About this extension

Saves and manages frequently-entered text for later pasting into web page forms in Firefox or email and newsgroup messages in Thunderbird. Pasting a clipping is accomplished with just two mouse clicks, eliminating the hassle of retyping or repetitive copying and pasting.

Thunderbird users can download Clippings for Thunderbird from the AE Creations website (http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings/install.php).

Features:

• Easily create a clipping from selected text in a form field or web page body (Firefox), or from selected text in an email or newsgroup message (Thunderbird)

• Paste clippings into form fields (Firefox) or new email or newsgroup messages (Thunderbird) from the Clippings context menu. Individual clippings can be pasted as rich text if they contain HTML tags.

• Save the source web page address (URL) with the clipping

• Make your important clippings stand out with color labels

• Assign shortcut keys to clippings for quicker pasting. To insert a clipping using the keyboard, press ALT+SHIFT+Y (Command+Option+Y on macOS), then the shortcut key. The keyboard paste key can be changed from Clippings preferences.

• Locate the clipping you want to paste by typing its name and selecting it from an autocomplete menu

• Define placeholders inside a clipping that you will be prompted to fill in when pasting the clipping. Built-in placeholders for the date, time, clipping name, user agent, etc. are also available.

• Organize your collection of clippings into folders using Clippings Manager

• Import and export clippings in a variety of file formats

• Sync your clippings between Firefox and Thunderbird, or between Firefox instances on multiple computers

To learn more about Clippings, please visit the Clippings page on the AE Creations website: http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings. First-time users should check out the Quick Start guide at http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings/quickstart.php.

Supported Languages: English (United States), French, German, Portuguese (Brazil). Only English (United States) is supported in Clippings for Thunderbird.

Do you want Clippings in your language? If you are fluent in English and another world language and would like to help update or add a new translation, consider contributing a translation here: https://crowdin.com/project/clippings

Things You Should Know About:

Some features may not be available when Firefox is in Private Browsing mode, or if the browser privacy settings are too restrictive.

A list of known issues and their solutions can be found here: http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings/known-issues.php

Add-on Permissions:

More information on the add-on permissions requested by Clippings: http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings/permissions.php

Help and Support:

Questions and comments about Clippings should be directed to the AE Creations Help and Support forums, hosted on Google Groups.

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Release notes for 6.2

What's New:
• Clippings now supports Dark Mode system themes on macOS and Windows. The dark-colored theme is automatically applied to Clippings windows and dialogs (for example, Clippings Manager and the extension preferences page) when Dark Mode is activated on your system.
• You can now choose how you want the date or time to be formatted for the $[DATE] and $[TIME] placeholders; for example, the date with the day of the week included, or the time given in the 24-hour clock. To add a formatted date or time placeholder to your clipping, open Clippings Manager, turn on the Placeholder Toolbar (Tools → Show/Hide menu), then from the toolbar, click Presets and select Formatted Date/Time
• For Sync Clippings users, there's a new option to only show synced clippings and folders on the Clippings menu. To activate it, go to the extension preferences, then under Sync Clippings, click Settings.
• Brought back the ability to redo an action in Clippings Manager. To redo an action (undo an undo), press F2.
• New option to add the date to the backup file name
• Many other fixes and improvements

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