coComment Extension Update Sucks

Today my coComment Firefox extension told me there was a new version… so I updated. Yuck. Ugh. Make it go away.

Instead of being able to see my conversations with one click, now it pops up an annoying box where I have to give it a second click to do what I used to be able to do with one click. And there’s no options for the extension to configure it.

Making me take more steps to do things I used to be able to do easily is not a move in a good direction.

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Posted on:: Thursday, July 20th, 2006 09:08

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Stephanie Booth Thursday, July 20th, 2006 / 23:17

How would you have organised things?

We kept the single click for the tracking/commenting options, allowing you to track conversations you’re not participating in easily or letting you add comments to pages which do not have comments (or view such existing conversations).

ahockley Friday, July 21st, 2006 / 07:56

I would have left the single-click option as-is, and added those features as right-click submenu options. I’m guessing folks probably want to be notifed about new comments and view them a lot more often than they want to track pages that they haven’t participated in…

Stephanie Booth Sunday, July 23rd, 2006 / 04:03

Makes sense. Passing your feedback along. Thanks!

Stephanie Booth Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 / 13:04

Have you seen there is an update for the extension? The previous behaviour of taking you to your conversations page when normal-clicking on it has been restored.

To access coComment functionalities (like meta conversation or comment tracking), however, you need to click on the toolbar icon or use the bookmarklet.

I’ve suggested that the coComment functionalities be accessible through a right-click menu item on the status icon (in place of Your Conversations, for example) or simply by a contextual menu (right-click anywhere on the page).

We’ll see what happens!

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