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May 7, 2005
Optool 2.1 Beta Leaked
Well, okay, nothing quite as dramatic as that, but while the documentation etc. for the "proper" beta test is being put together, I have what amounts to a very much working "teaser" of Optool 2.1. Not as big news as new Opera "Tech Preview", but still fun.
Blah blah - beta software - blah blah. From my own testing this build is as solid and usable as it gets. Please report bugs/make suggestions/comments at the Unofficial Optool Forums. Alternatively, you could contact Martin via the Optool site, but do everyone a favour and confirm the bugs in the forum before e-mailing him. The site also has documentation for the earlier builds of 2.0.
Please be aware that most if not all of the new features are undocumented - you'll just have to figure it out till the actual beta comes along. If you want you can have a look at the tentative changelog from a while ago - but just be aware that things have changed since then. Read the settings and pay attention to the tooltips and you'll be fine.
Oh, and you might want to uninstall older versions of Optool (if only as a precaution) - or basically just delete the folder with the .exe and .ini files.
From the Optool website:
Optool (formerly Operatool, now Optional Browser tool or Open-in-another-browser-tool - or whatever you like!) for MS Windows is a freeware utility which easily allows you to open a given web site in another browser. Use it if your preferred browser doesn't show the site properly or if you are a developer and want to check the page in several browsers without the hassle of cutting and pasting the URL.
Update: This was the beta changelog sent out to testers,
- Custom right click margin for long right clicks- A 15% limit for long right clicks: no matter the custom margin, Optool will never claim more than 15 % of the window width. This is addressed to small popup windows, where eg. a 300 pixel margin would take far to much space up in a 400 pixels wide window, thus making mouse gestures etc. very difficult.
- The menu structure is more compact with for example "Close browsers"
grouped in a sub menu.- The Window Resize Menu is only present if there are items present in the setup dialog. If you don't need the feature, there is no need to take up menu space.
- You can choose to hide disabled menu items instead of showing them grayed out.
- A nice "Go to Domain Root" feature which will navigate the browser to www.microsoft.com if your are at msdn.microsoft.com and so forth.
- Several bug fixes
Personally the biggest bug/feature fix was that now links are sent directly to Firefox, and you configure how FF reacts based on it's tab/window handling settings, instead of always opening in the same window/new window.
Posted by subtitles at May 7, 2005 10:39 AM | Opera Boggling
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