------------------------------------- SYNCPLACES EXTENSION - CHANGE HISTORY ------------------------------------- 4.0.6 (31se March 2010) ----------------------- o BUG FIX: 'Select folder to synchronize' dialog broken in Firefox 3.6 4.0.6 (13th March 2010) ----------------------- o BUG FIX: Tags were not being included when synchronizing on a single folder 4.0.5 (23rd February 2010) -------------------------- o Removed use of String.prototype to prevent clashes with other extensions 4.0.4 (15th February 2010) -------------------------- o Now allows UTF-8 characters in text preferences 4.0.3 (12th January 2010) ------------------------ o BUG FIX: Wizard values were not being picked up when run from Add-ons 4.0.2 (3rd January 2010) ------------------------ o Setup Wizard now appears properly with OS X o Updated french locale 4.0.1 (24th December 2009) -------------------------- o BUG FIX: Fixed 'Unknown host' error when specify port number 4.0.0 (17th December 2009) -------------------------- o Brought back explicit login details for FTP users o Added a Wizard for first time users o Separated Actions from Options for simplicity o Reorganisation of the options to simplify things o Defaults to TEA encryption for better performance o Single password for encryption in place of two o Added more debugging information and debug options o When upgrading displays website migration page o No longer allows compression and encryption at the same time as this made no sense o A backup is now automatically taken when importing bookmarks o Auto-backup now covers passwords as well o Added warning when 'Send safely' may mess up bookmarks 3.6.2 (23rd November 2009) -------------------------- o Updated for Firefox 3.6 o BUG FIX: Fixes potential infinite recursion issues 3.6.1 (12th August 2009) ------------------------ o BUG FIX: Unencrypted passwords file created in backup folder due to test code that had not been deleted o BUG FIX: Transfer window was not remembering user changes to size 3.6.0 (9th August 2009) ----------------------- o Server login details have been removed allowing Firefox to handle them. This means that you may be prompted to login to your server the first time you use SyncPlaces following this upgrade o Improved browser/server communications, including simple support for proxy servers o Added a progress bar for both send and receive o Options to show/hide SyncPlaces in the Bookmarks Menu and Tools Menu o Notifies you if a self-signed certificate needs to be accepted first o Attempted to cater for reorganisation of bookmarks by Xmarks o Minor UI improvements o BUG FIX: Allows leading or trailing spaces in passwords 3.5.0 (4th May 2009) -------------------- o Removed sorting feature to simplify. Use the SortPlaces extension instead. 'Sort before send' option will be disabled until SortPlaces is installed. o Added favicon cache to help prevent loss of favicons esp. when syncing with third party browsers. Use the Checkplaces extension to restore favicons that are already missing. o Complete rework of merging of deletes, moves and renames o Send/Receive timestamps now refer to physical send/receive o Now resets timestamps/hashes when restore or change profiles or select or change the folder to sync on o 'Receive at startup' is now followed by a send if 'send safe' is selected o Error alerts now contain a link to the appropriate support topic o When there is a password conflict the dialog now has the passwords hidden by default, with button to toggle their display o Buttons to reorder profiles in the drop down o New workaround option for OS X-like 'send on shutdown' issues o Now displays wait cursor during long running tasks o Tidied up display in 'Select folder to synchronise' dialog o Added Dutch locale o Many minor internal improvements including better Firefox 3.5 support o BUG FIX: When you moved a query to another folder a 'corrupted bookmark' message might have appeared when receiving o BUG FIX: XBEL Send/Export didn't include folders with no title o BUG FIX: Folder descriptions sometimes being blanked out o BUG FIX: Prevent concurrent receives causing crashes 3.4.1 (10th February 2009) -------------------------- o BUG FIX: When switching between profiles synchronising on different folders the selected folder was not being changed, although the name displayed was o NOTE: After upgrading, users with mutiple profiles should check that the 'folder to sync' is correct in each profile. 3.4.0 (4th February 2009) ------------------------- o Support for profiles, so can now quickly change between several profiles, e.g. Home and Work. See documentation for details. o Export/Import facility for profiles so they can easily shared o Password sync no longer includes SyncPlaces passwords (change required for profiles to work) o Added Spanish locale o Added sort options for Unfiled bookmarks o Can now set the delay when automatically sorting/syncing o The default delay has been increased from 5 to 30 seconds o You can now set 'Sort order' separately for menu, toolbar and unfiled o BUG FIX: Sorting by description and by keyword was not working o BUG FIX: When 'unsorted' was selected for the first 'sort by' it was still sorting using the 'Sort order' o BUG FIX: XBEL Import/Receive did not always work when synchronising a folder 3.3.0 (2nd January 2009) ------------------------ o Option to automatically sync whenever the bookmarks change. This happens silently 5 seconds after the last change (making more changes will restart this timer). o Option to automatically sort whenever the bookmarks change. This happens silently 5 seconds after the last change (making more changes will restart this timer). o Silent windowless operation with the regular, timed and automatic synch/sort options. A window will only appear if there's a problem o The status bar icon now has a context menu for quicker synchronising o 'last received' and 'last sent' date/times added Server/Connection tab These are reset if you change any connection settings o Now using GUIDS for Queries/Searches to fix a number of merging issues o Now complains with the File protocol if the path is a folder and not a file o BUG FIXES: Fixed a number of things causing it to synchronise when it shouldn't when the 'Only sync if changed' option is used. o BUG FIX: If a master password was set then the password prompt would display behind Firefox with the 'Receive at startup' option 3.2.0 (8th December 2008) -------------------------- o NOTE: When upgrading to this version you will not be able to receive files previously encrypted with TEA until you have sent them again o Changed TEA encryption to prevent use of weak keys o Option to synchronise at a set time o All code refactored to prevent namespace clashes with other extensions o BUG FIX: On first use of the 'file' protocol with 'Send safely' it would incorrectly display an error o BUG FIX: 'Only sync if changed' option was not working with XBEL files o BUG FIX: Fixed display issues with sort tabs when swapping between Toolbar and Main Menu using 'Select folder' option o BUG FIX: When you selected a subfolder of the toolbar or the whole toolbar SyncPlaces used the sort options of the main menu & not the toolbar options 3.1.0 (20th November 2008) -------------------------- o Separate sort options for Menu and Toolbar o Two levels of sort now available o Many additional 'sort by' options added o Password (+ exceptions) backup and restore options added o Support for file:// protocol when synchronising o Improved handling of duplicate Queries/searches when merging o Improved handling of duplicate separators when merging o BUG FIX: When receiving XBEL from an FTP server it sometimes displayed the file rather than using it o BUG FIX: With XBEL the last annotation was being ignored o BUG FIX: When merging XBEL, separators would sometimes be duplicated or put in the wrong place 3.0.2 (3rd November 2008) ------------------------- o BUG FIX: Permissions were not being set correctly on Linux/UNIX 3.0.1 (1st November 2008) ------------------------- o BUG FIX: Favicons were not always being loaded when received 3.0.0 (29th October 2008) ------------------------- o Synchronisation of encrypted passwords and password exceptions o Automatic synchronisation of bookmarks (and passwords/exceptions) at regular intervals o TEA encryption has been added as a faster alternative to AES o You can now provide styling tags when sending XBEL o Favicons URLs (not images) are now synchronised. Firefox will take care of downloading any images it requires o New merge option (on by default), allows you to merge deletes o SyncPlaces now automatically closes the Bookmarks Sidebar and Bookmarks Organiser and automatically reopens the Sidebar o New installations have a safer set of defaults o Better threading to prevent UI issues when carrying out long tasks o Reorganisation of the Options dialog o When importing/receiving SyncPlaces-generated XBEL files containing just a subfolder, all the extra Firefox information (tags, keywords etc) are now imported 2.3.0 (16th October 2008) ------------------------- o Added encryption of bookmarks using AES algorithm o Added option to sort bookmarks by 'date added' 2.2.0 (2nd October 2008) ------------------------ o NOTE: When upgrading to this version turn off the 'Send on shutdown' and 'Receive on startup' options until Firefox has restarted - may otherwise act strangely o New smaller dialog for transfers during startup/shutdown o Added submenu in Bookmarks menu with Send/Receive/Sort/Options items o Removed options to automatically close or leave the options dialog open. These are now redundant due to the new transfer dialog o Minor changes to messages and UI o BUG FIX: Some 3rd party XBEL files would not import o BUG FIX: Invalid characters in French locale 2.1.0 (27th September 2008) --------------------------- o Manual and automated Sort added o Variety of sort options added - full details in intructions on website o German locale added 2.0.1 (24th September 2008) --------------------------- o BUG FIX: Full Places export in XBEL format was incorrectly marking the XBEL as a subfolder export and so couldn't be imported again 2.0.0 (23rd September 2008) --------------------------- o Updated the XBEL files sent/exported so that everything in Places is there when receiving/importing and compatible with Bookmark Sync and Sort o Import/Receive any XBEL formatted file with special support for BSS o Allow synchronisation using XBEL instead of JSON as a special option for people still using Bookmark Sync and Sort o Option to only send/export a basic XBEL file to reduce bandwidth when all you want to do is transform it into HTML o Changed names of a few files eg .hash files now renamed .sha1 So can delete andy .hash files from your server o No longer sends the .sha1 file when not needed (may help some people) o Moved 'Compress JSON' option to Options tab and other minor UI changes o Russian locale added o BUG FIX: The restore backup option was allowing 'merge' when it shouldn't 1.9.0 (16th September 2008) --------------------------- o New option to send/receive using GZIP for much faster transfers o New options to try older communication mechanisms for people having problems (especially with FTP servers) o New option to use crude technique for auto-startup to avoid conflict with other extensions o Livemarks are no longer displayed in the folder selection tree 1.8.2 (10th September 2008) --------------------------- o BUG FIX: FTP network changes didn't work for everyone so reverted to original mechanism 1.8.1 (9th September 2008) -------------------------- o Allow 'folder to sync on' to have a different name o BUG FIX: Export XBEL not working for en_US locale o BUG FIX: Didn't remember tags with 'folder to sync on' o BUG FIX: Didn't always export keywords and tags with XBEL 1.8.0 (8th September 2008) -------------------------- o New option to send in XBEL format o New option to export in XBEL format (also allows export of subfolders) o Internal refactoring of networking to make it more robust for ftp servers 1.7.0 (4th September 2008) -------------------------- o User interface reorganised to make it simpler to find things o New 'Send Safely' option to help ensure you never lose anything again. See documentation for details o Send/Receive on shutdown/startup completely rewritten to be more robust and Firefox friendly. Also fixed to work with OS X o 'Only send/receive if changed' also completely rewritten to eliminate false positives and further reduce number of transfers o Added support for more HTTP error messages o If server returns an error web page this is now displayed in a new tab to help resolve connection issues o Horrible internal alert messages replaced with readable messages o Now displays an hour-glass cursor during transfers o Added French, Polish and British(!) translations 1.6.0 (27th August 2008) ------------------------ o Can now select the Toolbar or a subfolder to synchronise on o More information now displayed when transfers fail o 'Only send if changed' option improved and 'Only receive if changed' facility added o BUG FIX: I wasn't URL encoding the username and password o BUG FIX: A number of minor auto-send/receive bugs fixed 1.5.0 (25th August 2008) ------------------------ o Can now synchronise on just a folder instead of everything o Auto-close after successful send/receive o Merge limitation removed: - Seperators are now merged by default - Folder descriptions are now merged in - Better strategy when merging Folders with same name 1.4.0 (21st August 2008) ------------------------ o Whole tab of Merge options added allowing merging of remote bookmarks rather than just overwriting the local ones o Some limitations with folder merging remain - see documentation 1.3.1 (17th August 2008) ------------------------ o BUG FIX: Non-ANSI characters now properly recognised when receiving bookmarks from server 1.3.0 (16th August 2008) ------------------------ o Added option to only send when bookmarks change o Status messages now disappear after 2 secs o BUG FIX: Missing backup folder error 1.2.0 (15th August 2008) ------------------------ o Added auto-send/receive options o Added options to leave dialog open when auto-send/receive suceeds It will stay open if fails whatever o Added separate path for HTML version o Check that the paths start with a '/' and is not just a '/' on its own o Added button to select the folder being used for backup/restore 1.1.0 (10th August 2008) ------------------------ o Added option to save bookmarks in HTML format in addition to JSON format 1.0.0 (9th August 2008) ----------------------- o First release o Allows bookmarks to be sent/received from Web/FTP server o Activated manually from Bookmarks menu, statusbar icon or toolbar button o Saves bookmarks before receiving from server to allow rollback