1.22
- FIX: Google changed the HTML of the results page, BetterSearch didn't know
what to do. It's working again, now.
1.21
- Compatible with Flock 2 beta+.
- FIX: Action icons are back.
- FIX: Delicious support unbroken! It's glorious.
- FIX: MSN/Live support works again.
- FIX: Statusbar tooltip was showing the wrong version number. Silly thing.
- FIX: Made some minor enhancements to Google URL normalisation.
- FIX: Removed remnant code ("big icons" etc.).
- CHG: Removed support for everything but Yahoo!, Google, MSN and Delicious.
Sorry, don't have the time anymore to keep track of anything else.
1.20
- Compatible with Firefox 3 now (3.0.*) and Flock 1.2.
1.19
- Compatible with Firefox 3 now (3.0b5pre).
- ADD: Compatible with Flock now.
- FIX: Thumbnails are back for Yahoo!.
- CHG: Prettier icons, courtesy of http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
- CHG: Removed option for big icons
- Minor under-the-hood changes to prepare for the next major version.
1.18
- FIX: Version string freak-up in 1.16a/1.17 caused the Firefox update
notification to pop up with every browser start. The version
string was changed (1.18), and that will fix that. Sorry for
the mess.
- FIX: Another Google HTML change, another fix.
1.17 (i.e. 1.16a)
Quick maintenance release, shot from the hip
- FIX: Google changed the HTML layout of the search result pages and
BetterSearch didn't know what to do. Fixed!
1.16
IMPORTANT: Extension website address has changed -- it's
BetterSearch.zottmann.org now.
- ADD: Re-added ThumbShots.org attribution since
img.bettersearch.zottmann.org is using them again, and credit is
due. ;) Attribution (text snippet) is pulled from the extension
website at each browser start to allow me to act fast in case I
need to switch thumbnail providers (server-side), which might
require new/changed attribution. Should the need arise, I will
be able to adjust the attribution text without distributing a
new extension version. The attribution is pulled from
http://bettersearch.zottmann.org/ext_attribution/attribution.txt
and sanitized after loading (stripping out possible script code).
- FIX: Code cleanups to get rid of the mess that was caused in the
"chaos" that ensued after webshotspro.com blacklisted us.
- CHG: Some locale string names have been changed, nothing major, tho.
- CHG: Small changes to sk-SK localization (thanks to Spikee over at
babelzilla.org!)
1.15
- FIX: it-IT locale fixed... most likely... again... I hope. :P
1.14
Preface: This is a rushed release to make quick changes so the
extension remains in a working state. Expect a new release soon.
- CHG: WebShotsPro.com not used anymore. Apparently, BetterSearch
blew their servers away. (Sorry about that.) In the future,
all images will be requested through img.bettersearch.g-blog.net
so I have more control which services are used and will be able
to react faster to stuff like that.
- CHG: Removed ThumbShots.org/WebShotsPro.com attribution.
- FIX: Fixed XML errors in it-IT configurations (hopefully).
1.13
- ADD: Support for Google personalized search.
- ADD: Localization Slovak (thanks to Spikee over at babelzilla.org!).
- ADD: Added visible thumbnail service attribution to the bottom end
of each search result page.
- CHG: Removed all Alexa.com thumbnails and the related anonymization
feature. Now using webshotspro.com thumbnails instead.
1.12
- ADD: Localization Traditional Chinese.
- FIX: Localization Portuguese (Brazilian) wasn't referenced and thus
not accessible.
1.11
- ADD: Localization Portuguese (Brazilian).
- FIX: Amazon links on del.icio.us were rendered unusable, fixed.
- FIX: Less redundant Yahoo! processing.
- FIX: Less redundant Google processing.
- FIX: Layout fixes for Yahoo!.
1.10, 2006-03-12
- ADD: Anonymization proxy can be changed via about:config now
(extensions.bettersearch.prefixAnonProxy).
- ADD: Support for ask.com (Ask Jeeves), Clusty.com, Vivisimo.com.
- CHG: Default anonymization proxy (for Alexa requests) is ProxyKing.net
now, instead of Anonymizing.net.
- CHG: Fixed Alexa thumbnail problems (thanks to Dr. Sal for the help!).
- Major code rewrites, resulting in speed improvements. w00t!
1.9, 2005-08-28
- ADD: Localization. Initial set: English, Italian, German, French,
Catalan, Spanish.
- ADD: Dogpile.com support.
- CHG: Better Amazon ASIN recognition, so more reliable Amazon product
detail display.
- CHG: Major code cleanups.
- CHG: Better, cleaner thumbnail placement. The dreaded "results jumping
due to thumbnail placing", umm, feature is gone, too.
- CHG: Due to localization issues, the "Archive" link is not an icon
anymore, but a styled text link.
- BUG: AllTheWeb support was broken, fixed.
- BUG: Processing was sometimes triggered on non-search pages @ Yahoo!,
Google, MSN and AllTheWeb. Fixed.
1.8.7, 2005-07-10
- ADD: Yahoo! My Web 2.0 support.
- CHG: New statusbar icon.
- BUG: Yahoo! support was broken in general, fixed.
- BUG: A9 support was broken, fixed.
1.8.6, 2005-07-02
- BUG: del.icio.us support was broken, fixed.
1.8.5, 2005-05-23
- WTF: The AVG antivirus package is reporting helper.URL.js for being a
"hidden extension .js" file, just because of the name. So I had to
change the filenames because they don't care whether the file is
harmful or not (it isn't). Thank you, Grisoft, for making my day.
1.8.4, 2005-05-15
- BUG: Simpy.com support was broken, fixed
1.8.3, 2005-05-05
- BUG: gmail.google.com was processed but wasn't supposed to. Fixed.
1.8.2, 2005-04-28
- BUG: This re-appearing statusbar icon is ticking me off, really. Fixed.
I hope.
1.8.1, 2005-04-24
- ADD: Statusbar icon (not the "BS" letters anymore). Yes, it's ugly. :P
- BUG: The statusbar icon was popping up again at every Firefox start
even if it was set to "off". Fixed.
1.8.0, 2005-04-19
- ADD: Background tabs and windows are processed now, too.
- ADD: New option - bigger icons.
- ADD: Answers.com search (web results) is supported now.
- ADD: The excellent A9.com book search is supported now.
- CHG: Icons aren't pulled from my server anymore; they're part of the
extension now. Why I didn't do this earlier, I don't know. :P
- CHG: Huge amount of code rewrites to speed things up.
- BUG: Sometimes problems with RTL fonts, should be fixed.
- BUG: MSN Search was broken after MSN relaunched. Fixed.
- BUG: A9's OpenSearch caused layout problems. Fixed. Thumbnails are now
shown for original A9 search results only.
- BUG: The new del.icio.us layout (del.icio.us/new/Carlo) was screwed up.
Fixed.
- BUG: Sometimes, the URL normalization routine failed on Yahoo. Fixed.
1.7, 2005-01-21
- CHG: Name change from "McSearchPreview" to "BetterSearch".
- CHG: Revamped options dialog.
- ADD: Added support for del.icio.us popular page
- ADD: Quick preview feature.
- ADD: Option to toggle single search engines on/off.
- ADD: Option to limit the number of displayed thumbnails.
- BUG: The original Yahoo New Window icon wasn't always disabled
- BUG: del.icio.us layout was sometimes messed up
- BUG: Wrong URL for Amazon.fr product images, hence they didn't show
- BUG: Some international Yahoo sites didn't show correct thumbnails
- BUG: If changes were made in the options dialog, the current page
would reload, even if it wasn't a search engine page. Fixed.
- BUG: Amazon product details were sometimes messed up (error 500
instead of details shown). Fixed.
- BUG: del.icio.us tag columns (right-hand side of the screen) were
sometimes overlaying eachother. Fixed.
1.6
general:
- Added: Show product info for Amazon results.
- Added: Link to Wayback Machine archive for a site.
- Added: Option to turn of statusbar icon.
- Cleanup: Icons in A9 and Yahoo are better aligned now.
- Bugfix: Site Info links wouldn't be normalized.
1.5
general:
- Added: Option to route Alexa thumbnails through Anonymization.net to
satisfy the paranoid
- Bugfix: Fixed Options window size problems where the options dialog
would consist of the window bar only.
- Cleanups.
1.4.1
general:
- Bugfix: Fixed Google layout glitches
1.4
general:
- Added: "Show as many thumbnails as possible"
- Added: Zooming thumbnails
- Added: Location bar searches ("search firefox"). Rejoice.
- Added: Support for simpy.com
- Change: Options dialog is modal now
- Change: Options dialog now has "Cancel" button
- Change: Nice "New window" & "Site Info" icons (changed colors)
- Change: Position of "Site Info" icon. Removed "Site Info" link label
- Bugfix: "Sponsored Sites" area on MSN search pages isn't garbled
anymore.
- Bugfix: Some del.icio.us-related cleanups
1.3
general:
- Possible fix for the Google prefix problem where thumbnails would only
show thumbnails of the Google frontpage.
- Added del.icio.us support
- Added update RDF file.
1.2
general:
- Added options dialog.
- Switch between Alexa and Thumbshot thumbnails.
- Added "Site Info" links to search results.
- "Open in new window" works for Google now, too. :P
- Removed single click statusbar toggling.
- Added default values for the settings.
- Tweaked the Amazon code to recognize more search results as single
items.
- Tweaked about dialog.
- General bugfixing.
1.1
general:
- Changed the extension to use Alexa.com thumbnails.
- Added thumbnails to Yahoo directory and news searches.
- Added thumbnails to international MSN search engines.
- Added amazon.ca code.
- Added Site Info links to all results.
browserOverlay.js:
- Changed the extension to use Alexa.com thumbnails.
- Fixed getServerName(), it did sometimes throw an error.
- Streamlined amazonify() quite a bit.
- Made getAmazonPath() more failsafe.
- Added amazon.ca code.
- Added buildSiteInfoLink() and related code.
about.xul:
- Added link to the extension homepage.
- Changed thumbnail link to alexa.com
- Added some more detail about the Amazon ID links.
- Added Alexa.com PNG.
browserOverlay.xul
- Cosmetic changes on the tooltip.
1.0
- Initial release.
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