FireTune version history: ========================= v1.2 - June 23rd 2008 - Ready for Firefox 3.x ** Updated to support Firefox 3.x ----------------------------- v1.1.4 - February 8th 2007 - Improvements and fixes ** Several fixes in relation to Windows 64bit editions ** Some internal changes and optimizations ----------------------------- v1.1.3 - October 23rd 2006 - Compatible with Firefox v2 ** FireTune is fully compatible with Firefox v2.x ** A few changes to the setup ** Fixes and corrections to the helpfile ----------------------------- v1.1.2 - August 6th 2006 - Improvements ** A few internal optimizations and performance improvements ** Some updated and corrected language files ----------------------------- v1.1.1 - April 11th 2006 - Improvements, Feature addition ** Some changes to the main performance tweaks - please re-apply the optimizations for your specific hardware configuration ** A new tweak included to optimize Firefox' memory usage ** A few internal optimizations and performance improvements ----------------------------- v1.1.0 - January 18th 2006 - Service release ** Fixing some very rare problems on startup of FireTune causing a crash of the application on some machines ** There were still some ways to optimize both the program code and the tweaks for Firefox ** Fixing a file copy error during setup ----------------------------- v1.0.9 - December 13th 2005 - Fully compatible with Firefox 1.5 ** FireTune v1.0.9 has been tested successfully on Firefox 1.5 and was found to be fully compatible ** Since there are controversial statements on the 'Prefetcher' option of shortcuts, we have removed the 'Fast Start' option from FireTune. Although we found that FireFox started faster with that feature enabled, we decided to disable this option in v1.0.9 - in case you want that option to be enabled again and decide yourself whether that feature has any positive effect or not, change the FastStart' option in the FireTune settings.ini to "Yes" and restart FireTune. ** Some minor changes and optimization not related to the optimizations, but to the program code ----------------------------- v1.0.8 - October 27th 2005 - Ready for Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 ** FireTune v1.0.8 has been tested on Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 and was found to be fully compatible ** Some very few users reported unexpected error messages - those errors have been fixed by some additional error handlers that have been added ** A few code changes and optimizations ----------------------------- v1.0.7 - September 29th 2005 - New feature - Improvements ** New feature added to control auto-complete of the URL box ** A few internal optimizations and improvements ** New language file and help file added: Espaņol (Colombia) ** Some changes to the setup ----------------------------- v1.0.6 - August 18th 2005 - Improvements ** Some changes to the main performance tweaks - please re-apply the optimizations for your specific hardware configuration ** FireTune v1.0.6 has been tested on Windows Vista Beta 1 and was found to be fully compatible ** A few internal optimizations and performance improvements ** Added 'Romanian' and 'Lithuanian' language files ----------------------------- v1.0.5 - June 23rd 2005 - Improvements ** The 'Performance tweaks common to all configurations' feature has been optimized once again. Please do re-apply the tweak ** Updated helpfile ** Added 'Chinese traditional' language file ----------------------------- v1.0.4 - May 31st 2005 - Fixes and Improvements - Recommended update ** There was a problem with the code that saved the type of optimization that was applied last time FireTune was executed. This has been fixed. ** A few code optimizations ** Some more languages added: Chinese (Simplified) and Indonesian ----------------------------- v1.0.3 - May 12th 2005 - Improvements ** FireTune now saves the last type of optimization you have applied to a profile so that it is pre-selected by FireTune next time you start it. Please re-apply your optimizations for this feature to work! ** A few internal optimizations and improvements ** Some more languages added: Macedonian, Catalan, Ukranian, Bosnian, Slovenian, and Greek ** Updated helpfile ** Improved setup ----------------------------- v1.0.2 - April 27th 2005 - Service release ** Fixing a few issues with screen font settings larger than 96 DPI ** Some changes to the online update version check ** Some optimizations to a couple of tweaks ** A couple of changes to the helpfile ** New languages included: Bulgarian, Danish, Estonian, Norwegian ** New setup included since the old one was not working properly under certain circumstances. A version of FireTune that does not require installation can be downloaded from http://www.firetune.com ----------------------------- v1.0.1 - April 16th 2005 - New features ** FireTune now supports both installed versions of Firefox, as well as the portable version - see: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ ** The 'Performance tweaks common to all configurations' feature has been optimized once again ** Some internal changes to a couple of code sections ** FireTune has successfully been tested to work properly on Windows 98SE and Windows Me ** New languages added: Czech, Finnish, Portugues, Slovak, Svenska, and Turkish ** Updated helpfile ----------------------------- v1.0 - April 6th 2005 - Huge update - new interface - new features! ** FireTune now has a tabbed user interface to offer more room for future development ;) ** The 'Performance tweaks common to all configurations' feature can now be activated as well as deactivated ** New feature: force Firefox to display an error page instead of an error messagebox when there's a problem with a URL ** New feature: the 'Browser Turbo' option has been replaced by a new feature to create a shortcut to Firefox on the desktop to launch Firefox faster with the Windows XP Prefetcher option ** New FireTune graphics and FireTune icon (thanks to MayoSoft (http://www.mayosoft.net) for providing the graphics!) ** Improved 'Check for new version' feature ** Fixing a problem with the saved path to the current language file ** The warning on startup to create a backup of the configuration file is now displayed on the very first start only ** FireTune now comes with a small setup for easy installation ** German helpfile added (translated by Carsten Becker & Johannes Radig, Team www.emulemasters.net) ** Lots of code optimizations ** Updated language files ** Updated helpfile ----------------------------- v0.7 - March 31st 2005 - Optimized features! ** Optimized the 'Performance tweaks common to all configurations' feature: we improved it to force Firefox to start rendering a page as soon as it starts receiving information ** Support for Russian and other non unicode languages ** Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Nederlands, Brasileiro, and Spanish language files added ** Some more code optimizations ** Updated helpfile ----------------------------- v0.6 - March 26th 2005 - New features! ** FireTune is now multilingual - due to its incredible popularity we decided to make FireTune to support language files. The user interface of FireTune can now be translated easily into other languages ** Option added to enable the Firefox 'Browser Turbo' setting for a faster startup of Firefox ** German and English language files included ** Some changes to the UI We'd like to say 'Thanks' to all the people out there promoting FireTune. You made this the most popular tuner for Firefox. When you enter 'FireTune' into Google today, you get more than 360.000 results. Thank you!!! ----------------------------- v0.5 - March 23rd 2005 - Recommended Update! ** Now FireTune handles the content of the Firefox configuration files completely different compared to previous versions. This fixes a few problems with Firefox extensions that wrote very long configuration lines into the configuration file ** Some more improvements to the code resulting from the changes in handling the configuration files ----------------------------- v0.4 - March 21st 2005 ** Option added to enable caching of objects that are served over a secure connection (SSL). This really speeds up regulary used SSL connections (only suggested for machines where it is secure to cache objects from a secure connection!) ** Fixing a minor issue with one of the speed optimizations. Please re-apply your optimizations ** Lots of code optimizations ** Some minor bug fixes ** Smaller executable ** Updated information and help file ** Some more changes to the UI ----------------------------- v0.3 - March 18th 2005 ** FireTune now supports user profiles that are not stored in the default user profile directory ** Several changes and improvements ** Added a small information and help file ** Installer removed, as it was not really required ** Some changes to the UI ** Code optimizations ----------------------------- v0.2 - March 17th 2005 ** some minor changes ----------------------------- v0.1 - March 16th 2005: ** first release