[Needlesearch] Sneak preview of NeedleSearch 2.5

[rimez]

Well, unfortunately it's not working with FF 1PR.  Is there any plan in 
the very near future to release an update which will work with this 
version of FF?

cheers,
Rimez

Eelco van Kuik wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>Finally the next release is here: NeedleSearch 2.5. I've been very busy and
>this has held up development to some (great) extent.
>
>I am sending you this since I was hoping that you could assist me with
>testing before I set it live. Due to the media exposure of NeedleSearch
>specifically and the increased interest in Firefox and Mozilla as a browser
>in general I am now having an average of 5000 visitors a month for this
>plugin. Not bad! But I am a little hesitant to set this live immediately.
>
>If you would like to have a look at the latest version of NeedleSearch
>please read on.
>
>First of all, THIS CAN'T BE INSTALLED ON A BROWSER WITH A NEEDLESEARCH
>VERSION OLDER THAN THIS ONE. You will have to install this on a clean
>install of Mozilla or Firefox. All following versions of NeedleSearch will
>have no problem installing. This has something to do with the fact that
>Firefox completely changed the install procedure.
>
>This has been tested on: Firefox 0.9 and Mozilla 1.7 and above on Windows
>and Linux and it worked.
>I also found out that IT DOES NOT WORK ON Firefox 0.8 and Mozilla 1.4.
>People with browsers of that version can still use the old NeedleSearch I
>will keep it being available. I didn't test it on Mozilla 1.5 & 1.6, so the
>NeedleSearch Toolbar should stop working somewhere between version 1.4 and
>1.7.
>
>Future versions of NeedleSearch will always be based on this version, so the
>browser support will probably keep being the same.
>
>Now about this version: what's new!
>
>- Complete code rewrite; The code is now much tidyer, clearer and easier to
>maintain. Thereby making it possible for other programmers to contribute
>without being in each others way.
>- Support for the new Installer of Firefox. I recommend using NeedleSearch
>with Firefox from now on, since that browser will take over from Mozilla.
>- Install option for Mozilla to install NS either in the user directory or
>the program directory. This is very practical on computers other than
>Windows with administrator rights. As a result you will start with a clean
>Bookmarkslist every time you create a new profile. But this is not a
>problem, because of the next feature:
>- Import/export function for your NeedleSearch Bookmarks. If you want to
>keep your current NSBookmarks that is no problem. Just start up the import
>function from the editor/manager (File > Import...) and go to the directory
>where you have your current browser installed. Then go to
>chrome/needlesearch/content. You will see a file here called:
>NeedleSearchData.rdf, import it and you have back your own bookmark-list.
>- And last but not least, the editor has improved.
>
>If you would like to have a look at the new NeedleSearch Toolbar I would
>very much appreciate it if you could fill in the testgaps I mentioned above.
>I haven't tested it on a Mac, Mozilla versions before 1.7, etc.
>
>:Eelco van Kuik
>Project owner of the NeedleSearch Toolbar
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