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FIREFOX EXTENSION - CHANGE HISTORY
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5.3.3 (25th August 2008)
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x Passwords are now masked on entry
x Spurious characters removed from Authentication tab with Pro tool
x Screenshots are no longer available with 'Send source' option


5.3 (29th June 2008)
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o Support for all the new Advanced Tool options
o Added missing Pro Tool options
o Separated 'upload for screenshot' from 'validate web page source'
o Can now validate individual protected pages using the page source


5.2 (15th April 2008)
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o 'Show on success' option now on Validations tab.
  This allows page layout to be viewed even when no problems found
o Reinstated screenshots for Firefox 1.0, 1.5 and Mozilla 1.7 on Linux
o Support for Firefox 3 OSX screenshots
o Support for Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.1 OSX screenshots
o Support for Safari 3.1 Windows screenshots


5.1 (21st March 2008)
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o Support for JP, GB, PL, BR, ES, FR, IT locales
o Reformatted so will work properly in different locales
o Added German spell checking
o Support for Firefox 3 Windows screenshots
o Support for Firefox 3 and Opera9 Linux screenshots
o Removed Firefox 1.0 (Linux), Firefox 1.5 (Linux) and Mozilla (Linux)


5.0 (27th January 2008)
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o Support for the new Advanced desktop tool to validate local/intranet pages
  with just one click
o Support for running on Firefox 3.0b2
o Revamp of the Options dialog to improve useability
o Internal refactoring to improve stability
o Readied for support of WCAG2 and HTML5 standards in future release


4.5 (4th December 2007)
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o Can now use the Basic desktop tool to validate local/intranet pages
  with one click
o Support for running on Firefox 3.0b1
o Safari v3.0 for OS/X screenshots


4.4 (9th October 2007)
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o Two new desktop tool options added to allow parameters to be stripped
  from links to prevent loops when validating a whole site
o Corrected the version number displayed


4.3 (15th September 2007)
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o Better handling of desktop tool checkbox when desktop tool is not installed
o Skip path option now supports regular expressions


4.2 (5th August 2007)
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o Allow multi-browser screenshot selection for desktop tool users
o Button to launch the desktop tool UI
o Camino for OS/X screenshots


4.1 (30th June 2007)
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o Support for alternative suffix for mail attachments to help
  bypass fussy mail servers
o Added Hide Results and Remote Links options in desktop tool section
o Reorganised desktop tool section to make Options more compact


4.0 (12th May 2007)
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o New branding
o Tabs for validation options only appear only when necessary
o New options for specifying output folder/file for desktop tool
o Moved 'hide content' option to the desktop tool section


3.6 (19th February 2007)
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o Option to generate a short report
o Removed Mozilla for OS/X screenshots (too unstable)


3.5 (17th January 2007)
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o Passes cookies for current page to desktop tool to preserve sessions
o Support for desktop tool Save Misspelt Words option


3.4 (8th December 2006)
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o Support for IE4.01 and IE5.01 screenshots
o Support for small upgrades to other browser screenshots


3.3.1 (21st November 2006)
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o Bug Fix: Sometimes local files are not validated
o Turns off status bar icon in a nicer way


3.3 (16th November 2006)
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o Validate individual frames through the context menu
o New interactive authentication option for desktop tool users
o Bug Fix: No longer resets the desktop tool path when click 'Defaults'


3.2.1 (6th November 2006)
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o Bug Fix: Toolbar button wasn't working


3.2 (29th October 2006)
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o New Best-fit option for HTML validation that works out the best HTML
  standard to test against irrespective of any existing !DOCTYPE tag
o IE v7 and Firefox v2 (Windows,Linux,OS/X) screenshots
o Full support for Mac and Linux versions of the desktop tool


3.1 (9th October 2006)
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o Bug Fix: Gave alert if Basic tool installed and the option to use the
  desktop tool is ticked
o Added tooltips to Options dialog


3.0 (30th September 2006)
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o Support for Firefox 2.0
o New Mac screenshot options (desktop tool required)
o New 1280x1024 resolution for screenshots
o Automatically detects and launches the desktop tool for faster
  validation and many more options such as multi-page validation
o New tab with many additional options for use with the desktop tool
o Bug Fix: When click Validate on option page it didn't use any recent
  changes to the options


2.3 (11th September 2006)
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o Added support for validating local files and files behind firewalls
  (see documentation at http://www.totalvalidator.com/support/extension.html)
o Options now available from the FF Extensions dialog
o You can now validate directly from the Options dialog
o Fixed synchronisation problems with Help->User interface options
o Tested with 2.0beta


2.2 (23rd June 2006)
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o Opera v9 screen shots supported
o Opera v6 deprecated (setting auto-migrated to Opera v7)


2.1 (12th May 2006)
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o If a web page has a lang or xml:lang atribute set it is only spell checked
  if this language is compatible with the language chosen for the spell check
o New option to override this new feature and provide the old behaviour


2.0 (7th May 2006)
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o Completely refactored internally
o Screen shot resolutions and delay options added
o An email address may be provided to run validations in the background
o Option to switched status bar and context menu (rt mouse click) items on
  and off
o New dedicated support page describing each option and a link there from
  Help tab


1.0 (1st Apr 2006)
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o Initial release of extension.
o Provides one-click validation of the page you are viewing from within
  Firefox, by sending the URL of the current page to the online service.
o All five validations are available together with most of the advanced
  options from the website.
o Toolbar button available.
o The options may be set through a dialog accessed from the Firefox tools
  menu or rt mouse click on the status bar or toolbar icons.