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Goona Browser Changelog

What's new in Goona Browser 0.6.1.3

Aug 7, 2010
  • Better disposing system
  • Just a group of improvements to reduce RAM consumption and references to unexistent/outdated objects
  • Multithreaded "Post a Tweet"
  • Now Goona Browser doesn't hang for a bit when you hit the "Post tweet" button. Posting is made on a separate thread, much silently and flowlessly.
  • I will release a new version of Goona Browser just the fix the problem of "Basic Authentication": the "Post a Tweet" function still uses basic authentication instead of OAuth (unlike twitter dashboard). The current "Post a tweet" will stop working on 31th August 2010 because twitter is going to end with basic authentication method.
  • Run counter added (read please)
  • Added a run counter to Goona Browser: everytime Goona Browser is run, it hits a counter on a hidded web page to count how many times Goona Browser is run worldwide. This can't be considered spyware since I'm warning you of this feature, and the run counter doesn't send any information about your computer, yourself, nor even Goona Browser. It's just an increment of +1 in a number, just for statistical purposes
  • Printing
  • Printing is now supported on both WebKit and Gecko browser modes
  • Zoom
  • Zoom page now works on both Gecko and WebKit browser modes
  • Liftup to Screenshot feature interface
  • Now it's possible to take full-featured whole-page screenshots in Gecko browser mode
  • UI and funcionality corrections/makeups
  • Better distinguishing of URLs and search queries
  • Now Gecko Browser changes its address bar back color to yellow and its fore color to green if the address starts with https:// (like Google Chrome does)
  • Updated Webkit.Net version to 0.4
  • Corrected bug on JavaScript console startup
  • Better history browser
  • Now the thumbnail for the selected entry appears at the right of the entries list, no need to right-click and open a window to see the thumbnail. Much more practical!
  • Search
  • Added Cuil search engine to search engine presets list.
  • Now it's possible to choose search presets not only on the First Run Wizard, but also on the Search settings page.
  • Session saving improvements
  • Added settings option to open saved tabs along with homepages, open only saved tabs, or disable the saved tabs function at all. This is a feature that is planned since a long time ago.
  • Multiple languages support
  • Added multilanguage engine and settings (under User Interface section). Language is selected automatically, and if a translation doesn't exist, English is used. Users can manually select the UI language in the Setup Center
  • Started translating Goona Browser into Portuguese of Portugal. 25% complete.
  • Automated updater
  • This is probably the most important new feature of this version, and accordingly was also the one that gave more work to code.
  • The updater reds data about the most current version from a XML in Goona Browser website at startup and warns users if they don't have the most recent version installed, prompting to launch the updater (which is a stand-alone app).
  • The stand-alone updater shows the new version number to the user, a simplified version of the changelog, the download size and the importance of the update. It also cares about downloading the installer from official site, and launch the installer

New in Goona Browser 0.6.0.1 (May 12, 2010)

  • New First Run Wizard:
  • This new wizard has more steps, this way when you start using Goona Browser, you won’t need to manually set so many settings. And the best of all: the new wizard is a shiny Aero-styled wizard like those visible on Windows Vista and 7. Of course Windows XP and Basic theme users won’t see the Aero effects on the wizard.
  • Windows Aero effects:
  • Now the main window of Goona Browser has a shiny Aero look. The caption bar (which includes the tab strip) now has a Aero transparent background, when you’re using Windows Aero theme. Of course Windows Basic theme users and Windows XP users won’t see these effects.
  • Better history thumbnails system:
  • Thumbnails aren’t stored in the same XML file as history entries anymore! This reduces RAM consumption and eliminates hangs for excessive memory consumption.
  • Now thumbnails are stored in single files. Now, you can also delete only the thumbnails leaving the history entries, which allows you to save space on disk without deleting the entire history – only the thumbnails will be unavailable. To delete only the thumbnails, look in the “Browsing” section of the Goona Browser Setup Center!
  • Progresses on twitter dashboard:
  • The twitter dashboard is kind of free-time project, inside the free-time project Goona Browser, so I don’t work on it very often. Now twitter dashboard shows you your followers and the users you’re following, nothing more.
  • “Thanks to” section on about form updated:
  • Now, I guess that 95% of Goona Browser users never looked to the About form, and that 99% of these users didn’t even know that existed an About form.

New in Goona Browser 0.5.2.3 (Mar 4, 2010)

  • New context menu on Gecko Browser
  • Now all the functions on the menu work properly, images are correctly detected and instead of different menus for images, links and normal, now we have a single context menu which is dynamic.
  • Internal Homepage:
  • Corrected bug that made all the six links and thumbnails appear empty when you open the internal homepage for the first time
  • History and other things related to page thumbnails
  • Now, all the page thumbnails generated by Goona Browser include the whole visible part of the page, instead of the first 1024x768 pixels. Much better this way: no black areas and no uncovered areas.
  • Twitter URL sharing string AFTER URL
  • … default changed from “@goonabrowser” (means user “goonabrowser”, which didn’t exist) to “#goonabrowser” (means tag “goonabrowser”).
  • New functions on WebKit browser:
  • Now browser opens a new tab when the current page requests it
  • Now WebKit browser saves history entries and screenshots

New in Goona Browser 0.5.2.2 (Mar 4, 2010)

  • First Run Wizard was completely checked for bugs…
  • As obvious, all bugs found were removed and the code was optimized to give no errors.
  • FRW (First Run Wizard abbreviation) now lets you keep your favorites from other version of Goona Browser.
  • Internal Homepage:
  • Now the space designed to show your favorites reached its destiny. You can now quickly navigate to a favorite by double-clicking it on the Internal Homepage.
  • Favorites:
  • Added a “Remove favorite” button on the favorites panel… finally you can delete a favorite!
  • Twitter URL sharing string AFTER URL
  • Now you can specify a string to be added before and another after the URL to be shared. By default this last string is “ via @goonabrowser” to help spread the word about Goona Browser.
  • Better stability:
  • A bit better stability compared to last version. For developers and other people that may understand this: the main change was the change of the way Goona Browser manages CurrentFormBrowser and CurrentFromWrowser.

New in Goona Browser 0.5.2.1 (Mar 4, 2010)

  • First Run Wizard:
  • Now Goona Browser imports favorites from Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, and lets you choose a search provider from a list. Of course, you can always enter your search provider settings by hand
  • Homepage(s) support:
  • You can set one or more homepages that will open at startup, and enable and disable the use of the internal homepage
  • Goona Browser now saves the tabs that were open at closing time
  • The button ‘Save and Exit’ on the Multiple Open Tabs dialog now works!
  • It allows you to save the open tabs before closing, so you can restore the last session on next startup. When you open Goona Browser and there are saved tabs, a dialog will appear asking you to restore the tabs or discard them. Just like Firefox!
  • The saved tabs will open along with your homepage(s)
  • New things on the internal homepage
  • The most significant change is that now the thumbnails get populated with the latest entries of the history. Click one thumbnail or its title to open a new tab navigating to its address
  • After Goona Browser setup, the thumbnails will be all blank. Start browsing to fill the gaps
  • Twitter Dashboard, a BETA release
  • It is still in BETA stage, and doesn’t provide much functionality. In the future, it’ll be a complete twitter client
  • View All Open Tabs, another BETA release
  • A feature in BETA stage that lets you view all open tabs in a list, with their screenshots. Throws many errors and you shouldn’t use it. To open it quickly, press Alt+Z
  • Error dialog:
  • Now Goona Browser displays a detailed error dialog when an error occurs. You should report these errors, bu don’t forget to include all the information you see on this dialog!
  • I hope you’ll never need to see this dialog. You’ll identify it quickly if you see it: it’s a window with a white red background

New in Goona Browser 0.4.7.3 (Mar 4, 2010)

  • The old version isn’t anything when compared to this new version.
  • There is a big difference between the last compiled version of Goona Browser and this version. A lot of things were added, corrected, and removed. The most important:
  • Dual-Engine
  • Now you can choose which rendering engine is going to show you the WebPages: Gecko (fully-supported, and recommended) or WebKit (a bit unstable and with lacks of functions)
  • Finally, the so waited Favorite support! Unfortunately it doesn’t allow you to organize them in folders. Maybe in the next release.
  • Favorites are saved in XML files in the AppData\Roaming directory of user. If the XML is not detected by Goona Browser, it thinks that settings were cleared. Then it really clears all settings and starts the First Run wizard, making you lose all your preferences. Be careful, do not delete the XMLs.
  • History, with some innovations if comparing with other browsers
  • Now Goona Browser saves your browsing history, which can be erased with one button click (well, you also have to choose yes in the confirmation dialog…)
  • EXCLUSIVE: Goona Browser takes a screenshot of every single page you go. That screenshot is then scaled into a thumbnail, and finnaly, the thumbnail is saved in the history XML. After some time, you can check if what page means some entry in the history: by select it, right-click and select «View page’s thumbnail». Since thumbnails are low-res and low-quality images, they don’t take much space in your disk. 100 history entries take about 4MB. Because many, many pages can take too space, remember to clear history regularly.
  • History is saved in a XML file in the AppData\Roaming directory of user. If the XML is not detected by Goona Browser, it thinks that settings were cleared. Then it really clears all settings and starts the First Run wizard, making you lose all your preferences. Be careful, do not delete the XML. If history file is taking too space because of many entries, do not delete the file. Clear the history using Goona Browser.
  • Download Manager
  • I don’t know of any browser with a so powerful download manager. It lets you make almost anything you do with a normal download manager such as Orbit or Free Donwload Manager.
  • You can download from simple files, to automatically download entire websites. Batch download support. Download can be multi-threaded (various segments) if the server supports this.
  • Auto-downloads, lets you auto start chosen downloads at a certain hour (Goona Browser must be open with the Download manager tab opened)
  • Video download support - doesn’t work correctly in YouTube (because the videos URL is always changing), we’ll try to fix this soon - butworks in other sites for example Metacafe.
  • Javascript console
  • Lets you insert javascript instructions into Gecko webpages and lets you see errors, warnings and informations of all the opened Gecko tabs. Useful for web developers.
  • Document explorer
  • It a somewhat simple WYSIWYG html editor, that lets you open any webpage as a model.
  • Page screenshot, image downloading, powerful context menus are just some of the new things Goona Browser has. The old version isn’t anything when compared to this new version.