What's new in Quero Toolbar 4.5.0.1
Dec 27, 2008
- IE8 support added
- You can now disable the ad blocker temporarily for the current domain (shortcut Ctrl+Ins or click on the recycle bin icon in the Quero box).
- New option added: "Show Search Terms While Searching"
- New OpenSearch template parameters added, which can be used to build queries depending on the current URL: Quero:url, Quero:hostname and Quero:domainname.
- New keyboard shortcut added: Ctrl+L toggles between search and navigation mode
- New Registry setting "Keys" of type DWORD added for disabling global keyboard shortcuts used by Quero. In order to turn Ctrl+Ins off, set the value to 0xFFFEFF.
- Win9x: included newer version of UnicoWS.dll (1.1.3790)
- Fixed: crash on certain Web pages if the ad blocker was turned on
New in Quero Toolbar 4.2.1.0 (Jun 18, 2008)
- 64-bit version for Vista x64 released (x64 installer includes both the 32- and 64-bit version of Quero)
- Ad blocker updated: Quero can now block various ad scripts from Google and other ad providers (more general option "Block ad scripts" replaces "Block ads by Google/IntelliTXT")
- Support for pasting multi-line URLs added: you can now paste URLs that are split into several lines (which often occurs in emails) into Quero
- Moved registry key in Windows Vista where Quero stores its settings from Internet registry to [HKCUSoftwareAppDataLowSoftwareQuero Toolbar]
- Fixed: crash after excessive surfing when the ad blocker was enabled; dragging long URLs with characters which are not allowed in Windows file names failed; Quero does not capture the keys F3/F2 if the search box is hidden any more
New in Quero Toolbar 4.0.1.1 (Dec 10, 2007)
- Fixed: bug in the content filter which caused a crash under certain conditions
New in Quero Toolbar 4.0.1.0 (Dec 4, 2007)
- Customize the list of search engines with the new search profile editor
- Navigation to local addresses made easier by appending a colon (example: localhost:)
- Drag & Drop support for the URL icon
- Disable search and address history separately (disabling the history now also turns off in-memory history)
- The History pane is now accessible through the context menu of the back/forward button
- Highlighting search terms on subsequent pages can be turned off now (option "Remember last search")
- New keyboard shortcuts added: Alt Q (Quero menu), Ctrl U (view source code), Ctrl Up/Down (select prev/next search engine), Ctrl Shift Q (open Quick Tabs view), Ctrl Shift B (view blocked content)
- Changed keyboard shortcut for highlighting from AltGr H to Alt Shift H for compatibility reasons
- Made mouse shortcuts more consistent: changed Alt Click to Ctrl Click to open a new tab
- Support for Ctrl (Shift) Click and middle click on back and forward button added
- Quero Toolbar can now be accessed in windows which initially do not display a toolbar by pressing Ctrl Q
- Hovering the mouse over the profile name shows the list of available search profiles
- Various toolbar operations can now be restricted by a registry setting (see FAQ)
- Fixed: crash when ad blocker was turned on in certain scenarios; UTF-8 encoded code points above U 07FF were not correctly decoded; double clicking a URL label now also works if the URL is longer than the Quero search box
- Fixed in IE7: crash when using the keyboard in the IE system menu; minimizing and restoring an IE window unexpectedly shifted the contents in the search box to the left (workaround for bug in IE7); workaround for mitigating the disappearing caret bug in IE7
New in Quero Toolbar 3.0.1.0 (Aug 14, 2006)
- IE7 support (optimized for tabbed browsing)
- Improved and now configurable Ad Blocker
- New toolbar layout with navigation buttons
- Quero Themes (customize the appearance of your toolbar)
- User Agent Editor (allows you to modify the browser identification string)
- Installer changes: Quero no longer installs itself into the Windows system directory (when upgrading the installer automatically tidys up your system directory)
- New options: configure if you want to automatically open a search/address in a new window/tab
- New keyboard shortcuts (Alt Enter/Click, Ctrl Enter/Click in context menus: open a search/address in a new tab)
- All keyboard shortcuts are now available in the Windows 98/NT version, too.
- IDN: Due to compatibility issues loosened requirements for legal ASCII URLs (UseSTD3ASCIIRules unset for sublevel domain labels).
- Fixed in IE7: occasional crash when closing IE, content filter caused print preview to fail