What's new in SearchPreview for Firefox 13.2
Oct 24, 2022
- This is the last version of SearchPreview, it uninstalls itself after update/install. Farewell.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 13.0 (Sep 16, 2022)
- Removed Popularity Rank feature
- Removed support for Bing and Yahoo (less than 1% usage)
- Fixed: Image placement for right-to-left languages in Google search results
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.25 (Aug 30, 2022)
- Fixed: First preview image in Google search result was sometimes behind text
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.24 (Aug 8, 2022)
- Fixed: Layout issues with Google search results containing images
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.23 (May 6, 2022)
- Fixed: No previews in DuckDuckGo search results
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.22 (Jan 18, 2022)
- Fixed: Stopped working for Google search results (new Google format)
- Changed: Only show a preview image if Google doesn't already have an image for a search result (reduce clutter)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.20 (Sep 15, 2021)
- Fixed: Position of Google search result menu icon and labels
- Fixed: Popularity rank not shown for recipe and video Google search results
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.19 (Aug 12, 2021)
- Fixed: Preview images were inserted on the right hand side for some product search results on Google.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.18 (Jun 25, 2021)
- Fixed: Support for new Google search results page layout.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.17 (Apr 15, 2021)
- Fixed: No preview images shown in Google search results (new format)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.16 (Apr 14, 2021)
- Fixed: Race condition where DOM changed before preferences were available
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.15 (Jan 25, 2021)
- Added onbaording opt-in for Popularity Ranks feature
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.14 (Jan 22, 2021)
- Added support for new Google layout
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.13 (Oct 20, 2020)
- Fixed: Previews missing on some Google searches
- Fixed: Previews not showing on Yahoo searches
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.12 (Sep 22, 2020)
- Fixed:
- No preview image for first result on some Google searches
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.11 (Sep 7, 2020)
- Added: Support for an additional Google layout test
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 12.4 (Nov 22, 2019)
- Added support for new Google search results layout (the one with the favicons)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 11.0 (Apr 18, 2018)
- Removed Related Link / Advertising feature
- Fixed: Some searches on Bing showed three previews per result
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 10.1 (Aug 23, 2017)
- Reduced Firefox minimum version to 55 and reduced amount of logging after successful Legacy to WebExtensions update tests
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 10.0 (Aug 21, 2017)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.10 (Oct 24, 2016)
- Fixed: Popularity ranks and small previews in Question/Answer area of some Google searches
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.9 (Sep 9, 2016)
- Added: Initial support for new experimental Google card layout
- Fixed: Flicker with some DuckDuckGo searches
- Fixed: No preview images shown for pdf results on Google
- Fixed: No popularity ranks for video results on Google
- Fixed: Popularity ranks sometimes not working on Google pages with Question/Answer area
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.8 (Dec 21, 2015)
- Fixed: Preview images only show on first page of Google search results
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.6 (Sep 2, 2015)
- Added: Some related links show sub section site links (where available)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.5 (Aug 21, 2015)
- Fixed: First preview image not shown for some Google searches
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.4 (Jul 23, 2015)
- Fixed preview images not showing (new Google layout)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.3 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Fixed preview images not shown on some Yahoo! variants
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.2 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Changed: Preview images now always requested via HTTPS
- Fixed: Some sponsored link text was over-encoded
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.1 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Added: Support for E10S (multi-process)
- Added: Support for Retina and HighDPI screens (previews have better resolution, where available)
- Fixed: Changed preferences did not apply to open tabs (only to new tabs)
- Bumped version (AMO hash mismatch)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 8.0 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Added: Support for E10S (multi-process)
- Added: Support for Retina and HighDPI screens (previews have better resolution, where available)
- Fixed: Changed preferences did not apply to open tabs (only to new tabs)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 7.1 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Fixed: Preview images not shown for https version of Bing
- Added: Support for new DDG layout (next.duckduckgo.com)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 7.0 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Fixed: Preview images not showing correctly on Yahoo!
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.9 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Fixed: Preview images were shown when the search result already had an image (for example video preview)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.8 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Fixed Bing support (only US users were affected)
- Faster previews, especially for users in the US and Japan
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.6 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Fixed: Popularity ranks not showing correctly
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.5 (Mar 12, 2015)
- Use MutationObserver (instead of DOMNodeInserted) for Firefox versions that support it
- Faster image preview insertion in the Google search results page
- Fixed layout issue with DuckDuckGo
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.4 (Jul 30, 2013)
- Added support for DuckDuckGo.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.3 (Jul 30, 2013)
- Fixed: Previews inserted for search results that already contained an image.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.2 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Changes needed for new leaner Google layout (with drop down for cache, similar and shar).
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.1 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Fixed: Context menu entry for preview update request sometimes not visible
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 6.0 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Fixed: Preview images not visible when returning to search results (after visiting a search result)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.9 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Fixed new Google format when searching from Google home page.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.8 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Fixed: 'SP' icon was visible in add-on bar although disabled in the options
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.7 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Fixed: Sometimes previews are empty when using "open in new tab".
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.6 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Fixed issues with Google graph results.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.5 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Added support for new bing.com social layout.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.4 (Mar 29, 2012)
- Requesting an update of a preview image does not open a new page
- Preview images show when Javascript is disabled in Firefox
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.3 (Jan 27, 2012)
- Fixed: Some results were wrapped for searches on google.de
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.2 (Jan 27, 2012)
- Faster preview images for US users.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.1 (Dec 14, 2011)
- Fixed: For some searches preview images pushed result down
- Added: Support for international Bing domains like be.bing.com
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.0.9 (Dec 14, 2011)
- Smoothed out some issues with the new Google layout.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.0.8 (Sep 21, 2011)
- Added: Support for new Google experimental layout
- Fixed: Popularity ranks sometimes not correct
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.0.6 (Sep 21, 2011)
- Fixed: Only first 2 preview images show on Bing and Yahoo
- Fixed: Some preview images not shown for certain results
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.0.5 (Sep 21, 2011)
- Improved performance. Added support for new Google site summary results.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.0.3 (Apr 21, 2011)
- Fix for Google format change
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.0.1 (Apr 21, 2011)
- Fixed: For some searches preview images not shown on
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 5.0.0 (Apr 21, 2011)
- Fixed: Transparent add-on bar context-menu in Firefox 4
- Fixed: After a few Google Instant searches no preview images available
- Improved: Responsiveness for Google Instant searches
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.9.4 (Nov 13, 2010)
- Fixes "Google Instant Previews" when Google Instant is enabled
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.9.3 (Nov 13, 2010)
- Fixed issues for new 'Quick View' feature of Google.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.9.2 (Oct 22, 2010)
- Fixed: For some users preview images only shown on first page
- Fixed: Popularity values were sometimes incorrect with Google Instant
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.9 (Oct 6, 2010)
- Fixed: Preview images not shown after a few searches in one Google Instant session
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.8 (Sep 17, 2010)
- Fixed: Error message written to Error Console when searching on Yahoo
- Fixed: Lots of small changes to fully support Google Instant
- Fixed: Rare issue where only preview images of Google were shown
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.7 (Sep 8, 2010)
- Fixed: Don't show preview images when Google shows a search result image (for example for recipe sites)
- Fixed: Don't show preview images for Google local search results
- Added: The SearchPreview sponsored links feature is now enabled internationally
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.6 (Jul 19, 2010)
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.5 (Jul 12, 2010)
- Fixed support for Google SSL (encrpyted.google.com)
- Added support for Firefox 4
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.4 (Jun 28, 2010)
- Added support for Google SSL (preview images are served over https).
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.3 (May 21, 2010)
- Fixed: When Google Web History was enabled, previews of visited sites were not shown.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.2 (May 21, 2010)
- Fixed formatting issue on some Google search results.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.1 (May 21, 2010)
- Improved performance
- Support for ipv6.google.com
- Fixed formatting issues with some Google search results
- Better support for the Google AJAX search results
- Added extension icon
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 4.0 (May 21, 2010)
- Name change from GooglePreview to SearchPreview
- Bing support
- Added chrome.manifest for fresh installs in Firefox 3.6 and above
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.22 (Jun 3, 2009)
- Fixed timing issue with the sponsored links.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.21 (May 27, 2009)
- Fixed: GooglePreview sometimes only showing preview images of google.com.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.20 (May 8, 2009)
- Added support for the new Google AJAX search results.
- Sponsored links are now optional and can be disabled in the options dialog.
- Sponsored links now have a yellow background.
- Fixed: When Google is in track mode some previews to https sites are wrong.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.19 (May 8, 2009)
- Disabled the ads for now, until a more user friendly way of handling them is found
- Added more intelligent placement of sponsored links. Added install/update splash tab.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.18 (Feb 21, 2009)
- Restored compatibility with Yahoo.
- Fixed rare error with popularity ranks all showing #2.
- German sponsored links now served from GooglePreview ad server.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.16 (Nov 26, 2008)
- Fixed: Compatibility with the new Google feature SearchWiki.
- Code rewrite: Packaged the code to respect the global javascript namespace. Fixed: Some minor formatting issues.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.15 (Oct 20, 2008)
- Removed donation link from search results page.
- Fixed dutch translation.
- Added support for amazon.com product preview images.
- Fixed formatting of Google suggested searches.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.14 (Oct 9, 2008)
- Added: Request an update of a GooglePreview thumbnail. Added: Optional popularity ranks for search results. Added: Donation link.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.13 (Sep 3, 2008)
- Fixed preview placement for new Google layout
- Reintroduced support for amazon.com and .de product preview images
- This version should be backupable with FEBE and Mozbackup
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.12 (Aug 19, 2008)
- Fixed preview placement for new Google layout
- Reintroduced support for amazon.com and .de product preview images
- This version should be backupable with FEBE and Mozbackup
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.5 (Dec 4, 2007)
- Fixed formatting issues on yahoo.com. Added support for amazon.ca preview images.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.4 (Nov 23, 2007)
- Increased target application version for Firefox 3
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.3 (Oct 23, 2007)
- Fixed: GooglePreview was sometimes executed on none search Google pages.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.2 (Sep 24, 2007)
- New: Support for the 'stream search results' feature of CustomizeGoogle.
- New: To request an update of a GooglePreview image, right click the image and choose 'Request update of GooglePreview image'.
- New: Status bar icon now visible with dark themes. Fixed: Preview images are shown when the context menu "Search Google for '...'" is used.
New in SearchPreview for Firefox 3.1 (Aug 10, 2007)
- Modified to cope with slightly changed Google layout.
- Minor changes to make GooglePreview Firefox 3 ready.