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Reviews for Signature Switch
273 reviews for this add-on
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Absolutely perfect! Not only does this do exactly what I needed it to do, some of the convenience features are even better than what I thought was ideal.
Thanks for the great addition!
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Q1:
Why locale language zh-TW is marked?
"<!-- <em:locale>locale/zh-TW/</em:locale> -->"
Q2:
Signature and default is differently. Can be unified format?
Thunderbird 11 Default:
<br><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
signature</pre>
But Signature Switch:
<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>signature</div>
Q3:
How put my signature below my reply (above the quote) ?
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Another vote for signature above the reply. Not much use to me with the signature right down the bottom.
I realise this makes me belligerent and idiotic. I also realise add-on devs have no obligations to their users. So be it. Still doesn't do what a useful signature add-on should do.
Edit in response to yet another intemperate reply from the developer:
Hi Achim. My name's Peter Hollo. My point in adding this review was twofold. Firstly, to inform you, the developer, that another user needs this feature. Second was for the pure amusement value of seeing your response to another low star rating. You see, it's pretty bizarre - you clearly care about how your add-on is rated. And yet everyone who writes requesting this really important feature of your otherwise nice extension gets a personalized torrent of sarcastic abuse.
I guess I just wanted my own personalized torrent of abuse. Thanks for providing :)
By the way, I've changed my rating to properly reflect your "customer service". Cheers.
First of all... thanks for your comment, Mr. "frogworth" (or whatever your real name may be).
So... what exactly is your point after all?
What's the motivation behind your comment?
You're obviously aware that many usere before you addressed this "issue" or "missing feature".
And you also seem to know that all this already has received my attention.
Do you really think that giving my add-on a low rating will change the situation and encourage me to "improve" things?
Or do you just want to "warn" other users and tell them that it didn't do the job for YOU as an individual?
And as for the first sentence you wrote: "Another vote for signature above the reply."
Complaining about the same things again and again PLUS downgrading someone's work has nothing to do with "voting" as far as I understand.
Regards,
Achim
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great extension. Does just what it says. Let's you choose from multiple signatures on the fly.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.9).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Simple and gets the job done. Hopefully this evens out some of the more idiotic reviews from people that don't follow the posting guidelines.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.9).Rated 1 out of 5 stars
What's the sense in even bothering putting up software for everyone to use, if you belligerently refuse to make it do what people need?
You can huff and puff all you like, but if you're not motivated by what your userbase actually needs, then what's the use in even making software publicly available? It makes you a particularly poor developer. It's not like this is a flood of competing and illogical requests, or out-of-scope requests (those are difficult, obviously), but a very clear message that e-mail usage has changed in the 21st century. I've come to prefer top posting myself anyway as the only thing I'm interested in reading is what the recipient wrote! And if I need to grab their phone number from a signature, the last place I want that is way down the bottom of the message.
This seems to be a common programmer defect – a wilful lack of interest in and concern for the people actually using their software, especially when it comes to bug fixes. If you must be obstinate about it, don't clutter up the Internet with your work. If you must post software, try to make the program do what people actually want it to do!
Who said that I "_bellingerently_ refuse" to do something?
And what makes you believe that it's my duty to deliver the software "people need"?
I developed those extensions in my spare-time... and give them away for free.
The reason I created them was the fact that Mozilla's software lacked some features I personally needed.
Fortunately Mozilla-products can be extended by open-source software.
Making my addons publicly availabe is my contribution to free software. (Which by the way can be altered by yourself, if you need to!)
And believe it or not. There actually are a lot of people out there that are happy with my addon the way it is!
You're obviously aware that the "issue" you complain about has been addressed several times before and received my attention.
Yet you felt the need to bash my work and "downrate" the addon.
In addition to this you call me a "particularly poor developer" and claim that there "seems to be a common programmer defect – a wilful lack of interest in and concern for the people actually using their software, especially when it comes to bug fixes".
Very mature, indeed.
If you check the changelogs on my website you'll see that I actually did implement a lot of user-requested features in the past.
And if there are things that I don't want to implement (or don't have the resources to) then you should just accept it.
Or even better start coding your own perfect addon right away!
So what have you done to improve Firefox/Thunderbird, Daniel Beardsmore?
What's your contribution on free software?
Giving helpful comments/ratings like the one you did over here?
Believe me... you're not helping a bit.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
It would be a great addon, if it would allow top-posting/replying. I am an Engineer myself and like good internet standards, but in this case, more and more organisations are using top-posting, shifting from bottom-reply when an email-reply gets very long.
This is the most frequently requested feature for Signature Switch.
So please impl. this feature and make it optional, with sane default to using bottom-reply/tagline insertion. So anybody with no knowledge why it's good to have a standard does the right thing and the ones deliberately choosing the other option have good reasons for it.
Great. So you think that giving my addon a low rating will encourage me to address this issue and start coding right away?
Stuff like this really keeps me motivated to spend my spare-time on this project.
Thanks.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
One hard to find and little spoken about feature that I think makes this a great add-on is the "hybrid" signature. This is where you can offer different signatures for HTML or Plain Text in the same file.
Basically it goes::
Plain Text
=
HTML
This is so useful as you can include images and detailed HTML styling and know that plain text readers will still see a nice clean signature.
Unfortunately Thunderbird doesn't support this so if you have the signature switched on by default in the Account Settings you see both versions. My one criticism of this Add-on is that it deals with Plain/HTML Signatures differently to how Thunderbird natively handles them which can be confusing at first. Especially as Thunderbird doesn't make it easy to switch between HTML and Plain Text email formatting. Using both methods without the hybrid signature means you either have no line breaks in one or extra <br>s in the other.
More about Hybrid Signatures here:
http://mozext.achimonline.de/signatureswitch_hybrid_signature.php
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
I am in agreement with the previous posts. The fact that the signature can not be placed 'above quote, below text' as can be natively set it Thunderbird, makes what would otherwise be a nearly perfect app unusable. With that modification, this app would top my list, as custom signatures for new mail, replies, and forwards are SADLY lacking in the Thunderbird client. What a shame. :-(
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.9).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Same as snif: "Cannot put a signature under my text ABOVE quote. Excellent idea, unfortunately useless for me."
TOO BAD !
Please add this feature and I'll give you 5 stars.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Awesome Add-On!.... Works great! Thank you for your time....
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.9).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Using TB for work AND private mail, I whould like to see an option to set the signature depending on the sender, not the "to"
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.9).Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Cannot put a signature under my text ABOVE quote. Excellent idea, unfortunately useless for me.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.9).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
While I like this add-on, there is one thing I don't like about it, however. It always adds "from sig sw" above my signatures. I would like to eliminate that, but cannot find any way to do so.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.9).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
There's no reason to delay upgrading TB to the last version. You can find a TB7-compatible version on the developer's site.
A very useful add-on. It would be still greater if it could auto-detect the language used in the e-mail and select the right signature accordingly.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I do not update to Thunderbird 7 because this add-on is so usefull to me.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.8).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I've used that add-on for a while now and I can't wait for the update
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.8).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I really enjoy this add-on, and am hoping it will be made compatible with Tbird7.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.8).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I use this add-on all the time. I love the flexibility it gives me to have several signatures at my finger tips for both professional and personal emails. Thank you very much.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.6.8).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
From developer homepage - http://mozext.achimonline.de/signatureswitch_download.php
ChangeLog
v1.6.9 (01.10.2011)
* changed maxVersion to 7.*
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