Version history for Instantbird
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Changes for v0.1.3.1 - v1.5
- What's new?
- Creating a new conversation tab has been made easier.
- Clicking the '+' button in a conversation window shows a list of conversations that can be started with a single click.
- The list is sorted with a frecency algorithm, taking into account how often and how recently you've talked to each contact.
- This list also automatically includes the channels advertised by the IRC servers you are connected to.
- New tooltips that better fit the style of Instantbird
- Improved Multi-user chats user interface:
- Participants now have context menus that allow you to open private conversations or add them as buddies.
- Highlighted nicks in chat rooms now have tooltips and context menus.
- Auto-joined chat rooms that have been put on hold will stay on hold after a restart.
- A list of alternate nicks for IRC can be configured, in case your preferred nick is taken when you connect.
- about: pages (e.g. about:config) can now easily be opened with the /about command (e.g. /about config).
- Retina display support on Mac OS X.
- Google Talk and Hangouts Android users are now shown as mobile.
- Google Hangouts users will no longer appear as always typing.
- Better support for displaying RTL languages in conversations.
- The vKontakte protocol was removed as the vKontakte service dropped support for connecting with an XMPP client.
- New for developers: New API to add tab panels with arbitrary content to conversation windows: in-code documentation.
- Updated to Mozilla 25.
- Various minor bugs and a few crashers fixed.
- And more... read the full ChangeLog for details of all code changes since Instantbird 1.4.
- Known Issues:
- NVDA users should update to 2014.1 to work around a bug in the Mozilla platform that leads to "Unknown" being said when scrolling through the contact list.
- Clicking on URLs doesn't work on some newer Linux distributions, to work around this, open about:config (/about config in a conversation) and search for network.protocol-handler.warn-external, set all of these values to true. You will now be prompted for a program after clicking these links. See bug 1995.
