What's new in BetterPrivacy 1.77
Feb 3, 2017
- added: Ukrainian localization (thanks to Artem)
- fixed: Better Privacy resets flash activation setting when opening a new Firefox window
- fixed: console error message
New in BetterPrivacy 1.76 (Feb 3, 2017)
- fixed issues with Firefox history and related buttons
- fixed issue where BetterPrivacy disables Flash, if add-on is disabled
New in BetterPrivacy 1.75 (Feb 3, 2017)
- checked and approved for e10 compatibility
- fixed plug-in state format
New in BetterPrivacy 1.69 (Feb 3, 2017)
- fixed: Compatibality with Firefox 42+
- removed: Some obsolete code
New in BetterPrivacy 1.68 (May 28, 2012)
- fixed: BetterPrivacy timer restores Firefox from minimized state or sets focus to Firefox window
- fixed: BetterPrivacy edit protection list function removes exclusions
- fixed: BetterPrivacy supporting FF versions >= 10
New in BetterPrivacy 1.67 (Aug 20, 2011)
- fixed: BetterPrivacy might freeze Firefox on Linux Ubuntu OS
- fixed: BetterPrivacy ignores time range if removing usual cookies
- fixed: Incompatibility with some add-ons and probably other reported issues that could not be confirmed in tests
New in BetterPrivacy 1.66 (Aug 20, 2011)
- fixed: BetterPrivacy might freeze Firefox on quit or restart
- fixed: If editing protected paths with auto-escaping disabled, BetterPrivacy still escapes on FF start
- fixed: Danish locale (da)
New in BetterPrivacy 1.65 (Jul 29, 2011)
- fixed compatibility issue with old Firefox 3.x (display of options window)
- fixed SeaMonkey issue (BetterPrivacy ignored quit by click on right-upper X)
New in BetterPrivacy 1.64 (Jul 29, 2011)
- improved: Changing the option to toggle handling of LSO's no longer requires Firefox restart
New in BetterPrivacy 1.63 (Jul 29, 2011)
- added option to prevent the Firefox 'Clear Recent History' function from handling LSO's as usual cookies, activated by default
- added user notification page about this update and important changes in Firefox and BetterPrivacy
- updated help and FAQ
New in BetterPrivacy 1.62 (Jul 29, 2011)
- added option to disable automatic metachar escaping in BP protection list editor
New in BetterPrivacy 1.61 (Jul 29, 2011)
New in BetterPrivacy 1.60 (Jul 29, 2011)
- added option to change protected subfolder auto-protection
- added option to the confirmation popup related to the 'Remove all'-button: Now asks if protected folder information should be removed too
- added function to toggle protection status by double-click in the LSO manager table
- modified: Options now are instantantly applied if switching between options and LSO manager tabs
- modified: Paths for protected folders now are stored with Regular Expressions syntax (BP tries to convert existing paths properly)
- modified: A random folder name in any newly added protection path is replaced by always matching RegEx
- fixed: BP could forget ping-tracking setting
- updated: FAQ in help file
New in BetterPrivacy 1.51 (Jul 29, 2011)
- fixed reported issue where automatic LSO deletion could fail if configured in Firefox privacy options
- namespace and security improvements according to latest Mozilla guidelines
New in BetterPrivacy 1.50 (Apr 14, 2011)
- This is a privacy-related update with critical severity!
- updated LSO footprint and hash-algorithm (LSO detection module)
- added classifier information for settings-/default- and local LSO types
- updated FAQ
New in BetterPrivacy 1.49 (Apr 14, 2011)
- bugfix: Firefox privacy custom setting for LSO removal was not remembered
- removed: for FF >= v.4.0: DOM storage deletion (use clear private data instead
New in BetterPrivacy 1.48.3 (Jul 30, 2010)
- changed namespace for utils to bputils to avoid conflicts
- bugfix: Checking the box Don't ask again on quitting Firefox had no effect
- bugfix: Add LSO item to Firefox history settings had no effect
New in BetterPrivacy 1.48.2 (Jul 30, 2010)
- bugfix: Checking the box Don't ask again on quitting Firefox had no effect
- bugfix: Add LSO item to Firefox history settings had no effect
New in BetterPrivacy 1.48 (Jul 30, 2010)
- Firefox 4.x.pre compatibility
New in BetterPrivacy 1.47.4 (Jul 30, 2010)
- fix for BetterPrivacy 'empty window issue' - caused by new Firefox bug #555613 (duplicate to #550539)
- Thanks to the amazing work of the BabelZilla team I could add the first 10 locales (translations): da-DK, de-DE, es-AR, fr, nl, pt-BR, tr-TR, vi, zh-CN, zh-TW
New in BetterPrivacy 1.47 (Jul 30, 2010)
- fixed issue with FF 3.6 where showing the LSO manager could use 100% CPU
- added german locale
New in BetterPrivacy 1.46 (Jul 30, 2010)
- Fixes an issue on Mac OS where Firefox did not quit correctly (This is Mac OS bug - it thinks an application has exited when the main window is closed what is certainly wrong in some cases)
- Added better SeaMonkey support
- Some GUI improvements
New in BetterPrivacy 1.45 (Nov 7, 2009)
- Just removed a debug line which prevented the addon from being approved.
New in BetterPrivacy 1.44 (Sep 19, 2009)
- minor bugfix: Unchecked DOMStorage setting was not permanently kept
New in BetterPrivacy 1.43 (Sep 4, 2009)
- bugfix: Under certain circumstances BetterPrivacy did not try to delete the DOM storage file
New in BetterPrivacy 1.42 (Sep 4, 2009)
- compatibility with Windows 7 (unicode homedir paths)
- removed option 'disable DOM storage (use delete DOM storage instead)
New in BetterPrivacy 1.41 (Jul 29, 2009)
- Fixed not working options button
New in BetterPrivacy 1.40 (Jul 27, 2009)
- Fixed small bug which prevented to switch LSO status while BP uses relative paths
New in BetterPrivacy 1.39 (Jul 23, 2009)
- minimum compatibility changed to Firefox 3.5
- Option to show LSO item in Firefox 'Clear History' dialog and settings (also note Ask4Sanitize addon)
- BetterPrivacy window is now non-modal
New in BetterPrivacy 1.38 (Jul 5, 2009)
- Added small exit status window
New in BetterPrivacy 1.37 (Jul 5, 2009)
- The addon now gives some feedback when processing background tasks
- Actions applied to LSO-manager do no more require a full directory re-scan
- Added scrollbars to BetterPrivacy's window, should be available if needed (small screen support)
- Added information/tip text line (about resizeable window)
- Optimized the notification which previously could consume too much CPU, even when not activated
- Fixed bug where a directory scan could result in an infinite loop/Firefox hang (symlink directory parsing no. 2)
- Fixed bug where a directory could not be 'un-protected'
New in BetterPrivacy 1.35 (Jul 5, 2009)
- added option to notify if a LSO is stored on harddisk (requested) plus option for notification duration
New in BetterPrivacy 1.34 (Jul 5, 2009)
- added help file (initially shown on installation)
New in BetterPrivacy 1.33 (Jul 5, 2009)
- Fix: Made protection paths relative if 'Always search for folder' option is activated
- Fix: Protected LSO's could have been deleted randomly
- Detected Flash folder always is macromedia now
- Some other code and GUI improvements
New in BetterPrivacy 1.32 (Jul 5, 2009)
- Removed japanese locale
- fixed window resizing problems with some extreme screen resolutions
New in BetterPrivacy 1.31 (Jul 5, 2009)
- Engine almost completely recoded; BP is now a lot smaller
- Made GUI smaller in height, added size in LSO table
- Added one more security check to properly identify LSO's (Hex-footprint)
- Flash application folder path is editable now
- New icons created by Lint Hasenpfeffer (thanks)
- Fix: During a folder scan symbolic links and special objects are ignored
- Removed support for German language due to Umlaute issues
New in BetterPrivacy 1.30 (Jul 5, 2009)
- Added protection list editor to add or remove items to/from the LSO exclusion list
- With the protection list editor it is now possible to define protected subfolders
- Subfolders of protected LSO's now are protected per default (option about:config extensions.bprivacy.autosubfolders)
- removed option to protect single LSO's (site/folder option should be sufficient)
New in BetterPrivacy 1.29 (Apr 16, 2009)
- Solves a namespace conflict with the Grab & Drag addon
New in BetterPrivacy 1.28 (Apr 14, 2009)
- DOM storage file is reset if the option is toggeled, also fixes issues reported by users
New in BetterPrivacy 1.25 (Mar 28, 2009)
- Fixed: Betterprivacy neither asked nor deleted LSO's on exit if Java Quickstarter (part of JAVA) is present
- Added: Betterprivacy checks for valid Flash data folder path and warns if it is invalid
- Added: If delete all LSO's is pressed, the LSO manager asks if protected objects should be excluded.
New in BetterPrivacy 1.24 (Mar 12, 2009)
- Improved LSO Manager: Cookies and Cookiefolders can be configured to be excluded from auto-deletion.
- LSO Manager also shows modification time of cookies
- Cookie counter is cumulative now
- Added auto-deletion on application exit (new default)
- User now is asked if a cookie is about to be deleted (new installations only and can be disabled)
- Improved detection of default cookie
- Converted preferences from objection namespace to BetterPrivacy
- Wrapped some loose variables, code cleanup