New Features:
- Drastically improved preferences windows.
- New “Move To” submenu in the contextual menus and main menu to which you can add and remove folders.
- New “Open With” submenu in the contextual menus and main menu to which you can add and remove applications.
- Improved slideshow: You can have it advance automatically based on a time limit you set, you can order the images in the slideshow in many different ways, you can set the slideshow background color, you can set how the slideshow initially displays an image, you can start a new slideshow with images you currently have open, you can choose the screen the slideshow will display on, and there is a controls panel that gives you access to the many slideshow options while in slideshow mode.
- The image viewer is also improved: You can set its background color, you can set how it initially displays an image, you can set which screen you prefer it open on, and you can set whether or not it should open in full-screen mode.
- Hot keys for zooming images, rotating images, etc. are now user-defineable.
- You can now set the width for the optional thumbnail outlines in the preview pane.
- Anywhere you can sort items, you can now sort them in reverse order as well.
- The file list icon size can now be anywhere between 8×8 and 128×128 pixels.
- The file list can now display alternating (striped) background colors.
- You can specify the quality at which to save image thumbnails, so you can set it lower (the default is 95) if you think they take up too much space and don’t mind losing a little quality. Experiment!
- You can now specify how much you would like thumbnails to be sharpened *when they are generated* (the usual on-the-fly sharpening option is still there). This will allow you to use higher compression settings without seeing as much ugly noise caused when the on-the-fly sharpening sharpens JPEG compression artifacts. Also if you don’t think you will ever feel the need to change the amount of sharpening you want, you can do away with on-the-fly sharpening altogether by sharpening the thumbnails to you liking when they are generated. This will speed up loading of thumbnails.
- You can set whether or not you wish the file list to automatically expand folders when you are dragging and dropping onto it.
- You can now engage in dragging and dropping of selected items in the preview pane even when the window is in the background, and the window will stay in the background.
- Much greater use of aliases instead of absolute paths, so stuff shouldn’t break after being moved anymore. I wish there was better support in Cocoa for this stuff.
- New option for high quality thumbnail scaling; you can turn this on if you often view your previews at sizes smaller than that which you’ve generated them at. However, it may be a little slower.
- Greater use of sheets.
- Added a “low quality” option when loading previews on the fly. This gives a great speed improvment with a relatively small reduction in thumbnail quality, so if you load previews on the fly you probably want this on (still, on the fly preview loading is only recommended for images 120k or smaller, depending on your patience of course).
- More ways to sort the file list.
- You are now reminded to register once in a while (not too often, don’t worry ;-).
- Holding option while double clicking an image in the preview pane will open it in the Image Viewer.
- Improved sorting by filename. gBrowser now acts more intelligently (like the Finder) with respect to filenames with numbers in them.
- Mouse clicks in the slideshow no longer advance it to the next image (it seemed to cause too many accidents). However, the scroll wheel still works to move to next and previous images.
- The space bar now pauses and unpauses the automatic slideshow, instead of advancing to the next image (but option-space will, as will the enter key, tab key, forward arrow key, or the scroll wheel on the mouse).
- New document icon (you may have to restart the Finder or your computer after putting gBrowser in your Applications folder for this to take effect).
- Many other miscellaneous improvements.
Bugs Fixed:
- Back/Forward buttons function better.
- Fixed a bug with the thumbnail outline color not being correct sometimes.
- The status bar is now updated properly when to move files to/from the preview pane.
- Documents are now properly updated to “edited” status when you change a color in the preferences.
- Fixed a crash that happened if you opened the Image Viewer, closed it, and opened it again.
- gBrowser now tells you when it cannot open an image because it is corrupted, instead of just not opening it and leaving you guessing.
- Fixed many memory leaks.
Known bugs:
- Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.