3.5.1

New feature! Office 365 link unwrapping implemented, thanks to @maluht in #36.

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3.5.0

New

• Added support for URL un-shortening.
• Tray menu has "URL Tester" shortcut.
• "buy me a coffee" link removed from the tray icon and status bar, because no one is donating. Everything irrelevant removed too, trying to be more ergonomic.

Improvements

• Slightly redesigned "URL Tester" window for better user workflow.

Bugs Fixed

• Clicking on update notification was opening home page, but it should just go to GitHub Releases page.

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3.4.2

Bug fixed - picker was always defaulting to "chomeless window". Thanks to @danarnold in #20.

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3.4.1

Bug fixed - when editing rule, you could not jump to next edit box with tab or previous with shift+tab.

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3.4.0

New

• When editing browser profiles, you can optionally add your own custom arguments to pass to the browser (see extra args). Thanks to @AJolly for the idea.
• URL Picker has an option to turn off recording of "popularity".
• Documentation website is now live. It's small and simple, but allows to add more structured content, unlike blog pages.
• Ability to hide browsers from configuration window was added. This affects both configuration and picker, so you won't see browsers you are not interested in.
• Rules can be reordered by simply pressing ⬆️ or ⬇️ keys on the keyboard. Thanks to @maluht for the idea in #13.
• When editing rule, you can jump to next edit box with tab or previous with shift+tab.
• Status bar shows number of browsers, profiles, and configured rules.
• GitHub releases publishes SHA-256 checksums.

Improvements

• Updating custom browser name will also update it in browser list as you type.
• Other cosmetic pedantic improvements.

Bugs Fixed

• Picker would not work if you enable "frameless window" but pick a browser that does not support this feature. Browser list now also indicates if browser supports frameless feature. Thanks to @D3XX3R in #20.
• Tray icon tooltip was not displaying. It should have shown application name and version number.

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3.3.1

New!

Rule hits can can be optionally recorded to a CSV file (off by default). To enable, check Settings->Log Rule Hits to File. This creates hit_log.csv which you can open from the File menu. Feature is useful for recording your activity for further analysis to exporting to some analytical engine.

Bugs Fixed

• Config window was not deleted from memory after closing it.
• Update check was happening on every start instead of every 24 hours.

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3.3.0

New

• Match rules support regular expressions syntax.
• Support for Firefox Containers added! Firefox containers link redirection works with Open external links in a container by Denys H extension or my own Browser Tamer extension.
• Added Firefox integration extension (link available from Help menu) and published source code for Chromium and Firefox extensions.
• Added native support for Waterfox. This means BT will treat Waterfox just like Firefox, including support for profiles, private mode, containers and the rest.

Improvements

• config.ini is slightly simpler - removed open_cmd and vdf keys as they are not required anymore.
• Browser profiles are sorted by the order they appear in the browser itself instead of alphabetically.
• Chromium browsers have a convenience toolbar button that links to browser store to download optional integration extension.
• Visual: "incognito" modes are marked with a visual icon.
• Firefox: profile discovery skips default profile which is intended for some kind of alpha testing and has no meaning to a normal user. default-release profiles is now displayed as Primary as this is exactly what it is.
• Infrastructure: release notes are removed from application code and replaced by a link to GitHub to avoid duplication and gradually increasing application size as they grow.

Bugs Fixed

• health check: if BT is installed as browser but to a different directory than you are launching from, validation was still succeeding.
• health check: status icon was not updating after health is fixed from dashboard.

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3.2.0

New Features

• Rules can trigger opening browser in 'app mode' - borderless, frameless window. Only available for Chromium browsers.

Improvements

• Visual improvement of the rule editor, making it look less busy.
• URL Tester visual improvement
• URL Picker visual improvement - buttons moved to the top, and added option to open in frameless mode
• Added shortcut button to open URL tester next to rule definitions

Bugs Fixed

• URL matching by domain only would sometimes detect wrong protocol.
• Adding rule from URL picker was ignored.

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3.1.7

New Features

• You can run in truly portable mode (where config.ini is stored alongside bt.exe) by creating an empty '.portable' file in the same directory. Thanks to @maluht in #6.

Improvements

• Various code stability improvements
• Added 'Add' button to the main UI, to emplasise you can add your custom browser. Previously it was available only from the File menu.

Bugs Fixed

• BT would crash on start of configuration window for new installations due to expecting at least one browser to be registered.

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3.1.6

New Features

• Rules can have priorities in case multiple browsers match with similar rules.

Improvements

• Added automation test suite based on Google Test. For you it means the app gets more rock-solid.

Bugs Fixed

• Invalid behavior when matching empty URL or empty rule.

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