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• Infolist Button updated: The new version of this button now supports current nightly versions, which use a new addon manager. I also removed old SeaMonkey 1.x support code in this new version.
• Geolocation Checkbox added: This checkbox allowes to disable the geolocation feature, built into current browsers, completely. Most people won't need this, as this feature is always "opt-in", means SeaMonkey/Firefox asks you for every domain, if you want to make this page know your (mostly very inaccurate) position.

Some of the new features, added with PrefBar 5.1, are:

• New feature "Copy button" (right click on a button in PrefBar customize window and choose "Copy". This makes it easier to create own versions of built-in buttons.
• PrefBar menu now is a toolbar button, which may be placed to anywhere, you like (using browser built-in toolbar customize feature).
• Clearall button has been modified to contain some more options to clear stuff. They are all commented out in the button "onClick" code. To enable them, use the new "Copy button" feature, to create your own copy, then doubleclick the copy to edit, switch to "onClick" tab and uncomment as desired.

The new release also contains many bug fixes. For a full list of changes, have a look at the changelog

This primarly fixes bugs that only exist on the Mac OS 10 platform. As I don't have a Mac and so can't debug such stuff on my own, I depend on feedback of Mac users, in such cases. Thanks to anyone who helped me with fixing those bugs. Especially Arivald, who guided me into the right direction, when debugging the prefwindow issue, and Bob for helping me with testing my trunk builds.

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

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.

The new test version is available here.

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

If anything works well, this release has been notified to you by the Addon manager of SeaMonkey/Firefox. I hope this works...

For a complete list of all bugs, fixed in this release, please have a look at the Changelog

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.

• 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.

• 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.