A place for my programming projects and the occasional blog about technology related matters.
Highlander Versions
Version 1.1.3 — September 21, 2007
Added german locale, thanks to Fux from www.firefox-browser.de who translated. Also fixed a bug where if you had www.example.com open in new window, but then tried to open it in another window then Highlander would stop it from loading, but not switch to the window that had it open before. That’s been fixed now, thanks to Jason Phillips for sending in that bug report.
Version 1.1.2 — September 11, 2007
This is just a quick fix for those with a German locale. I ripped out the german locale from v1.1 because I added some more gui but didn’t have a translator but forgot to remove it from chrome.manifest. So all german users got errors. This is now fixed. But if someone wants to submit a german translation please contact me and I’ll be happy to include it. It’s only like 10 strings or something.
Version 1.1.1 — September 9, 2007
This version adds an option to ignore hash signs (bookmarks) in urls. So for instance:
http://example.com/index.html#chapter1
and
http://example.com/index.html#somethingelse
would be considered the same url. However, you have to turn on this functionality specifically by going to about:config and setting extensions.highlander.ignoreHash to true. I didn’t want to set this as default because if you have index.html open on #something and you’re clicking a link that goes to #anotherthing then you could be pretty annoyed if the link didn’t take you where you want to go. So, enable if you want, otherwise there is no change.
Version 1.1 — August 25, 2007
This version adds two much-requested features:
- Whitelist of urls not affected. These can be specified with wildcards, * is the wildcard character and will match any characters zero or more times. Access through Tools - Highlander - Whitelist.
- Ability to disable Highlander. Access through Tools - Highlander - Enabled.
Other changes include some internal code rewrites, and making sure that POST requests are never stopped, even if there is a tab with the same url already open, as the post data may be different in them.
Version 1.0 — March 7, 2007
Malte Kraus wrote this version and pretty much rewrote the extension from scratch. It now supports open in new tab, open from javascript, ctrl+click, open from bookmarks, pretty much everything. Now there really can only be one tab for each url 
Version 0.1 — December 14, 2006
Note: This doesn’t work if you Ctrl + click a link, then it’ll still load in a background tab, even if it’s already open in another tab. I might fix that, or maybe make it configurable in a later version.