What's new in Brief 2.0.0
Jan 14, 2017
- Improvements:
- Completely new look!
- Redesigned interface to make some things easier to find and quicker to use.
- Simplified subscribing to feeds. Just pick Brief as the subscription method instead of manually adding a Live Bookmark to the home folder.
- Organize button that allows you to manage your feeds.
- Today folder, showing today's items from all feeds.
- The choice between headlines view and full view is remembered per-feed.
- An easier way to collapse an expanded item in headlines view.
- Unread folder has been removed. It was unneccesary because All items provides the same if you press the button to show only unread items.
- Option to change the home folder location has been removed.
- Fixed bugs:
- The options window grows in size every time it's opened. It's gonna cover the entire planet unless we stop it.
- Brief doesn't work well with RTL text, especially bi-directional.
- Greek characters handled incorrectly in date labels in headlines view.
New in Brief 1.7.3 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Fixed issues:
- Toolbar button doesn't work well with the new Firefox theme, Australis.
New in Brief 1.7.2 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Fixed issues:
- Changing the name of a feed does not work.
- Sidebar isn't refreshed when reordering feeds.
- Favicon doesn't initially show up when a feed is added.
New in Brief 1.7.1 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Restored the old behaviour of opening link in the background when left-clicking.
- Added Ukrainian localization.
- Brought back Italian and Greek localizations.
- Fixed issuesL
- Impossible to untag items in recent Firefox versions.
New in Brief 1.7.0 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Better descriptions of item dates for recent items (5 minutes ago, 1 hour ago etc.).
- More consistent shortcuts for scrolling and selecting items:
- Space / Shift + Space scroll by screen in headlines view, by entry in full view.
- K / J scroll by entry.
- U / I scroll by screen.
- Option to exclude feed's items from overall unread count (thanks to Moritz Schallaböck for the patch).
- If a single feed has been updated, its name is shown in the sliding notification (thanks to Moritz Schallaböck for the patch).
- Modified items are sorted by their original date, instead of the modification time.
- Relative URLs in feed content get resolved.
- Entries are expired as soon as the option is set, without waiting until a feed is updated.
- Correct plural forms are now used in languages with complex plural forms.
- Tooltips for item buttons.
- Respect Firefox setting regarding smooth scrolling.
- Firefox's preferences for opening links in tabs are respected more accurately.
- Better interaction with tab browsing extensions as far as opening links in new tabs.
- Fixed issues:
- Database can get corrupted in some circumstances, rendering Brief unusable.
- Feed title isn't a link any more in Firefox 17.
- The number of unread items under a tag isn't hidden when there aren't any.
- Brief's icon is too big in the Addons Manager listing.
- Changing feed's address in the feed properties window isn't saved.
- Custom feed CSS style is not saved on Linux.
New in Brief 1.6.4 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Fixed compatibility with Firefox 22.
New in Brief 1.6.1 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Redesigned, more compact headlines view.
- The option to turn off highlighting of the current item has been removed.
- The option to open links in new tabs has been removed, this is now the default behaviour.
- When storing limits are set, old items are expired immediately after a feed is updated.
- Database is periodically compacted in the background. The prompt when emptying Trash has been removed.
- All database operations have been converted the asynchronous API. In plain English this means that Brief is more responsive because the interface isn't blocked while waiting for data to be read or written to disk.
- Improved speed of importing OPML.
- Improved N shortcut (mark all items on the screen as read) not to affect items that are visible only in small part.
- Cleaner list of feeds: number of unread entries displayed in a box on the right, more spacing between folders.
- Fixed issues:
- Updating progress meter isn't displayed when Brief is opened after feed updating has already started.
- The toolbar button tooltip is not refreshed if feeds are updated while it's shown.
- What's New is shown for fresh installations.
- Quickly switching or updating feeds may cause Brief to load items infinitely, making Firefox hang.
New in Brief 1.5.4 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Fixed issues:
- A bug where items from different feeds get mixed up.
- Other:
- Romanian localization added.
- Spanish and Greek localization updated.
New in Brief 1.5.3 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Improvements:
- Add the toolbar button to the Navigation Bar for users who upgrade to Firefox 4.
- Fixed issues:
- Memory leak after closing Brief.
New in Brief 1.5.2 (Jan 14, 2017)
- Fixed issues:
- Clicking on the sliding notification opens Brief in the current tab instead of a new one.
- Feed items sometimes get mixed up between feeds.
- Typo in the options window.
New in Brief 1.2.1 (Jun 28, 2009)
- Fixed bugs:
- Sort direction isn't updated when switching between All and Unread views (when "Sort oldest items first in unread view" turned on).
- Turning on "Don't mark changed items as unread" causes unread items to be marked as read when they're changed.
- Clicking on the statusbar icon when Brief's tab is selected shouldn't close it (as does clicking on the toolbar button).
- Ctrl + click on item title doesn't open it in a new tab.
- OK button in the home folder picker should be disabled if an invalid item is selected.
- Can't type in the search bar in Firefox 3.5.
- New localizations:
- Czech (cs-CZ), Danish (da-DK), French (fr-FR), Italian (it-IT), Russian (ru-RU), Turkish (tr-TR)
New in Brief 1.0.3 (Dec 5, 2007)
- This version fixes a bug causing items not to be expired according to the user's storing preferences
New in Brief 1.0.2 (Nov 24, 2007)
- Fixed a bug in migration from earlier versions, which caused various problems for some users
New in Brief 0.8 (Oct 26, 2007)
- Support for keyboard navigation and other shortcuts - you can press ? to see the list of shortcuts at any time.
- Searchbar now searches for separate words instead of the whole string.
- When newer versions of entries are available (e.g. when blog posts are edited), Brief updates the entries and marks them as unread again.
- Pressing Escape clears the searchbox and ends the search.
- Improve the way the Live Bookmars folder is chosen on the first run, by allowing to select it straight from the sidebar.
- Toolbar button doesn't stay pressed when opening Brief in a new tab.
- Entries are sometimes duplicated when updating feeds.
- Added a hidden preference extensions.brief.database.disableCompacting to disable compacting of the database (for people with extremely large amounts of entries compacting caused Firefox to take ages to shut down).
- Other minor bugfixes.