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Major Product Announcement - Snap Shots Add-On (for Firefox) + New Snap.com Home Page

Snap Staff July 9th, 2007 in Snap Speaks, Product Announcement, Snap Shots, Snap Shot Add-On

Snap Shots Add-On enhancing Live Search

Introducing Snap Shots™ Add-On for Firefox
Snap Shots Add-On for Firefox brings the usefulness of Snap Shots to ALL websites, not just the ones that have our server side javascript implementation, enhancing your browsing experience with the right content at the right place and time. Imagine your most frequently visited sites each now having Snap Shots enhanced links.

With Snap Shots Add-On you can:

View Snap Shots on popular search sites such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft Live, AOL Search, Ask, Baidu and more
Scroll through a blogroll on any blog and get RSS Shots of each of the RSS-enabled blogs
Mouse over any supported video link on any site and view an inline video
Mouse over a link to Wikipedia and read the article excerpt
Mouse over a link to a MySpace page and see their user profile details
Mouse over an MP3 link on any site and see the album art and play the MP3 file
Control the look and feel of Snap Shots (language, color, link icon, etc.)

Note: Currently, Snap Shots Add-On is only available for Firefox (Mac and Windows). We are working on an Internet Explorer version which will be released soon.

To download Snap Shots Add-On and take Snap Shots with you wherever you surf, please click the download button below.

Check out our new home page...
Because Snap Shots™ is such an integral part of Snap going forward, we’ve completely redesigned our home page. (Yes, we have been busy. Really, really busy.) It’s clear from this post changes are afoot here at Snap. Not only is the release of the Snap Shots Add-On a huge product announcement for us, but also, it is also huge for anyone and everyone who uses a web browser in their day-to-day web surfing.

Snap Shot Home Page

Many, many more things happening at Snap!

As Snap Shots continues to grow and grow both in size (15 million shots per day on over 1 million websites!) and in scope (enhanced formats like RSS Shot and ProfileShot), we’re not sitting still. Expect a number of big, big, big announcements in the coming weeks as we work hard to make it easier for you to make your site a more engaging place to visit.

Additional questions or feedback about the Snap Shot Add-On? We would love to hear from you in the comments or through our customer service/general feedback form here: http://www.snap.com/about/feedbk.php

8 Comments »

cajebo Jul 11th, 2007 at 5:01 am

Greetings. This add-on sounds like a great addition.

Unfortunately, after installation of add-on to…

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Running on OS X 10.4.10)

…and after necessary relauch, it completely hung Firefox.

My first thought was that I'd been impatient, that necessary and additional resources were needing to be cached, so after restart, I tried again. But after 15 minutes of a locked Firefox, I presumed the above was not the case.

Any insight as to what might be the issue?

masterymistery Jul 11th, 2007 at 12:50 pm

Comments: I like snapshots, use the widget on all my blogs. One irritating problem though: when snapshots is on while I am editing then strange things happen including links getting broken and other annoying stuff. So I leave snapshots off when I am editing my blogs.

However, for me, in the latest widget-based version, the disable function does not work. I turn it off, refresh the page, and it remains active. This issue does not apply to the earlier versions of snapshots, where the able/disable function works fine.

Any ideas?

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masterymistery Jul 11th, 2007 at 12:53 pm

Hi Jason

Any ideas?

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bx Jul 13th, 2007 at 10:26 am

Are there plans for snap to work under the https protocol? My site is https and when I include the script I get: "The page contains secure and non-secure items. Do you want to display?" This is annoying. Of course, if I change my snap script path to https… then snappy no workie. :)

Jason Fields Jul 13th, 2007 at 2:39 pm

Heya Cajebo,

We have received a number of comments to this fact, and although myself and our Q&A folks have not been able to replicate the instance here on our systems, we are polling some of our outside resources to assist in figuring this out.

Thanks again for your comments on this and detailed account to assist us in addressing this issue. As soon as we have any more details on this, I will post a comment here on the blog.

Best regards,
Jason Fields
Product Evangelist, Emerging Technology
www.Snap.com

Jason Fields Jul 13th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

Heya BX,

This is something that our product group has been in discussion about. The issue is that our systems are not set up to interface with any certificates on each persons browser to identify the user is logged into a said HTTPS site and/or what dynamically generated content may be delivered to that user.

Its basically a privacy issue and we take any/all issues as such very seriously. At this point there is not a solution that would be in sync with our privacy Terms of Service and /or end users privacy concerns, so we have opted to not support this at this time.

Thanks for your comment though!

Best regards,
Jason Fields
Product Evangelist, Emerging Technology
www.Snap.com

johnbraduly Jul 23rd, 2007 at 1:27 am

Greetings. This add-on sounds like a great addition.

Unfortunately, after installation of add-on to…

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4 (Running on OS X 10.4.10)

…and after necessary relauch, it completely hung Firefox.

My first thought was that I’d been impatient, that necessary and additional resources were needing to be cached, so after restart, I tried again. But after 15 minutes of a locked Firefox, I presumed the above was not the case.

Any insight as to what might be the issue?

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Hi,

I also faced this issue.

Thanks.
John
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