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[1] Submitted by: Carl on Saturday 2nd July 2005 at 10:59 -0400

If you find any bugs not mentioned here, and if you have the latest version of PUC, please tell about it here. Thanks!

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[2] Submitted by: Cooper Engineer on Saturday 2nd July 2005 at 12:05 -0400

don't save the pages to check for updates when i close Firefox.

Firefox 1.0.4
Windows XP sp2

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[3] Submitted by: Sir Raleigh on Saturday 2nd July 2005 at 15:48 -0400

A great extension, but I'd like to see the following improvements:

1- On the Update Found notification window, have an option to change text colors.
2- Have the option to show (by highlighting) what on an updated page has changed.
3- Have the option to select one or more areas on a page to watch/ignore.
4- Have the option to select how many changes on a page occur before an alert is given.
5- Have the option to ignore periodic changes such as 'date and time' and 'hit counter'.
6- As mentioned in the previous post, doesn't save pages to check once FF is closed.

Firefox/1.0.4
Win98SE

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[4] Submitted by: tethys on Sunday 3rd July 2005 at 16:10 -0400

PUC fails to restore saved configuration from pucconfig.xml
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The exception logged at startup while restoring a saved config was
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PUC: ReferenceError: Page is not defined
This Probably means that you will not be able to save your settings when you close firefox.
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here is the patch i used to fix problem.

puc.jar:
diff ./content/puc/pucListener.js.dist ./content/puc/pucListener.js
272c272
< var page = new Page();
---
> var page = new pucPage();

i rebuilt the puc.jar and now the config is saved and restored when i restart firefox.

ff1.0.4 win2k

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[5] Submitted by: Carl on Sunday 3rd July 2005 at 21:04 -0400

Thanks Tethys! I'm not sure why this was not a problem on my machine. I've changed the file and am now waiting for the mirrors to update with Version 0.2.

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[6] Submitted by: Robin on Tuesday 5th July 2005 at 09:04 -0400

This might be the same as "cooper engineer" - but the checker works fine and once I acknowledge it and go to the page to see the change it doesn't save that the change had been made. So next time I close the browser and open again it pops up saying a change has been made.

If this is intentional, I would like the option to update the cache without having to remove and add the same page every time.

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[7] Submitted by: Carl on Tuesday 5th July 2005 at 09:28 -0400

Robin: Thank you for your comment.

PUC does save the changed page in its cache. It overwrites the previous cache entry each time it finds an update. There shouldn't be any use in removing and re-adding a page. If it seems like PUC nearly always pops up with a message, then there is probably something on that webpage with dynamic content, meaning each time you load the webpage from the internet, something on it, such as advertisement, date/time, or a hit counter, changes. Often these aren't even visible changes.

I'm working right now on a way for PUC to show exactly what changes on the page's source code, and I'd like to add a feature that lets you ignore or focus on particular parts of a page so that this is more manageable.

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[8] Submitted by: PoohrenBada on Wednesday 6th July 2005 at 10:13 -0400

(I'm a stranger here.)
I tried my favorite pages checked by PUC and found one problem. Numbers such as downloads, visitors or readers changes a lot. Everytime she checks, she says it's been changed :-p I suggest numbers should be checked optionally.

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[9] Submitted by: Neogene on Monday 18th July 2005 at 18:50 -0400

I have received this error looking into the javascript debug window. There is only a page open (google) so the error own to the extension.

Errore: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMXULElement.boxObject]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: get_docShell :: line 0" data: no]

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[10] Submitted by: Carl on Monday 18th July 2005 at 19:17 -0400

Neogene: I have not seen that error. I don't recognize anything in it specific to PUC. Was PUC monitoring google.com at the time?

Anyone else see this error?

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[11] Submitted by: Saleem on Thursday 4th August 2005 at 05:14 -0400

I wnat to know ... that mozilla organisation is going to update its browser default download manager's speed browser(1.7.8 mozilla / 1.7.11mozilla (for windows)
thanks
saleem

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[12] Submitted by: Kalou on Wednesday 10th August 2005 at 05:46 -0400

Hey, I'm trying to install PUK on Solaris 8, mozilla 1.6, but it seem to fail for an unknown reason;

"A web site is requesting permisson to install" -> OK
"Downloading" -> OK
"! Installing" -> OK
"! Added to store/defaultpucconfig.xml" -> OK

it comes back to "Software Installation" and shows Cancelled...

First installation was successfull and asked me to restart my browser. But now the plugin does not show in the about:plugins page, nor I have no right click menu to monitor a page.

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[13] Submitted by: Carl on Wednesday 10th August 2005 at 08:56 -0400

PUC only works on Firefox.

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[14] Submitted by: Didier Stevens on Friday 19th August 2005 at 11:19 -0400

Hello Carl,

Thanks for your extension.

I installed it to watch a McAfee Page:

But PUC has a problem with this page, it always report this page as having changed, when in fact it has not.
The reason is that this page contains international characters (UNICODE). The function puc_compareOldWithNew compares a string newData that contains UNICODE with a string oldText that only contains ASCII string, and so finds the string being different.
oldText contains only ASCII because it has been read from a file that has been saved with a function that does not support international characters.
See
They say for the write example: Note: This code is not intl-aware. Writing non-ASCII characters will not work correctly.

So you should use UNICODE-aware functions to read and write UNICODE strings, or else convert the UNICODE to some kind of ASCII representation (i.e. \uXXX) before comparison & saving.

Another idea: you compare the source code of the pages. Isn't there a function or method in JS or FireFox to convert HTML to a "textual" representation? This way you could compare the "textual" representation of a page, and not the source code.

Thanks again for your work,

Didier

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[15] Submitted by: Didier Stevens on Friday 19th August 2005 at 11:21 -0400

Uhm, the links didn't display, I'll try again without the protocol

www.mcafeesecurity.com/us/products/mcafee/end_of_life.htm
kb.mozillazine.org/File_IO

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[16] Submitted by: Didier Stevens on Friday 19th August 2005 at 11:29 -0400

Another solution for the UNICODE problem: don't write the source files to disk for later comparison, but calculate a hash (like MD5 or SHA-1) and save it. To detect changes: load the page, calculate the hash and compare it with the saved hash. If the hashs are different, the source has changed.

Pro: saves diskspace
Contra: you will not be able do display what has changed, like some people have requested.

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[17] Submitted by: Carl on Friday 19th August 2005 at 12:00 -0400

Didier,

You're a genius! I've been trying to figure out the cause of the problem with unicode characters in version 0.3 alpha for some time. I thought there was something wrong with my visual diff function. (For example, Google news, which I use for testing because it changes so much, has links in other languages with unicode characters. Those characters seemed to always visually display a change.) The hash function is a good idea and would work is for version 0.2, but it would not work in version 0.3, so I'll look into saving the source to cache with full unicode representation. (Although in 0.3, if one was so inclined, you could make a checker that uses hash functions to compare pages.)

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[18] Submitted by: djet on Sunday 21st August 2005 at 12:33 -0400

Please make context menu item optional. My context menu is already bloated with lot of stuff.

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[19] Submitted by: Sebastian on Saturday 29th October 2005 at 18:32 -0400

No bug but a thankssaying.

I searched for exactly this. I tried Version 0.2 but it didnt worked. It found changes where no changes where made because of static sourcecode.
Now I tested version 0.3 and it works.

So thanks...

Greetings,
Sebastian

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[20] Submitted by: Sebastian on Saturday 29th October 2005 at 18:58 -0400

Could you implement it into the bookmarks as a registerentry? Because I need it to let check my bookmarks. This way I could let them check directly.

Greetings!
Sebastian

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[21] Submitted by: Sebastian on Sunday 30th October 2005 at 14:51 -0500

Hello,

I want to say some wishes:

1. I would like to see an default option for reasktime. At the moment it starts with 5 Minutes.
2. I would like to choose the checking in the bookmarks. In sidebar oder bookmarks. Maybe in a registryentry.
3. I would like to have an Icon or somewhat in the bookmarks. Beneath the normal Icon. This way I could see fast which site Im looking for.
4. Im using it mostly for forums. A filter like
online(.)+insgesamt|online|offline
could be fine to automatically block the changes of onlinestats in some forums.
I want to check this site:
But there is a ad-block in the right. How would you filter this best way?
5. The list of checked sites in the options is to simple. I would like to order it somewhat. And for example for inteval of reask and so on.
Maybe a list with colums sitename, interval, on start ?

Thats it.
Good extension all the way. I searched exactly this.

Greetings,
Sebastian

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[22] Submitted by: Sebastian on Tuesday 1st November 2005 at 11:57 -0500

Hello,

can you code a filter for forums? There are a couple of forums with different layout. With a good fillter it would be simple to check a thread if a new answer is inside and so on.

And it would be fine to have a "Check now all" button. Maybe it isnt necessary to check it automatically. For example, if I dont have time I dont want to know if there are new posts. For this it would be fine if I could automatically recheck the sites when I have time.

Greetings,
Sebastian

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[23] Submitted by: Sebastian on Monday 7th November 2005 at 13:42 -0500

Hello,

it seems that the extension dont fully work together with the session saver extension if websites are checked on start. Then it results in blank tabs where the sites have to be in which are before I closed Firefox.. Maybe it would help to check the sites a half minute after firefox is fully loaded.

It would also be fine if the options to show the changes would be changed. At the moment there are three options to show the changes. Some show the changes nd dont show the outtaked parts. Some show the outtaked parts too without to see if they are outtaked by filters or not. It would be fine to see the parts who are took out, the parts who are old and the new parts. This way filters could be made more easy.

Then it would be fine to order the filters because it can be make failures if something is taken out before other filters and the filters after it cant filter properly.

And last it would be fine to have a look into the stored site. If I set a new filter I cant test if it is filtering properly because I can see the code only if something has changed. But if i took to hard filters I never would find out if something changed and I even couldnt test what code is stored.

Bad english, but I hope you understand.

Greetings!
Sebastian

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[24] Submitted by: Sebastian on Tuesday 8th November 2005 at 09:08 -0500

Hello,

if some sites have the same time for recheck there are errors.

For example, I check a couple of sites every 3 hours. But all the sites are reasked at the same time. The result is, that I got one window where it states there was an error by checking, two windows were normal, one window seemed to be normal but it didnt make anything by clicking on "what changed" and so on, and the last 10 (or so) pages only resultet in a window with white field below and no link above. It seemed to not filled with data. So there isnt seeable what site it was and the only thing is to click ok. And I dont know if something changed or what happened.

I think this would be changeable with some waitingtime between the checks. And maybe there must be a solution when there would be open much windows.

Greetings!
Sebastian

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[25] Submitted by: Sebastian on Tuesday 22nd November 2005 at 16:39 -0500

Hello,

I wanted to solve the problem of errors in the popups when many sites are reasked at a time. For this I set each site to another minute.

I found:
The errors occur when a number of popups is opened. There should only be opened one popup at a time. Because when they become more there are errors in the popups i described in a post before.

When trying to set times like 175 minutes or so there is an error which results in reasking many sites before they have to be checked. At this time there are opening many popups (with errors).

When I write a Text, in a forum for example, and a popup is opening then the popup shouldnt close by clicking a simple key. Because I want to read the popup. It happened that I wrote a text and for a simple tip on the spacekey the popup was away before I had really seen it.

I only want to tell to make it better, because its a good extension. :-)

Greetings!
Sebastian

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