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Notice: This post was written waaaaaay back in August.

So during the downtime between hosts, I did a couple of modifications to ThunderBrowse to improve it and add some new stuff. And because everything is better in list form, here you go:

• Improvements in favicon handling
• Fixed the invalid host name error
• Added tab browsing support to the popup window
• Improved page loading code
• Improved event handling
• Fixed issues with links not capturing in events
• Fixed chrome content issues
• Popups now load into tabs (this is highly experimental [to tell you the truth, this was the by product of improving the loading code]). This might not always work, and I don’t plan on making popups permanently load in tabs.
• General improvements
• Fixed email bar problems
• Updated compatibility support. Postbox 2 now works.

I’ve just uploaded this version to AMO and I predict it will be approved soon. From here on out, expect sparse updates for ThunderBrowse, for reasons I mentioned in my last post.

I have just uploaded version 3.3.2 to AMO.

In addition to the things I mentioned in my last post, this next version has:

• New throbber/progress meter code
• Fixes in tab registration to make it faster and more precise
• Fixed issue that caused event handlers to unhook incorrectly.
• Fixed some plugin issues. This may or may not reset your plugin settings. This should fix most of your plugin issues.

A note on the plugin fix: Because plugins have to initialize, they are loaded before a page starts to load. In order to maintain security, any page that was loaded from an email does not have plugins enabled. Pages from there on will have plugins enabled.

Do note, plugins that are in use will increase memory use. There is no way to get around that. However, memory usage should drop a bit when you close those tabs.