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I’ve updated my bug reporting system (this is the http://thunderbrowse.com/bugreport one). And if you got here thinking Anonymantis has a new version, it doesn’t. It hasn’t had a new version update in 2 years.

I’ve personalized my installation a bit, I’ve added a better status page. And was going to add a place to input your version, but that didn’t work out as well as I thought (Mantis is very picky about this).

The new additions include:

1. Versions affected area
2. Resolutions and version where the fixes appear
3. A much needed notes section, where instead of me having to update the issue over and over, I can just use notes (hooray!)
4. A section for users to add their own notes (html is not allowed, and will be removed)

Hopefully this will make bug reporting even easier, allowing for better communication. Unfortunately, updates will not be sent to your inbox as Mantis can only send emails to registered users. The only real way to get this to work is via cron, which might be too hard on the system.

Please do not file a bug to see the changes. Instead please look at the picture below:

Hooray for no critical bugs! Though 3.2.1.8 did have a bug with LiveJournal (due to it’s silly form handling), I’ve already released a patch on the bug database.

Here’s what’s contained in 3.2.1.9:

1. More FAQ Entries
2. LiveJournal bug fix (POST form encoding)
3. https redirects fixed
4. Control Clicking, which I’ve just finished writing in. It can be changed via the settings window. Control Click will either:

• Load the link normally
• Load the link in a new tab
• Load it in an external browser
• Load it in a popup window

It looks like this:

With the default being load normally.

Now availible on AMO.

Everything has been translated! I will be uploading this to AMO soon!

I’ve also removed the beta 2 post from the blog, as well as the link to the beta 2 installer.

It’s pretty much too late to add any new features to 3.2.1.8, so I want to list out a few things that I want to add in 3.2.1.9, if 3.2.1.8 doesn’t introduce any critical bugs. Here’s the list of some features I want to add:

1. Allow for Control+Left Click or something. It will be user definable with 4 different actions. The command will only work on webpages and emails. Nothing in the rest of the TB interface will respond to this command (or atleast, shouldn’t). The actions planned are: Load in new tab, Load in popup window, Load in External Browser, or Nothing.
2. Some users want to have a Control+T key combo to open a new tab. This will obviously conflict with the newer Thunderbird builds and with Thunderbird in general. Control+ALT+T might be the new tab combo. For users who want this now, you can always install KeyConfig. You would want to use the ThunderTabBrowser.addTab(); function (though if you don’t pass any args, you get a blank tab [this was changed in 3.2.1.8]).
3. Sooner or later, I would like to redo the settings window. A lot of the code for it is really old, messy and dirty. Some reorganization would be awesome. This also brings the downside of being translated. If an option has been translated once, and then the string is changed in the en-US pack, it messes up everyone’s translation.

Personally, I really don’t think I need to add a ton more to ThunderBrowse, it’s got a lot of features already, and while it doesn’t do a lot of things (plugins [unless you use TB 3], checkboxes, file uploads, onsubmit, printing, yada yada) it still gets the job done.

Though I have noticed support requests are starting to get more frequent, mainly for a “Stop asking on Visit in Browser”. I’ve added something about it to the FAQ now.

Edit: I changed the combo to Ctrl+Alt+T as Ctrl+Shift activates my 3D Desktop window.