ViewMyCurrency 0.387 (alpha) released

Important bug-fix for international versions of Firefox

• Fixed: Major bug that prevented install wizard from completing in non-English versions of Firefox.
  (Wizard hung if your browser was set to one of the following languages: ca, bg, ar, cs, de, ru, sl, fr, el, hu, it, pl, nl, fi, he, ja, ro, eu, da, mk, sq, tr, ko, mn, sk)
  Thanks Rufus!

Are you using an international version of Firefox?

Did this version of ViewMyCurrency correctly guess your country?

Please let me know by adding a comment below. Thanks!

ViewMyCurrency 0.386 (alpha) released

This release fixes many bugs and adds a welcome popup after successful install as many new users didn’t realise that ViewMyCurrency was installed or that there was a right-click menu.
Changes:

• Added: welcome popup after successful install.
• Added: Web Update starts automatically after 30 seconds, on failure it doubles the interval and then tries again
• Added: if init from preferences fails (due to user hand-editing the settings) then run setup wizard again rather than just dying horribly.
• Added: warning tooltip if install failed that includes version number to aid bug reporting.
• Fix: Choice of web-service is now stored in preferences
• Changed: If conversion cannot be performed the error is highlighted with ‘???’
• Fix: stupid bug in previous alpha that broke automatic page conversion
• Fix: bug in previous alpha that broke right-click Convert Text
• Changed: use non-breaking spaces between currency symbol and number. Thanks Simon!
• Fix: exchange rates were being lost after changing currencies (during install for example)
• Fix: Lists correctly use comma and ‘and’. This should reduce user confusion. Thanks Simon!

Please let me know if you notice any irritating problems. I’m planning to submit a new version to Mozilla Update soon if I get good feedback on this.

Enjoy!

Download from the Install page (or via automatic update)

–Will

ViewMyCurrency 0.385 (alpha) released

Bug fixes:

• Fixed: The “order” and “force space” options don’t seem to be remembered between sessions. Thanks Ludvig
• Currency: Added ‘CA$’ for CAD. Thanks Ludvig

(Note if you had already installed 0.384 and you want the updated Canadian symbols then you have to remove the Canadian Dollar from your Recognised currency list and then add it again.)

I’ll be in a cave all of Sunday but please leave feedback about this version and I’ll respond on Monday.

Thanks!

ViewMyCurrency 0.384 (alpha) released

Major changes:

• Customisable characters for thousands separator and decimal separator
• Option to force order of currency symbol and number

Changes:

• The startup wizard uses the browser locale to highlight a possible “my currency” for the user. Hopefully a nice touch for people who downloaded a localised version of Firefox.
• Option to force a space between currency symbol and number

Now you can have your Bulgarian lev, your Polish zloty or your Danish kroner formatted correctly.

Please let me know what you think. I’m planning to submit a new version to Mozilla Update soon if I get good feedback on this.

Enjoy!

Download from the Install page (or via automatic update)

–Will

ViewMyCurrency 0.382 (alpha) released

Currency: Added BGN (Bulgaria) webservice. Thanks ivancho!

ViewMyCurrency 0.381 (alpha) released

I’ve released a new version of ViewMyCurrency for testing:

ViewMyCurrency latest alpha release (from hamstersoup.com)

Important: This is not the offical release on Mozilla Update. This version will be changed regularly as bug reports come in. If you install this version then you will continue to get alpha-releases from hamstersoup.com through the auto-update feature of Firefox.

Major changes:

• Conversion into 121 currencies
• Downloads live exchange rates from Google or WebServiceX.net
• Improved Options dialog:
• Supports selection of exchange rate source
• Uses tabs to reduce clutter
• Shows currency info as well as exchange rate info
• Update rates runs automatically if new rates are added
• Added option: Remove ViewMyCurrency from statusbar

Changes:

• Support for Alpha releases (for testing before official Mozilla Update release)
• Warns about deleting old preferences
• First and last page of startup wizard improved
• Support for web services (adding a new source for exchange rates is now only a few lines of JavaScript)
• Advanced options (double-click icon in Options Dialog) (so a normal release can be used for debugging)
• Menu is now Convert to CODE or ‘OFF’ rather than confusing checkbox
• Disabled state now shown using ‘OFF’ rather than the risque ‘XXX’
• Update interval displayed in options dialog
• Added link to web service in Options Dialog. + fixed table resizing
• Links to ViewMyCurrency blog contain version number (to warn people about updates)
• Shiny new About dialog

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed ‘malformed rate’ alert
• Options dialog will open setup wizard if extension is not yet installed.
• Fixed symbols for Swedish and Danish kroner.

ViewMyCurrency 0.38 released

New version of the Firefox currency converter ViewMyCurrency in now available.
(Update: it’s now on Mozilla Upate)
Major fix:

• Pages were getting scrambled or not converting. Fixed: (XPCNativeWrappers in FF1.5 prevented me from storing the original text inside the JS node objects)

Minor Fixes:

• Increased delay between Firefox startup and exchange rate update to 5 minutes. Made ‘failed update’ error message into a warning. Should be better on a dailup connection now. Thanks Keith!
• Quote symbol is allowed as thousands separator, for example 1′000. This Swiss site should work now. Thanks Theo!

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Update: I’ve summarised all the bugs and suggestions
(I’d love to get more feedback, you can leave comments on that page)