Swift Selection Search version history - 25 versions
Swift Selection Search by Daniel Lobo
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Latest version
Version 3.48.0
Released 28 Aug 2022 - 304.89 kBWorks with firefox 66.0 and later3.48.0
- Keyboard shortcuts set in Firefox’s “Manage Extension Shortcuts” menu are now no longer overridden when starting the browser, and you cannot set them in the add-on’s settings menu anymore.
- This version requires Firefox 66 or later.Source code released under The MIT Licence
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Version 3.47.5
Released 27 Feb 2022 - 305.28 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.47.5
- Fixed a bug breaking the in-browser display of non-HTML documents (such as XML) when the popup appeared.
3.47.4
- Fixed a bug causing some rare webpages to have a broken layout and missing content, even when the popup is not present.
3.47.3
- Minor fix for the Google Translate default search engine.
- Small text changes in the options page.
3.47.2
- Fixed problems with opening searches in the previous version, mainly if “new tab” add-ons were installed.
- Sadly, as a consequence of the fix above, engines imported from the browser can again only use “Open in this tab” / ”Open in new tab” as click behaviours.
- Fixed being able to change the name of engines imported from the browser, and therefore breaking them.
3.47.0
- Added support for groups of engines (click a group to search using all engines contained within). [Thanks to Igor Costa!]
- [feature removed in fix; see above]
- Mitigated problem causing “Discard on open” engines to sometimes not having time to search before the tab got discarded.
- Minor cosmetic and text changes/fixes in settings page.
- Minor changes to default search engines.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.47.4
Released 5 Jan 2022 - 305.24 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.47.4
- Fixed a bug causing some rare webpages to have a broken layout and missing content, even when the popup is not present.
3.47.3
- Minor fix for the Google Translate default search engine.
- Small text changes in the options page.
3.47.2
- Fixed problems with opening searches in the previous version, mainly if “new tab” add-ons were installed.
- Sadly, as a consequence of the fix above, engines imported from the browser can again only use “Open in this tab” / ”Open in new tab” as click behaviours.
- Fixed being able to change the name of engines imported from the browser, and therefore breaking them.
3.47.0
- Added support for groups of engines (click a group to search using all engines contained within). [Thanks to Igor Costa!]
- [feature removed in fix; see above]
- Mitigated problem causing “Discard on open” engines to sometimes not having time to search before the tab got discarded.
- Minor cosmetic and text changes/fixes in settings page.
- Minor changes to default search engines.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.47.3
Released 9 Jan 2021 - 305.24 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.47.3
- Minor fix for the Google Translate default search engine.
- Small text changes in the options page.
3.47.2
- Fixed problems with opening searches in the previous version, mainly if “new tab” add-ons were installed.
- Sadly, as a consequence of the fix above, engines imported from the browser can again only use “Open in this tab” / ”Open in new tab” as click behaviours.
- Fixed being able to change the name of engines imported from the browser, and therefore breaking them.
3.47.0
- Added support for groups of engines (click a group to search using all engines contained within). [Thanks to Igor Costa!]
- [feature removed in fix; see above]
- Mitigated problem causing “Discard on open” engines to sometimes not having time to search before the tab got discarded.
- Minor cosmetic and text changes/fixes in settings page.
- Minor changes to default search engines.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.47.2
Released 17 Dec 2020 - 305.46 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.47.2
- Fixed problems with opening searches in the previous version, mainly if “new tab” add-ons were installed.
- Sadly, as a consequence of the fix above, engines imported from the browser can again only use “Open in this tab” / ”Open in new tab” as click behaviours.
- Fixed being able to change the name of engines imported from the browser, and therefore breaking them.
3.47.0
- Added support for groups of engines (click a group to search using all engines contained within). [Thanks to Igor Costa!]
- [feature removed in fix; see above]
- Mitigated problem causing “Discard on open” engines to sometimes not having time to search before the tab got discarded.
- Minor cosmetic and text changes/fixes in settings page.
- Minor changes to default search engines.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.46.0
Released 27 Sep 2020 - 299.98 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.46.0
- Added support for associating single-key shortcuts with the search engines, to use while the popup is open (or, optionally, without requiring the popup at all). Tabbing through the engine icons in the popup is now also possible. [Huge thanks to Igor Costa for implementing the new features!]
- Minor changes to the way confirmations of certain actions work in the options page.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.45.1
Released 18 Aug 2020 - 301.13 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.45.1
- Made it easier to import the browser's search engines (although they are more limited since they are managed by the browser). This also fixes the recent issues with the search.json.mozlz4 file, which is now obsolete.
- NOTE: This version requires a new (non optional) permission to access your search engines.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.44.0
Released 2 Aug 2020 - 301.93 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.44.0
- Added support for another “Auto copy to clipboard” option: "Only for non-editable text".
- Added new option “Source for automatic icon URLs”, allowing you to disable getting icons from Favicon Kit automatically.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.43.2
Released 18 May 2020 - 301.26 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.43.2
- Fixed severe bug causing settings to be reset. I’m VERY sorry about this!
3.43.0
- Added right mouse button behaviour for popup icons.
- Added middle and right mouse button behaviour for context menu icons.
- Added dark mode to the options page.
- Added more default search engines and changed the default Google Translate engine to be more useful. (NOTE: This change only affects new users or full resets of the search engines.)
- Added disableURIEncoding function to disable encoding on a search variable (like searchTerms). Useful for websites like the Internet Archive.
- Added advanced per-engine option to discard the search page. Useful for "non-http" search engines that open outside the browser.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.42.1
Released 3 Apr 2020 - 300.47 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.42.1
- Fixed a bug causing the popup to not appear on pages opened in the background.
3.42.0
- Added website blocklist setting that allows disabling the popup on certain websites.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.42.0
Released 1 Apr 2020 - 300.38 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.42.0
- Added website blocklist setting that allows disabling the popup on certain websites.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.41.2
Released 22 Mar 2020 - 298.77 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.41.2
- Fixed popup being positioned outside the page in some websites like YouTube.
3.41.1
- Popup now tries to stay inside the window and not just inside the page, avoiding being cut from view when selecting text near the window edges.
- Search variables like "href" or "hostname" are now not encoded unnecessarily when used.
- Search variables like "href" or "hostname" can now use the same text replacements and functions as "searchTerms".
- All search variables are now case insensitive, so you can write "searchterms" or "SearchTerms", "hostname" or "HOSTNAME" or "hOsTnAmE" (can't recommend that one!), etc.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.41.1
Released 20 Mar 2020 - 298.75 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.41.1
- Popup now tries to stay inside the window and not just inside the page, avoiding being cut from view when selecting text near the window edges.
- Search variables like "href" or "hostname" are now not encoded unnecessarily when used.
- Search variables like "href" or "hostname" can now use the same text replacements and functions as "searchTerms".
- All search variables are now case insensitive, so you can write "searchterms" or "SearchTerms", "hostname" or "HOSTNAME" or "hOsTnAmE" (can't recommend that one!), etc.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.41.0
Released 8 Feb 2020 - 297.19 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.41.0
- Added support for Windows-1251 encoding (used by some Cyrillic websites).
- The popup’s text field now receives focus after using the “Shortcut to open popup”.
- Pressing enter with the text field focused now searches using the first user-defined search engine (in a new background tab, just like Ctrl+Click).
- Escape key now always closes the popup, regardless of focus on the text field.
- Line endings and consecutive spaces are now automatically replaced with single spaces in the selected text (except for clipboard copying, which copies the original text).
- Fixed custom CSS being used even if "Use custom CSS formatting" was disabled.
- Fixed "jittery" icons on hover when using negative icon padding values (minimum paddings are now enforced).
- Minor improvements to options page.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.40.3
Released 2 Dec 2019 - 296.07 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.40.3
- Fixed browser-imported engines not working since previous version.
- Fixed Ctrl, Cmd, Shift, and Alt keys closing the popup since previous version.
3.40.2
[WARNING]
- This version requires Firefox 63 or later. To users of older Firefox versions, I apologize! It was necessary to access new browser features and to simplify code and tests. For older browsers you should be able to keep using SSS 3.33.1, which is quite stable.
[Changes]
- Added an optional text box to the popup that displays the selected text and allows modifications before searching.
- Search engines now support text encodings (in the Options menu, press an engine to expand its sub-options). Useful for websites that don’t use UTF8 in their search. These are usually websites in languages with non-latin alphabets like Japanese, Chinese, etc.
- Added an experimental “Custom CSS” setting in the options menu, so you can provide additional stylings to the popup if you wish.
- The “Downloads” permission is now requested to new users only when they export their settings (not on installing the extension).
- Added optional scale animation for popup icons.
- Removed “Show in popup” and “Show in context menu” from the engine sub-options (you can still use the checkboxes to the left, as normal).
[Fixes]
- Fixed popup not appearing in some websites due to overly non-specific CSS (developer note: SSS now uses Shadow DOM).
- Fixed some options not updating immediately on open pages after a change (such as the popup opening behaviour).
- Fixed popup not disappearing after some text selections being removed via backspace presses in an editable field.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.40.2
Released 30 Nov 2019 - 295.99 kBWorks with firefox 63.0 and later3.40.2
[WARNING]
- This version requires Firefox 63 or later. To users of older Firefox versions, I apologize! It was necessary to access new browser features and to simplify code and tests. For older browsers you should be able to keep using SSS 3.33.1, which is quite stable.
[Changes]
- Added an optional text box to the popup that displays the selected text and allows modifications before searching.
- Search engines now support text encodings (in the Options menu, press an engine to expand its sub-options). Useful for websites that don’t use UTF8 in their search. These are usually websites in languages with non-latin alphabets like Japanese, Chinese, etc.
- Added an experimental “Custom CSS” setting in the options menu, so you can provide additional stylings to the popup if you wish.
- The “Downloads” permission is now requested to new users only when they export their settings (not on installing the extension).
- Added optional scale animation for popup icons.
- Removed “Show in popup” and “Show in context menu” from the engine sub-options (you can still use the checkboxes to the left, as normal).
[Fixes]
- Fixed popup not appearing in some websites due to overly non-specific CSS (developer note: SSS now uses Shadow DOM).
- Fixed some options not updating immediately on open pages after a change (such as the popup opening behaviour).
- Fixed popup not disappearing after some text selections being removed via backspace presses in an editable field.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.33.1
Released 7 Aug 2019 - 99.18 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.33.1
- Fixed auto adding “http://” before search URLs containing a protocol without slashes.
3.33.0
- Added support for “encodeURIComponent” function in {searchTerms}.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.33.0
Released 7 Jul 2019 - 99.14 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.33.0
- Added support for “encodeURIComponent” function in {searchTerms}.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.32.1
Released 30 Jun 2019 - 98.95 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.32.1
- Fixed regression bug that caused middle-click option to not work on editable fields.
3.32.0
- Added “Context menu title” option to change the text of the SSS context submenu.
- Fixed "Load from Sync" bug when data in Sync storage is more than was uploaded in the last "Save to Sync”.
- Fixed a potential bug when upgrading settings from older formats.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.32.0
Released 24 Jun 2019 - 98.93 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.32.0
- Added “Context menu title” option to change the text of the SSS context submenu.
- Fixed "Load from Sync" bug when data in Sync storage is more than was uploaded in the last "Save to Sync”.
- Fixed a potential bug when upgrading settings from older formats.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.31.1
Released 18 Jun 2019 - 97.99 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.31.1
- Fixed "Copy as plain-text" not respecting lines and not working in some cases.
3.31.0
- Added "Copy as plain-text" setting to “Copy to clipboard” engine.
- Fixed popup triggering with keyboard selections on editable fields in some cases.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.31.0
Released 18 Jun 2019 - 98.41 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.31.0
- Added "Copy as plain-text" setting to “Copy to clipboard” engine.
- Fixed popup triggering with keyboard selections on editable fields in some cases.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.30.0
Released 14 May 2019 - 97.32 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.30.0
- Added option to set a maximum number of selected characters that triggers the popup.
- Fixed search link for one of the default search engines.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.29.2
Released 25 Dec 2018 - 92.52 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.29.0 & 3.29.1 & 3.29.2
- Added support for modifying searchTerms with regular expression, changing text to lower or upper case, and using only part of the selected text.
- Added more usable URL components, such as the already existing {hostname}.
- Pressing left/right keys by themselves no longer causes popup to re-appear when there is text selected.
- Added popup delay option.Source code released under The MIT Licence
Version 3.29.1
Released 25 Dec 2018 - 92.49 kBWorks with firefox 52.0 and later3.29.0
- Added support for modifying searchTerms with regular expression, changing text to lower or upper case, and using only part of the selected text.
- Added more usable URL components, such as the already existing {hostname}.
- Pressing left/right keys by themselves no longer causes popup to re-appear when there is text selected.
- Added popup delay option.Source code released under The MIT Licence