Version 4 changelog

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Version 4 changelog

Postby DaveG » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:00 am

The current version of Flagfox is available on the Mozilla Add-ons page.
New versions are not available for update immediately. View the versions list to see past and pending updates.
All public versions may also be downloaded from the Mozilla FTP server.


Below is an up-to-date list of changes, by version:

Version 4.0.3 — March 10, 2010 — 526 KB
* IP address location database update for March 2010
* Improved placeholders for favicon loading in the options dialog
* Tweaked some styling to work better under some themes
* Replaced notification of disabled update checking with notification of stale database (more than 3 months old)
* Some tweaks to startup/shutdown/error handling
* Mapped backspace key to delete actions in the list in addition to the delete key (for keyboards without it)
* Worked around Mozilla bug 509800; dropping text into empty template field won't mix into the help text anymore
* Added Turkish (tr) locale (new to 4.0.x)
* Added drag & drop support for actions in options dialog (Gecko 1.9.1+ only; Flock & Firefox 3.0 not supported)
-> Drag actions within list to reorder them; drag to top/bottom of view to auto-scroll
-> Drag action in list to a text field to copy as text
-> Drag action template as text to list to open creation dialog for template
-> Drag link, bookmark, or address bar URL to list or creation dialog to use it as a starting point
-> Drag any text to creation dialog to use it as template starting point
-> Drag one or more action name/template pairs as text (w/ new line for each name/template) to list to add all

Version 4.0.2 — February 25, 2010 — 513 KB
* Disabled favicon precaching because Firefox could crash under certain circumstances (overrides 4.0.1 fix)

Version 4.0.1 — February 24, 2010 — 513 KB
* Disabled favicon preloading when 3rd-party cookies and cookie prompting is on; works around a Firefox crash
* Added shortcut to show all actions in the menu on ctrl+right-click to give quicker access to rarely used actions
* Added some more TLD notice exceptions (i.e. don't apply to servers with generic EU IPs but EU nation domains)
* Some minor localization tweaks in a few locales

Version 4.0.0 — February 21, 2010 — 513 KB
* IP address location database update for February 2010
* Major code refactoring and cleanup (including some fixes that may not be listed below)
* Added many new default actions (see flag's context menu and options dialog)
* Added ability to add as many custom actions as desired (will import old one from 3.3.x)
* Added a link in the edit custom action dialog to get/share actions via the forums
* Added full URL, base domain name, and locale placeholders to custom action syntax
* Added "copystring:" pseudo-protocol to custom action syntax
* Added ability to disable or reorder actions in the context menu
* Added ability to set actions to (single|double|triple)(left|middle/ctrl)click of icon
* Added ability to set actions to keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+alt+g is default for Geotool)
* Added favicons for actions in context menu and options (can disable in options)
* Added radio buttons to allow changing flag set preference directly from preview dialog
* Added a few tooltips in the options to better explain what some of them do
* Added detection of offline mode with a disconnected icon (instead of an error icon)
* Added an icon for data: URIs (instead of the puzzle piece)
* Fixed options dialog not refocusing when trying to open it again via context menu
* Fixed info bar checkboxes to act properly; may now be checked/unchecked before closing
* Added a second of guaranteed persistence to info bar to avoid accidental auto-hide
* Added a few more commonly resold TLDs to mismatch note exception list
* Changed TLD mismatch note info bar to only show once unless told otherwise
* Changed Geotool lookup to work from behind a proxy (using the IP Geotool connects to)
* Added experimental support for syncing actions via Mozilla Weave Sync 1.0 (preffed off by default)
* Added a localized first run page for users updating to 4.0 (not used for minor updates)
* Added Catalan (ca) and Ukrainian (uk-UA) locales
* Dropped a handful of locales due to lack of available translators: bg, bn-IN, fa, sr, tr
* Updated many locale codes to drop redundant dialect codes (ex: fr-FR) to match Mozilla codes
* Dropped support for Firefox 2 and added support for Firefox 3.7 prereleases

Version 3.x changelog is available here.
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