Archive for August, 2009

I am placing Googlebar Lite 4.7.2 on the fast track for development. Product search will be returning to the extension, as will a new finance search option. Code cleanup will be put on hold until 4.7.3 or later. This fast track update has already been sent to the translators, so with any luck, expect (yet) another release in a week or two.

A new release of CoLT has just been posted. This release removes a stray log message that shouldn’t have been there, and cleans up the JavaScript code considerably. If you spot a problem in the new release, let me know!

I accidentally blew away the .htaccess file used here at Born Geek. If you spot any links or pages that don’t resolve properly, please let me know.

I have a few upcoming projects in the works that I hope to make public before too much longer. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in the pipeline:

Paper Plus 9.40

The next release of my wallpaper changing application is nearly complete. Support for PNG images is coming, as is improved list manipulation. There are bug fixes galore, and general improvements in the way things are handled. I’m looking forward to releasing this, so I can at long last use it on my laptop (I’ve been missing some of the new features that have been implemented).

CoLT 2.4.5

The next release of CoLT won’t add any new features, but it will no longer pollute the global JavaScript namespace, a problem that been around for far too long now. One minor bug fix is also going into the new release, and I may add the rich text HTML option to the default custom formats (for new users).

Googlebar Lite 4.7.2

Although this is still a long way off, a new release is already in the planning phase. Google Product search support will return (based on popular demand), and I also hope to clean up the JavaScript namespace pollution problem. What else would you like to see? Leave your comments here to let me know!

It’s my hope to release the new CoLT build this weekend. Following that, the new build of Paper Plus is on the order of two or three weeks away (I’ve still got to rewrite the documentation and do last minute cleanup). Googlebar Lite’s new release is a month or more away (cleaning up the extension’s namespace pollution is going to take a lot of work).

A new version of Googlebar Lite has just been posted. Changes in this release include:

• Support has been added for Google’s new Caffeine search engine, via a hidden preference (set googlebar_lite.use_sandbox to true in about:config). Note that this option currently only works with web searches and not specialized searches (images, groups, etc.).
• Bug Fix: Drag and drop did not work properly in Firefox 3.5.x
• Bug Fix: The Up button menu now provides the full range of options for https URLs
• Bug Fix: Highlighted search terms should no longer cause unwanted line breaks or font-size changes on certain sites

I have fixed a number of broken links in Chapter 3 of the Firefox Toolbar Tutorial. Many thanks to Jens for pointing them out. If you happen to spot any more broken links anywhere around the site, please let me know.

So that everyone is aware, the drag and drop functionality in Googlebar Lite is known to be broken in Firefox 3.5. It turns out that the event the toolbar should be listening to has changed names, which will require an update to the extension. I will be putting out a new release in the next day or so to fix this issue. If you see any other problems, please let me know ASAP so I can put the fixes in.