tested with beta 3.
- Bug fixes mainly discovered during 3.6 testing
- New: Quick add links feature.

If you right click on the statusbar a new window will pop-up.

The new window will show a textbox where you can add text urls and send them to the fonera.

That’s all,

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Hi

Another small update to the Firefox addon. Since errors happen and you want to know about them we’ve included some UI updates to show the last error occurred in the course of your downloading activities.

When a file cannot be downloaded by the fonera, for instance you tried to send a megaupload/rapishare link without having an account configured or you tried to download a non-existing file the firefox addon will change the status icon to a warning message icon with a tooltip showing the error description (the best we can make of it .

You can right click on the status icon to clear the error and continue.

The error message will also appear on the download manager window as well as a link to the fonera dashboard to quick access the control panel in case you might want to investigate further the error. If not, you can click on the X button and the error message will dissapear.

That’s it. The plugin was heavily tested with the latest firmware of the Fonera as well as Firefox 3.5 but if you have any trouble using it, please report your bugs on the fonosfera tracker or Fon’s support forums including the firmware version of your Fonera as well as the Firefox version and operating system you are using. Remeber you can see all features of the addon in the addon wiki page.

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Thanks,
Javier

Hi all,

New relase of the firefox addon. Since there’s been quite a few releases so far and the plugin seem stable enough we’re bumping the versioning number

In this release we’ve tweaked the way the plugin connects to the fonera so it’s a bit more gentle. This will make the plugin behave better, specially when you’re using the plugin from the WAN which appears to be most of you. We’ve also fixed a bug in which some of the downloads weren’t cleared from the manager window when clear completed button was used. Another fix was to be more consistent between the fonera’s downloads status and transmission’s so both use the same wording, hence a more unified UI.

There’s a new feature for massive downloaders, the new list view:

In this view the download manager will show the list of downloads in a simplified list so you can have a better view of more downloads in the same window without the need to keep scrolling down. The start/pause/cancel actions are available when you right click on an item from the list as well as the information tooltips when you hover over a item from the list, so don’t worry there no loss of functionality.

Both the view and sorting options are now stored as user preferences so your choice will be preserved when you close your browser. You can toggle between the icon and list view by using the right hand side buttons in the toolbar of the downloader manager window.

The plugin was heavily tested with the latest firmware of the Fonera as well as Firefox 3.5 but if you have any trouble using it, please report your bugs on the fonosfera tracker or Fon’s support forums including the firmware version of your Fonera as well as the Firefox version and operating system you are using.

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Javier

Hi all,

If you’re using the fonera downloader addon from wan and Firefox show this error message:

we have a solution for you.

Log into the fonera via it’s WAN IP address using https. In this example I’ll use 172.16.44.229 as the fonera WAN IP Address, so log into:

https://172.16.44.229/luci

Then an error should appear saying that the site has a self-signed certificate and should ask you if you understand the risks and add an exception:

This next window will show, click on Confirm security exception and double check that the option Permanently store this exception is checked.

Once you’ve added the exception the error should no longer occur.

In case you want to check the certificate go to Firefox’s preferences, select the Advanced tab, go to encryption and click on view certificates.

You will see the certificate manager, go to the server’s tab and you can see the fonera’s certificate.

This issue has already been reported in our support forums.

Hope this helps,

Javier

From the department of release often, release early, we have a new foneradownloader addon release.

This release brings small bugfixes introduced in the previous release and small features to the download manager window.

We’ve added some filtering options in case you want to distinguish from torrents and downloads easily.

We have also added a sorting option so you can track more easily the current state of all your downloads. Currently you can sort by paused, completed or in progress downloads. We hope you like this small update.

That’s all, bugs and issues belong to our support forums
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Thanks,
Javier

UPDATE: Somehow I managed to upload a pre-release version of the plugin with a bug for Mac users. Please verify you’re using the correct xpi with this md5 checksum: 7c940083aebaf2d9b5a0df492277b5b3

Hi all,

We have a new foneradownloader firefox extension release. This new release brings some small enhancement and a ‘geeky’ feature for massive downloaders which may miss from other download manager extensions.

First, the settings dialog no longer applies it’s settings ‘on-the-fly’. This is done because some users complained about problems on the extension re-connecting when the address is still not fully typed.

And now for the new feature… when you right click on a web page and you’re connected to the fonera, a new item will show: “Find links for fonera”.

When this item is selected, a window will pop-up with all links/images the page has. We think this will be a nice feature for when you are in a page with lots of links and you don’t want to bother rightclick-ing each one of them!

Think about this feature when you go to an image gallery webpage and you want to download all pics, or all isos from a linux distro or maybe all zips from a multiple volume download.

To make this task even easier, we’ve included a small toolbar with pre-selected filters: images, movies, music, torrents, rapidshare and megaupload. When you select any of these filters, all links matching will be automatically selected so you then send them to your fonera. This filters can be modified from the ‘about:config‘ preferences page in Firefox. You need to type about:config in the url to access it.

But that’s not all, we also included a ’search as you type’ filter for when you have lots of links but you know what you’re looking for.

And as usual, we included small bugfixes to enhance the user experience and full support for lastest firmware for both fonera2.0 n & g. We really hope you like this small upgrade, so please test it and report bugs you find in our user forums.

Get it here!
Thanks,
Javier

Yes, now it works.

Anyone who had problems installing it or after upgrading from flipper:

1) Remove the FoneraApps from the disk where transmission was installed (the one plugged to the fonera ;D)
2) Reinstall
3) download and enjoy!!

yes, john is fast

Hi

After one day on display… we already have a lot of feedback from you guys about the 2.3.0.1RC1 of the fonera 2.0g.

There is one big bug: Transmission will NOT install!!!!
OH MY!!!!! This is a huge problem (no kidding). And we apologize. We will fix it as soon as possible and let you know when it’s ready.

We also received a few more bugs, like the disks to unmount (or seem to unmount) unnecessarily… that we already know the cause of. So we will fix that soon too. It’s a problem with the kernel version, tricky stuff for our master developer, blogic

Hey, but we also got veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery (a long ‘very’) possitive feedback and that makes us happy. Let’s see if we keep up!

thanks

Hi

After a looooooong time of silence (forced silence… we were working, not playing XD) We’re coming with great news for you. The 2.3.0.0 version of the firmware will be soon available for your foneras 2.0g!!

No, we haven’t forgot or let down our loyal fonera 2.0g users. We want to make them as happy as possible and we’re doing 2 things for them:
1) Improve the firmware as much as possible. This 2.3.0.0 has all the improvements we’ve developed during these months. The Fonera 2.0g will have as much as possible the same firmware as the Fonera 2.0n.
2) Give discounts for those who are willing to upgrade their 2.0g to 2.0n. We know you spent money on the 2.0g and now we have a new device that is more powerful (and also more expensive). This is not common in all companies, but hey, we try to make you happy, you help us with the feedback too, after all. So we have announced great discounts (we mean great, not small) for those who have bought a Fonera 2.0g and are willing to upgrade it! Please stay tuned to your mail!
New features:

• The web interface over WAN has been moved to port 443 for security
• Transmission has been integrated into the FON WebUI. You can still access it in the traditional way!
• Added QoS support!! Make sure you set realistic up and download values of your line on the configuration. Otherwise it doesn’t work…
• Twitter!!! Yes, your fonera will tell you when it has finished uploading videos or someone connects to your signal and much more! (Not available for Torrents yet, sorry)

So, what is the bugfix list for this RC1? Here it goes (hold to your chair):

• Optional Manual DNS server on DHCP mode.
• Pop up to prevent unwilling reset/rebooting on the systems menu.
• ALL configurations are saved now from upgrade to upgrade (except for firewall, coming in the next!).
• Sending files to the correct folder over samba triggers the upload to the corresponding service.
• Samba works fine now on Windows XP.
• NTFS is handled slightly better now. Actions won’t happen till the disk is properly mounted (source of many bugs).
• More robust upload management.
• Filenames starting with ‘.’ are ignored by the service uploades (picasa, flickr etc). Good for Macs
• Both \\fonera\Media and \\fonera\disc-a1 work now (better use the first)
• Many, many, many, many more bug fixing. All boring and internal, but will improve the overall experience!

Please, test it and report back. We are only looking for compatibility bugs.

*IMPORTANT NOTE* This is a Release Candidate. It is not an stable firmware. Most of the things should work fine and it’s probably safe to install. But if you are not very skillful or feel not confident about it… please wait for the release or until you read enough feedback from other users. We are happy to help everybody with any problems they experience but sometimes are overloaded of work…

*ANOTHER ONE* After upgrading, the torrent application might be broken. This is due to changes in the very interior of the fonera. The way to fix it is to remove the “FoneraApps” from the disc where it is installed and reinstall.
Enjoy!

Web upgrade image (do NOT uncompress):
Enduser
Developer

RedBoot / Ssh upgrade image:

Md5sum: 5d43a2ba405627975f09741e3d506681

http://download.fonosfera.org/RC/20090922_FON2202_2.3.0.1_RC1.image

Hi

There’s a new FoneraDownloader extension release for Firefox. In this release we have included these new features and enhancements:

• Add a preferences option to indicate the use of the plugin from WAN. (No more workarounds in user/password settings. You still need to reach transmission (9091) & luci (80) ports from wan as before).
• Fixes in transmission’s session error handling (thanks to cyrusFF).
• Change information icon to green.
• Small information tooltip in torrents icon with more download stats (upload/download rate/peers).
• Icon and separator in context menu so it’s easier to visualize download action.
• Force username to “fonero” to avoid authentication problems with previous installations of the plugin.
• Show error messages in the download window as well as in the statusbar.
• Order downloads, in progress first.
• Selected text (with downloadable links) has a higher priority than html links.
• bugfixes and some performance fixes.

You can get it from here:
http://download.fonosfera.org/software/foneradownloader-0.0.21.xpi

Please test & enjoy!

Javier