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The original preferences toolbar was designed to give the user more control over the pages viewed, and to allow the power browser to use mozilla with greater ease and efficiency than ever before. The PrefBar 6 takes this concept to a whole new level; along with the standard preference checkboxes, the new version includes utility buttons, user agent spoofing, web links, and more, served on a fully customizable toolbar with a side of white rice. It's even possible to use PrefBar to create "macro buttons" to run nearly any code you want..
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What's New
PrefBar 6.1 waiting for review...
PrefBar 6.1 currently is waiting for review on addons.mozilla.org. The biggest new feature is the built-in Japanese translation. Thank you to Norah Marinkovic for translating PrefBar to Japanese! There are a few smaller changes, too. For a full list, please have a look at the Changelog.
New button "Locale Switch Menulist", updated "Online Checkbox"
On the "More buttons" page, you'll find a new button called "Locale Switch Menulist". This is a very useful tool for addon developers, who want to test their addon in a different language, easily. Also have a look at the button description for more info.
Thanks to Norah for sharing!
The "Online Checkbox" was updated to work in current PrefBar releases. The new version properly updates, if the online status changes, and not longer throws errors on error console.
New button set "Addon Developer Buttons"
This set of buttons contains 5 buttons, useful for addon development. It contains checkboxes for a few pref toggles, useful for developers, and a button, which reloads the current browser window, including all overlays, without needing to restart the full browser process!
Thanks to Norah for sharing!
[2012-01-26] Update: Norah sent me a new version of his button set. Now it includes 8 buttons for addon development. Please have a look at the button description for details.
New buttons "Clear Domain Cookies" and "Tab Focus Checkbox".
Two new buttons are available in the button database.
"Clear Domain Cookies" clears all cookies belonging to the domain of the currently active browser tab.
The Tab Focus Checkbox toggles if new tabs should be loaded in foreground or background.
New buttons "Expire History Button" and "Permissions Menu".
Two new buttons are available in the button database.
The Expire History Button allows the user to expire and delete entries from the browser history older than a specified number of days. Thanks to David E. Ross for sharing his work.
The Permissions Menu gives quick access to the page permission dialogs for popups, images, installation and cookies (and restores access to those on SeaMonkey).
New Button "Cookie Behavior Menulist", "Server Info Button" updated
A new PrefBar button is available, which allowes you to have finer control on how cookies are accepted. The Cookie Behavior Menulist. Thanks to David E. Ross for sharing his work.
You may also find a updated Server Info Button, which has been fixed to work with hotkeys, which caused some problems (error messages in error console) in previous versions.
Please note, that both buttons require you to have PrefBar 6.0.1 installed, as the new button format can't be imported by older PrefBar releases!
PrefBar 6.0.1 waiting for review
Exactly 20 days ago, I wrote, that PrefBar 6.0 will be available, soon.
Unfortunately PrefBar 6.0 had a unicode problem. The prefbar.json file was saved without unicode characters, which would cause problems for anyone who wants to use such characters anywhere in buttons.
Second problem is, that I got no review for PrefBar 6.0 at AMO. One smaller modification was needed, which is a whitelist for hosts, allowed to use the "prefbar://" protocol. SeaMonkey/Firefox also have such whitelists for XPI installation and as button files have the same privileges as real addons, it is a good idea to make importing buttons as secure as installing addons.
PrefBar 6.0.1 has been sent to the AMO reviewers today and I hope to get review soon. If this works this time, then you'll get automatic update to 6.0.1, soon. I hope all the bigger bugs are fixed in 6.0.1, now.
PrefBar 6.0 is on its way
Some minutes ago, I've uploaded PrefBar 6.0 in its final version to addons.mozilla.org. It now will take some time until it gets reviewed by the mozilla team.
Most important changes: Support for SeaMonkey 2.2 and higher and complete port away from RDF as datasource format. Mozilla also started to reduce their usage of RDF in Firefox, so this format has no future. In the past, RDF caused more workarounds than it actually did what it should, so this change also improves code quality a lot.
Full changelog, as always, in the online help system.
PrefBar 6.0 RC2 available.
Some bugs have been reported to me (thank you very much to the reporters!), so I'll create a second RC to allow interested people to test the current status with all bugs, I got reported, fixed.
You may get PrefBar 6.0 RC2 from here
PrefBar 6.0 RC1 available. Move to tuxfamily.org.
Most important news first: PrefBar 6.0 RC1 is ready for testing. Maybe someone wants to help me with fixing last bugs before this one gets final?
Download from here
Next, I want to write a few sentences about the move of PrefBar to tuxfamily.org. So far I didn't write anything about this. Main reason is, that I've found a security hole on mozdev.org about three years ago. It took me much time and many mails until finally someone even tried to resolve this issue. As a word of "thank you" they finally disabled PHP for the PrefBar project without asking me first, which actually destroyed the layout of the PrefBar homepage. I already started creating a new hosting on tuxfamily.org, as they offer more services and have a more secure hosting platform. The disabling of PHP forced me to move over to the new homepage as soon as possible.
Some new buttons on "More buttons" page
I've uploaded six new buttons to the "More buttons" page. Please have a look and import what you like.
"Bookmarkmanager Button" download fixed, new version of "Print Menu"
With my last update of Bookmarkmanager Button, I missed to upload the new button file. If you are interested in an updated button, please try again, now.
As someone asked me to also update "Print Menu", to work with Firefox 4.x beta versions, you may now find a new version of this button here: Print Menu
Bookmarkmanager Button updated for FF 4.x beta
I just released a modified version of the Bookmarkmanager Button, which should work with current Firefox 4 beta versions. I don't give support for Firefox beta versions, but I thought someone may be interested in the update. You may get the button here: Bookmarkmanager Button
PrefBar 5.1.1 available
I have uploaded PrefBar 5.1.1 to addons.mozilla.org, which will be available for download in a few days. This is primary a bugfix release. For a detailed list of changes, please have a look at the changelog.
New version of "Infolist Button". New button "Geolocation Checkbox"
Two changes have been made on the More button page:
- Infolist Button updated: The new version of this button now supports current nightly versions, which use a new addon manager. I also removed old SeaMonkey 1.x support code in this new version.
- Geolocation Checkbox added: This checkbox allowes to disable the geolocation feature, built into current browsers, completely. Most people won't need this, as this feature is always "opt-in", means SeaMonkey/Firefox asks you for every domain, if you want to make this page know your (mostly very inaccurate) position.
PrefBar 5.1 available, PrefBar now on addons.mozilla.org
Yesterday, PrefBar got reviewed by the Mozilla reviewers, so from now on, you'll find new versions here: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/67148/.
Some of the new features, added with PrefBar 5.1, are:
- New feature "Copy button" (right click on a button in PrefBar customize window and choose "Copy". This makes it easier to create own versions of built-in buttons.
- PrefBar menu now is a toolbar button, which may be placed to anywhere, you like (using browser built-in toolbar customize feature).
- Clearall button has been modified to contain some more options to clear stuff. They are all commented out in the button "onClick" code. To enable them, use the new "Copy button" feature, to create your own copy, then doubleclick the copy to edit, switch to "onClick" tab and uncomment as desired.
The new release also contains many bug fixes. For a full list of changes, have a look at the changelog
Bugfix release PrefBar 5.0.2
I've published PrefBar 5.0.2 as second (and hopefully last) bugfix release for PrefBar 5.0.
This primarly fixes bugs that only exist on the Mac OS 10 platform. As I don't have a Mac and so can't debug such stuff on my own, I depend on feedback of Mac users, in such cases. Thanks to anyone who helped me with fixing those bugs. Especially Arivald, who guided me into the right direction, when debugging the prefwindow issue, and Bob for helping me with testing my trunk builds.
Bugfix release PrefBar 5.0.1
I've published a bugfix release, fixing this bug: Bug 22344
PrefBar 5.0 ready!
After many hours of development, PrefBar 5.0 is finally ready for the end user.
The biggest change is, that I've dropped SeaMonkey 1.x support. This allowed to delete many old lines of code and, on the other side, finally allowes me to use some new features of SeaMonkey 2.x and Firefox 3.x, I didn't use, so far, as they would have broken SeaMonkey 1.x support:
- Separated Toolbar and Toolbar items. Made toolbar customizable and added toolbar items to toolbar palette. This change allowes you to move PrefBar's buttons around to any toolbar, you like, using the browser built-in "customize toolbar" feature.
- Dropped PrefBar's built in "OSD message" support. Now, if you toggle a checkbox using a defined hotkey, the browser built in notification bar will notify the change to you.
- Dropped the built in "rename based" Flash toggle stuff. Only the better Flash toggle code, based on the built in plugin manager, is left. For SeaMonkey 1.x users: Be sure to enable Flash before upgrading to SeaMonkey 2.x with PrefBar 5.0. PrefBar 5.0 is not longer able to reenable a Flash plugin, which has been disabled in SeaMonkey 1.x.
For a full list of changes, please have a look at the changelog
Would be nice to get some feedback about what you think about the new features. If you still find bugs in this version, please file a bug or send a short bug report. Contact address: manuel.reimer@gmx.de
Atom Feed available
SeaMonkey 2.0 came with a pretty nice feed reader, built into the Mail/News component, which I found to be pretty useful.
To also support feed readers, I added an Atom feed to the PrefBar homepage.
To subscribe to the Newsfeed, you just have to click the orange button on the right in your address bar and follow the instructions.
PrefBar 5.0 RC1 available
I've uploaded another "test version" for the upcoming PrefBar 5.0 release. It would be great, if as much people, as possible, could give this a try, so bugs, I didn't find, so far, can be fixed. Nearly any code line has been touched in the way from PrefBar 4.3.2 to this release, so there unfortunately is a good chance, something got broken in this process. If noone finds any bugs, a final version will be published next week.
The new test version is available here.
InfoList button updated
A new InfoList button is available, which makes the button work on the current SeaMonkey trunk.
Preview version for future PrefBar 5.0 ready to download!
Now, as SeaMonkey 1.x is not longer supported by the SeaMonkey team, I decided to drop SeaMonkey 1.x support. This also means, I'm finally able to use all those nice new features, built into SeaMonkey 2.x and Firefox 3.x, I was unable to use, so far, as using those features would have broken SeaMonkey 1.x support.
The most important change is, that I've separated PrefBar in a customizable toolbar, which is displayed as usual and can be toggled using F8 (or the hotkey, you defined for this) and a "toolbaritem", which holds PrefBar's buttons. This separation allowes you to move the PrefBar buttons to any place on any toolbar on SeaMonkey/Firefox, using the built-in toolbar customize mechanism. It also allowes you to place foreign buttons, or Buttons, which come with SeaMonkey/Firefox itself, onto the PrefBar toolbar (and hide/show those buttons, together with PrefBar itself, using the F8 hotkey).
Another bigger change is the redesign of the PrefBar preference system, you use to edit the toolbar. In Firefox, it now has a more "Firefox like" design.
Please only use this alpha release on non-productive environments and please send me feedback about what you think about this release and about any bug you find. You may do this via Mail (manuel.reimer@gmx.de) or (even better) using our Newsgroup
Bugfix-Release PrefBar 4.3.2 available
This release fixes a small bug in the Java checkbox, which caused the checkbox to fail, if the "Java Deployment Toolkit" plugin is installed.
If anything works well, this release has been notified to you by the Addon manager of SeaMonkey/Firefox. I hope this works...
Bugfix-Release PrefBar 4.3.1 available
This release is just a bugfix release, mostly for fixing several SeaMonkey 2.x related bugs. I've also enabled "automatic update" using the built-in addon-manager for this release, based on the file management mechanism, provided by mozdev.org. I didn't try it, but hopefully the next release will be notified to you by SeaMonkey/Firefox.
For a complete list of all bugs, fixed in this release, please have a look at the Changelog
PrefBar 4.3 ready, two buttons updated
PrefBar 4.3 is available, now. The biggest change in this release is the cleaned up configuration dialog. Based on the idea "less is more", I dropped all the buttons between the lists and placed them to a context menu. Drag&drop now is the only way to move the items around. Deleting items is done via context menu or via "Del" key and editing is done via doubleclick or via context menu, again.
You may have a look at the Changelog for a more detailled list of changes.
Another big change is, that PrefBar now officially works on SeaMonkey 2.0. It worked in the past, too, and a few people already used it there, but now I'm officially supporting SM 2.0, while I'll now start to fade out SeaMonkey 1.x support.
I've also uploaded new versions of two buttons. The Infolist button, which had to be updated to support the addon manager, now available in SeaMonkey 2.0 (this also makes this button work in Firefox) and the Bookmarkmanager button which needed a small fix to be able to open the bookmark manager in SeaMonkey 2.0.
New version of Referer Spoof Menulist
As Referer Spoof Menulist got broken by a change, I had to do, to get PrefBar to work in Firefox 3.5, I uploaded a new version of this button. The new version is available here.
PrefBar 4.2 available
PrefBar 4.2 is available, now. Most important changes:
- It's possible to add SOCKS proxies to the Proxylist
- PrefBar 4.2 works with Firefox 3.5
You may have a look at the Changelog for more info.
Several new buttons uploaded
I've uploaded three new buttons, I've been working on. Please check them and tell me, if you have any problems.
- Page2Image Button
This is next version of the old "Page2Jpeg" Button. It'll also save your currently visible page to one big image file, but lets you choose between JPEG and PNG for the output format. - New Windows Checkbox
This, most probably, is the most important new button. Anything, it does, is to allow you to choose where to open new links, by disabling nearly all ways, a webmaster can use to cause your browser to open new windows. - eBayNegs Button
If you have a eBay article page open in your current tab, then this button quickly opens a list of all neutral and negative feedbacks of the eBay member, selling this article.
To view older news, have a look at the news archive
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