I am doing a Senior Project for school, and ThunderBrowse is my Senior Project, starting with 3.2.3. I’ve been keeping 3.2.3 somewhat of a secret for quite some time up until now. Now I think it’s time to let you people know what’s going on.
- Better Protocol Handling – ThunderBrowse will now recognize unknown protocols (like chat:, skype:, call:, etc) and will ask what you want to do with them. ThunderBrowse also loads pages a tad faster now (and you thought that wasn’t possible, right?).
- Shortcuts are fixed up – Not as much as I would like (man, JSON would be so nice), but you no longer have to have a ^ to pass variables
- Dynamic Drive Launching – Portable users will love this one. Dynamic Drive Launching allows the path to a custom browser to be somewhat dynamic. By substituting %Drive% for a drive letter, ThunderBrowse will use the relevant drive letter and launch from that
- User data is now easily editable (TB3 only) – You can now edit Shortcuts and Bookmarks without having to delete them and re-add them.
- Plugins Support (TB3 only) - ThunderBrowse 3.2.3 has a SmartPlugins system that works a lot like SmartJavaScript. Enjoy that one!
- Respect Image Policies – This can now be toggled.
- Added a hotkey for a new tab – Control B will open up a new tab (this can be changed via keyconfig)
- Less confusing names – I’ve renamed a lot of strings that were causing loads of confusion.
- New Settings Window – I’m really happy about this one (maybe it’s because it was the first thing I got done). The new settings window is way more organized than the old one. It even has tooltip descriptions for important settings. I’ll show some pictures of it when I run my tests.
- Less Bloat – ThunderBrowse has accumulated a lot of bloat. The new version removes quite a bit of it. Command Line Installs have been removed (install TBExtInt if you want that back [but seriously, it really shouldn't bother anyone]) and the FAQ is now online.
- History Dropdowns – The Back Button Dropdown menu now updates history instead of ignoring it.
- Official Support for TB3b1 – We’ll now officially support TB3.0b1 (AMO just bumped our supported version number). Yay.
- No More SpiceBird support – Yeah, SpiceBird isn’t ready for ThunderBrowse. SpiceBird can’t share functions between files.
So that’s what 3.2.3 is so far. A few things haven’t been completely finished yet. And a few more bug fixes and improvements are planned for 3.2.3.
I’m also planning on fixing bug 67. If I do, we’ll be breaking a lot of other extensions. Yet by fixing bug 67, we’ll also fix bugs 145 and 94. So we’re at a crossroads.
Stay tuned for a beta.
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