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SwakSmack 0.67.4 is released. Hopefully this version addresses the alert problem many people were seeing, BUT I can't say for sure that it is cured. I have never seen the alert problem and have relied on the help of jellysmack and MrGromit in tracking down what was causing them to miss alerts. So for all I know, I only fixed the problem for two people. Hopefully it's more and hopefully alerts keep working for all those people who were not having issues. Time will tell.

SwakSmack FAQ
Configuration
Accessing Options
Post Urls Options
Post Highlighting Options
Post Enhancer Options
Alerts Options
Audio Options
Blocking Options

Accessing Options
The SwakSmack options can be access in two ways:
1. In FireFox, goto Tools?Add Ons and then locate the JellyFish Smack Shopping Extension. With that add on selected, click “Options”. This will open the SwakSmack options
2. On the FireFox browser statusbar, right click on the any of the SwakSmack indicators and then select “Options”. This will open the SwakSmack options.

0.67.2 was released primarily to address a problem I had with the PM monitoring. If you are using version 0.67 or 0.67.1, please update to 0.67.2. The 0.67.2 version does NOT have PM monitoring enabled. It may be re-enabled once I resolve any issues the monitoring may have on the JF servers.

Ideally, the extension will be able to drop PM/LR monitoring once JF starts pushing out the notifications from their end. That really is the best solution so let the people at JF know that you want "real time" PM monitoring.

Thanks to TWF and Vista I was able to find the problem with the 0.67 version and FireFox 2.0.0.4. Version 0.67.1 should address the issue where the extension was causing the browser to crash.

On that note, since I don't have every possible platform and version combination, should you encounter a problem with the extension, please let me know.

0.67 of SwakSmack is available.

List of some of the new features

Updated screen shots

Lots of new stuff in this release so please let me know of any problems, issues, or suggestions that you have.

RC6
http://mindstorm360.com/files/swaksmack-0.67-RC6.xpi

If there are not any major show stoppers in this test version, I plan on this being the last RC before the official 0.67 release. Thanks to all of those people who helped test and provide feedback.

Changes
1. Added show highlighted posts menu option which will toggle between showing all posts and only highlighted posts
2. Changed show tinyurl preview to default to 'on'
3. Highlighting/unhighlighting optimizations

RC5
http://mindstorm360.com/files/swaksmack-0.67-RC5.xpi

Changes:
1. removed one rogue alert popup (please look out for any others)
2. added link to smack hero badge to take you to smackshopping.com
3. fixed hyperlinking of sites like see...mindstorm360.com (display still shows incorrect underlying but the link url should be correct). Please check to see if this fix broke other url links that use to work

NOTE: Version 0.67 is not in prime time form yet and version 0.66 is still the one being served by the main installation page. There is a release candidate available to testing and you are free to install it, but please only do so if you are comfortable testing new software. If you don't know what version to install, please visit http://mindstorm360.com/swaksmack.

Version 0.67 has lots of new stuff in it so feel free to play around with things and see how you like it.

Enhanced Chat
Easy one click highlighting and replying
Highlight all current and future posts of a user

RC4 Download, and then drag and drop install
http://mindstorm360.com/files/swaksmack-0.67-RC4.xpi

Well RC4 is really another RC1 based on how much things have changed under the covers. As such, please be on the lookout for debug messages and alert popups that I used to help test some of the code paths. I think I've got it cleaned up, but as the extension grows, so does the probability that I miss something. So based on that warning, this is really more like a 'beta' than a RC at this point.

SwakSmack 0.66 has been released. Install and see screenshots from http://mindstorm360.com/swaksmack

NOTE to Mac Users: it appears that the options dialog is not displaying correctly on the mac platform. Unfortunately, I do not have a mac to test on so hopefully another mac user or two can help out in that area. The Options display correctly on Windows and Linux (ubuntu and suse tested)

As with any release of SwakSmack, especially with new features, there are bound to be some issues. Please PM me with any problems, comments, or suggestions.