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The original preferences toolbar was designed to give the user more control over the pages viewed, and to allow the power browser to use mozilla with greater ease and efficiency than ever before. The PrefBar 4 takes this concept to a whole new level; along with the standard preference checkboxes, the new version includes utility buttons, user agent spoofing, web links, and more, served on a fully customizable toolbar with a side of white rice. It's even possible to use PrefBar to create "macro buttons" to run nearly any code you want..
The current version of the PrefBar is 5.0.1, build 20100130. It should work with SeaMonkey 2.0 to 2.0+ and Firefox 3.0 to 3.6+.
Alpas, Betas and Nightlies are not supported
What's New
Bugfix release PrefBar 5.0.1
I've published a bugfix release, fixing this bug: Bug 22344
PrefBar 5.0 ready!
After many hours of development, PrefBar 5.0 is finally ready for the end user.
The biggest change is, that I've dropped SeaMonkey 1.x support. This allowed to delete many old lines of code and, on the other side, finally allowes me to use some new features of SeaMonkey 2.x and Firefox 3.x, I didn't use, so far, as they would have broken SeaMonkey 1.x support:
- Separated Toolbar and Toolbar items. Made toolbar customizable and added toolbar items to toolbar palette. This change allowes you to move PrefBar's buttons around to any toolbar, you like, using the browser built-in "customize toolbar" feature.
- Dropped PrefBar's built in "OSD message" support. Now, if you toggle a checkbox using a defined hotkey, the browser built in notification bar will notify the change to you.
- Dropped the built in "rename based" Flash toggle stuff. Only the better Flash toggle code, based on the built in plugin manager, is left. For SeaMonkey 1.x users: Be sure to enable Flash before upgrading to SeaMonkey 2.x with PrefBar 5.0. PrefBar 5.0 is not longer able to reenable a Flash plugin, which has been disabled in SeaMonkey 1.x.
For a full list of changes, please have a look at the changelog
Would be nice to get some feedback about what you think about the new features. If you still find bugs in this version, please file a bug or send a short bug report. Contact address: manuel.reimer@gmx.de
Atom Feed available
SeaMonkey 2.0 came with a pretty nice feed reader, built into the Mail/News component, which I found to be pretty useful.
To also support feed readers, I added an Atom feed to the PrefBar homepage.
To subscribe to the Newsfeed, you just have to click the orange button on the right in your address bar and follow the instructions.
PrefBar 5.0 RC1 available
I've uploaded another "test version" for the upcoming PrefBar 5.0 release. It would be great, if as much people, as possible, could give this a try, so bugs, I didn't find, so far, can be fixed. Nearly any code line has been touched in the way from PrefBar 4.3.2 to this release, so there unfortunately is a good chance, something got broken in this process. If noone finds any bugs, a final version will be published next week.
The new test version is available here.
InfoList button updated
A new InfoList button is available, which makes the button work on the current SeaMonkey trunk.
Preview version for future PrefBar 5.0 ready to download!
Now, as SeaMonkey 1.x is not longer supported by the SeaMonkey team, I decided to drop SeaMonkey 1.x support. This also means, I'm finally able to use all those nice new features, built into SeaMonkey 2.x and Firefox 3.x, I was unable to use, so far, as using those features would have broken SeaMonkey 1.x support.
The most important change is, that I've separated PrefBar in a customizable toolbar, which is displayed as usual and can be toggled using F8 (or the hotkey, you defined for this) and a "toolbaritem", which holds PrefBar's buttons. This separation allowes you to move the PrefBar buttons to any place on any toolbar on SeaMonkey/Firefox, using the built-in toolbar customize mechanism. It also allowes you to place foreign buttons, or Buttons, which come with SeaMonkey/Firefox itself, onto the PrefBar toolbar (and hide/show those buttons, together with PrefBar itself, using the F8 hotkey).
Another bigger change is the redesign of the PrefBar preference system, you use to edit the toolbar. In Firefox, it now has a more "Firefox like" design.
Please only use this alpha release on non-productive environments and please send me feedback about what you think about this release and about any bug you find. You may do this via Mail (manuel.reimer@gmx.de) or (even better) using our Newsgroup
Bugfix-Release PrefBar 4.3.2 available
This release fixes a small bug in the Java checkbox, which caused the checkbox to fail, if the "Java Deployment Toolkit" plugin is installed.
If anything works well, this release has been notified to you by the Addon manager of SeaMonkey/Firefox. I hope this works...
Bugfix-Release PrefBar 4.3.1 available
This release is just a bugfix release, mostly for fixing several SeaMonkey 2.x related bugs. I've also enabled "automatic update" using the built-in addon-manager for this release, based on the file management mechanism, provided by mozdev.org. I didn't try it, but hopefully the next release will be notified to you by SeaMonkey/Firefox.
For a complete list of all bugs, fixed in this release, please have a look at the Changelog
PrefBar 4.3 ready, two buttons updated
PrefBar 4.3 is available, now. The biggest change in this release is the cleaned up configuration dialog. Based on the idea "less is more", I dropped all the buttons between the lists and placed them to a context menu. Drag&drop now is the only way to move the items around. Deleting items is done via context menu or via "Del" key and editing is done via doubleclick or via context menu, again.
You may have a look at the Changelog for a more detailled list of changes.
Another big change is, that PrefBar now officially works on SeaMonkey 2.0. It worked in the past, too, and a few people already used it there, but now I'm officially supporting SM 2.0, while I'll now start to fade out SeaMonkey 1.x support.
I've also uploaded new versions of two buttons. The Infolist button, which had to be updated to support the addon manager, now available in SeaMonkey 2.0 (this also makes this button work in Firefox) and the Bookmarkmanager button which needed a small fix to be able to open the bookmark manager in SeaMonkey 2.0.
New version of Referer Spoof Menulist
As Referer Spoof Menulist got broken by a change, I had to do, to get PrefBar to work in Firefox 3.5, I uploaded a new version of this button. The new version is available here.
PrefBar 4.2 available
PrefBar 4.2 is available, now. Most important changes:
- It's possible to add SOCKS proxies to the Proxylist
- PrefBar 4.2 works with Firefox 3.5
You may have a look at the Changelog for more info.
Several new buttons uploaded
I've uploaded three new buttons, I've been working on. Please check them and tell me, if you have any problems.
- Page2Image Button
This is next version of the old "Page2Jpeg" Button. It'll also save your currently visible page to one big image file, but lets you choose between JPEG and PNG for the output format. - New Windows Checkbox
This, most probably, is the most important new button. Anything, it does, is to allow you to choose where to open new links, by disabling nearly all ways, a webmaster can use to cause your browser to open new windows. - eBayNegs Button
If you have a eBay article page open in your current tab, then this button quickly opens a list of all neutral and negative feedbacks of the eBay member, selling this article.
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