HISTORY
Legend: [+] added, [x] changed/improved, [-] bugfix
Version 3.3 (14-Jul-2008)
- [+] New FavIcon system of Opera 9.5 supported (this version of AM-DeadLink can no longer download Opera 9.2x FavIcons)
- [+] Internet-Explorer Favorites: AM-DeadLink preserves the read-only flag of *.URL files
- Smaller improvements
Version 3.2 (27-Feb-2008)
- [+] AM-DeadLink can be installed as portable application
- [+] Check *.URL files on your hard disk
- [x] Changed shortcut to edit bookmark properties: F2
- [x] AM-DeadLink no longer reports HTML redirections when they are placed in noscript areas
- [x] NTLM proxy authentication improved
- [x] Proxy support with user/password authentication improved
- [-] AM-DeadLink reported an error if a bookmark had a valid 2xx status code
- [-] Some servers reported an error when Accept-Language wasn't sent to the server
- [-] AM-DeadLink could crash when copying a bookmark to clipboard
- [-] File+Export always used the file extension ".txt"
- [-] FTP addresses didn't work under certain circumstances
- Minor fixes and improvements
Version 3.1 (11-Apr-2007)
- [-] AM-DeadLink could crash after a check run (seems that this bug was available for years and happened in rare circumstances)
- [x] Some stability improvements
- Minor fixes/improvements
Version 3.0 (07-Feb-2007)
- [+] Windows Vista: Flip3D, thumbnail preview and correct animations supported
- [x] Windows Vista: Use "Segoe UI" as default font
- [-] Windows Vista: Several controls could disappear when the ALT key was pressed
- [x] Internal check technology completely rewritten (should fix several "mysterious" bugs)
- [+] Save all Firefox FavIcons to disk (extract embedded FavIcons)
- [+] Sort Bookmarks with FavIcons to the top of list (Bookmarks menu)
- [x] Several user interface tweaks
- [+] File+Open works also for Opera/Firefox/Mozilla
- [-] AM-DeadLink could crash on exit when a anti virus software or a desktop search software blocked the configuration files
- Minor tweaks and fixes
Version 2.8.1 (11-Oct-2006)
- [-] Delete duplicates from Mozilla/Firefox: Bookmarks were deleted from the wrong folder under certain circumstances
- [-] Update URL in Mozilla/Firefox bookmarks improved
- [x] wininet.dll check technology improved
- [x] Internal check technology improved
- [-] AM-DeadLink could crash under certain circumstances when the check technology wininet.dll was selected
- [-] Leading/Trailing spaces in the URL could cause a false positive
- Smaller improvements/fixes
Version 2.8 (26-Jun-2006)
- [+] FavIcon download - new option: Override/Keep existing FavIcons
- [+] FavIcons can be assigned manually
- [+] Find Duplicates: Select all duplicates with a single click
- [x] AM-DeadLink shows an error message if not all IE Favorites could be loaded due to some Unicode restrictions
- [x] AM-DeadLink no longer removes manually assigned FavIcons automatically when a server/page doesn't have a FavIcon. FavIcons can now only be removed with the "Delete FavIcons" command.
- [+] If you don't work with the internal browser, then the "Open in browser" command will open all selected bookmarks in the external browser
- [-] The status of the last check was lost when closing AM-DeadLink while the duplicate view was active
- [-] AM-DeadLink could hang in combination with nVidia graphic drivers
- [-] AM-DeadLink could crash when aborting a check on some PCs (wininet check technology only)
- [-] Start maximized didn't work under Win2k under certain circumstances
- [-] The "One level up" feature didn't work properly for URLs with parameters (?param=...)
- [-] Check was not finished properly in rare cases (concretely when a windows dll hung)
- Many smaller improvements and fixes
Version 2.7
- [x] Find duplicates: www. is now ignored when searching for duplicates
- [x] Perfomance for Firefox bookmarks significantly improved
- [-] AM-DeadLink could crash when the opened URL tried to close the internal browser
- [+] NTLM Proxy support for wininet check technology
- [-] FTP-Proxy configuration: Password field was displayed in plain text instad of "*" characters
- Several memory and performance improvements
Version 2.06
- [+] Firefox is now listed as separate browser (you must no longer use the Mozilla settings for Firefox)
- [+] Firefox: FavIcons supported
- [+] AM-DeadLink supports individual profiles for each user on a computer (multi user installation)
- [x] FavIcons should also work with GIF, JPG, PNG and BMP images
- [-] A message box could be hidden behind the application window under certain circumstances
- [-] AM-DeadLink could display an "error in UTF-8 format" message when a bookmark file wasn't in UTF-8 format
- [-] AM-DeadLink could also delete FavIcons which were placed in subdirectories of the specified FavIcon directory. Now AM-DeadLink deletes only FavIons which are placed exactly in the FavIcon directory.
- [-] Fixed a bug where AM-DeadLink could override a manually assigned FavIcon to IE Favorites
- [+] Some untypical redirections supported
- [x] AM-DeadLink no longer displays a message box when a bookmark file couldn't be converted from UTF-8 format. In that case you cannot edit the bookmark name, but you can check and delete bookmarks and download FavIcons as well.
- [x] When starting AM-DeadLink, the last opened bookmark list is loaded after the main window is displayed.
- [x] Improved detection of Mozilla and Firefox data directory
- [x] Support for Netscape 3/4/6 dropped
- [x] Improved memory handling
- [x] Check process improved
- [x] Many internal improvements
Version 2.05
- Improved: FavIcons were not detected under certain circumstances
- Usage of Internet Explorer Cookies improved
- Fixed: AM-DeadLink could crash if Opera or Mozilla bookmarks were not encoded correctly in UTF-8 format
- Fixed: If a bookmark file was not saved correctly in UTF-8 format, then the bookmark list could be truncated
- Changed: If a bookmark file cannot be decoded from UTF-8 format, then the bookmark name is displayed as-is, but cannot be edited to avoid conflicts
- Improved UTF-8 detection/handling
Version 2.04
- Fixed: Updating FavIcons in Opera didn't work under several circumstances
Version 2.03
- AM-DeadLink no longer deletes FavIcons which are located outside the
specified FavIcon directory. This will prevent the deletion of favicon files
which have been assigned manually from other locations.
Version 2.02
- Fixed a cookie problem which could cause a false positive
Version 2.01
- Opera and Mozilla bookmarks should now work with cyrillic character font
- Handling of Opera bookmarks rewritten, should now also work correctly
with buggy Opera bookmark files
Version 2.0
- AM-DeadLink can download/update FavIcons for Internet Explorer and Opera 7.5 bookmarks (FavIcons are detected from HTML source or favicon.ico from server root)
- Support of Mozilla bookmarks
- CSV files with URLs can be checked
- Tab-delimited files supported
- Support of IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names)
- https protocol supported
- Bookmark list can be exported to text file
- Check works optional with wininet or internal method
- You can specify the number of check attempts when a site is not reachable
- AM-DeadLink saves the last check status between sessions (for bookmarks only). This feature is enabled by default and can be disabled in the general options. For many bookmarks this option can slow down the loading process.
- Internal browser has a popup blocker
- Internal browser: New button to go one level up
- IE-Favorites/absolute path column: AM-DeadLink shows now the absolute path within the folder structure and not the absolute path to the *.url file
- Internal Browser: Search with Google added, search phrase is the name of the selected bookmark (toolbar button with hammer)
- Internal Browser: Replace bookmark URL with opened URL (toolbar button with hammer)
- Context menu: Show source code of *.URL file (for IE favorites only)
- AM-DeadLink can now check the existence of local directories
- The internal check method uses now cookies from Internet Explorer. If login data are stored in cookies then AM-DeadLink can now check the correct page.
- New function "Set status to OK"
- New internal checking engine
- Improved detection of IE Proxy settings
- After changing/deleting a bookmark the browser bookmark is not changed immediately, you have to save the list manually
- Internal file format (*.amd) has been removed
- Bugfix: Name or IE favorites can now contain apostrophes (')
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