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Version 1.5 of Xrl.in Tiny Links is out. It includes a few new locales, an also now makes its icon animated when busy. For those not aware it uses my Xrl.in link shortening service to create links the are tiny in length. It adds a single icon into the url bar next to the go button.

Earlier this week MinimizeToTray Plus version 1.0.8 was released. It fixed quites a number of little problems that user were experiencing. You can see a full list of the updates in the version notes

I have got a beta of the 1.0 version of Toolbar Buttons out. I have made a rather lengthly post on the forum about it for anyone interested in more information.

With version 1.0.7 I can finally safely say that I have made the extension stable. Mainly because of bug 502457 which stops menus (such as the one for the tray icon) from showing when a window is minimized. Having finally resolved that, I have finished all the other work that extension badly needed.

See the MinimizeToTray Plus home page for more information.

Version 0.6.0.6 of Toolbar Buttons is now out. The changes are:

• Bug fixed in the undo and redo buttons in Thunderbird.
• Close all tabs does not close the window in Firefox 3.5
• Minimum and maximum application versions raised and some old compatibility code dropped.
• Bookmark menu buttons improved, drag and drop now works.
• Page zoom buttons now works in the Thunderbird 3 betas
• Empty Trash button now works in Thunderbird 3 betas
• Next/Previous tab buttons in Firefox now loop around
• Add-ons window can now be opened in a tab when middle clicked.
• Some locales updated, thanks to the babelzilla team.

Long promised, but I finally merged MinimizeToTray into my Minimize To Tray Enhancer. And to celebrate I renamed it MinimizeToTray Plus.

It has all the features of MinimizeToTray built in now. I also fixed up the -turbo mode which was promised for that extension by its original developers. MinimizeToTray Plus now uses this internally to simplify some things like its ability load an application minimize at startup.

I also did some changes to the internal API, so I can now add features like always showing the tray icon, and just showing a single icon. These features where imposable before.

Disappointedly there is still a major glitch in the extension. In Firefox 3.5 the icons can't display their menus when clicked. This is because of bug 520457 which I would ask everyone to visit and vote on.

I have also made the code for the extension avilable online. Though this is of very little interest to most, I am looking for someone to help port the extension to Mac. I am about to start work on a Linux port.

The next version of the Text Formatting Toolbar has been released, version 0.1.4.10. The changes are minor, only the little bugs reported over the past few months.

There is now a new version of the Xrl.in Tiny Links extension which you can downloaded. Xrl.in is link shorting service that is part of the Codefisher.org network.

The changes in this version include streamlining the the extension by removing the drop down from the button. All the settings can be still found in the option's window. To to Tools menu then Add-ons; in the Extensions tab you will find the extension and be able to open it's options. Another change is that once the button, which is located inside the url bar, is clicked the url is automatically copied to the clipboard, though this can be turned off.

The extension also added support for Xrl.in link Groups, if you right click on the tab bar you can create a link group of all the currently open tabs.

The next version of toolbar buttons is out. Unfortunately it does not contain all the new things I would have liked, only the fixes to all the bugs reported over the past few months. I was distracted with other projects that resulted in much less being done with my extensions then I had hoped over the long summer holidays.

I am almost ready to do releases on some of my other extensions so stay tuned for more.

I have finally finished version 0.6 of Toolbar Buttons. I think I fixed more bugs in this release then any other I have done. Manly because I kept putting off releasing it; for two reasons. One was I could not find a few hours together to release it (normally takes about 3 or so hours once everything is take into account). Plus I made changes that meant I had to update the Custom Toolbar Button Maker.

I now have a week off, so I finished of Toolbar Buttons and rewrote the Custom Toolbar Button Maker; that was a lot of fun, been itching to do it. After studying SQL for 6 months I manged it make it a lot faster, and a lot less code, almost 400 lines shorter. 400 lines that can't possibly have bugs in it.

There are eight new buttons, much fewer that I would have liked. The request list has grown much more than that.