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Version 0.78.1 is available on Mozilla

DickS — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:06:15 +0000

The hotfix version 0.78.1 is now available on the Mozilla website. Update from Firefox.

Enjoy!

0.78.1 released

DickS — Sun, 16 May 2010 09:40:40 +0000

We released version 0.78.1 which is a first hotfix release.

Changes:
- Fixed incorrect greying of Rewrite Image Links option (ID: 2998489)
- Fixed hiding of new leftNavBar when streaming web results
- Fixed showing alternate search sites due to change in web UI

As soon as it is on the AMO website OG will auto update. Thanks for all the feedback!

OG 0.78 (aka. “Still Alive”) has been released!

DickS — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:02:02 +0000

I’m proud to announce that we’ve published OG 0.78 to the Mozilla add-on website. and are waiting for Mozilla to approve the update.

As soon as it has been approved, you will see it appear here.

For those wishing to get it now, you can download it from the download page.

Changelog – 01.04.2010 – v0.78 – “Still Alive” By Eitan Adler & Phoglenix

Added the ability to set preferences for all of google instead of per service
Fixed alternative search sites in video search.
Fixed sometimes unrecognised image page in image search.
Fixes to locales (still some missing, please help!).

Developers needed

DickS — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:38:03 +0000

As you all know Glen did and is doing a great job on crushing bugs in OG but some are so time consuming that we have decided to actively go to our fan club and ask for volenteers who can help Glen with the development. We all have our day jobs and private lives and thus spreading the workload on multiple shoulders to speed up the OG development is a good thing for the application. So, if you know PHP, Javascript and have (preferably) experience with Firefox add-ons please give us a helping hand!

If you are interested and want to know more please reply to this post.

OptimizeGoogle now verified and generally available

DickS — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:11:11 +0000

Today the folks at Mozilla officially verified our add-on and have removed the “experimental” tag. This means OG is now generally available to everybody!

Thanks to all the people who have and still report bugs and improvements. And of course the biggest credit goes to Glen who has taken on the OG project to keep this wonderful add-on alive. Well done and keep up the excellent work!

Bugtracker available

DickS — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:12:21 +0000

We’ve setup a public bugtracker and suggest that you report any bugs there. This is more convenient to track then the Google groups.

To go to the new bugtracker, click “Report a bug” on the left.

OptimizeGoogle is on Mozilla Add-On website

DickS — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:07:19 +0000

We put OG on the official Mozilla website. We will be primarily updating it there and using this site for news, etc.

Link to OG: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/52498

PS: It has “experimental” status until Mozilla team have verified the release (which should not be long).

[08:42:03 | Bearbeitet 08:42:05] Andres Kaasik: Hi Dick, if you ask can we prevent an application to connect to multiple Skype instances, the answer is no
[08:48:15] Dick Schiferli: an application also can’t prevent connection to multiple Skype APIs right?
[08:58:37] Andres Kaasik: it can
[08:59:55] Andres Kaasik: I think an app can query process id from hwnd and not to connect to multiple processes at the same time. Or just to connect to the first API

Welcome to OptimizeGoogle

DickS — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:30:48 +0000

As I also really like the Firefox plugin “CustomizeGoogle” but have noticed there is no new release since October 2008, I decided to setup a WordPress blog to provide a platform to keep the plugin alive. As Google makes changes the plugin needs to change as well.

What does CustomizeGoogle do? It provides the following three core functions:

Removes all ads on Google pages.
Allows to switch to HTTPS when accessing Google pages like Gmail, Google Docs, etc.
Protects your privacy: Removes click tracking and does not send tracking information (Google Analytics and Unique UID).

So I’ve collected the changes I could find on the internet and created a new version which you can download here. I am not a programmer by profession and as such I hope some people will volenteer to create a team to keep this plugin up to date and easily available.