Archive for July, 2008

TB Properties 0.6

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I’ve uploaded TB Properties 0.6 to AMO. The new version has a couple of new locales. To be specific: Dutch, Hebrew, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish (Spain) are all added to the extension.

Thanks to:

raryelcsouza – pt-BR
jerone – nl-NL
MRO Team – ru-RU
chuzo – es-ES
(I have no idea who did Hebrew)

Viruses

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Some real nice people are sending me viruses through general@thunderbrowse.com. No need to worry though, since I got several anti-virus systems set up.

But it’s starting to get annoying. I got 3 virus emails just yesterday. If you are sending viruses to me, or added my email to some spammer list, please stop (it’s probably a bot anyways).

3.2.1.8 Beta 1

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Here’s the first beta being offered of ThunderBrowse.

Before you install, please read the beta notice completely. Understand any risks you may be taking, and how I’m not responsible if your computer blows up.

Please, send feedback to beta@thunderbrowse.com, you will be helping the several thousands who use ThunderBrowse.

Now, with that out of the way, let’s get exploring! 3.2.1.8′s beta can be downloaded here:

Get the 3.2.1.8 beta 1!!!!

The beta versions should update when the final release comes out. Though I can’t guarantee that it will.

I can has Beta?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Yes, it’s been like 6 months since I’ve offered a version to the public before it actually released. Betas are great because it makes it easier on me (and difficult at the same time).

I might start making this a regular process, provided some terms are understood here:

  1. I am not responsible if something bad happens or any epic problem you suddenly get. Proceed at your own risk.
  2. These versions are beta, and don’t reflect the final version, features announced in the next version may or may not appear in the beta.
  3. Beta versions SHOULD NOT appear on ANY other site OTHER THAN thunderbrowse.com
  4. Don’t complain that a fix you wanted isn’t in this version. Sorry, I’m not god. You’ll have to wait (or I might not want to fix it)
  5. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE email me about what you think of these versions. Email me about bugs you may find that are not in the current public version but are in the beta version. This saves everyone time and gets the new version out faster. Email me if you find everything is just fine, too.
  6. Some languages are not available in beta versions. It’s not my fault if your language is one of them. I try my best to get as many as possible before I go with a beta
  7. SEND FEEDBACK to beta@thunderbrowse.com

Thank you for testing the new versions of ThunderBrowse. You can keep track on new betas by going here:

http://www.thunderbrowse.com/thunderblog/category/beta/

And its RSS feed here:

http://www.thunderbrowse.com/thunderblog/category/beta/feed/

The first beta available is 3.2.1.8, check for the next post.

The status of 3.2.1.8

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Well, I’ve been working on it while it’s being translated. I can tell you that currently, this version should have been bumped up a few version numbers. It has a bunch of bug fixes and security patches.

Here’s what has been added to 3.2.1.8 since my last post:

  1. Better https checking (before, we checked if the url just had https and highlighted it). This new one actually checks the security of the website and cert. It also recognizes EV Certs (however, you need a security package installed to recognize EV Certs).
  2. tbinitbar.js has been rewritten (it’s a bit cleaner)
  3. A few dev functions have been changed (however, I’ve made sure to support the older ones, too)
  4. The bookmarks js file has been reorganized
  5. Fixed a very old bug where if the user had turned off title changing; meta checking, favicons, and url checking would all fail.
  6. You can rightclick on the website field of an RSS Feed entry and choose to open it in the browser (this option checks [will load in new tab, popup window, or external browser]). You can see the image at the bottom of this post.
  7. Some much needed reorganization

Also included is better XPI Checking, which was a needed feature. Before, checks were done via a match using a faulty string (you can’t check “.xpi”). So what happened was if a url contained .xpi, it failed and may start an installation (the user would still have to accept it). This was wrong. The new one checks file extensions correctly and does a much better job.

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