[Companion] new alpha posted

[Dave Viner]

Hi all,

Sorry i've been MIA recently. (holidays always throw
my schedule into chaos.)  Brian K sent me a big patch
that i just posted to the download servers as
05520050103.xpi.  This contains several patches
discussed on the mailing list.  If there are things
i've missed, please send a patch file (*.diff) against
what is now in CVS, and i will get it into the base
code.  Here's the changelog of everything that i think
got patched:

# NLS bookmarks, rather than 'unicode escapes' for
non-latin characters. (bug #8253) [B. Kennelly]
    * Created AddBookmark function, so we do not
create 1000 copies of the same script.  (It is also
easier to debug.) [B. Kennelly]
    * Fixed problem adding bookmarks to the root menu
in chinese languages [B. Kennelly]
    * Performance improvements for large, or deeply
nested, bookmark menus (bug #8126) [B. Kennelly]
    * Correct version number in Firefox [B. Kennelly]
    * Uninstall works. (bug #5862) [B. Kennelly]
        * Uses extension manager in Firefox
    * Correct handling of buttons with leading $ESRV
(e.g., 'Choose buttons' ) [B. Kennelly]
    * Raw_companion_feed.txt is opened with TRUNCATE
and CREATE flags [B. Kennelly]
        * Trims leftover feed data
    * Recognizes the new 'alert' icon (mno2.bmp). (bug
#8340) [B. Kennelly]
    * Default search (pressing enter) uses UTF-8, so
it works in more languages [B. Kennelly]

thanks
dave