PostRank Google Reader Extension for Firefox will no longer be available as of May 5th

 

The Google Reader Extension for Firefox has been unavailable since March (our blog post for more information). Per that blog post, we are no longer supporting the extension and don’t know at this time when a new version might be available.

For a number of people upgrading to Firefox 4 meant that they could no longer use the Extension, but for those running older versions, it has still worked.

As of Thursday (May 5th), however, we are shutting down the API that powered those older versions of the Extension, so they will cease to work. To get your PostRank filtering fix, we do recommend the Extensions for Chrome and Safari. (We do not know when a new version may be available, since per the blog post referenced above, the upgrades needed are out of our hands.)

  • Kaxe

    kacke

  • http://www.alanlynn.com/ tehalynn

    It looks like the Jetpack SDK/Add-on SDK is usable now. Is that true? And if so, does that mean PostRank will get a new Firefox extension soon?

  • http://postrank.com PostRank

    I’m afraid there are no plans for further development at this time.

  • http://www.alanlynn.com/ tehalynn

    From my perspective, it seems like there’s a connection between the the acquisition of PostRank by Google and supporting Google Chrome but not Firefox. I don’t know if that’s true or not, just thought I’d put that out there.

  • http://postrank.com PostRank

    No, no such conspiracy. No dev planned for any of the browser-specific plugins. That said, the only version that could be taken over internally is Chrome, for obvious reasons. :)

  • http://www.alanlynn.com/ tehalynn

    Sorry, I’m not sure what obvious reasons you’re referring to.

  • http://postrank.com PostRank

    PostRank is owned by Google. Google’s browser is Chrome, so it’s rather unlikely Google would be interested in developing for competitors.

  • http://www.alanlynn.com/ tehalynn

    Oh. I think that’s what I was trying to say in my first post. Thanks for clearing that up.

  • Armorbear

    Great !!

  • http://twitter.com/seonate Nate Dame

    Looks like the Chrome extension is gone now too? Can’t find it anywhere!

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