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Change Log - Version 0.7.0

Added dial groups. To enable, go to Speed Dial's settings panel, 'Main' tab, and toggle the 'Enable group' checkbox. To add, edit or remove groups, right click on the new Speed Dial tab bar.
Thumbnail quality on Firefox 3 substantially improved.
Added support for Java to improve the quality of generated thumbnails.
On Speed Dial toolbar button, the drop down is also shown when right clicking on the button.
Thumbnail icons are now hidden by default until the mouse cursor is over. There's a new option to configure this behavior.
Added configuration option to hide thumbnail website icon and/or number label.
Added new thumbnail icons for editing a dial, and opening in current tab.

Version 0.5.0.2

Improved thumbnail view performance.
New tab now opens Speed Dial by default.
Keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks can be configured in the new "Controls" tab in the extension settings panel.
Using the number an assigned dial in the URL bar will resolve to the assigned website.
Improved background browser code.
Added localizations for Norwegian (nb-NO, by ghandi2) and Romanian (ro-RO, by balarii)
Compatible with Firefox 3 beta 1.

Improved thumbnail refreshing code. Now it shouldn't stop working in some situations.
"Speed Dial" button drop down now working correctly.

Number of rows and columns is now configurable.
Solved drag & drop not refreshing thumbnail correctly.
Added option to show Speed Dial when closing the last tab and the tab bar is always visible.
Speed Dial in new tab is disabled by default. In the case it is enabled, opening a new tab by double clicking the tab bar will load Speed Dial.
Better resize handling.
Added action buttons in the thumbnails: reload, deassign, open in new tab and open in new window. Reload button is visible by default.
Plugins in background browser are disabled by default. Added option to disable Javascript.
Fixed Speed Dial bookmarks menu entry in Firefox 3.
When adding/editing an entry, "http://" will be added to the address in case the user forgot to add it.
Added access to Speed Dial options from the different menu popups. Can be disabled in the options.
Added "Refresh All" action in Speed Dial's contextual menu.
Added localizations for German (de-DE, by Morgil)

Better detection of blank new tabs. Also, this mode is active by default.
Solved partial thumbnail rendering.
An special icon will show while a thumbnail is being refreshed.
Speed Dial will open a lot faster after the first use.
Improved handling of network errors.
Using mouse scroll over a thumbnail will scroll it's contents.
Holding the Shift key while accessing the CTRL+number shortcuts will open the link in a new tab.
Thumbnails are smaller by default, but default thumbnail size will be adjusted on installation depending on the screen resolution.
Fixed issues with Firefox 3 alphas.
Added localizations for Czech (cs-CZ, by PetrTwo), Hungarian (hu-HU, by Sil), Italian (it-IT, by Godai71) and Portuguese (pt-PT, by npo33770).

Solved site icon not showing in some sites.
Some UI tweaks.
Added localizations for Catalan (ca-AD, by Oriol Gonzàlez), simplified Chinese (zh-CN, by Fang5566), traditional Chinese (zh-TW, by velociraptor), French (fr-FR, by myahoo), Japanese (ja-JP, by Kiyotaka Uehara), Korean (ko-KR, by Jeong Seungwon), Polish (pl-PL, by Leszek(teo)?yczkowski), Russian (ru-RU, by Modex), Slovak (sk-SK, by wladow) and Ukrainian (uk-UA, by yaryi). Many thanks to Babelzilla!

Added "Add Dial" dialog. Just click on an unassigned dial.
Added "Modify Dial" dialog. Right click on a thumbnail and choose "Edit".
Added alert when user is about to overwrite Speed Dial entry.
Thumbnails can be reordered by using drag and drop. Also, dropping a URL on a thumbnail will assign it to that dial.
Added background browser that will refresh the thumbnails. The refreshing interval can be editor per thumbnail.

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