Comments on: Google Reader Checker

By: JorisVoorn

JorisVoorn — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:58:48 +0000

I think it would be great to have a right-click option for automaticly making as read

and also a link next to “refresh”, that’s “mark all as read”

What do you think about that ?

By: Guy Wyant

Guy Wyant — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:51:05 +0000

Thanks a bunch, this is a nice extension!
If you want the unread count to be erased when you click the badge to go to Google Reader (useful if you set the timeout to be something longer than 15 seconds for procrastination prevention), you can find the background.html file in the directory that destructoBOT just mentioned, search for chrome.tabs.getAllInWindow(null, tabSearch); and simply add the line updateUnreadCount(0); above it.
So it looks like so:
updateUnreadCount(0);
chrome.tabs.getAllInWindow(null, tabSearch);

@destructoBOT, I would say that turning the above into an option would be an easy and awesome idea, for those of us who would like Reader to be checked, say, every 20 minutes; I imagine there are ways you could do it even more gracefully than how I provided.

By: destructoBOT

destructoBOT — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:39:19 +0000

Yes, open the extension folder in the User Data directory and go to the icon-folder in the Google Reader extensions directory. There you can replace any icon sets you wish for your own.

By: jester

jester — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:55:39 +0000

Anyway you can update the icons on this to match the google reader favicon?

By: destructoBOT

destructoBOT — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:46:21 +0000

Hm… I have a widescreen at work and haven’t experienced any problems there (Win7 though). Try fiddling around in the setIcon-function in background.html and see if you can find any solution, probably around line 73.

By: k.adam

k.adam — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:36:55 +0000

Latest dev. version, but I still use the good old XP. Cannot widescreen resolution be a problem?

By: destructoBOT

destructoBOT — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:31:24 +0000

What OS and Chrome version are you running? I’ve only tested it on Win7 with latest dev version so it’s bound to have some bugs.

By: k.adam

k.adam — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:27:39 +0000

It found the following error:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘width’ of undefined

chrome/ExtensionProcessBindings:369

I tried to reinstall, but it did not help. Any idea?

By: destructoBOT

destructoBOT — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:25:37 +0000

What do you mean by “dots”?

Go to chrome://extensions/, click developer mode, then “background.html”-link beneath the Google Reader Checker entry. From there you click on the JavaScript console button, second from left in the lower left corner.

If anything has gone wrong when loading the icons it should say in that window. Try to reinstall the extension if nothing helps.

By: k.adam

k.adam — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:11:38 +0000

I found two bugs:

1. When I choose the chromified icon sets I see only dots instead of the icon. I had the same mistake with the wave checker extension by the way, but the gmail checker runs perfectly with the chromified set.
2. The color of the icon does not change when I have unread items (default set). I see the red counter at the bottom of the icon, but the rest of the picture remains gray.

I already tried reloading the extension, nothing changed.
Otherwise great extension, very useful and comfortable.