Firefox 3.5 and Affixa

There have been a few things that have had to be redesigned to work with Firefox 3.5 (which is currently in beta).

The biggest rewrite so far has been how Affixa takes you to your draft message after doing its thing. The Affixa Login Handler extension was updated about a month ago to make it ready for the release of 3.5.

Unfortunately, there’s one feature that will be disappearing with the release of Firefox 3.5: the option to log in via your web browser, rather than giving your details to Affixa. This is because there isn’t a way this can work from 3.5 onwards (as far as I can see). From 3.5 onwards, Firefox places an exclusive lock on its cookie database when Firefox is running. The end result is that Affixa can no longer read the database, and so can’t log you in using your web browser.

You have my word that I’ll try to find a way to reintroduce this feature in the future if I possibly can.