Please update to plugin version 0.26
A service message to our beta users…
Today we’ve updated the Polar Rose plugin to version 0.26. The changes aren’t immediately visible, but the update contains several performance enhancements.
Unfortunately, Firefox’s autoupdate functionality doesn’t always work as intended and we’re getting a few reports that the plugin is not being updated automatically. Instead, please click the “Find updates” button which you can find under Tools > Add-ons in Firefox’s menu to manually find updates.
Should even that fail, you can always manually download the latest version at the Polar Rose downloads page.
September 26th, 2007 at 14:30
auto-update worked fine for me and the performance seems to be much better on pages with lots of faces.
September 28th, 2007 at 17:18
Updated but still having issues.
Doesn’t seem to work well with old photos. See website here for example http://familyhistorysearch.wordpress.com/
maybe install a right click feature to add a rose to a face it doesn’t recognize?
September 29th, 2007 at 11:52
akurime: Manually adding roses to missed faces is something we are looking into. Regarding old photos, gray scale images is not a problem but image quality could be. We are also not detecting faces smaller than 20 pixels wide.
October 4th, 2007 at 20:59
I’m new to Polar Rose, so sorry if I’m missing something obvious. For me, Polar Rose is working kind of un-determined. Sometimes, the roses appear, sometimes they don’t. Take for example http://www.kiesler.at/album244.html , right now I have 8 Roses there, which is fine. Three faces seem to be too small. Now, also bigger versions of the pictures work—a few days ago, they did not. And I didn’t change my configuration.
The next thing I noticed: At the bottom of the page, there’s a number of strings “text” written. They are partially overlapping and seem to equal the number of found roses.
Finally, Polar Rose doesn’t seem to like the “Fuller Screen” Firefox extension. If I have it turned on, Polar Rose does not show its Roses.
November 13th, 2007 at 14:05
wow, 0.5
so where are the privacy features und the search agents?
November 14th, 2007 at 11:56
I’m thinking that the privacy features are in there, you can mark an image as inappropriate – but still waiting on the search agents, thats the most important part. In fact the search agents is what everybody wants, nobody wants to just label images and do a name search in hopes that others have labeled faces of interest to you – that would be fine if I was interested in finding images of George Bush, but I’m not – I want to find images of my long lost buddy Dan Whats-His-name.