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Interclue 1.6.1.2 

 * New Sidewiki Hoverclue [beta]
 * Turned off "process on fetch" by default
 * Removed Search refinements from Bing Video Search
 * Removed Search refinements from Google Timeline Search
 
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Interclue 1.6.1.1

 * Options window was broken on MacOS. Fixed. 

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Interclue 1.6.1

 * A complete re-write of the Hoverclues feature. Faster, shinier, less obtrusive & 
    more compatible with Mac & Linux! 
 * The Hoverclues re-write also appears to fix some intermittant bugs 
   (eg, the "octet stream error") being reported by some windows user.
 * Updated tutorial to mention the Hoverclues.
 * A warning will now appear if you have Firefox's cookie settings configured such that
   Interclue will cause too many cookie confirmation dialogs.  
 
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Interclue 1.6.0.2

 * disabling Hoverclues on non-windows platforms until we can fix the windowing issues

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Interclue 1.6.0.1

 * forgot to enable the new Hoverclues and Search Refinements options pages

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Interclue 1.6

New Features:

* HoverClues: Hints that appear at the bottom of the page when you hover over certain types of link. 
* ShortURL redirection information in HoverClues, via the LongUrl.org API (great for twitter!)
* Optional Search refinement links on the 3 major search sites, powered by Surf Canyon.
* Optional Delicious Tags shown inline underneath search results on the 3 major search sites.
* Option to turn off all icons on internal/menu links

Tweaks:

* Linkclue icons now appear semi-transparent before you mouse over them. 
* Compatibility tweaks for Firefox 3.5, WOT, Surfcanyon and CoolPreviews
* Increased default maximum image size to 256KB.

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a javascript error when checking "click to preview" links
* Fixed a conflict with the MakeLink addon which prevented Interclue from being initalized
* del.icio.us popup now closes correctly after link has been saved. 
* Fixed a bug with the "reset options" button. 

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Interclue 1.5.8.2 

An urgent patch for an issue with Firefox 3.5 causing certificate dialogs to appear when attempting to retrieve favicons 
from some sites. This problem reared it's head again due to changes in the the internal Firefox nsIFaviconService. 

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Interclue 1.5.8.1 

New Features: 

* PDF's are now previeweable thanks to the awesome PDFMeNot.com
* Bookmark Linkclue indicates if you have bookmarked a link
* Bookmark Metaclue gives the date you bookmarked a link 
* You can now submit a screenshot when filing bug reports.  

Tweaks: 

* Now compatible with Firefox 3.1b2 

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a javascript error when checking "click to preview" links
* Fixed a conflict with the MakeLink addon which prevented Interclue from being initalized
* Fixed a bug with the "reset options" button. 

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Interclue 1.5.7

New Features: 

* Clueviewer can be closed by hitting the [ESC] key

Tweaks:

* Better layout for internal anchor clues when they contain PRE tags
* Removed minimize/maximize buttons from dialogs
* Better summary if large image is broken in image preview
* Added "Untitled" link for clues for non-HTML files with no filename
* Using Adblock Plus API rather than permently adding filters for the Amazon product preview

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a clash between Interclue and Facebook's new design
* Fixed an error with incorrect stats being sent if "Check for new versions on browser start" 
is selected.
* Fixed a Linkclue positioning error
* Clueviewer no longer gets locked open and unable to be closed
* Interclue no longer uses too many CPU cycles on Macs
* Fixed a bug where Interclue would cause an Unresponsive Script error when visiting certain 
pages


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Interclue 1.5.6.1

Tweaks:

* No longer triggers the reflexes of the PHP-based "Bad Behaviour" anti-spam-bot script. 
  Interclue was not really behaving badly - the behaviour in question was RFC-compliant, 
  but according to the author of "Bad Behaviour" script, "real user-agents do not start ranges at 0".
  We removed the range header from Interclue HTTP requests and that has solved the problem.
  Many thanks to Ivan from Lutrov Communications for bringing this issue to our attention.
* Restricted the maximum size of the "redirected link" info block, as it was sometimes 
  taking up way too much room in the Clueviewer.
* Improved differentiation of Site-Navigation Links from ordinary internal links.

Bug Fixes:

* Workaround for a layout bug when Interclue is used on a site containing the YUI lightbox script
* Fixed a conflict with some stylish styles (Google Web Search - dark blue redesign (vC), 
  About:Blank: Crystal Firefox (Embedded)) which affected the Clueviewer 

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Interclue 1.5.6

New Features: 

* Malware links detection (Firefox 3 only)
* Phishing links detection

Tweaks:

* Reworked the statusbar icons and statusbar context menu
* TurboNote button will be enabled by default if TurboNote is installed
* Still more changes in the Linkclue positioning logic
* Cleaned up whitespace in external anchor summaries
* Adjust the position of our icons if Cooliris or McAfee Site Advisor is installed
* Better summaries for video.google.com 
* Turn Hotkey off by default

Bug Fixes:

* The Zoom bug got fixed in Firefox 3rc2. Users with rc2 should be able to use previews on zoomed pages. 
* Fixed previews for washingtonpost.com (server responds with unusual content-type)
* Fixed a problem with 403: forbidden previews being cached.
* Fixed a typo in the Pinned Mode dialog

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Interclue 1.5.5

New Feature: 

* Interclue now makes a backup of known good preferences to avoid preference corruption.

Tweaks:

* Firefox3 Workaround: The clueviewer may break zoomed pages in Firefox 3. 
    As a temporary workaround we will automatically disable Clueviews on zoomed pages. 
    We will remove this workaround as soon as the Mozilla team have released a fix for the bug.
* Added links to the online tour at the end of the tutorial
* Made feedback dialog more user friendly for users with small screens
* Made some changes to the "Show Next Similar Link" algorithm

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a bug where Linkclues would be displayed way off the bottom of the page on certain sites 
* Fixed a bug where certain Clueviews would disable the bookmark and open-in-new-tab icons
* Corrected a spelling mistake in the tutorial
* (Hopefully) Fixes a bug several people reported in which the "Thank you for installing" 
    page appeared many times over.  
* Fixed a bug where a link to a secure domain that didn't exist shows no clues
* Fixed a compatibility issue with the latest FF3 Nightly Releases. 


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Interclue 1.5.4 

New Feature:

* New "Send to TurboNote" button for users with TurboNote installed

Tweaks:

* Updated install.rdf to make it FF3.0b5 compatible
* Page security rules should apply to all pages in a domain and its subdomains
* The Clueviewer is not shown when hovering over Javascript links
* Added mimetype information for non HTML previews

Bug Fixes:

* Images now resize back to normal size
* Bookmarking is now working with FF3.0b5
* Missing default preferences for clueviewer buttons added
* 302 and 301 redirects are not being followed in FF 3.0 beta
* Clicking the tutorial links before the tutorial was initalised broke the tutorial pages

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Interclue 1.5.3

New Features:

* Simplified Linkclue Modes, changed Status bar Menu 
* Option to use Tiny Linkclues
* Linkclues now move up/down if they will cover another link. 
* Added new button "Newsvine Seed"

Tweaks:

* Bookmark button fixed in FF 3.0 (beta 4)
* Moving bugreporter button to statusbar context menu 
* Highlight current mode in the Interclue statusbar menu
* Cleaning up interclue preferences on uninstall
* Using YUI javascript compressor as dojo compressor cannot handle size of code
* Removed feedback item relating to cursors as they are no longer being used.
* Workaround 2000 character limit on email button by copying text to the clipboard.
* Add warnings about action taking links 
* Add "Dont show this hint again" option to the bottom of our hints.
* Removed a couple of fields from the bug report that could conceivably cause privacy concerns
* Restored the favicon prefetch
* User Stats now open in their own dialog window.
* Removed full pathnames from bug reports with extended debug info included. 
* Some minor code tidying to avoid strict javascript warnings.
* Added more robust update checking.
* Added blacklist of domains that use invisible (or hard to see) favicons.
* Using XPCOM crypto object to calculate md5s instead of javascript implimentation
* Tutorial no longer shows on first install
* Files Metaclue on by default

Bug Fixes:

* Workaround for unescaped script tag found in url
* Opening both options and feedback buttons in quick succession causes the options dialog to break
* Page being scrolled when previewing links inside scrolled elements or iframes
* XPCOM Bugfix to eliminate Crashes/Freezes in Firefox 3 beta 3 (we hope!) 
* Removed Firefox 3 workarounds in Firefox 2.0.0.12
* Blank summary if protocol clue viewed more than once.
* Now prevents the Clueviewer from being dragged off of the viewport.
* Locked Clueviewer was dissapearing when returning to a previous tab
* Removed Duplicate entry in Metaclues options
* Making Clueviewer buttons open in normal browser window
* Fixed clues for amazon books when adblockplus is installed.
* Delicious tagmap threw error when attempting to update whilst switching tabs.
* Fixed Linkclue positioning bug on image links from Digg homepage.

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Interclue 1.5.2: an important maintenance release

New Features:

* Linkclues for non-HTTP protocols (FTP, Gopher, Aim, torrent, ...)
* A new Metaclue: "Show downloadable files on page" (off by default)
* Option to be notified about new beta versions.

Tweaks:

* Shortened the tutorial and made it faster
* Better Facebook summaries
* Firefox 3.0 beta 2 & beta 3 compatibility
* "Turn images on in summaries" on by default
* Disabled hotkeys by default
* Rearranged Clueviewer buttons
* Added "About" link to status bar context menu
* Removed Interclue footers from summaries copied to clipboard
* More strings are now internationalized properly
* Added OnUninstall feedback page
* Removed favicon prefetching because of redirect issue
* Various minor text changes
* Cleaned up old legacy code
* Removed legacy preferences from user prefs.js file
* Tidied up a few more obscure Linkclue positioning bugs

Bug Fixes:

* Workaround for Firefox 2.0.0.12 preventing our options dialog from opening
* Error was thrown if Linkclue mode changed before Clueviewer was built
* Fixed incorrect stats shown if browser was used past midnight
* The buttons table in the options is now correctly striped
* Correct message now shown when attempting to view Clues for local files
* Error if a non-HTTP protocol link was clued a second time
* Inserting Linkclue icons sometimes caused wrapped link to wrap differently
* Linkclue cursors could cause the page to resize if link was located at right or bottom of page
* Fixed a URL decoding error which prevented the Options dialog from opening if certain URLs 
    had user defined Linkclue modes attached to them
* Added detection for incorrect character encoding if invalid meta tag found in HTML
* Some obscure Linkclue positioning errors fixed

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1.5.1

New Feature:
* Metaclue option: del.icio.us tag list (ordered by most popular tag)
 
Tweaks:
* Improved usage stats table to show estimates for week/month/year
* Added option to submit basic usage stats back to Interclue
* Updated privacy policy
* Interclue is now automatically disabled in popup windows that do not have a toolbar
* Now works in Firefox 3 beta 2

Bug Fixes:
* A single textbox within the Options panel was unable to receive the focus
* Fixed last few remaining Linkclue positioning errors
* Alert messages in Clueviewer resized the Clueviewer when closed if the current clue was 
    a YouTube clip
* A Linkclue cursor was showing multiple icons in one unusual case
* fixed a bug where multiple Linkclue icons appeared when the page was scrolled by 
    Interclue when using the next/prev button
 
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1.5.0

New Features:

* Images are now (optionally) displayed in page summaries
* We revamped the options dialog to improve usability and findability
* New buttons to move to the next/prev similar link on the page
* Option to prefetch the next/prev similar links
* Support for VoteLinks and XFN microformats
* Summaries and Metaclues for RSS and Atom feeds
* Product previews for links to Amazon
* Added "Reddit" button
* Added "Facebook share this" button
* Interclue now works in Firefox 3 beta 1

Tweaks:

* Complete re-write of hotkey handling code for more reliability
* Major rewrite of Linkclue positioning logic
* Mac support for Linkclue cursors
* Support for info about multiple Linkclues at the top of each Clueview
* Added "Toggle images" button in Clueviewer
* New hotkeys for moving backwards and forwards through links in Pinned mode
* Multimedia Clueviews (e.g. YouTube, Quicktime movies, mp3) should no longer close if you 
    mouseout while playing
* Preview images are sized to fit within the Clueviewer if they are too large to fit normally
* Changes to content extraction to remove duplicate blocks of text
* You can now set a delay before a Linkclue "blinks out" when fading is disabled
* The hotkey now changes Clueview from Pinned to Closed rather than Pinned to Unpinned
* Hotkey now goes direct to Pinned mode, or closes Clueviewer if open
* Added suggestion boxes to the bottom of text summaries
* Clueviewer Options button now opens on "Edit buttons for Clueviewer" page
* Update check should show an alert box if check is manual
* added X-moz:prefetch header when prefetching next/prev links
* Only retrieve HTTP favicons from external sites (retrieving HTTPS-based favicons sometimes 
    caused a certificate dialog to appear if the site had an expired/invalid certificate)
* Interclue will be automatically disabled on smaller (popup) windows
* Various hint text changes
* Added new pages to the tutorial (move and resize the Clueviewer)
* Add prefetch next/prev link preference to preset options
* fixed Google redirect links for Amazon/del.icio.us/thumbnails/Digg clues
* better checks for next/prev similar link
* next/prev links handle tables of links better
* Don't show 403 errors if link has been fetched with x-moz: prefetch
* Made disabled Metaclues smaller and less obvious
* Allow beta version to update from a secure server HTTPS
* Re-wrote Linkclue cursor code so that it works on the Mac, and with custom cursor styles
* Re-write "failover" full page summary clue to be more compact and show images
* Made del.icio.us clue fade out if there are no bookmarks for it
* Added a transition effect when loading a new link into the Clueviewer
* New Linkclue for "a link to an external page that does not have its own favicon"
* Fixed a bug in the feedback dialog where two tickets could collide if posted at the same time
* Tutorial changes
* Restyled disabled Metaclues
* Added onupdate and oninstall URLs
* ImagePreview CSS tweaks, added "View full size link"
* Cleaned up legacy code
* Improvements to endorsement section of feedback dialog
* Added a "Close the tutorial" link that closes the tab
* Enable Linkclue cursors tutorial page for Mac users
* Change hint text for internal anchor clue
* Change style of "image link" Linkclue cursor
* use smaller "Digg this" button in the Digg Metaclue
* openedInOtherTab Linkclue should ignore #anchors when comparing URLs

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a bug where the user preferences were not being saved on browser close
* Metaclue tooltips were not fading out if mouse had left the Clueviewer
* Fixed an error where the Clueviewer interacted badly with Google Desktop search results
* Fixed error where Linkclue icons were being incorrectly applied to empty links
* Clueviewer looked Pinned after closing (when Pinned) and reopening
* Some more obscure summarization errors were fixed
* Fixed a bug that broke the options button in the add-ons page if that page was opened inside a browser tab
* Fixed an error where summaries were broken if destination HTML contained more than one body tag
* Fixed a bug in the toggle code, where a checkbox that toggled more than one property of more 
    than one target would fail to affect the second target
* Fixed a bug in the URL parser where links to base domains without trailing slashes failed to parse
* Fixed an error where summaries were broken if destination HTML contained more than one body tag
* Fixed failure to extract date from certain URLs
* Fixed CSS error in Firefox 3
* 403 error when precaching certain (Flickr) links with x-moz: prefetch, but links work fine when clued
* Fixed a bug where a message was shown in an alert box rather than inside the Clueviewer
* Fixed failure to extract destination link's title when preparing to send email
* Fixed summary error if image sent no content length
* Attempting to fetch the same favicon multiple times from HTTPS domains
* Allow fetching of favicons from HTTPS if we know the domain will not throw a certificate error
* Fixed error in URL parser causing
* Fixed CSS error in Firefox 3 making dropdown image too large if the dropdown is located in the status bar
* Fixed a bug whereby the Clueviewer could remain open between tutorial pages


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1.2.4 - ClueHistory

New Features:

* We have implemented a ClueHistory! You will now see Back and Forward buttons in the Clueviewer
* You can now Clueview *.mp3 and *.mov files inside the Clueviewer if Quicktime 7.2 or greater is installed
* Added social bookmark buttons for Windows.live and Stumbleupon

Tweaks:

* Added a link in the timeout message to the place where you can change the timeout setting

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed an error that prevented the content from being displayed when showing the first clue after saving options
* Removed some obscure clue rendering bugs


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1.2.3 - New Options dialog, some bug fixes

New Features:

* Added a new "Presets" option tab to allow for quick settings for common situations.
* New button: "Open link in new foreground tab" (i.e. change focus to the new tab immediately)
* Option to control when the link changes while you're in Pinned mode

Tweaks

* Tweaked the tutorial
* Wording changes in the feedback dialog and options tab
* Moved most images into combined image files for better performance and to speed up load time

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a bug where favicons where not being prefetched correctly after page load
* (Hopefully) fixed error preventing the options dialog from loading on Ubuntu Linux 7
* Linkclues were not fading out without a mouse movement
* Bugzilla cluescript wasn't showing product/component/severity if user logged in
* Bugzilla cluescript now shows (edit) link in title if user logged in
* Loading clues reset video playing on a page if the page contained certain CSS rules.


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1.2.2 - Several small improvements and bug fixes

New Features:

* New Image Preview feature
* Copy link URL to clipboard Clueview button added
* Can now turn off buttons in status bar AND right-click status bar menu
* New "Add to Yahoo My Web" Clueview button
* New custom Clueviews for Trac and Bugzilla (beta!)

Tweaks:

* Improved tutorial
* Improved content-length detection
* Add more info to the top of the clipboard text when copying Clueview contents
* Improved HTML extraction process
* Include last-modified info for recent non-HTML files
* Better *.mp3 icon
* Changed default Clueview icons

Bug Fixes:

* Problem with favicon downloading fixed
* Failover when server sends invalid response headers
* Email button failed on non-HTML files
* Invalid comments tags were shown in summaries
* Clueview didn't hide correctly if page was scrolled and cursor moved above Clueview
* Clueview tooltips were not always visible
* Closing options window with Cancel, while entering feedback, hid feedback window permanently


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1.2.1 - Several important bug fixes and improvements to the floating window and hotkey interaction

New features:

* Improved interaction design of Pinned window mode
* New navigation detection option: "Linkclue icons on internal image links"
* Reduced default size of memory cache, added option to Advanced tab
* Improvements to the summarization of pages containing invalid HTML

Tweaks:

* When using hotkey, Clueview will appear next to icons, not cursor
* Current link's Linkclue icons no longer fade out when Clueview open

Bug Fixes:

* Removed conflict with some Flash elements, eg in Google analytics and Google gadgets
* Fixed issue with rendering of PRE tags
* Tutorial issue resolved
* Filenames were no longer appearing on the file information Clueview
* Fixed an error that prevented closing a browser tab on some pages


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1.2.0 - Significant new features

New Features

* Clueviewer now locks open if hotkey held down for more than a second, and unlocks the next time the hotkey is pressed
* Major changes to Linkclue positioning code (cleans up HTML code left inside links, fixes some positioning bugs)
* Changes to tutorial and options menus to incorporate autolock mode
* Added "Print" button (in beta)

Tweaks

* Renamed the Linkclue modes
* Some minor text changes
* Added extra links to About page
* Added description for display in addons list

Bug Fixes

* Removed bogus HTML caused by malformed doubleclick advert code
* No longer fetches any content when icons not shown (fixes the Bloglines bug)
* Corrected code that used deprecated property window.title


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1.1.2 - Usability and cosmetic tweaks, minor bug fixes

New Features

* Clueview remains stationary whilst the hotkey is pressed
* Nicer Web 2.0-style confirm dialog for add/remove metadata blocks
* Added "Edit button/menu items" to status bar context menu
* Added "Edit Smartclues options" to Linkmodes menu
* Allow power users to tweak their Smartclues Logic settings
* The status bar button preferences are now on a separate pane in the options

Tweaks

* Various minor changes to Linkclue positioning logic
* Better error messages for invalid URLs (e.g. "http://invalid domain name.com/")
* Added "approve" to unsafe words blacklist
* Various text changes
* Del.icio.us title link now opens "Add to my delicious" dialog
* Got rid of the mystery space on the toolbar
* Changed the shade of green for "Everything gets clued"
* When you click on "Open in new tab", the button icon changes to the "Go to that tab" icon, 
    to indicate that if you click there you will open that tab. (Pending: An option to just go there on first click)

Bug Fixes

* Fixed a bug whereby the wrong hotkey was given in the tutorial text if a user had set their own custom hotkey
* Fixed a bug where summaries for anchored links were terrible if the anchor was not found
* Fixed a bug where the Del.icio.us tagcloud fails to time out if summary is retrieved from the cache


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1.1.1 - Interface improvements, minor bug fixes

Tweaks

* Expanded version numbering inside addon to new format: major.minor.patch.checkin
* Integrated On/Off button with the Linkclue mode menu
* Changes to Linkclue mode icons
* Changes to Linkclue cursors to match mode icons
* Referrer page icon now requires a click to show the Clueviewer
* Added uniqueIDs to update check so that we can count addons deployed
* Updated privacy policy to cover uniqueIDs
* Made the "file not found" image more distinct
* Added two missing items to 1.1 changelog

Bug Fixes

* Emailed URL was sometimes incorrect
* HTML parser was broken on framed pages if one of the frames was broken
* Fixed error summarizing Guardian articles


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1.1 Beta Features:

* You can now change the font used within the Clueframe on the Advanced tab
* The "Open in new tab" button will change if it's already opened in a new tab
* There is a new "Show clues for current page" status bar button
* There is a new "Show clues for referrer page" status bar icon. Hover over it to see the page you came from. 
    Click it to actually go there!
* "Suggest another button" link in the Buttons list
* "Suggest another Metaclue" link in the Metaclues list
* Linkclue: "Link is open in other tab" (click to go to that tab)
* Clueview: .mp3 player
* Clueview: Plaintext (.txt) file viewer

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1.0.2 - Fixes most problems reported in the first few days after release

Bug Fixes:

* Fixed a problem where Flash objects not contained in HTML sometimes broke
* Clueviewer now appears on framed paged again (e.g. Gmail)
* Framed pages no longer flicker on initialization
* Fixed cursor reset / flicker problem
* Conflict with noscript extension solved
* Improved Smartclues logic to better deal with pagination links

New Features:

* Changelog appears in the options menu

Tweaks:

* Changed status bar preferences from checkboxes to radio buttons
* After submitting bugs or feedback. you won't need to retype your email address next time


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1.0.1 - Super quick bug-fix release

Bug fix: Tutorial no longer shows twice on install


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Interclue 1.0 Feature List:

== Content Previews ==

* Readable content summary for most pages
* Page thumbnails from four different providers
* Special summaries for specific sites
* AnchorText from the point of Anchor
* Name, size and date of linked files (eg PDF, EXE)
* Plays YouTube videos inline

== Metaclues I (data directly connected with link) ==

* Page date & relative age
* Link counts (intern/external)
* Word counts (body/template)
* Count of script/CSS/image/etc files for page

== Metaclues II (External data related to link) ==

* Del.icio.us tagcloud
* Site thumbnail
* Digg count

== LinkClue Icons ==

* Error Linkclue
* Anchor Linkclue
* Site favicons (on any page, not just on Google)
* 28 different file-type icons
* Secure/unsecure warning

== Linkclue Cursors ==

* New Window warning
* Mailto link
* Scripting link
* Targeted Frame link
* Internal link
* Navigation/Menu link

== Next Action Buttons & Links ==

* Bookmark it
* Open in current tab
* Open in new tab
* Email link content
* Del.icio.us post
* Google bookmark it
* Digg it
* Change font size
* Look up in net caches (on dead links)