Unfortunately Mozilla has decided that Ping Fire 1.0.3 is not ready for release on their site. This is mostly due to that fact that Ping Fire uses the Prototype javascript library. The reviewer states that Prototype and some of the code in Ping Fire "can cause compatibility problems with other add-ons or the browser itself." I have been using 1.0.3 of Ping Fire since November and have noticed no instability or incompatibility with other extensions but I can not guarantee that you won't run into issues.

For a lot of 2009 the BlackPing project was in hibernation. This caused a lot of frustration for our users for which I'm very sorry. Thankfully the end of 2009 has granted us some time to work on BlackPing and a new version will be coming sometime in the first quarter of 2010.

The new version of BlackPing will include the following:

Ping Fire 1.0.3 has been submitted to Mozilla for their approval. It is still considered experimental by Mozilla, but, if you have an account, you can download it from the Ping Fire Version History page. Once the add-on has been reviewed and approved, it will be available for download from this site.

Ping Fire 1.0.3 is now feature complete. If you would like to get a preview of what is to come, please post a comment to this entry.

Ping Fire version 1.0.2 was released a little over a week ago and work has already begun on version 1.0.3. The next version will include a lot of the features that have been posted to Get Satisfaction and emailed to us. Please take a look at the feature list, if there's anything you feel should be added please post a comment here or on Get Satisfaction.

Features for 1.0.3

If you're an add-on developer you already know that the XPI format used by Firefox is simply a ZIP file with a different extension. While developing you probably get sick of creating an archive (or zip file), changing the extension to XPI and then double-clicking the file to load the extension into Firefox. In and of itself, it does not take too long to do this, seconds at most. But, while in the fury of development, this "few seconds" adds up.

Ping Fire 1.0.2 has been released. You can download it from the bottom of the Ping Fire homepage. This version of Ping Fire will also available from the FireFox Add-On site once it has been reviewed and moved out of the sandbox.

Change Log

• Modified the back-end code to be more safe in regards Javascript's global namespace.
• Made it more obvious if a user hasn't entered their Ping.fm API Key.

This is just an administrative clean-up post. Moved old announcements from the Ping Fire homepage to here.

2009-08-23: Ping Fire is not supported by FireFox version 3.5 and above. While support is planned, we can not provide a release date at this time. Sorry for the delay.

In the beginning, BlackPing was created as part of a pet project. It fulfilled two purposes: getting my feet wet in regards to BlackBerry development and allowing me to use Ping.fm with more ease than the mobile website provided. The application was created and released and it's popularity grew beyond my wildest expectations. Now, it's time to take a step back and develop the application in a more professional manner. To get this started I created a list of requirements. Feel free to add your own using the comments section.

I know that you all feel forgotten since it has been quite some time since BlackPing has been updated. Unfortunately I can't give you a definitive date as to when a new version will be release. Please be assured that a new version is coming and that, as far as free software goes, BlackPing is a top priority.