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MuvEnum Address Bar v3.7.0.0 is now available for download.

Version History:

• Added option to specify whether you want entered text that was not found to load in your specified search engine or to load as a website (http://text/).
• Added settings to disable the search/load website prompt from showing and to automatically search or load the website when entered text is not found.
• Added support for expanding the full paths and therefore showing the items in those paths in the auto-completion list for the following system folders: Desktop, (My) Documents, (My) Pictures, (My) Music, Favorites.
• Added support for showing and loading .lnk files from the favorites folder in the auto-completion list if Internet Explorer is checked in the options.
• Added support for showing all links from the Start Menu in the auto-completion list (disbled by default).
• Modified display to show “.url” and “.lnk” at the end of shortcuts to better mimic the original address bar.
• Fixed folders on the desktop shown in the auto-completion not loading but instead bringing up the search prompt.
• Fixed auto-completion list not updating until you restarted your computer when modifying which browsers are enabled in the options.
• Fixed issue with the search engine url losing text when certain characters were entered, i.e., #.

MuvEnum Address Bar v3.5.0.0 is now available for download.

Version History:

• Added support for showing Favorites, Bookmarks, and History from Firefox 3.x and Google Chrome.
• Added Support for displaying the History List, Auto-completion List, or Nothing when the global hotkey is pressed.
• Added support to automatically show the new manual on installation completion so users can see all the features that are supported and to see how to resize the address bar.
• Added message to Clear History to notify users that it only clears the history for Internet Explorer and the MuvEnum Address Bar.
• Added “Options – MuvEnum Address Bar” and “Clear History – MuvEnum Address Bar” to the autocompletion list for users to more easily find.
• Added message when entered text didn’t fit any of the possible choices, to allow the user to say they wanted to search for the term, or just ignore it.  This helps when typing in network paths that don’t exist which used to take you to http://networkpath.
• Improved the performance of gathering the Favorites, Bookmarks, and History for the selected browsers.
• Removed the Internet Explorer Favorite folders from the autocomplete list because it already shows the favorites in the folders.
• Fixed an issue where the autocomplete list would display over-the-top of the history list when trying to navigate the history list using the up and down arrows.
• Fixed issue where the history bar in Internet Explorer would still show the history when clearing the history using the MuvEnum Address Bar.
• Fixed an issue where pressing one of the “Ctrl+Enter”, “Shift+Enter”, or “Ctrl+Shift+Enter” key combinations when www. or .net, .com, or .org were already being displayed, would still add the prefix and suffix and try to open the page.  An example would be www.google, and “Ctrl+Enter”, would become www.www.google.com.

MuvEnum Address Bar v3.1.0.0 is now available for download.

Version History:

• Added real-time updates of Favorites and Desktop Items in the auto-completion list.
• Added System Items to the auto-completion list along with their modified names, if they’ve been changed by the user.
• Modified the final loading of a keyword to search on the keyword if it doesn’t contain a period and to navigate to a webpage if it contains a “period”.  This modifies the original address bar behavior but saves time compared to the useless navigation to http://keyword/ which will never exist.
• Modified auto-completion list to show all Favorites in all Favorite folders.  In v3.0.0.0 it would only show the favorites in the root of the favorites folder.
• Modified auto-completion list to not show folder paths from Favorites as it now shows all of the Favorites.
• Fixed an issue where certain system folders would open when hitting “Ctrl+Enter”, “Shift+Enter”, or “Ctrl+Shift+Enter” to navigate to a website if the keyword matched a system folder.  It now navigates to the webpage with the added url prefix and suffix.
• Fixed an issue where Explorer may crash when entering certain invalid characters.
• Fixed an issue with environment variables immediately followed by folder or file paths opening a browser to search for the terms instead of navigating to the expanded environment variable path.

 

MuvEnum Address Bar v3.0.0.0 is now available for download.

Version History:

• Added Tab support for navigating through the auto-completion list!
• Added instructions for enabling the toolbar on the finish page of the installer.
• Added support for looking in HKEY_LOCALMACHINE for quicksearch urls if none exist in HKEY_CURRENTUSER.
• Added support for automatically searching on keywords when they contain spaces without requiring “go ” in front of them.
• Added the ability to set the default search engine.
• Added first level favorites, favorites root folders, and desktop items to the auto-completion list.
• Added support for loading desktop items and items in your documents folder based on their name.
• Added logging to the event viewer on initialization of the address bar to help diagnose non-loading issues.
• Added support for typing in “clearhistory” into the address bar to clear your browsing history.
• Modified options dialog to always be on top.
• Renamed “support” button to “manual” to take the user to the product manual.
• Decreased the minimum allowed size for address bar so it can take up less space.
• Fixed an issue where one of the files may have not been updated properly when upgrading from an older version (should fix address bar not staying open between computer restarts).
• Fixed issue with options dialog displaying incorrectly on machines with a DPI higher than 96.

MuvEnum Address Bar v2.1.0.0 is now available for download.

Version History:

• Added Save, Cancel, and Restore Defaults buttons to the options dialog.
• Added Clear History button to the options dialog to allow the users to clear the Internet Explorer/Windows Explorer/MuvEnum Address Bar (they all share the same history) typed url history; works the same as the Delete Browsing History in Internet Explorer.
• Added the ability to have the address bar check for updates automatically.  Default of enabled and checks every 7 days.
• Added support for enabling inline autocompletion (tab is not supported; you will need to use the arrow keys instead).
• Added floating toolbar support.
• Added the ability to hide the Options button. Also added support for opening the options by typing options into the address bar and hitting enter. How else you would get to the options dialog if you had hidden the button? 
• Added support for a global (system wide) hotkey to set focus to the MuvEnum Address Bar. In my own use of the original address bar, this was a very wanted but missing feature. It can be disabled. It defaults to enabled and to the shortcut combination of CTRL+SHIFT+A.
• Added support for ESCAPE for closing the options dialog.
• *Added support for typed urls adding to the history, used in IE and the address bar).
• *Added support for a specified search engine (default search): regedit:(HKEY_CURRENTUSER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl\) Key – (Default) , value: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s where %s is replaced by the text typed in the address bar.
• *Added support for the title “Address” to be shown in the front of the address bar. It can be removed by unlocking the taskbar, right-clicking on the toolbar and unchecking “Show Title”.
• *Added the “search for” option to the autocomplete box.
• *Added support for moving through the auto-completion list using up and down arrow keys. See http://muvenum.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=946&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a for why tab completion was not able to be added.
• *Added support for environment variables.
• *Added support for opening favorites by their shortcut name.
• *Added support for opening system locations (example: “My Computer”, “My Documents”).
• *Added quick search support.
• Modified installer so it no longer shows the “command prompt” windows when registering the extension files.
• Redesigned the address bar to better represent the operating system settings.
• Redesigned the options button to be more noticeable.
• Redesigned the options dialog to allow for better feature additions and references to finding out about the extension and updating it as well.
• Removed the “MuvEnum Google Sponsored Search” feature.
• Fixed search option in auto-complete drop-down not working on different languages of Windows.
• Fixed search engine searches using %20 instead of + for spaces in the search keywords. 
• Fixed the “search for” option in the auto-complete list showing an error instead of opening the page when the user didn’t have an IE SearchURL setup in the registry.
• Fixed the installer not properly updating from v1.3.1.0.  Previous betas would require an uninstallation of the currently installed version before working correctly.  This beta removes the old version, correctly.
• Fixed the resetting of your taskbar (only once) after updating from v1.3.1.0 to v2.x.x.x beta 4 or lower and restarting the computer.
• Fixed address bar not showing correctly if the start menu was docked on left or right of the monitor (vertical).
• Fixed settings possibly being lost when updating to a newer version.
• Fixed “My Documents” and “Documents” showing an error instead of opening the folder.
• Fixed selecting items from the regular drop-down requiring the user to then press “Enter” before the item would be loaded.
• Fixed address bar not being centered on a multiline taskbar after restarting the computer.
• Fixed issue with the installer which may have caused the address bar to not show up after installing.
• Fixed issue with the installer not adding the program to the “Add/Remove Programs” section.