RELEASE NOTES—PicLens for Firefox


Version 1.6.3.2361 (April 14, 2008) FF2 Win FF3 Win FF2 Mac FF3 Mac
  • Added YouTube video support via the PicLens search bar
  • Added meta data for images and video
  • Added new icon for jumping to the corresponding page of any image or video
  • Added enlarge/shrink toggle in full-screen mode
  • Added support for both Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.0
  • Optimized Media RSS support so webmasters can enable the PicLens experience on their websites

Version 1.6.2.1605 (March 7, 2008) FF2 Win FF2 Mac
  • Adopted Direct 3D for hardware 3D acceleration on the Windows platform
  • Improved the engine to address graphical distortions and crashes on some systems
  • Optimized performance of PicLens on Media RSS feeds

Version 1.6.1.1029 (February 5, 2008) FF2 Win FF2 Mac
  • Added built-in search functionality for popular sites, including Google Images, Yahoo Images, Flickr, SmugMug, deviantART, and Photobucket

Version 1.6.0.824 (January 24, 2008) FF2 Win FF2 Mac
  • Fixed various bugs affecting toolbar

Version 1.6.0.654 Public Beta (January 14, 2008) FF2 Win FF2 Mac
  • Initial public beta release featuring the all-new 3D Wall interface
  • Tripled the number of officially supported sites

Version 1.5.16 (November 30, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Restored functionality for Google Images, which was temporarily lost when Google revamped link structure for images.

Version 1.5.15 (November 5, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Repaired backend bug.

Version 1.5.14 (October 25, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Further improved overall performance

Version 1.5.13 (October 23, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Now works seamlessly with Windows Vista in composited mode without switching to Basic
  • Resolved warning popups that occurred on some sites
  • Restored compatibility with Yahoo Images

Version 1.5.12 (October 18, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Resolved conflicts with Firefox addons LiveTV Toolbar and SplitBrowser
  • Fixed bug affecting some systems where PicLens icon lingers on desktop
  • Fixed bug affecting some systems where PicLens icon lingers on desktop applications
  • Fixed bug where PicLens would crash the browser on kingdomofloathing.com.

Version 1.5.11 (August 23, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Improved stability on Windows to resolve system error reported by some users

Version 1.5.10 (August 22, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Resolved conflict with some other browser extensions
  • Improved stability on Windows
  • Minor improvements on both Mac and Windows

Version 1.5.9 (August 13, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Enhanced robustness of Media RSS support
  • Improved performance and fixed minor issues

Version 1.5.8 (August 4, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Got Google Images on PicLens up and running again
  • Improved CPU memory management
  • Optimized graphic rendering and fixed related bugs
  • Improved overall stability for Windows systems

Version 1.5.4 (July 6, 2007) FF2 Win
  • Fixed installation issue on Windows XP
  • Enabled sites with .com.xy style suffixes, e.g. google.com.au
  • Enabled mouse wheel to scroll through pictures

Version 1.5.3 (June 28, 2007)
  • Fixed bug affecting Picasa Web Albums on some systems

Version 1.5.2 (June 16, 2007)
  • Move the "x" (close button) to top right corner of screen
  • Tweaked image engine to run faster

Version 1.5.1 (June 11, 2007)
  • Launched PicLens for Firefox (beta)