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A comment on the problem "Links not launching when clicked." in Seesmic:

This is an issue in AIR, that we unfortunately cannot solve. But, if you are on a mac, some people have had success with http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/ – Thomas Knoll, on July 22, 2008 02:21

Thomas Knoll replied on July 22, 2008 02:12 to the question "Viewing multiple accounts" in Seesmic:

We will certainly consider it... adding this as an idea (rather than a question) and getting people to "vote it up" would help raise priority.

Nick @ Project83 replied on July 22, 2008 00:03 to the problem "Links not launching when clicked." in Seesmic:

I have FF3/Mac and am having this problem. Clicking a URL just opens my default text editor, instead of my default browser. Any solution in sight?

Robert Basil replied on July 21, 2008 22:32 to the question "Viewing multiple accounts" in Seesmic:

Ok, 2 months later (and SIX different services now available with Twhirl) and still no way to view multiple accounts in one window. For those of us with multiple accounts it is a REAL PITA to have to take up our valuable screen realestate with multiple windows. Is the ever going to happen?

A comment on the discussion "How do I stop "read" replies from showing when starting twhirl?" in Seesmic:

Marco, I could've sworn this behavior worked as people in this thread wanted in 0.8.2 but not in 0.8.3.... – Tevi, on July 10, 2008 18:37

Marco Kaiser's reply to "Why won't my connect button connect?" was just promoted to the most useful! Rick Marshall and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Hi everyone,

we have been digging deep into twhirl to find the bug causing the problem you all have, and we found a possible reason that might be the culprit.

An updated version of twhirl 0.8.2 that fixes the bug can be downloaded from http://beta.twhirl.org/twhirl-0.8.2-t...

Please update your installed version to this and tell us if it solves the problem for you.

Thanks!

ottie replied on July 07, 2008 13:31 to the problem "Why won't my connect button connect?" in Seesmic:

the recently released twhirl 0.8.3 works fine.

Rob replied on July 04, 2008 13:20 to the discussion "How do I stop "read" replies from showing when starting twhirl?" in Seesmic:

me too, it would also help when switching between work computer and home computer so I don't get confused over which tweets I've already seen and which ones I haven't...I think that's a slightly different solution than what you're talking about and would require a server based solution to coordinate between computers.

Rafael Fonseca replied on July 03, 2008 21:12 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

I understand that the point is the Adobe AIR framework, as I have been recently finding some other issues on it, which makes me think it's not quite finished yet.

The problem is that even though Firefox is NOT set as my default browser, Twhirl is still trying to open it.

When I said other AIR apps were not doing the same thing, I was reporting what I experienced. Last time I've tried navigateToUrl() on an AIR app, the framework was in beta, and it worked like a charm.

Did anyone experience that with AIR 1.0? Or beta/alpha?

Kels replied on July 03, 2008 16:04 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

I'm having the same problem! I just installed Twhirl yesterday and I saw the updates/tweets of one of the people I was following. But when I opened it today it opened up two twhirl windows and neither of them show any tweets. Also, I updated it and have the 8.3 version and have adobe air. I'm not quite sure what the problem is, but it'd be rather cool to get it fixed.

At the bottom of the box it also says "limit exceeded, paused 5 min"...

Marco Kaiser replied on July 03, 2008 16:01 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Scott,

thanks ;-) I'm not sure if this issue has been solved on Windows with one of the last AIR releases, but originally it was more prominent there than on OS X.

Even the official release notes from Adobe for AIR contained a workaround to solve the issue on Windows.

Anyway, I share everyone's feelings here that this is a really annoying thing, but as you pointed out, it cannot be solved from within twhirl.

Marco

Scott-O-Rama replied on July 03, 2008 15:53 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Per David Coletta, Adobe Employee:

"Just wanted to say, we are aware of this problem with navigateToURL() in AIR when Firefox/Mac is the default browser, and we are tracking it. To the best of our knowledge it is only a problem on the Mac, not with Firefox for Windows.

I can't promise if or when it will be fixed, but I hope that it's at least some comfort that it's on our list"

You can find his reply here: http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topi...

mflinsch replied on July 03, 2008 15:43 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

I'm running much better now with some blog plug-ins disabled (Twitter for Wordpress, Twitpress, Twitter Updater) and installing the new version of Twhirl. I need Twitter, but I love Twhirl.

Scott-O-Rama marked one of Marco Kaiser's replies in Seesmic as useful. Marco Kaiser replied to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(".

Scott-O-Rama replied on July 03, 2008 14:46 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

After reading around the web, Marco's reply is absolutely right. Many (all?) Adobe AIR apps are experiencing this exact same issue particularly when Firefox is set as the default browser.

This is an Adobe AIR issue, not a Twhirl one, so I would highly suggest that everyone go the this thread and add your voice asking Adobe to fix it: http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topi...

Håvard Pedersen replied on July 03, 2008 13:54 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Rafael Fonseca, I'd love to hear which Air apps that open links in new tabs.

Most Air apps like the Pownce client, Spaz (another Twitter client) and others all have bugs registered for this behaviour, and they all seem to agree it's Adobes fault (though it looks like it only happens when used with Firefox as the default browser).

It also looks like it's a very old bug, so I can't understand why Adobe can't seem to fix it.

Marco Kaiser replied on July 03, 2008 13:43 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

Hi everyone, the just released version 0.8.3 fixes issues with the auto throttling twhirl can perform for your API usage.

But as the limit is as low as 20 at the moment, it's still likely that you will run into limit exceeded problems, because of other clients / apps accessing your account. We can only hope for twitter to raise the limit soon, so the problem will be less significant.

Sorry, unfortunately we cannot do more then trying to keep twhirl's API usage below the limit.

Marco Kaiser replied on July 03, 2008 13:39 to the problem "Links opening in new Firefox Window instead of Tab :-(" in Seesmic:

Well, actually I'd be happy if it would be a problem in twhirl, because then I could solve it!

This problem affects ONLY AIR applications, so if all other (native) apps use another browser, that has nothing to do with this issue.

To give you some technical background about this issue: twhirl is based on Flash and the Flex framework. There is just one way to actually open a URL in an external system browser from these kind of AIR applications. There are no options we could send with the URL that can influence how, where or by which application that URL is captured and opened in the end.

For reference, the call used to do this is navigateToURL().

I would be interested to know which other AIR applications you are using that open a link in another browser?

jasonechols replied on July 03, 2008 13:37 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

I am still having this issue. I have my requests set to 40 per hour. I will decrease to 20 and see if it works. This is getting really annoying.

mflinsch replied on July 03, 2008 11:57 to the problem "Limit Exceeded issue..." in Seesmic:

Solved, finally. I turned off two plugins on my blog, which runs WordPress, and all is good.