Archive for January, 2024

HistoryHound 2.3.5 updates its support for Opera and fixes bugs

Tuesday, January 9th, 2024

HistoryHound 2.3.5 is available, delivering updated support for the Opera web browser and correcting several issues. HistoryHound’s built-in search paths will now correctly find Opera’s history and bookmark files, even if you have multiple user profiles set up.

There were also cases where having multiple user profiles in Chrome or Firefox (or any browser based on those engines) could confuse HistoryHound and result in it re-scanning pages in the browsing history of an inactive profile even though you hadn’t visited the pages again.

In addition, HistoryHound was referencing pages based on the URL that was requested by the browser. In some cases, that URL gets changed by the server when it returns the page data, and this could result in HistoryHound indexing multiple copies of the same page, depending on how the browser logged things in its history. This has been fixed.

And finally, a change in Apple’s WebKit API now results in runtime exceptions when .webarchive files are loaded in a background thread. As a result, HistoryHound 2.3.5 now loads those files in its main thread to avoid generating errors.

This update is free to users who’ve already got a HistoryHound license. You can download it from the HistoryHound What’s New page, or if you’re already running HistoryHound, just choose “Check for Updates” from its application menu.

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Default Folder X 6.0.4: QSpace Integration, Quick Search refinement and a fix for an annoying bug

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

A lot of you have been asking for integration with QSpace so that you can use Default Folder X’s Finder-click feature to quickly access folders shown in your QSpace windows. I’m happy to report that after working with Wenda, the developer behind QSpace, we’ve made that happen!

Default Folder X 6.0.4 will automatically recognize open QSpace windows. They’ll be listed in Default Folder X’s Finder Windows menu, the Finder-click feature will jump to folders when you click on QSpace windows while in an Open or Save dialog, and you can set up Default Folder X to open folders in QSpace instead of the Finder (note that you need at least QSpace 4.2.1 or QSpace Pro 4.2.2 for all of this to work).

Oh – and a quick Finder-click pro tip: Right-click on a QSpace window to pop up a menu that shows the folders shown in all panes of the window.

And speaking of opening folders, you can now explicitly tell Default Folder X whether to open folders in the Finder, QSpace, ForkLift or Path Finder when you choose them from Default Folder X’s menus. 👉🏼

In version 6.0.4, Quick Search has gotten a few enhancements, including little icons beneath each search result to show whether Default Folder X found that item in your recent history, favorites, or a standard app location. And when you right-click on a result, you can now copy the file or folder, add or remove it from your favorites, or remove it from the recent file / folder / app history (depending on where it was found).

And last, but definitely not least, Default Folder X 6.0.4 includes several bug fixes. The biggest is the elimination of an annoying delay that could occur when a Save dialog first came up. Not only did the bug produce a hiccup that made you wait, but it could swallow a character or two if you started typing a name for your saved file right away. My apologies for not catching this problem when we tested version 6.0.3 – the conditions that caused it weren’t present on my or any of my testers’ Macs because of settings changes that we made while testing previous releases.

A full list of changes and download links are available on the Default Folder X What’s New page. Or if you’re already running Default Folder X, just choose “Check for Update” from its menu in your menu bar.

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