April 10th, 2008Features:
· Auto-discovery of feeds when browsing web sites inside Snarfer.
· Improved discovery of feed icons for display in the folder tree.
· Ability to open new tabs in the background.
· Create watch folders or search for items by tag, title, and author.
· Sort messages in aggregated folder views.
· Detect duplicate message across multiple feed sources.
· Mini toolbar in message view for quick access to right-click functions.
· Open a new empty browser window from the tab right-click menu.
· Easily start Google searches with the new Google Search plugin.
Technical Improvements:
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Bug Fixes:
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August 24th, 2007· Numerous features including HPPTS, Outbrain ratings system, and Pageflakes support. Bug Fixes.
July 20th, 2006· Added a plugin that monitors search results on Ebay.
· Added a plugin for searching craigslist across multiple cities.
· Added a plugin for emailing articles to a friend.
· The OPML export plugin now allows you to email the feeds you have just exported.
· Added a search toolbar for easy access to any of the installed search plugins.
· The database has been improved to make it more resistant to damage that might result from a system crash.
· The database will also now detect when the system has not been shutdown safely and will attempt to repair any errors.
Minor Features:
· It is now possible to setup default values for the refresh interval and the number of messages kept for a feed.
· Feeds can now also be setup to refresh manually (by selecting "Refresh" from their right click menu, or "Refresh All" from the root folder).
· You can now specify that the old messages in a feeds should never be kept (the feed will only show messages that are currently listed on the server).
· Added a right click menu to the message view window for easy access to the main message functions including the new Email option.
· Added support for Forward and Back mouse buttons.
Technical Improvements:
· New improved duplicate detection algorithm for feeds.
· Added support for CSS style attributes in the HTML parser.
· Added support for backquote attribute quoting in the HTML parser.
· Added emulation of the ABBR element to the HTML parser.
· Added Bloglines Search to the list of search engines supported by the Web Search plugin.
· Results from a Web Search can now be deleted with less chance of them returning again later.
· When importing or exporting OPML files a .opml extension is now automatically added to filenames if missing.
· The XML parser is now better at recovering from unescaped ampersands.
Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a bug that could cause problems with certain type of flash objects when viewing web pages internally.
· Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented javascript links from working when viewing web pages internally.
· Fixed a bug that could cause other links to open internally when the options specified that only the Original Article should be.
· Certain types of HTML tags were being incorrectly parsed when they contained no content.
· Not all forms of scripting were being filtered out by the HTML parser.
· Marking all items as read failed to reset the "unread items" flag in the system tray.
· If Windows was shutdown while Snarfer was still running it was possible that it would not have been closed correctly.
· If Windows took to long to start up it was possible that Snarfer would not appear in the system tray even though it was running.
· Fixed a bug in the Local Search plugin that could crash if the search window was closed while it was still searching.
· Certain characters may not have worked correctly if used in a query in the Web Search plugin.