March 14th, 2013· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for March 2013
· Fixed database age not being detected correctly in Firefox 19+
February 14th, 2013· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for February 2013
January 8th, 2013· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for January 2013
December 12th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for December 2012
November 9th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for November 2012
October 10th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for October 2012
· Switched to using the async API for proxy detection (required for Firefox 18+)
· Updated a few actions to use HTTPS (SiteAdvisor, SSL Checker, & Google)
· Removed old largely defunct Same IP action
· Minor locale updates
September 14th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for September 2012
August 13th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for August 2012
Backend changes to improve responsiveness:
· Removed dependency on Addon Manager API to access IPDB files on startup
· Flagfox starts up faster and shouldn't break when Firefox breaks here
· Replaced old polling loop (4Hz) with a new location change progress listener
· Flag updates are now done without delay; now fully idle when not used
· Got rid of special icon for about:blank (nobody could tell what it was, anyway)
· Changed Firefox EOL warning to show once for users with less than Firefox 10
· Added a few more commonly resold TLDs to mismatch note exception list
· Dropped Firefox 3.5 & SeaMonkey 2.0 support; removed special cases for them
· This Flagfox version supports Firefox 3.6+ and SeaMonkey 2.1+
July 9th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for July 2012
· Minor CSS fixes for a no longer supported "-moz" prefix
June 16th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for June 2012
· Added Catalan locale
May 21st, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for May 2012
· Fixed a potential issue with a malformed actions preference
April 25th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for April 2012
March 16th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for March 2012
· Switched Geotool actions over to new server (with new subdomain)
· Added Croatian locale
February 13th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for February 2012
January 9th, 2012· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for January 2012
· A couple more minor flag updates
December 21st, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for December 2011
· Updated a few country flags and localized names
· Added Lithuanian locale and some other locale updates
November 25th, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for November 2011
· Updated the traceroute action to work with server update
· Some minor locale updates
October 26th, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for October 2011
· Added flags and localized names for a few small territories now in the database
September 26th, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for September 2011
· Added Persian locale
August 30th, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for August 2011
· Warn remaining Firefox 3.5 users to update (shown once)
· Support bumps for current Firefox and SeaMonkey Aurora versions
June 20th, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for June 2011
· Some minor country name localization fixes
May 26th, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for May 2011
· Fixed the prompt method when used in custom JavaScript actions
April 21st, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for April 2011
· Added Armenian and Finnish locales and some other locale updates
· Support bumps for current Firefox and SeaMonkey Trunk nightlies
March 10th, 2011· IPv4 & IPv6 address location database updates for March 2011
· Simplified startup a bit; fixed a few potential issues and a minor Flagfox 3->4 upgrade bug
February 23rd, 2011· Added full IPv6 support using data from Maxmind (OS & ISP IPv6 support required)
· Added support for IPv4 mapped and compatible IPv6 addresses (IPv4 prefixed with "::ffff:" or "::")
· Added support for 6to4 and Teredo IPv6 tunneled IPv4 addresses
· Optimized IP database reading a little bit
· Added autocomplete for placeholders when typing into the template field in the new/edit action dialog
· Improved icon tooltip to look better and be easier to read/understand and better to localize effectively
· Added nationality of domain name to icon tooltip when applicable and differs from server location
· Added new icon for about: URLs (about:blank still has its own new page icon)
· Added new side menu for the add action button in the options dialog
· Added new clone selected action feature (via add menu or ctrl+c hotkey in options)
· Added new paste action(s) from clipboard feature (via add menu or ctrl+v hotkey in options)
· Added link to custom actions forum to add menu
· Added new {title} placeholder for page title
· Added new {meta-*} placeholders syntax to get page meta tags' data (ex: description, keywords)
· Added new {locale-*} placeholders expanded syntax for getting specific settings (page, content, UI, OS)
· Added new {TLD} placeholder to get the top level domain (public suffix; e.g. www.bbc.co.uk -> co.uk)
· Added a text link label for the preview icons button in the options dialog to make it more discoverable
· Added new default actions to the options: Internet Archive, SSL Checker, URL Parser, Wave a11y Check
· Added Page Metadata default action to the options (opens in popup dialog)
· Renamed old "Wikipedia" action to "Wikipedia: Country" and added domain and TLD Wikipedia lookups
· Replaced Copy Country action with Copy Server Info action: "domain (ip) - country (code)"
· Added proper support for "javascript:" actions; now executes in sandbox instead of opening URL
· Made pressing delete key on custom actions in options also select next item for quick multi-deletes/undos
· Replaced multi-pane help box in the edit action dialog with a single basics box and a popup for advanced
· Added buttons for each placeholder in the advanced help popup to paste to the template field
· Optimized options dialog action list generation to improve dialog load time with large action lists
· Improved importing to be smarter: can now take in first found plain text URL or link as starting point
· Improved drag & drop support to better strip bullet points when dropping action lists into options
· Improved cold startup time slightly by delaying string bundle loading until needed for menu or tooltip
· Fixed locale handling for some systems with mixed settings
· Fixed icon not updating on page refresh if needed and improved performance of update check a bit
· Fixed extra loading of country names list for edit action and icon set preview dialogs
· Fixed some minor potential issues with hotkey handling
· Removed old icon repositioning options now that Firefox 4 removed the status bar
· Updated existing experimental Mozilla Weave/Firefox Sync support to use newer pref name format
· Added extractionless XPI opt-out to install manifest for Gecko 2.0+ support
· Added support for using the larger logo image in the Flagfox details view in the new Addon Manager
· Removed old Flagfox 4.0 first run page (no more first run page for stable versions for now)
· Dropped all support for Gecko 1.9.0 based browsers, including Firefox 3.0.x and all Flock versions
· Removed all Gecko 1.9.0 support hacks
· Dropped a few locales due to lack of translators to do updates: ca, fi, lt, mk, ms
· This Flagfox version supports Firefox 3.5 - 4.0.and SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.1b3pre
February 10th, 2011· IP address location database update for February 2011
· Warn users of Firefox 3.0 & 3.5 to update (once); 3.0 is EOL and 3.5 will be soon
· Flagfox 4.1 will no longer support Firefox 3.0.x or Flock; users should update ASAP
· This version supports Firefox 3.0-4.0b6, Flock 2.0-2.5, & SeaMonkey 2.0-2.1a3
· Firefox 4.0 beta and nightly users need to install Flagfox 4.1 beta in the beta channel
January 26th, 2011· IP address location database update for January 2011
· This version supports Firefox 3.0-4.0b6, Flock 2.0-2.5, & SeaMonkey 2.0-2.1a3
· Firefox 4.0 beta and nightly users need to install Flagfox 4.1a4+ in the beta channel
December 20th, 2010· IP address location database update for December 2010
· This version supports Firefox 3.0-4.0b6, Flock 2.0-2.5, & SeaMonkey 2.0-2.1a3
· Firefox 4.0 beta and nightly users need to install Flagfox 4.1a4+ in the beta channel
September 22nd, 2010· IP address location database update for August 2010
· Some minor locale updates
August 14th, 2010· IP address location database update for August 2010
· Some minor locale updates
July 6th, 2010· IP address location database update for June 2010
· Added support for latest Firefox 3.7a5pre with new Addon Manager API
· Added support for positioning new tabs for actions based on browser settings
· Added support for positioning new tabs for actions within Tree Style Tab extension
· Optimized startup and action template parsing a little bit
February 25th, 2010· IP address location database update for February 2010
· Major code refactoring and cleanup (including some fixes that may not be listed below)
· Added many new default actions (see flag's context menu and options dialog)
· Added ability to add as many custom actions as desired (will import old one from 3.3.x)
· Added a link in the edit custom action dialog to get/share actions via the forums
· Added full URL, base domain name, and locale placeholders to custom action syntax
· Added "copystring:" pseudo-protocol to custom action syntax
· Added ability to disable or reorder actions in the context menu
· Added ability to set actions to (single|double|triple)(left|middle/ctrl)click of icon
· Added ability to set actions to keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+alt+g is default for Geotool)
· Added favicons for actions in context menu and options (can disable in options)
· Added radio buttons to allow changing flag set preference directly from preview dialog
· Added a few tooltips in the options to better explain what some of them do
· Added detection of offline mode with a disconnected icon (instead of an error icon)
· Added an icon for data: URIs (instead of the puzzle piece)
· Fixed options dialog not refocusing when trying to open it again via context menu
· Fixed info bar checkboxes to act properly; may now be checked/unchecked before closing
· Added a second of guaranteed persistence to info bar to avoid accidental auto-hide
· Added a few more commonly resold TLDs to mismatch note exception list
· Changed TLD mismatch note info bar to only show once unless told otherwise
· Changed Geotool lookup to work from behind a proxy (using the IP Geotool connects to)
· Added experimental support for syncing actions via Mozilla Weave Sync 1.0 (preffed off by default)
· Added a localized first run page for users updating to 4.0 (not used for minor updates)
· Added Catalan (ca) and Ukrainian (uk-UA) locales
· Dropped a handful of locales due to lack of available translators: bg, bn-IN, fa, sr, tr
· Updated many locale codes to drop redundant dialect codes (ex: fr-FR) to match Mozilla codes
· Dropped support for Firefox 2 and added support for Firefox 3.7 prereleases
January 18th, 2010· IP database update for January 2010
January 6th, 2010· IP database update for December 2009
· Some minor locale updates
November 9th, 2009· IP database update for November 2009
October 8th, 2009· IP database update for October 2009
September 21st, 2009· IP database update for September 2009
August 6th, 2009· IP database update for August 2009
July 8th, 2009· IP database update for July 2009
June 5th, 2009· IP database update for June 2009
· Switched over to new Flagfox.net domain name
May 6th, 2009· IP database update for May 2009
April 4th, 2009· IP database update for April 2009
· Added Vietnamese (vi-VN) locale
March 11th, 2009· IP database update for March 2009
· Added Czech (cs-CZ) locale
February 20th, 2009· IP database update for February 2009
· Disabled TLD note for Tuvalu (.tv) due to widespread sale for abbreviation of "television"
· Tweaked padding for addressbar-left position
· Added Lithuanian (lt-LT) locale
February 6th, 2009· IP database update for February 2009
· Disabled TLD note for Tuvalu (.tv) due to widespread sale for abbreviation of "television"
· Tweaked padding for addressbar-left position
· Added Lithuanian (lt-LT) locale
January 5th, 2009· IP database update for January 2009
December 23rd, 2008· Fixed statusbar-right position to not move with popup, SSL, & downloads icons
· Improved Flock support (versions 1.0-2.0.*)
· Added SeaMonkey support (versions 2.0a2+ only)
· Some address bar positions are not available in certain browsers
December 6th, 2008· IP database update for December 2008
· Fixed a couple flag icons
· Fixed an extension conflict
· Changed popups to info bars (limit one unique message per session)
November 4th, 2008· IP database update for November 2008
· Added Malaysian (ms-MY) locale
October 6th, 2008· IP database update for October 2008
· Disabled lookup attempts for IPv6 and added IPv6 localhost icon (i.e. for Vista)
· Added domain and IP address to tooltip for unknown sites
· Added Macedonian (mk-MK) locale
September 25th, 2008· Fixed error on loading into a window without an address bar
· Added some exceptions to TLD check
· Some more locale fixes
September 18th, 2008· Fixed some error reporting problems
· Some minor icon and locale fixes
· Added support for Flock 2
September 17th, 2008· IP database update for September 2008
· Added ability to position flag icon in address bar (some positions require Firefox 3+)
· Added "Left Most" option for status bar positioning (and "Right Most" in RTL locales)
· Added new custom action feature to allow user specified lookup URLs
· Added Google search within domain as default custom action (disabled by default)
· Replaced obsolete proxy prompt with a simple warning
· Added a warning when Flagfox is not set to have updates checked (needed for IPDB accuracy)
· Added a popup note for when TLD does not match the current country (common user confusion)
· Added an error icon and tooltip to distinguish a lookup error from an unknown site
· Changed private IP address range names to better describe CIDR block
· Improved error detection and reporting
· Fixed problem with Wikipedia linking for some localized installations
· Fixed some issues with preferences
· Added Bulgarian (bg-BG), Turkish (tr-TR), and Persian (fa-IR) locales and updated existing locales
· Dropped support for Firefox 1.5 and added support for Firefox 3.1 prereleases
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