gBrowser Release Notes

If you’re looking to download an older version, you can find the full archives back to version 1.0.0 here.

3.0 beta 10 (January 15, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.
Beta 10 is a small update to Beta 9 to improve the way files are saved during rotation, now retaining correct file creation date and other metadata.

New Features:

Flip/mirror options added to the permanent image rotation options.
Clearer terminology & validation for starting new slideshows.

Bugs Fixed:

Bug that could cause quality loss during permanent rotate is fixed.
Inspector panel updates file information when files are modified.
Thumbnails are properly updated when certain file changes occur (eg. change file tag color).

Known Bugs:

Combining the Thumbnail pane folder depth setting with “Hide folders” filter does not work.
Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments via gBrowser’s bug reporter!

3.0 beta 9 (January 15, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.

New Features:

Flip/mirror options added to the permanent image rotation options.
Clearer terminology & validation for starting new slideshows.

Bugs Fixed:

Bug that could cause quality loss during permanent rotate is fixed.
Inspector panel updates file information when files are modified.
Thumbnails are properly updated when certain file changes occur (eg. change file tag color).

Known Bugs:

Combining the Thumbnail pane folder depth setting with “Hide folders” filter does not work.
Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments via gBrowser’s bug reporter!

3.0 beta 8 (January 13, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.

New Features:

Switched to clearer, more utilitarian sidebar style with full-width selection and row colors.
Sidebar source folder now floats so it is always visible.

Bugs Fixed:

Sidebar selection is no longer lost when changing sidebar row padding.
Navigation > Set Sidebar Source menu option now uses Command-Shift-O as its hotkey so as not to clash with Open With.
Correctly restore shown/hidden state of Favorites panel.

Known Bugs:

Combining the Thumbnail pane folder depth setting with “Hide folders” filter does not work.
Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments via gBrowser’s bug reporter!

3.0 beta 7 (January 10, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.
Beta 7 is a hotfix to an issue with one of the new features in Beta 6.

New Features:

Added Sidebar appearance setting to only show expansion arrow in sidebar if the folder has child folders.
Sidebar source selection popup menu now lists favorites for quick access. Also updated the icon.

Bugs Fixed:

Navigation > Next Image menu item now works in image windows.
Fix incorrect display of images with certain EXIF orientation tags.

Known Bugs:

Combining the Thumbnail pane folder depth setting with “Hide folders” filter does not work.
Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments via gBrowser’s bug reporter!

3.0 beta 6 (January 10, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.

New Features:

Only show expansion arrow in sidebar if the folder has child folders.
Sidebar source selection popup menu now lists favorites for quick access. Also updated the icon.

Bugs Fixed:

Navigation > Next Image menu item now works in image windows.
Fix incorrect display of images with certain EXIF orientation tags.

Known Bugs:

Combining the Thumbnail pane folder depth setting with “Hide folders” filter does not work.
Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments via gBrowser’s bug reporter!

3.0 beta 5 (January 9, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.

New Features:

Added alternating row colors setting for Sidebar.
Added row padding setting for Sidebar.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed issue where Thumbnails reverse sort menu item wasn’t triggering a resorting of the items.
Fix issue preventing close of QuickView if the hotkey had been changed to space bar.
Hide menu bar and dock in QuickView if there’s only a single display. (Unfortunately, this can’t be done with multiple displays, because the native fullscreen system only allows for hiding dock and menu bar on all displays simultaneously rather than just the display that has a fullscreen window on it.)
Change default reminder checkbox state for warnings to be unchecked.
Fix issue where scrollbar sometimes appears in QuickView or Slideshow unnecessarily.

Known Bugs:

Combining the Thumbnail pane folder depth setting with “Hide folders” filter does not work.
Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments via gBrowser’s bug reporter!

3.0 beta 4 (December 13, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.

New Features:

Added a notice for the first time someone drops a file into the Sidebar, explaining the Sidebar and its functionality.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed an issue where copies across volumes would spawn two file operations: the intended copy operation and an unintended move operation.
Fixed an issue where file activities would sometimes not cancel when the cancel button was clicked.

Known Bugs:

None. Considering the extent of this rewrite, a number of new bugs have likely been introduced – hopefully fewer than were fixed, though! Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments via gBrowser’s bug reporter.

3.0 beta 3 (December 12, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.
Beta 3 is a quick fix for an issue in Beta 2.

New Features:

Added a bug report / feature request window (gBrowser > Send Bug Report…), so that you can submit these items directly without having to go to the website and find contact information.
Tab support for macOS 12 and later. New browser windows will obey your system-wide tabs settings, or you can use the “New Tab” menu item.
Added slideshow settings to the slideshow context menu.
Slideshow information overlay now shows a useful context menu.
Slideshow information overlay is now highly configurable. It can be drag-resized to be wider or narrower, is configurable as to what information you want displayed, can be styled without the HUD background, and has a horizontal list setting in addition to the standard vertical option.

Bugs Fixed:

Filters in the thumbnail view no longer exhibit strange behavior (particularly with hiding folders).
Slideshow controls are now dark even in light mode.
Fixed references to post-macOS 11 SFSymbols that were causing crashes on macOS 11 and 12.

Known Bugs:

None. Considering the extent of this rewrite, a number of new bugs have likely been introduced – hopefully fewer than were fixed, though! Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments.

3.0 beta 2 (December 12, 2023)

Note:

3.0 is a large rewrite. Definitely check out the release notes for 3.0 beta 1 if you have not yet.

New Features:

Added a bug report / feature request window (gBrowser > Send Bug Report…), so that you can submit these items directly without having to go to the website and find contact information.
Tab support. New browser windows will obey your system-wide tabs settings, or you can use the “New Tab” menu item.
Added slideshow settings to the slideshow context menu.
Slideshow information overlay now shows a useful context menu.
Slideshow information overlay is now highly configurable. It can be drag-resized to be wider or narrower, is configurable as to what information you want displayed, can be styled without the HUD background, and has a horizontal list setting in addition to the standard vertical option.

Bugs Fixed:

Filters in the thumbnail view no longer exhibit strange behavior (particularly with hiding folders).
Slideshow controls are now dark even in light mode.

Known Bugs:

None. Considering the extent of this rewrite, a number of new bugs have likely been introduced – hopefully fewer than were fixed, though! Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments.

3.0 beta 1 (December 8, 2023)

Note:

Minimum system requirement is macOS 11.
3.0 is a large rewrite. Removed most of the 20-year-old legacy Objective-C code; rewritten in Swift with modern APIs.
Settings from gBrowser 2 and earlier are not imported; you will have to set up the app from scratch (sorry!). “Collections” are no longer supported; the app only has one set of settings. If you have multiple groups of files you used Collections with, one alternative is to add their root folders to your Favorites: you can double-click a favorite to make that the current sidebar source.
Quick View is now activated with the escape key instead of the space bar. This is to allow the space bar to play/pause video now that there is video support. You can use the Hotkeys settings to alter this if desired but there are no guarantees how it may work.

New Features:

Entirely new Settings window.
Drop Locations has now become Favorites, and appears in the lower portion of the sidebar.
You can now select multiple folders in the sidebar and see their contents together in the thumbnail pane. There are settings for how to group the contents (all together inline, or grouped by folder); see the Sort Thumbnails menu. The thumbnail pane can also include files from subfolders up to a certain depth (see the depth slider in lower right of the browser window). Note: loading complex folder hierarchies with many folders and images might be very slow.
Generating thumbnails for raw files has been significantly improved; it is much faster.
Rotating images in the thumbnail pane is now a background process, so rotating many images at once will not freeze the app until completion.
The Inspector pane includes more information, including GPS maps. With the map section active, you can see the locations of your selected files on the map (assuming the files have GPS data).
Crossfade transitions are now supported in Quick View and slideshows.
Video is now supported in Quick View and in slideshows.
Slideshows that are autoplaying can be set to allow videos in the slideshow to complete, even if the slideshow timer duration is shorter than the video.
Slideshows can now show more detailed image information (show/hide this via context menu).
Slideshows now do their initial loading in a background process, so the app won’t freeze until completion when loading large folder heirarchies.
More details shown for each thumbnail in thumbnail pane when you choose to show exposure information.

Bugs Fixed:

Tab key can now be used to tab between sidebar, thumbnail pane, and preview pane.
Rotating images in the thumbnail pane no longer loses their selection status.
Page up/down and home/end keys now work in the thumbnail browser.
File name & flag status now shows correctly in Slideshows as part of the new file info overlay.
Sidebar selection should be restoring correctly on launch.
Caught a number of other small bugs during the rewrite.

Known Bugs:

None. Considering the extent of this rewrite, a number of new bugs have likely been introduced – hopefully fewer than were fixed, though! Please make sure to contact us with bug reports or other comments.

2.7 beta 2 (September 30, 2023)

Note:

Minimum system requirement increased to macOS 11.
Upcoming 3.0 update will include an entirely new settings system incompatible with the previous. You’ll have to re-set your preferred icon sizes, sort orders, etc. This will be the final version that recognizes the old settings.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed issue where files would not open in the order displayed in the thumbnail pane.
Fixed problems dragging and dropping in sidebar.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar for version 3.0, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet. This should be fixed in 3.0.

2.7 beta 1 (September 23, 2023)

Note:

Minimum system requirement increased to macOS 11.
Upcoming 3.0 update will include an entirely new settings system incompatible with the previous. You’ll have to re-set your preferred icon sizes, sort orders, etc. This will be the final version that recognizes the old settings.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed issue where files would not open in the order displayed in the thumbnail pane.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar for version 3.0, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet. This should be fixed in 3.0.

2.6 beta 11 (October ?, 2021)

New Features:

Added EXIF creation date as a sort option in the file renamer.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed issue when sorting by Date Added.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 10 (August 22, 2021)

New Features:

You can now group folders last in the thumbnail pane, in addition to first or inline.

Bugs Fixed:

Image scroll positions should be more accurately remembered in the slideshows and Quick View.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 9 (August 7, 2021)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Control-click now works to show the context menu in the thumbnail pane.
Navigating through different size images should now produce the expected image sizes.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 8 (August 6, 2021)

New Features:

Image window titles show image scale information.
New “Open” toolbar button option to open files in their default app.
New “Thumbnails Sort” toolbar menu option.

Bugs Fixed:

Image window scroll bars no longer flicker when scaling.
More consistent image positioning in Quick View.
Info pane expand/collapse menu item actually works now.
Slideshow windows properly fill the screen on newer OSes.
New slideshow toolbar button now correctly starts slideshows with only the selected files, if files are selected.
Drop Locations preferences display added files correctly.
Drop Locations no longer appear duplicated. This required a change from the auto-generated shortcut key combos from Command-# (eg ⌘1) to Command-Shift-# (⌘⇧1). Command-# was being used elsewhere (view menu).

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 7 (August 5, 2021)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed issue with Quick View not filling the screen when used on the primary display.
Fixed issue with Quick View not closing.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 6 (November 13, 2020)

New Features:

Apple Silicon support.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed crash on launch when running Big Sur.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 5 (October 21, 2020)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Bug that could cause slowdowns & high CPU usage fixed.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 4 (October 21, 2020)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Bug that could cause slowdowns & high CPU usage fixed.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 3 (January 20, 2020)

New Features:

Image windows are now using the same faster, newly rewritten image view that Quick View and slideshows are using.
Improvements to full screen mode in the browser window.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed some selection navigation issues in the thumbnail view.
Fixed a crash that could happen when viewing image information.
File counts in the sidebar now update properly.
Fixed an issue returning small images to 100% size in Quick View.
Misc other small bugs fixed.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with a future update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 2 (January 20, 2020)

New Features:

New setting in Quick View preferences to retain the current zoom level when you switch from one file to the next. The default size settings are still used for the initial image display, and any image displayed after having no image in the Quick View (no selection in the thumbnail view).

Bugs Fixed:

Toolbar button to show/hide thumbnail information works again.

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with the next update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.6 beta 1 (January 20, 2020)

New Features:

New, completely rewritten thumbnail view – should look and behave mostly the same, but everything under the hood is modernized.
2 new additional thumbnail view modes (see View menu) that give you a Quick View preview of your selection right in the main window (with preview on top or on right).
New, completely rewritten Quick View that is significantly faster and smoother. This drives not only the Quick View window and new thumbnails-adjacent preview, but slideshows as well.
Rewritten file copy and move code using more modern APIs. Goodbye, the last vestiges of Carbon…
New flag/reject files feature (see Edit menu) has replaced file marks.
For users running Catalina, gBrowser now uses Catalina’s new Quicklook thumbnail generation process. Hopefully this is an improvement, particularly for larger files. Beta testers, we really need your feedback.

Bugs Fixed:

File move/copy issues on newer OSes should be resolved with the new code.
Slideshow controller opacity slider works again (and is limited to 15% so you can’t lose it altogether).

Known Bugs:

Temporarily, filenames and file flag status do not appear in slideshow windows as before. It will be back with the next update.
Occasionally the sidebar selection won’t appear selected on launch. The plan is to completely rewrite the sidebar as was just done to the thumbnail view, so this minor issue will wait for that.
Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.5 beta 7 (January 6, 2020)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug where the new hotkeys system was swallowing keystrokes in text fields.

Known Bugs:

Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.5 beta 6 (January 6, 2020)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

File moves and copies should complete successfully on Catalina.
Choosing the system font in the preferences will no longer cause the app to be unable to open (!).

Known Bugs:

Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.5 beta 5 (January 5, 2020)

New Features:

Added experimental support for additional file types – let us know if you run into any issues.

Bugs Fixed:

No more beeping when navigating with the arrow keys in Quick View.

Known Bugs:

Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.5 beta 4 (January 4, 2020)

New Features:

Entirely new hotkeys system written from scratch. More flexible and includes all menu items. (Downside: Previous users, your custom hotkeys have been reset).
Improve Catalina compatibility. Also did some special-casing to merge the disparate System vs User Applications and Utilities folders in Catalina so gBrowser continues to reflect the Finder’s representation.
Improve filename localization support.

Bugs Fixed:

Catalina users who couldn’t see files should have that issue fixed.
Misc small things.

Known Bugs:

Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.5 beta 3 (December 31, 2019)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Make alias works again.
Other file operations also working again.
Misc other fixes to things that broke during the modernization process.

Known Bugs:

Toggle to/from sidebar key focus doesn’t work yet.

2.5 beta 2 (December 25, 2019)

New Features:

64-bit only; works on MacOS Catalina. MacOS 10.12 and later required.
Developer ID / Notarization.
Dark Mode support.
Modern toolbar appearance; buttons are now customizable.
Batch Rename has gained regex support and support for inserting the name of the grandparent folder (in addition to the already extant parent folder name support).
Added ability to sort by Date Added.
Reworked preferences windows.

Bugs Fixed:

This was a significant rewrite so I’m sure I squashed a few. I’m also sure I created a few – please let me know if something doesn’t work.

Known Bugs:

None yet.

2.0 beta 26 (March 20, 2010)

New Features:

More efficiency improvements in file loading and tracking which should further speed up loading and display of folder contents.

Bugs Fixed:

Minor bug fixes.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 25 (March 18, 2010)

New Features:

Efficiency improvements in the file-tracking system.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that would cause thumbnails not to show in a folder after it is moved.
Other minor bug fixes.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 24 (March 17, 2010)

New Features:

gBrowser now automatically scrolls the Sidebar to ensure that newly selected items are visible.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug introduced in beta 23 where files moved or deleted form the Thumbnail Pane wouldn’t disappear.
Fixed a crash that could occur when changing the Sidebar file filter.
Fixed a bug that cause Sidebar folder/file counts to be incorrect.
Permanently rotating images no longer results in loss or alteration of filesystem metadata (like the file’s label or modification date).
Other minor bug fixes.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 23 (March 16, 2010)

New Features:

Added an option to the Application Preferences to hide gBrowser whenever it is no longer the active application.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug where filename case changes wouldn’t show up.
Fixed a bug where some invisible files would be visible.
Fixed a bug that would cause strange behavior after a rotating an image.
Fixed a bug where the Label menu item might display incorrectly.
Fixed an error that could occur when starting a slideshow when gBrowser was not the active application (ie. from the Services menu).

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 22 (March 10, 2010)

New Features:

Image Viewer will update if you switch back to a folder with a preexisting selection.
Folder names are still displayed when other file info is hidden.
Marks are still displayed when other file info is hidden.
Simplified hotkeys for Drop Locations: Command-# is now used for move (rather than Option-Command-#). Option-Command-# will now copy files to the Drop Location, and Control-Command-# will make aliases of the files in the Drop Location.
Altered Drop Locations menu so it now works more sensibly.
Improved efficiency when removing files from the Sidebar.
Improved efficiency in the file-tracking subsystem.

Bugs Fixed:

Selecting a batch rename preset from a menu works properly again.
Corrected odd behavior when rotating image files in the Thumbnail Pane.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 21 (March 7, 2010)

New Features:

By default, the Sidebar can no longer take focus, similar to the simpler and less confusing behavior of Finder’s and Mail’s sidebars. This means no keyboard navigation, and main menu commands such as “Move to Trash” or “Duplicate” cannot affect selected files, etc. Don’t worry, the previous more advanced functionality can be enabled by checking the appropriate box in your Sidebar preferences!
Improved responsiveness after file move/copy/update.
Hopefully the Slideshow and Batch Rename services will appear more reliably after this update.
If a Slideshow service is started with just a single file, the slideshow will start with the full contents of that file’s parent folder.
Added option to Thumbnail Pane preferences to automatically select the first file when loading a folder.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug in minimizing the Sidebar by dragging it closed.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 20 (March 6, 2010)

New Features:

Efficiency improvements in the file-tracking subsystem.
PDFs can now be dropped onto the gBrowser icon.
Images are removed from the slideshow when moved into a Drop Location.
Slideshow now displays current slide index next to filename.
Added “Slideshow” as an OS X service. Now in addition to the “Batch Rename” service, you can start slideshows in gBrowser from the selected files in the Finder via the contextual menu or Services menu (10.6 users might need to enable the Slideshow service in the Keyboard Shortcuts system preferences).

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug in drag-and-drop to the Thumbnail Pane.
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when viewing or sorting by image metadata.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 19 (March 5, 2010)

New Features:

Improved “new slideshow” menu item behaviors. To decrease confusion, slideshow source is now solely based on Thumbnail Pane contents rather than Thumbnail Pane or Sidebar depending on which had focus.
Added option in Thumbnail Pane preferences to select the next file when you remove (by moving or deleting) the current selection.
Added option in application preferences to open browser window to an image’s parent folder when opening an image and no browser window is already open.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a memory leak.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 18 (March 4, 2010)

New Features:

Improvements to keyboard navigation in Sidebar and Thumbnail Pane.
Further efficiency improvements when working with large numbers of files.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed some bugs introduced in beta 17.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 17 (March 3, 2010)

New Features:

Reorganized main menus for better clarity.
Added key commands for Back/Forward in navigation history.
Holding option while using the scroll wheel in slideshows will go to previous/next image.
Holding option while dragging the thumbnail size slider will force thumbnail sizes to the maximum width that fits in the current browser window.
Added a menu option to scroll the Thumbnail Pane to the first selected item.
Minor speed and efficiency improvements, especially when working with large numbers (thousands) of files.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug in the Image Viewer that could cause a crash.
“Go to parent folder” works in the Sidebar again.
Slideshows can now be started properly when focus is on the Sidebar.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 17 (February 28, 2010)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Next/prev image in Image Viewer works now.
Image orientation is properly detected again.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 15 (February 27, 2010)

New Features:

Grouped some of the thumbnail information (megapixels, dimensions, and portrait/landscape) together under “dimensions”. You might have to re-select the “dimensions” display option.
Added exposure info and hardware info display option for thumbnails.
Added sort options: Exposure time, f Stop, ISO, Focal Length, and Camera Model.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when using the Image Viewer.
Fixed some memory leaks.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 14 (February 26, 2010)

New Features:

Mouse is now autohidden when Imager Viewer is fullscreen.
Improved behavior when opening and closing fullscreen Image Viewer while using fullscreen browser.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug where dropping a folder onto the gBrowser app icon wouldn’t always properly select the file.
Fixed a bug where closing the browser window immediately after selecting a bookmark could cause a crash.
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when making the browser window fullscreen.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 13 (February 25, 2010)

New Features:

Browser window can now be made fullscreen (View > Toggle Fullscreen).
Improved fullscreen behavior in slideshows and Image Viewer.
Drop Locations appear in slideshow contextual menu.
New setting in Sidebar prefs for “Preferred root folder” allows you to choose a preferred folder to use as the root of the sidebar when opening folders by dropping them on the gBrowser icon or option-clicking them in the Thumbnail Pane to open them in a new window.
The top level of the filesystem now displays your system’s name rather than just “Computer.”

Bugs Fixed:

None.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 12 (February 24, 2010)

New Features:

Removed drag delay time in Thumbnail pane.
Made dragged icons semitransparent so they don’t obscure the area you’re dragging to.
Sort-by-label now uses the same criteria the Finder does.
Improved appearance of marked files in Thumbnail Pane.
Added option (on by default) to hide Image Viewer when gBrowser is in the background.
Added option (on by default) to blank other screens when displaying slideshows.
Added option to immediately expand folders when they are selected in the sidebar.
Added option to make “New Slideshow in Current Folder” start from the first selected file in the Thumbnail Pane.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed some permissions related issues with copying or moving files.
Move To menu fixed to appear in read-only folders too.
Fixed a bug where thumbnails wouldn’t load and images wouldn’t open if the file’s parent folder had been moved or renamed.
Fixed a bug where a couple slideshow hotkeys weren’t working.
Fixed a potential crash when editing filenames.
Fixed a crash when viewing multiple PDFs.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 11 (February 17, 2010)

New Features:

Preferences key combo changed to the now standard command-, instead of the older command-;.
Reworked preferences to remove smaller font sizes.
Added two new options to “Move To” menus: “New Folder” (Moves files into a new folder in the parent directory) and “Other Location…” (lets you choose any other folder).

Bugs Fixed:

“Change Font” button in the Sidebar prefs works again.
Rotate hotkeys work properly now.
Fixed a possible crash when closing the slideshow.
Resolved an issue where images opened in gBrowser (in image windows, slideshow, or Image Viewer) couldn’t be deleted or saved over (eg. by Photoshop or while moving files to another volume).

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 10 (February 14, 2010)

New Features:

Movies with custom icons will show the custom icon rather than quicklook preview.
The browser window now keeps its status as the main window if you have the image viewer open on launch.
Slideshow controls now remember their position.
Show/hide button pane state is now remembered.
Image windows remember their position.
The sidebar no longer shows the expansion arrow next to folders that are empty (or whose contents are invisible due to the sidebar filter setting).
New hotkey to toggle focus between the Sidebar and Thumbnails: control-tab.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that could cause crashes or glitches when loading contents of folders with very large numbers of files.
Fixed a bug where “1001” was shown on marked items, and marked items couldn’t be selected.
Removed old “Add to Toolbar” references in menus.
Non-fullscreen image viewer will now auto-open on the correct screen.
Next/Prev image in folder menu options are validated properly.
Fixed a couple other crash-causing bugs.

Known Bugs:

None. Note that this beta update has a larger files size because it has been built for debugging – we’re hoping to squash the any remaining bugs so we can have a final release soon!

2.0 beta 9 (December 11, 2009)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that could crash gBrowser when loading folder contents.
Fixed a problem that would log unnecessary messages to Console.
Fixed an issue with hot keys in the Edit menu.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

2.0 beta 8 (December 4, 2009)

New Features:

Improved hotkeys preferences, allowing for modifier keys (command, option, shift, and control) in addition to a key, and added options to change certain menu hotkeys. Some of the default key combos have been changed.
Added ability to tile small images, either automatically or by selecting an option in the View menu (see Viewing Images in your Collection Preferences).
Image windows can be closed with the escape key.
Simplified and consolidated preferences.
Reorganized main menu to reduce submenus.
Added appearance presets (white, gray, dark grey, etc.) to thumbnail pane preferences.
Added a button to the Thumbnail Pane to quickly hide/show file information along with thumbnails. Also improved thumbnail appearance when no file information is displayed.

Bugs Fixed:

Removed old references to the toolbar in the main menu.
Fixed a couple crash-causing bugs.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

2.0 beta 7 (November 30, 2009)

New Features:

Sidebar bookmarks now persist even if the file cannot be found (in case you’ve bookmarked something on an external drive that isn’t always connected, for example).
Improved image loading times a bit, and no longer use temporary display of lower-quality version.
Improved behavior of fullscreen windows with regard to mouse tracking and displaying menu bar/dock on multiple monitors.
Added preference for thumbnail pane font color.

Bugs Fixed:

Font name/size now shows correctly in preferences.
Fixed a couple more crash-causing bugs.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

2.0 beta 6 (November 29, 2009)

New Features:

Small efficiency improvement in file-tracking system.
Added options to sort by orientation (portrait/landscape) and to display this information in the Thumbnail Pane.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed some more crash-causing bugs.
Fixed an issue that could cause Sidebar bookmarks to stop working.
Fixed a display issue with certain images.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

2.0 beta 5 (November 28, 2009)

New Features:

Image Viewer can now be opened from the thumbnail pane using the space bar, and also closed using the space bar, similar to Quicklook. This makes the Image Viewer much more useful on single-monitor systems.
Added option to display EXIF Date Taken with thumbnails, and option to sort thumbnails by date taken.
Added options to sort thumbnails by image height or width.
Sidebar bookmark titles can now be customized to something other than the filename, and you can add separator items as well.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that prevented the properly sorting by creation date or ICC profile.
Fixed some memory leaks.
Fixed some misc. crashers; as always, thanks for submitting your crash reports.
Removed some old settings.
Added a few missing menu items to the main menu’s Thumbnails and Sidebar sort menus.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

2.0 beta 4 (November 26, 2009)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when a folder being browsed is ejected or deleted.
A few other small fixes.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

2.0 beta 3 (November 25, 2009)

New Features:

Eject disks from the gBrowser contextual menu.
Image information displayed in the info pane is now loaded in a separate thread, so selecting hundreds of files at once won’t cause gBrowser to freeze up for a few seconds.

Bugs Fixed:

gBrowser no longer “holds onto” disks you’re browsing (which prevented them from being ejected in the Finder or anywhere else without quitting gBrowser).
Many bugfixes to underlying file-tracking code, particularly related to insertion and removal of disks.
Modification dates are back (oops).

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

2.0 beta 2 (November 23, 2009)

New Features:

Made some significant changes/improvements to gBrowser’s file-tracking system. Please let us know if you discover any issues with gBrowser not updating properly when files are moved/renamed/etc.
Improved response to disks being mounted/ejected/renamed also.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed some crashing bugs in refreshing the top level of the sidebar.
Fixed some sorting issues in batch renamer.
Some miscellaneous other crash fixes (thanks for submitting crash reports!).

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

2.0 beta 1 (November 14, 2009)

New Features:

Due to the huge number of feature enhancements in the past few months, we’ve decided it would be more appropriate to change the version to 2.0. Fear not, your 1.x registration is still good for version 2.0!
Moved to Apple’s QuickLook to create and store thumbnails. This means you’ll be getting thumbnails for many more file types – anything QuickLook supports on your machine, including movies and text files. This also means we’re not storing thumbnails in the resource fork anymore. Thumbnails may load slower for a while as QuickLook creates and caches them, but should load more quickly after that. Since this is a fairly major alteration, please send us feedback after trying it out for a while, we’d like to know if you feel it is better or worse than the old system.
Improved appearance and functionality of main window.
Added search/filter box for Thumbnail pane.
Thumbnail size slider now goes up to 1024.
A few little improvements to the batch rename window.
Added Batch Rename as a Service – find it in the Services menu in the Finder on Leopard, or in both the Services menu and contextual menus in the Finder on Snow Leopard (Snow Leopard users will have to activate the Batch Rename service in the Keyboard section of System Preferences).
Improved appearance of drag & drop thumbnails in the Thumbnail Pane.
New About window.
Improved window sizing behavior when opening PDFs.
Improved sizing behavior and appearance when viewing images, movies, or HTML documents directly in the Thumbnail Pane by selecting them in the Sidebar.
Removed Toolbar and replaced it with a button bar in the Thumbnail Pane. Sidebar shortcuts that used to appear in the Toolbar now appear in the new Bookmarks popup menu underneath the Sidebar.
Improved functionality of the Sidebar’s back/forward navigation buttons.
Added “Quick Open With” button in new button bar. This button will show the icon of the first application in your Drop Locations that’s able to edit the selected file. Hold the option key to bypass your Drop Locations and open the file in the standard application (this is useful if you have Photoshop in your Drop Locations, as Photoshop thinks it can open everything).
Added IPTC and EXIF info viewing – press the Info button the left side of the button bar (or Command-I). We actually attempted to add editing, but it turns out Apple’s APIs for this are remarkably inconsistant and buggy, randomly not saving certain tags, stripping out a few specific tags, writing tags so they were unreadable in other programs, etc. We’ll have to pursue a different solution and it may be a while before editing is in place.

Bugs Fixed:

Files no longer disappear from view if thumbnail size is bigger than the thumbnail pane.
Fixed some misc. crashers.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

1.6 beta 21 (November 2, 2009)

New Features:

Added much-requested batch rename feature. You will find the option under the new “Tasks” menu or in the thumbnail pane context menu. Either select your files/folders in the thumbnail pane and open the rename window from there, or you can add (and remove) files directly from the rename window itself. A small selection of presets are available out of the box, but you can make your own to suit your needs!
Minor improvements to Drop Locations window.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if the manual thumbnail creator didn’t find any image files.
Fixed bugs in sorting by creation date.
Fixed bugs in “open in app” preferences.
Improvements to thumbnail creation code to avoid unnecessary logging.
Fixed a bug that would constantly reload larger thumbnails when smaller thumbnails hadn’t yet been created.
Fixed a few other crashers (thanks to those who submitted crash logs with the new crash reporter! But remember, it helps if you write a sentence or two explaining what you were doing when the crash occured!).

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

1.6 beta 20 (October 25, 2009)

New Features:

Added a crash reporter. You will now have the option to upload crash reports straight to us, which should really help us squash bugs.
A few more improvements to the preferences windows.

Bugs Fixed:

None.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

1.6 beta 19 (October 24, 2009)

New Features:

If you have an image window open, hitting the space bar will take you to the next image in that folder. Shift-space will take you to the previous one.
“Move to” menus can now be changed to “Copy to” (hold option before selecting the menu) or “Make alias in” (hold control before selecting the menu) so that you can easily copy or make aliases of your selected files into one of your drop locations.
Improved thumbnail creation and thumbnail removal code.
Improved preferences windows a bit more.

Bugs Fixed:

Some sizable under-the-hood changes – please make sure to let us know if you experience any bugs (there are bound to be some), particularly with opening images or using the Image Viewer.
Fixed some crashes when using keyboard navigation in the Thumbnail Pane.
Fixed some bugs in the Preferences window.
Fixed lots of other little bugs.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

1.6 beta 18 (October 22, 2009)

New Features:

Simplified preferences.
Improved PDF viewing further.
Improved Drop Locations window.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a problem opening the Image Viewer window.
Fixed some bugs in the preferences windows.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

1.6 beta 17 (October 21, 2009)

New Features:

Added option to permanently rotate images (losslessly, just sets the EXIF orientation tag) from thumbnail pane, either via contextual menu, File menu, or toolbar button.
Better validation of toolbar items.
Improved PDF viewing (not perfect yet).
Added “Drop Locations” window, accessible under the “Window” menu. This floating window lists your “Move to” folders and “Open with” applications, and lets you quickly and easily drop your files into/onto them! You can even add new folders/apps and change their order right there in the Drop Locations window.

Bugs Fixed:

Significant changes to menu code, resolving a few crash issues and improving behavior. Let us know if anything isn’t working.
Other small fixes here and there.

Known Bugs:

Newly created aliases don’t always show up properly (thought we’d fixed this!).

1.6 beta 16 (October 19, 2009)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Dropping a folder on the gBrowser icon once again opens a new gBrowser window to browse the contents of that folder.
A couple of other little fixes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 15 (October 18, 2009)

New Features:

The first ten “move to” items now each recieve a keyboard shortcut (command-option-#) rather than just the first one.
Minor efficiency improvement when displaying multiple types of image info in the thumbnail pane.

Bugs Fixed:

“Move to” menu item works again.
Files no longer sometimes stop] displaying their icons when setting a label.
Minor modifications to how icons and thumbnails are loaded.
Thumbnail pane font settings are remembered now.
Miscellaneous other little fixes and improvments.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 14 (October 15, 2009)

New Features:

Improved Quick Tips window.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that caused images to load incorrectly if they weren’t 72 DPI.
Fixed a bug where an image edited in Photoshop might not update its thumbnail immediately.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 13 (October 7, 2009)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when browsing images while image dimensions were displayed.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 12 (October 6, 2009)

New Features:

Added drag-to-select to thumbnail pane.
Added warning when changing filename extensions.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that made the slideshow unable to loop around in reverse.
Fixed a bug where image windows for images with EXIF orientation tags wouldn’t properly show the low-quality view first.
Misc other little fixes and changes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 11 (October 4, 2009)

Changes since beta 10 this morning:

Fixed a bug that would cause preferences to go unsaved on some systems.

New Features:

Switched from kernel queues to FSEvents for file tracking; should improve efficiency a bit.
Further graphics refinements & standardization.
Added alias badge to aliases.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug in the sidebar’s filename editor.
Misc other little fixes and changes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 10 (October 4, 2009)

New Features:

Switched from kernel queues to FSEvents for file tracking; should improve efficiency a bit.
Further graphics refinements & standardization.
Added alias badge to aliases.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug in the sidebar’s filename editor.
Misc other little fixes and changes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 9 (October 2, 2009)

New Features:

Full support for file labels! Set labels, sort by labels, etc.
Further optimizations to thumbnail pane drawing code should result in a modest speed increase while scrolling or changing thumbnail size.
Improved error handling for file operations.

Bugs Fixed:

gBrowser won’t jump to filenames if you use a modifier key combo that doesn’t exist (ie. Command-S no longer incorrectly jumps you to files beginning with S).
Fixed some minor graphical issues in the thumbnail pane.
Fixed a bug where files with errors in a file operation (move, rename, etc.) might not get skipped when the user chose to skip them.

Known Bugs:

Newly-created aliases are not always properly recognized as aliases.

1.6 beta 8 (September 29, 2009)

New Features:

Threaded file copies with progress window – finally! Please let me know if you discover any issues with moving or copying your files.
Reorganized the prefrerences a bit, and rewrote a lot of the underlying code.
All preferences are now saved automatically, no need to save on quitting all the time.
“New window” now makes a clone of your current Collection window if you have a Collection open (along with some other general improvements in window/Collection behavior).
Thumbnail pane now remembers your selections and scroll position for each folder if you leave a folder and then come back to it (until you quit the application).
In Snow Leopard, we now use the same method of calculating file size as the operating system does.
Reorganized menus a little.
The “show file/folder count” option for the sidebar now uses your thumbnail pane file filter settings to calculate the file count.
Stripped out lots of old and unused code and resources, and switched to more modern APIs in many places.
Improved thumbnail pane appearance and added some small optimizations to the drawing code.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed an issue that would cause errors if you were browsing the filesystem root while viewing invisible files.
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when opening a corrupt image.
Fixed a bug where image dimensions might not display properly.

Known Bugs:

Newly-created aliases are not always properly recognized as aliases.

1.6 beta 7 (September 16, 2009)

New Features:

Improved efficiency and responsiveness in the thumbnail view.
Miscellaneous code improvements.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug where an image would be assumed corrupt if it didn’t have a thumbnail.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 6 (September 9, 2009)

New Features:

Max thumbnail size is now 1024px.
Improved drawing of shadows.
Miscellaneous other little improvements.
Improvements to zooming/panning in slideshow mode (scrollwheel now zooms).

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a crash when changing certain preferences.
Fixed a few other crash-causing bugs.
Many miscellaneous little code changes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 5 (September 6, 2009)

New Features:

Completely overhauled file operations code (moving, copying, etc.). Behavior should be a little more Finder-like (including “apply to all” checkbox!) but still no progress bars. This overhaul means some new bugs might have slipped in, so please contact us if you notice anything unusual.
“Open with” menu automatically displays recommended apps. You can also still choose your default/preferred set of apps to appear at the top of the menu.
Improvements in dragging/dropping files to the toolbar.
Clicking an item in the sidebar to select it doesn’t bring up the filename editor anymore. An item must now already be selected for a click to bring up the editor (like in the Finder).

Bugs Fixed:

Random slideshow sorting now works properly with folder grouping.
Fixed a crash when viewing the root level of the filesystem in Snow Leopard.
Fixed a crash when clicking a file in the toolbar.
Fixed a bug where the preferences window might ask you to save when you already had.
Display of thumbnails for aliases to an image now works properly.
Many miscellaneous little code changes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 4 (September 4, 2009)

New Features:

New slideshow controller. We’re now using the terrific BGHUDAppKit framework by Tim Davis of Binary Method for HUD-style controls.
Modified thumbnail caching scheme to avoid using too much memory when browsing folders with thousands of images.
Added warning when opening large numbers of images at once.
Added option to group folders first in thumbnail view.

Bugs Fixed:

Image orientations should now always be correct.
Fixed many bugs in slideshow and slideshow settings.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 3 (September 2, 2009)

New Features:

Now 64 bit on capable systems.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed issues with slideshow sorting. Please let us know if there are any more problems.
Fixed more memory leaks.
Setting desktop picture works in Snow Leopard.
Selecting marked images when you’ve marked images in multiple folders now works.
Better error/consistency checking when dragging and dropping files.

Known Bugs:

Slideshow controls may occasionally not display properly.

1.6 beta 2 (June 11, 2009)

New Features:

“Quick Tips” window that gives a basic summary of how gBrowser works.
Thumbnail sharpening now works (had been disabled for testing).
Rewrote some descriptions in the preferences & menu bars to make them easier to understand.
Changed a few default settings.
Added a hot key to start a slideshow with selected files.
New icon for Collections file.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed an issue with subfolders of aliases in the sidebar.
Fixed a few more memory leaks.
Fixed an issue where unzipped files might not appear properly.
Fixed a bug in thumbnail loading code.
Slideshow controller & mouse now disappear like they should.
Duplicated files now get the proper extension.
Warnings about file renaming are no longer doubled.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.6 beta 1 (June 6, 2009)

New Features:

WORKS IN LEOPARD. In fact, OS X 10.5 or higher is now required. gBrowser is also now a universal binary.
Revamped the file loading/tracking subsystem. This should hopefully result in meaningful performance improvements when loading folder contents in the sidebar or thumbnail pane for folders containing thousands of files. On the other hand, it means there are a few file-related things you will need to re-set in your preferences: The sidebar base folder, your default file (if you use that option), “Move to” folders and “Open With” applications, and folders you have dragged to the toolbar. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Updated to use the Sparkle update framework.
Multithreaded and multiprocessor aware.
Increased thumbnail creation speed by 10x or more.
Updated window interface, more Leopard-like.
Updated and simplified menus.
Clearer and more consistent terminology.
Updated toolbar.
Ability to filter out files/folders/images/etc. in both file list and thumbnail pane.
More options for image information display & sorting in the thumbnail pane (megapixels, creation date, ICC profile, etc).
Now aware of embedded image orientation metadata.
“Selection sets” has been reworked as file “marking.” The hot keys (F1 or F2) are more convenient, images can be marked in slideshow mode in addition to in the thumbnail pane, and marks are persistent until you quit gBrowser rather than disappearing after you leave the folder. This makes sorting large groups of images (say sorting the good from the bad in a photo shoot) much, much easier.
New icon.
Symbolic links can now be properly moved to the trash thanks to changes introduced in 10.4.
Slideshow controller is now a HUD window.
Uses UTIs (Universal Type Identifiers) to more reliably identify images. This should also make gBrowser capable of displaying and creating thumbnails for a much wider range of image types, though not every one may be fully supported (eg. PDFs render at 72 dpi).
Now using the QTKit framework when displaying Quicktime videos.
A huge list of other little things that didn’t actually get put on a list so you’ll have to pretend they’re on here.
Removed outdated localizations (nothing left but English).
Some other, mostly rarely-used features have been removed.

Bugs Fixed:

No longer crashes on launch in Leopard.
Fixed a lot of memory leaks.
Fixed a lot of random crashes.
Way too many more to count.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.5.1 alpha 13 (June 1, 2009)

New Features:

gBrowser’s file tracking framework now uses kernel queues to check for changes, rather than polling the filesystem.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed an issue where files added to a folder in rapid succession might not all show up.

Known Issues:

None.

1.5.1 alpha 12 (May 27, 2009)

New Features:

Reworked (and renamed) “selection sets” feature. Now you can “mark” files for inclusion in up to four groups using simpler key combos – F1 & F2 or Option-F1 and Option-F2. Files can be marked in the thumbnail pane or in slideshow mode. Marks persist until gBrowser is quit (not just until you navigate out of the folder, as previously). If you need to sort files into different categories (ie. separate the “good” from the “bad” photos in a recent photo shoot), this makes it quicker and easier to scan through your photos and mark those that should be put into different folders.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed some big memory leaks.
Fixed a couple issues that caused crashes.
Improved performance of thumbnail generation on multicore machines.
Fixed a bug that caused gBrowser to report opened images as “corrupt” after they’d been moved from one folder to the other, even though the images were actually fine.
Date/time stamps now display with proper detail.

Known Issues:

Once gBrowser is out of the private alpha stage and into a public beta I’ll go into more detail.

1.5.1 alpha 11 (April 2, 2008)

New Features:

Added some additional image information for display in the thumbnail pane (and clarified preexisting options), and added associated sort options. (Megapixels, creation date, and ICC profile.)
Items in the thumbnail pane do not have a particular info element (for example, megapixel info for folders) display nothing in that row rather than “N/A”.
Images that have orientation metadata (like photos from most modern digital cameras) are displayed at the correct orientation.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed some memory leaks.
Fixed a bug that could cause icons in the “Open with” and “Move to” preferences to draw upside down.
Images viewed at full-size in the thumbnail pane (by selecting an image file in the sidebar) are now centered properly.

Known Issues:

Once gBrowser is out of the private alpha stage and into a public beta I’ll go into more detail.

1.5.1 alpha 10 (March 29, 2008)

New Features:

Improved appearance for thumbnail creation and resource stripping windows.
Thread scheduling is a little smarter.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug in displaying number of files found when recursively searching for images during manual thumbnail generation.
Plugged more memory leaks.
Caught and fixed some inefficiencies in the file loading code.
Fixed a bug that could cause crashes when closing a gBrowser document window.
Fixed some bugs that could cause crashes during on-the-fly thumbnail creation.

Known Issues:

Once gBrowser is out of the private alpha stage and into a public beta I’ll go into more detail.

1.5.1 alpha 9 (March 27, 2008)

New Features:

Progress updates for both manual and automatic thumbnail creation have been improved.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug in displaying file/folder counts for aliases in the sidebar.
Fixed a bug that prevented dragging & dropping onto some folders in the sidebar.
Fixed a bug that prevented the image viewer from opening if no thumbnail was selected in the thumbnail pane.
New folders created in the thumbnail pane are selected and ready for file name editing.
Fixed memory leaks in thumbnail creation code and other areas.

Known Issues:

Once gBrowser is out of the private alpha stage and into a public beta I’ll go into more detail.

1.5.1 alpha 8 (March 15, 2008)

New Features:

Multithreaded thumbnail creation now takes advantage of every processor core in your machine (prviously there was only one worker thread, so only it would only make use of one processor). This should speed up thumbnail creation if you have a multicore machine.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a potential crasher in the automatic thumbnail creation code.

Known Issues:

Once gBrowser is out of the private alpha stage and into a public beta I’ll go into more detail.

1.5.1 alpha 7 (March 14, 2008)

New Features:

Now using the Sparkle framework for getting update notifications as well as installing automatic updates. As such, this is the first appcast (though the updater will never alert users to it – they’d have to have the update already – it’s here for the historical record!).

Bugs Fixed:

None specifically.

Known Issues:

Once gBrowser is out of the private alpha stage and into a public beta I’ll go into more detail.

1.5 beta 22 (October 26, 2002)

New Features:

Added new commands to the slideshow, Image Viewer, and image windows: “Move image to trash”, “Remove image from slideshow” (slideshow only obviously), and the “Open With…” and “Move to…” submenus.
Added more options to the slideshow display preferences to control what type of information is to be displayed with the slideshow.
Added a “Used metal-textured window for slideshow controls” option (on by default) in the slideshow controls prefs. This only works on OS X 10.2 and above.
Added a “Navigation” submenu to the Previews menu, with some useful commands (these were actually available before, but since they were undocumented and not in any menus, not everyone knew about it). Also altered the command keys for a couple menu items in the Paths menu to fit the new setup.
File selection behavior in the file list view now more closely mimics the behavior of the Finder.
Drag and drop in the file list has been improved (although there may yet be a few odd bugs to work out in the new code).
Expanded the options for rename behavior in the file list and the preview pane. You can now specify whether you want single or double clicks to start file renaming.

Bugs Fixed:

gBrowser now does a better job naming duplicated files and newly created symlinks.
Filename editing now no longer starts until mouseup.
Some bugs worked out of the new grab-to-scroll code.
Quicktime movies previewed in the preview pane are now displayed at the corret size (I wasn’t taking into account the size of the controller so movies were getting a bit squished). Please, please, please, Apple, add some decent Quicktime support to Cocoa.
Fixed some occasional problems with display of symlinks and aliases.
Fixed an issue that could cause files to show up twice in folders containing files with slashes in their filenames.
Fixed a few little crashers.
You can no longer resize images to smaller than 1 percent or larger than 5000 percent of their original size.
Fixed a minor drag and drop bug in the preview pane.
Fixed a bug that might cause incorrect information to be displayed in the preview pane when viewing certain types of information.
The autohide slideshow controls feature now works again in the slideshow (and the mouse disappears properly too).
Display of the file list has been sped up a bit if you have “don’t show file/folder count” selected in the file list setup prefs (it doesn’t bother to count if it isn’t necessary now).
The preview pane no longer briefly displays a gray window background when gBrowser is initially launched.

Known issues:

The “Edit menu…” menu item in the Open With and Move To menus aren’t always available.
I am now running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and should gBrowser seems to work fine on that version of the OS. However, this means I’m doing little testing in 10.1, and while there shouldn’t be any problems I’m not making any promises there.

1.5 beta 21 (October 5, 2002)

New Features:

Did some significant optimizations so that loading files and related stuff is much, much faster. Those of you with folders full of thousands of images, rejoyce :-).
Modified the slideshow stuff a bit. Since selecting a huge number (thousands) of files (usually when selecting many folders with many files and choosing the recursive option) could cause the app to freeze for uncomfortable amounts of time, the slideshow setup is now threaded and you will see a progress window before the slideshow opens. There is also a slideshow setup window that is displayed so that you can change your slideshow options before the slideshow starts. The slideshow command keys have changed a bit; check the Slideshows submenu of the Images menu for the new commands.
You can now command-option-click and drag to scroll in the file list.
Better validation of menus and contextual menus in the file list and preview pane.
The back/forward buttons and history menus now include multiple selections.
If you have one file selected in the file list and you move it to the trash, the next item will be selected automatically (this was requested because some people like to review/delete their pictures this way).
Renamed items in the file list are now scrolled into view if their new name causes them to be sorted outside of the currently viewed area.
New folders in the file list and preview pane now start with the filename in editing mode.
The “display file/folder count” option in the file list setup preferences has been expanded to allow a bit more flexibility.

Bugs Fixed:

The item selection colors in the preview pane are correct now if your initial click is a right-click.
Rewrote some of the image window code, to fix a few odd quirks (yes, there still are a couple odd behaviors left; I’m working on it).
Fixed some memory leaks.
Items in the Tools menu now get validated correctly.
If you have multiple preview generation windows open, they all can have their own individual expanded/collapsed state, instead of all expanding or collapsing together when you press the expand/collapse button in one of the windows.
The toolbar back/forward buttons and history menus should work correctly now.
The “reverse” item in the sort popup menu in the slideshow controller works correctly now.
Fixed a potential crasher in the thumbnail loader.
Fixed a bug where the root volume wouldn’t always show up in the file list when viewing the Computer folder.
Fixed a very minor miscalculation in the preview pane’s drawing code.
Fixed a bug that could cause crashes during file renaming.
Alias files that are added to the toolbar are treated properly and work correctly now.
The correct version number is showing up in the about box now.
Fixed a bug that would cause crashes if you tried to start a slideshow in a folder with no image files.
If you have multiple files selected in the preview pane and you rename one of them, you no longer lose your selection (a change in beta 20 caused only the renamed item to remain selected).

Known Bugs:

Selecting folders in the toolbar may act oddly or incorrectly sometimes.
I am now running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and should gBrowser seems to work fine on that version of the OS. However, this means I’m doing little testing in 10.1, and while there shouldn’t be any problems I’m not making any promises there.

1.5 beta 20 (September 23, 2002)

New Features:

You can now command-click and drag to scroll in image windows, the Image Viewer, slideshows, and the preview pane (though in the preview pane you must hold the option key as well unless you are clicking in “empty” space).
Low quality on-the-fly thumbnail generation is now threaded, so the app should feel much more responsive now if you’re using this mode (particularly with large files).
Added an option (in the file list setup section of the prefs) to display the number of folders and total files in a directory next to its name in the file list. Be forwarned this might slow down the initial display of the file list, especially if you have folders containing very large numbers of files.
Added an option (in the file list appearance section of the prefs) to control the spacing of the lines in the file list.
Added an option (in the preview pane appearence section) to control the color of the thumbnail shadow.
Added an option (in the preview pane information section; yes, not the best place… a prefs revamp is coming soon) to control whether or not to edit file names when the name is clicked on (you can set it to edit file names only when you press enter when the file is selected; some people have requested this after accidentally starting filename edits too often).
Added the same option for the file list in the file list setup section.
In when using manual thumbnail generation or the resource fork stripper, the progress bar is now an animated indeterminate progress bar while gBrowser searches for image files (instead of sitting there blank and useless, as they did before).
You can now have more than one instance of the thumbnail generator and resource fork stripper.
The resource fork stripper should now be a good deal faster (not that that was a problem before) and will give you an estimated time until completion (but it is so fast that unless you’re stripping thousands of files you won’t have time to see that!).
Both the thumbnail generator and resource fork stripper now have a “review files” button that you can use to review/edit which files will be affected.
Both the thumbnail generator and resource fork stripper can now be closed by pressing the escape key.
The “random” option for the slideshow has been changed a bit; it is now just a regular sort option instead of a separate option. Also, you can now navigate back and forth through the random slides.
Optimized and improved quite a few other sections of code.

Bugs Fixed:

When turning off automatic thumbnail generation, the status bar gets updated immediately instead of continuing to say “Generating thumbnail for XXX” until something else caused a change.
Added formatters and warning sheets to the text fields in the preferences panes (in case invalid values are entered), because it appears that at some point the ones that used to be there were deleted form the nib files. When, why, and how that happened I have no idea!
I think the nasty crasher caused by automatic thumbnail generation has been fixed (finally!). In case anyone cares, the crashes were caused because something was mucking with memory it shouldn’t have been accessing. All was well (on my system anyway) once I changed the way I initialized the CFMutableArrayRef I was using to queue the files to be generated (using [[NSMutableArray alloc] init…] instead of CFArrayCreateMutable()). Why this made any difference I still have NO idea, but since it seems to have fixed it I’m not going to complain ;-).

Known Bugs:

Selecting folders in the toolbar may act oddly or incorrectly sometimes.
I am now running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and should gBrowser seems to work fine on that version of the OS. However, this means I’m doing little testing in 10.1, and while there shouldn’t be any problems I’m not making any promises there.

1.5 beta 19 (September 16, 2002)

New Features:

The image viewer and the slideshow now use high quality image scaling, but not while the image is being resized (it shifts temporarily to low quality for speed purposes, then redraws with high quality after, much like the Jaguar version of Apple’s Preview app).
Modified certain bits of code to use FSFindFolder() to find certain folders (ie. the prefs folder and the pictures folder) instead of assuming they will always be at a certain path (this will have no effect right now, but in the future if Apple ever moves things around gBrowser should still function properly).
Image information (such as dimensions, resolution, etc.) for aliases to images is now displayed when appropriate instead of “N/A”.

Bugs Fixed:

Double-clicking a single folder in the preview pane should properly select it in the file list and preview its contents in the preview pane again.
Fixed a bug that would cause gBrowser to crash while quitting if you quit when a slideshow was in progress.
The file list sort and preview pane sort popups in the preferences now work properly for all options.
Fixed some memory leaks and miscellaneous little crashers caused by an incorrect assumption I made about NSTimers (due to improper documentation, actually… thanks again Apple).
The reverse file list sort and reverse preview pane sort options now work correctly (and save correctly).
Fixed a problem where files wouldn’t load or update in the file list if they were chidren of an aliased folder.
Rewrote the thumbnail generation code (what is this, the third time? ;-) so hopefully any remaining bugs have been fixed.
When the generic icons option is turned off in the file list, the icons no longer appear upside down some of the time.

Known Bugs:

Selecting folders in the toolbar may act oddly or incorrectly sometimes.
I am now running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and should gBrowser seems to work fine on that version of the OS. However, this means I’m doing little testing in 10.1, and while there shouldn’t be any problems I’m not making any promises there.

1.5 beta 18 (September 7, 2002)

New Features:

Changes you make to your slideshow settings through the slideshow controller while a slideshow is in progress are now by default saved as your permanent settings when you close the slideshow, though you can turn this off in the slideshow prefs.
The document preferences windows now update their titles when the document’s name changes.
As in the OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) Finder, when you drag files over folders in the preview pane, they will change to an “open folder” icon (but sorry, no spring-loaded folders here ;-).
The computer icon has been updated to the new-iMac look, to match the icon used in Jaguar.
When editing file names in the file list, the default selection now excludes the file extension (this feature was added to the preview pane a couple releases ago).

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a stupid accidental memory release that was causing crashing when background loading was turned off.
The “eject” contextual menu command now gets validated properly in the preview pane (before, it would show up in the contextual menu when it should but it would be greyed out).
Cocoa’s NSPort apparently loses interthread messages if there is too much load on the computer, which sometimes resulted in some files never appearing in the preview pane when background loading was on. I worked around this, so that shouldn’t happen anymore.
Some code has been cleaned up and/or rewritten, hopefully squashing a few bugs in the process.
Various bugs in the slideshow have been fixed: the show/hide controller menu item now works right, the file name displayed on the controller now updates properly, the play/pause button is set properly if you have the automatic-advance setting on in your document preferences, the slideshow window now floats properly above everything in OS X 10.2 (status menus were showing up above it), the filename position setting works properly now, and the filename appears correctly for the first image, and more.

Known Bugs:

Selecting folders in the toolbar may act oddly or incorrectly sometimes.
I am now running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and should gBrowser seems to work fine on that version of the OS. However, this means I’m doing little testing in 10.1, and while there shouldn’t be any problems I’m not making any promises there.

1.5 beta 17 (September 3, 2002)

New Features:

There is now an option for threaded background loading of files from disk – this is on by default, but you can turn it off in the app prefs (under the “launch” section), though the change won’t take effect until the next time you launch gBrowser. This will probably (hopefully!) improve your feel of how responsive the app is, expecially if you have folders with many hundreds (or more) files. Be ware this is the first time I’ve tried this, and it won’t be perfect…
When selecting a single image file in the file list and viewing it in the preview pane, your Image Viewer preferences are now used to specify the initial display of the image (and a related bug introduced in beta 16 has been fixed).
When using the arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate through items in the preview pane, it will no longer wrap around from beginning to end and vice versa. You can hold the control key while pressing the arrows to wrap around if necessary.
Made changes to the preferences anywhere file paths are displayed (ie. the file list base folder pref) to support the new localization of folder names in OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). Unfortunately this means I had to remove the ability to type in paths by hand, because while in 10.2 some folders (such as the Library and Documents folders) appear to have localized names to the user, to the system itself their names are still the English versions, and this will cause confusion and errors if someone were to try typing the name they see in the Finder for one of these folders (thanks Apple).
Made a few changes that should improve performance in some areas.

Bugs Fixed:

Files added to a folder that was initially empty and is currently being displayed in the preview pane no longer have odd, incorrect display sizes.
The bug that was causing random crashes in beta 16 has been fixed as far as I can tell, but since I had trouble reproducing that bug, I can’t be completely sure. Please tell me if it crops up again.
A bug introduced in beta 16 that messed up the resolving of alias files is fixed.
Localizable.strings file has been properly UTF-8 encoded so that there shouldn’t be any complaints about it logged to the console in OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) when gBrowser launches.
Some changes have been made so the height of the rows in the file list is calculated properly in Jaguar.

Known Bugs:

Selecting folders in the toolbar may act oddly sometimes.
I am now running OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and should gBrowser seems to work fine on that version of the OS. However, this means I’m doing little testing in 10.1, and while there shouldn’t be any problems I’m not making any promises there.

1.5 beta 16 (August 19, 2002)

New Features:

Rewrote the slideshow and Image Viewer code, and the image window code; this fixed some bugs and hopefully will make things work better in general. The scrolling hot keys now work in image windows.
Improved the thumbnail background-loading code (now it’s faster) and made that the only option (so I guess I shouldn’t say “option” ;-). This allowed me to simplify code in many areas and hopefully the loading of thumbnails and related things (automatic thumbnail generation, etc) will be less buggy and a bit faster.
French localization has been removed, because it was getting a bit behind. Hopefully soon when features get more stabilized new alternate-language support can be added again.
Added separate horizontal and vertical spacing options for the preview pane, as well as an “align thumbnails to bottom” option (this aligns the bottom of thumbnails that are not as tall as the preview size to the top of the info text).
The image view can now be opened even if there are no image files selected in the preview pane.
Pressing the escape key while editing a file name will cancel the editing.
When editing a filename of an image, the default text selection won’t include the extension.

Bugs Fixed:

If you make a new folder in the file list when the parent folder is not expanded, the parent folder will expand.
The “clear” button in the default document prefs works now.
Some more minor bug fixes I can’t quite remember anymore.

Known Bugs:

None. As a side note, this version has not been tested in OS X 10.2 (Jaguar).

1.5 beta 15 (June 19, 2002)

New Features:

Rewrote much of the preview pane code to be more flexible and hopefully a bit faster. As with anything newly rewritten, there are probably a few hidden kinks left to iron out, though all tests seem to indicate it works fine. Along with this rewrite came some other changes that will hopfully improve the user experience.
The content of preview boxes can no longer be cached for drawing; for the most part it just ate up huge amounts of RAM for relatively small gain, and it even slowed some operations down. If anyone really notices the lack, please tell me and I’ll put the option back, but I doubt anyone will have cause for complaint :-).
Basic printing support for the preview pane (when previewing the contents of a folder); however, it’s quite crappy at the moment. Sometime soon I will probably add the contact sheets maker, and printing support will be implemented better in that. Note that there is a stupid bug/oversight in Cocoa that means there is no way to get the printable area of the paper being printed on; likely the margins I chose will be within the printable area of the majority of newer printers, but no gaurantees. Note also that how many rows/columns will fit on a page is based on the thumbnail display size you have chosen, and has nothing to do with what you see displayed in the preview pane itself (as the print panel comes up, if your preview pane is large enough you will see it in the background resize to the size of the paper; you can use this as a test to pick an appropriate thumbnail size). Thumbnail shadows cannot be printed.

Bugs Fixed:

Reading saved thumbnails off read-only disks now works (ie. if you’ve burned a CD of images for which gBrowser has created thumbnails, you can now view them from the CD).
When pressing the change-font buttons in the prefs when some other item in the window is key (like a text field you may have just been typing in) it will approptriately lose first reponder status, so now changing fonts should actually work all the time.
The revert-pane buttons in the prefs show up properly again.
Other minor prefs fixes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.5 beta 14 (June 6, 2002)

New Features:

An error is now displayed in slideshows and the Image Viewer if an image cannot be displayed, instead of just displaying a blank screen.
The toolbar’s preview size slider now has a menu representation if you’re using it text-only, and has a popup button if the icon is visible.
Added some new “file filter” preferences. This is currently really, really basic. In fact, all you can do at the moment is say whether or not the file list displays files and folders or folders only. But that should be of use to some people at least.
The beginnings of plugin capability. Nothing truly functional yet, though, so don’t get too excited ;-). This means much of gBrowser has been modified since the last release, so there may be some new bugs (hopefully not, but you’ve been forwarned!).
Under-the-hood overhaul of the preferences to conform to the new plugin scheme (you probably won’t notice much difference). Because of this, much of the French translation of the preferences needs to be redone, so I’ve left it out of this release for the most part. Sorry.
Improved/added some options to the manual thumbnail generator. Press the expand button to reveal the new features. Among other things you can specify if thumbnails only be generated for images that don’t have a thumbnail of the proper size already, and whether or not the file’s resource fork should be stripped at the same time the thumbnail is generated (of course, a new resource fork for the file is created immediately since the new thumbnail is saved to the resource fork, but you can be sure there is no data in the resource fork besides the thumbnail).

Bugs Fixed:

I think I have fixed the strange bug that was causing some people to be unable to open images (a couple people reported getting corrupt image errors for every image). Unfortunately, since I was unable to reproduce the bug myself, I can’t be sure if it was fixed. If anyone who has experienced the bug could give me an update, I’d appreciate it :-).
Disabled renaming of symbolic links, because of the same Cocoa/Carbon bug that causes trouble with moving them to the trash.
Fixed a problem with duplicate items in the menus prefs.
High quality create-and-load-on-the-fly now creates previews for files that need it which aren’t currently visible in the preview pane.
The back/forward history menus in the toolbar work properly again.
Low quality create-and-load-on-the-fly doesn’t cause bad drawing bugs anymore when it runs into a corrupt image.
When option-double-clicking (or whatever) to open a folder from the preview pane in a new document, all the parent document’s preferences are now properly inherited (there were problems with the file list visibility, the toolbar, sorting, and some other stuff before). Also, the file list root path will remain the same in the new window, if possible. The new window will be offset a bit from the original window’s position.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.5 beta 13 (May 23, 2002)

New Features:

Improved the file list and preview pane reverse sort buttons (in their respective vertical scroll bars). Also added a sort-by menu to the scroll bar area. Because of these new menus, the toolbar’s sort menus have been removed from the toolbar’s default setup (they are still available if you want them, of course).
Slideshows can now be started using the current file list selection.
Improved the appearance of the back/forward toolbar buttons, and added a slideshow toolbar button.
The slideshow preferences have been rearranged a bit. This was done to make room for some new preferences for displaying a file’s name in the slideshow. The Image Viewer will get similar treatment soon.
The slideshow controls have been improved/rearranged a bit. A “fade” option has been added to it, as well as the option to collapse it down to just the play/pause/next/previous buttons.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a bug that caused a crash if gBrowser was quit with more than one image window open (since this happened on quitting you may not have noticed it).
Slideshows now close first, before anything else, when you quit. This keeps them from getting in your way if the document window wants to display a save sheet.
Double-clicking the root-level “Computer” folder in the file list now properly opens a “[User]’s Computer” Finder window.
Leaving gBrowser running and unhidden should no longer keep hard drives from spinning down.
gBrowser no longer always displays the I-beam cursor in the preview pane after displaying a text file.
Select all and deselect all now work when no items are selected in the preview pane.
The slideshow controller will always hide properly when you click it’s close button now.
Some small optimization/fixes to menus and window behavior.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.5 beta 12 (May 17, 2002)

New Features:

File list sort toolbar item.
In the preview pane, pressing command-up arrow will change the preview pane to the parent of the current folder, and pressind command-down arrow when you have one folder selected in the preview pane will change it to that folder. Holding the option key in addition to comand-up or -down will open the contents of the folder in a new document that inherits the preferences from your current document.
Option-double-clicking a folder in the preview pane will now also open it in a new document.
The code that handles selection of items in the preview pane has been rewritten; this fixed a couple bugs and now it follows more closely the behavior of the Finder.
Made the file renaming code a lot more efficient. Probably won’t cause any noticable change, but there it is anyway.
Rewrote some of the preview pane’s drawing code. Now, preview box spacing cannot be a negative value. It used to be allowed down to -4 so that users using the “no border” option could have tight spacing of their previews, but now gBrowser takes the width of the border into account. If your preview box spacing was negative, it will be set to zero (likely where you want it anyway). This fixes some little display bugs and problems with the hit-test code when the spacing had a negative value.
Rewrote some of the preview pane’s hit-test code. Now you must click inside the bounds of a preview box to select it (previously, clicking in the empty space between preview boxes would select one or the other on either side). Now empty space between preview boxes is treated just the same as empty space elsewhere in the preview pane.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a problem that sometimes caused freezes or just no display when trying to view a folder containing an alias in the preview pane.
The scroll bar in the preview pane updates itself correctly now when switching from one folder to another.
The save-selection submenu no longer shows up in the preview pane’s contextual menu if you have no items selected.
Fixed a bug where the filename editing field in the file list might stick around permanently sometimes.
gBrowser no longer crashes if you click the upper edge of the filename editing field.
Improved a few other formerly bad behaviors of the filename editing field.
Some more small bug fixes.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.

1.5 beta 11 (May 14, 2002)

New Features:

Updated French localization (still a few things behind though).
Some more minor optimizations.
While the document preferences window is frontmost, you can now still use the document’s menu commands (such as “Save”).
Improvement to the look of the preferences window (And the “Don’t cache contents” checkbox in the preview pane appearences prefs has been changed to “Cache contents”; your prefs are remembered properly, but if it was checked before it will of course be unchecked now, and vice versa).
“Make Desktop Picture” now offeres a few options: crop, tile, and scale. Please note that scale does not work for all images.

Bugs Fixed:

The menus in the slideshow controller should not appear underneath the controller window anymore, as they sometimes did before.
The preview pane now updates the number of files in a folder properly every time it changes.
The “Make desktop picture” options now work properly in the file list.
Fixed a problem calculating and sorting by data fork size.
Fixed some bugs with respect to tracking files, especially symbolic links inside folders that are moved/renamed.
Filename editing fields in the file list are now sized to their max possible width instead of to the size of the current filename.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.

1.5 beta 10 (May 9, 2002)

New Features:

You can save/restore selections you make in the preview pane (until you preview a different folder). I don’t know how useful this might be, but I need it from time to time so hopefully others will have a use for it too.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed some crashers and some things that caused weird stuff to happen.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.

1.5 beta 9 (May 6, 2002)

New Features:

Yet more optimizations.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a crash some people were experiencing when a document would load.
Folders that are expanded in the file list when the document is closed are remembered properly again the next time it is opened (I think this bug started in beta 8). Also improved document opening time a bit in cases where there are many folders initially expanded in the file list.
Improvement of the accuracy of file size calculations, and fixed a small sort-by-file-size issue.
Fixed some memory leaks.
Fixed an issue that would occationally cause crashes if you’d opened and closed a document and then opened another one.
The Image Viewer and slideshow background colors are now correctly saved.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.

1.5 beta 8 (May 4, 2002)

New Features:

You now have the option to have the image viewer remember its last size and position (when not in fullscreen mode, obviously), as well as the option to have it open automatically when your document loads.
You can now undo/redo appearance color changes.
More low-level optimizations.

Bugs Fixed:

High quality “create and load on-the-fly” now works. It was caused by a stupid mistake I made while rewriting the preview generation code for beta 7…

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.
If you try to move a symbolic link to the trash, the original will be moved instead, due to an OS X bug (or overly helpful feature if you want to call it that ;-). Real aliases work fine though. As a result, gBrowser will no longer allow you to try to move symbolic links to the trash.

1.5 beta 7 (May 2, 2002)

New Features:

Rewritten preview generation/preview loading code; hopefully it’ll work better, be less buggy, and in some instances be faster.

Bugs Fixed:

When you make a new folder in the preview pane, it should be properly scrolled into view (this didn’t always work before).
Fixed a couple display problems in the preview pane.
One of the more recent features added to gBrowser caused the “create and load on the fly” option to not work properly all the time. This has been fixed.
Fixed a silly mistake in the status bar when one file out of a bunch was selected.
A bug where the file name editing field would sometimes show up in the wrong spot was caused by the “don’t cache preview box contents” option, and has now been fixed.
A bug where some people couldn’t drag and drop into folders within the preview pane was caused by the exact same thing, so that has also been fixed.
More little fixes.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.
If you try to move a symbolic link to the trash, the original will be moved instead, due to an OS X bug (or overly helpful feature if you want to call it that ;-). Real aliases work fine though. As a result, gBrowser will no longer allow you to try to move symbolic links to the trash.

1.5 beta 6 (April 28, 2002)

New Features:

New “screen saver editor” (look under the “Other” submenu of the “Tools” menu). This allows you to create screen savers that you can use under the screen savers system preference. They are standard image screen savers (like the default “Forest” and “Cosmos”) that just loop through the images and display them one at a time. Note you can either copy files (or folders, the screen saver will display images in subfolders) into the screen savers or make an alias of them. If you plan on only using the screensavers for yourself, use aliases, since this will not really take up much disk space. If you want to send the screen savers to others, you have to copy the files in. The use of aliases allows some neat tricks; for example, you can make a new screen saver containing an alias to your “Pictures” folder, and that screen saver will display all the images in your Pictures folder, including any you might add in the future.
New “Random Slideshow” option. Someone owes me their firstborn ;-).

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a little bug in the Image Viewer, where the image display size settings wouldn’t take affect for the first image displayed (for real this time!).
The items in the outline view of the preferences windows now all start out properly expanded.
If you right-click on a file in the preview pane while editing the filename of another file in it, gBrowser will no longer incorrectly rename the right-clicked file.
The filename editing field should always show up in the correct spot now, instead of sometimes below where it should.
When aliases are moved to the trash they now get properly removed from the file list.
Once again, hopefuly I’ve fixed the screen problems with the slideshows and Image Viewer (crossing fingers).
Various other fixes.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.
If you try to move a symbolic link to the trash, the original will be moved instead, due to an OS X bug (or overly helpful feature if you want to call it that ;-). Real aliases work fine though. As a result, gBrowser will no longer allow you to try to move symbolic links to the trash.

1.5 beta 5 (April 24, 2002)

New Features:

A preliminary French localization thanks to Stéphane Moureau of www.StocksRaiderS.com (if anyone wants to translate gBrowser into other languages, please contact me! I can’t offer you anything other than lots of thanks and a free registration though ;-).
New “clear” buttons for the set-default-file pref and the open-in-other-image pref (you can also remove your selection by deleting everything in the text field and hitting enter). All “set” buttons have now been renamed to “choose” as well.
When dragging and dropping a large number of folders to the move-to preferences (or applications to the open-with prefs) the items dropped will now be added in alphabetical order.
When stripping resource forks, previews of files that are stripped are now updated in the preview pane.

Bugs Fixed:

#$**(@^! screen problems hopefully fixed (yes yes, I keep saying that… no promises this time but I hope this’ll be the end ;-).
If you are manually generating previews, automatic preview generation is temporarily disabled so hopefully no mixups occur (please watch out though, if you have automatic preview generation on while generating previews manually. The Carbon resource manager doesn’t take well to stuff like this :-\).
Fixed a little bug in the Image Viewer, where the image display size settings wouldn’t take affect for the first image displayed.
Fixed a bug where trying to start a slideshow with an empty folder or folders might cause a crash.
The text shadow color well in the preview pane appearances prefs now becomes enabled as it should. However, when it gets disabled it may not become greyed out. This is a Cocoa bug.
Show/hide slideshow controls has been added to the Images submenu of the main menu (and some stuff has been reorganized, as I’m sure you’ll notice).
gBrowser now handles quitting properly when the default prefs window is open and there are unsaved changes.
Fixed redraw bug that happened sometimes if you removed ore than one row’s worth of files from the preview pane.
Fixed bug in “Other…” file list icon size menu item.
Images in image windows now rotate in the correct direction.
The “Open with default ‘open with’ application” option works properly now.
Worked around funny Cocoa bug where you could enter zero into text fields even when their minimum allowed value was greater than that.
Fixed more memory leaks (and consequently italicizing of alias names has been reenabled).
Major under-the-hood overhaul that will hopefully improve speed.
Many other fixes and changes.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.
If you try to move a symbolic link to the trash, the original will be moved instead, due to an OS X bug (or overly helpful feature if you want to call it that ;-). Real aliases work fine though. As a result, gBrowser will no longer allow you to try to move symbolic links to the trash.

1.5 beta 4 (April 12, 2002)

New Features:

gBrowser creates real aliases instead of symbolic links (there is a new menu item in the Tools menu called “Make Symbolic Link” should you ever have a need for a symbolic link instead of an alias).

Bugs Fixed:

gBrowser properly knows what version it is this time, so it won’t keep telling you there’s an update out when there isn’t. Sorry about that!
The Image Viewer and slideshow screen options should now actually work. Sorry about that, but I only have one monitor so there’s no way for me to test it out myself (that is, unless someone wants to send me another monitor and video card! ;-).
Modified some file tracking code to be aware of symbolic links (necessary due to bug explained below).

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.
If you try to move a symbolic link to the trash, the original will be moved instead, due to an OS X bug (or overly helpful feature if you want to call it that ;-). Real aliases work fine though. As a result, gBrowser will no longer allow you to try to move symbolic links to the trash.

1.5 beta 3 (April 11, 2002)

New Features:

gBrowser now loads any unloaded thumbnails from disk in the background while the app is idle; this should reduce some of the time it takes to initially scroll the preview pane after previewing a new folder.
The preview generator and resource fork stripper now both display an estimated remaining time.
“Show/Hide Controls” in the slideshow contextual menu now just says “Show Controls” or “Hide Controls” as appropriate.
Pressing escape or command-. will close the Image Viewer.
The preview pane gives better feedback when it is being dropped on from an external source.
Dragging files within the preview pane while holding option or control will make aliases or duplicate the files as expected.
A few more optimizations.

Bugs Fixed:

The file list can no longer be the key view when it is minimized.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.
If you try to move a symbolic link to the trash, you will move the original file instead (real aliases work fine though).

1.5 beta 2 (April 9, 2002)

New Features:

Various under the hood optimizations.
Pressing command-J in the preview pane will start a new slideshow with the contents of the current folder Command-option-J will start a new slideshow with the contents of the current folder and any subfolders (recursively). I wanted to use command-space and command-option-space, but there appears to be a bug in Cocoa that causes “space” not to work as a menu key equivalent (or it’s just not supposed to be done). I’m trying to work it out.
New “Don’t cache contents” option in the Preview Pane Appearances preferences. Up until now, gBrowser has drawn each individual preview box to an image cached in memory, and from then on used the cached image during redrawing. This speeds up things like scrolling and resizing, but it makes gBrowser very RAM-hungry, especially if you were browsing a folder with many images it. If you don’t have lots of RAM, or have a fast enough computer that you don’t really notice the difference, you may want to try the “Don’t cache contents” option.

Bugs Fixed:

The font name and font size descriptions in the Preview Pane Appearance preferences now update properly.
The screen prefs for the slideshow actually work ;-).
A few more memory leaks fixed.
There seems to be a memory leak in Cocoa (in [NSAttributedString applyFontTraits:range:]) so I’ve disabled italicizing of alias filenames.

Known Bugs:

Sometimes the slideshow controls will hide when they shouldn’t if you have autohiding turned on.

1.5 beta 1 (April 8, 2002)

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.

1.1 beta 20 (March 11, 2002)

New Features:

New “back” and “forward” toolbar items that keep track of the files/folders you select in the file list and allow you to navigate back and forward again (like a web browser).
Files/folders placed in the toolbar are now kept track of through aliases, so moving them on disk should not cause them to stop working in the toolbar.
Supports PNG images.

Bugs Fixed:

Image windows now know what file they represent (so it’ll show the icon in the title bar and allow you to use the command-click popup menu).

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 19 (March 9, 2002)

New Features:

New “eject” option for removable media.
More improvements to contextual menus.
New “Open Default File” menu option in the File menu.
The default file is now kept track of with an alias, so moving it won’t cause gBrowser to not be able to find it.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed a very bizarre bug where the “Computer” icon would slowly fade away the more you clicked it.
Fixed a bug in file list display with really large icons.
Other minor improvements.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 18 (March 8, 2002)

New Features:

Better, more Finderlike functionality in the file list when navigating through different volumes.
(Related to the above) New “Computer” toolbar item.
The browser window now displays the name of the folder you are browsing in its title.

Bugs Fixed:

When opening multiple images “Fit to screen” they will all stay completely on screen.
Improved file renaming (and worked around potential nasty bug by using Carbon instead of Cocoa).

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 17 (March 6, 2002)

New Features:

“Path” popup for toolbar.

Bugs Fixed:

Stupid mistake that caused some contextual menu items to be greyed out fixed.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 16 (March 6, 2002)

New Features:

More contextual menu (and main menu) improvements.

Bugs Fixed:

Making new folders inside an empty folder now correctly updates both the preview pane and the file list.
The background color of the preview pane is now correctly drawn when there are no previews in it.
Double clicking an alias folder in the preview pane now selects it in the file list as it should.
Other small fixes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 15 (March 6, 2002)

New Features:

Many Image Viewer improvements. Particularly, it will now go full-screen on whatever screen the Image Viewer window is on, so you can move it to different monitors if you like. Also, it more intelligently chooses a screen to initially start out on (if you have your gBrowser document window on a screen other than your main screen, the Image Viewer will open up on the main screen).
While the Image Viewer window has focus, you can still navigate the preview pane thumbnails with the arrow keys.
The scroll wheel can now be used to change to next/prev image in the slideshow.
New toolbar item: “generate preview”.

Bugs Fixed:

None.

Known Bugs:

Making new folders in an empty folder might cause weird stuff to happen (the new folders won’t show up but are created, or gBrowser enters the eternally-spinning-rainbow-disc mode).

1.1 beta 14 (March 5, 2002)

New Features:

Up and down keys now work to navigate up and down the file list (and left and right keys will expand and collapse folders even without the command key pressed).
New “Image Viewer” feature: opening the Image Viewer window (from the “Images” menu) will bring up a window that will display whatever image you have currently selected in the preview pane. You can switch between using a window and full screen (the Image Viewer attempts to locate itself on a screen other than your main screen if you have multiple displays – which is how it is recommended you use it – but I only have one monitor myself so I have not been able to test this out).
Smarter contextual menus.

Bugs Fixed:

None.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 13 (March 3, 2002)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed occasional unnecessary reload of the preview pane when dragging and dropping form preview pane to file list.
Fixed a bug that would cause gBrowser to crash if you deleted a file that was selected in the file list.
The expansion/collapsion (is that a word? ;-) of the file list is properly restored after you reopen a file.
Another couple bugs in the image windows (one where there would sometimes be a white line to the right of an image, and another where fit-to-screen images would still have scrollbars) were fixed.
Other small improvements.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 12 (March 2, 2002)

New Features:

gBrowser now saves thumbnails and strips resource forks without modifying the modification date of the image.

Bugs Fixed:

Deselect-all and select-all now update the status bar properly.
“New Folder” and “Delete” toolbar items now have tooltips.
Page up, page down, home, and end keys now function in the preview pane and file list.
Fixed some problems with “fit to window” and “fit to screen” in the image windows and the slide show.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 11 (March 1, 2002)

New Features:

Added/modified some of the options for navigating the file list.
New minimize file list button underneath the file list.
Dragging a folder onto the gBrowser icon now opens a new gBrowser window with that folder as the base folder of the file list.
You can also now drag images onto the gBrowser icon.
You can select items in the file list by typing their filename.

Bugs Fixed:

Fixed bug in the image windows where a rotated image might not fit to screen or fit to window properly.
gBrowser now automatically saves the base file list folder setting, so it won’t hassle you to save so much.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 10 (February 28, 2002)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Before, if you clicked a folder you’d put in the toolbar, and that folder was already the base folder for the file list (but wasn’t the one currently selected), the folder would not be selected. This has been fixed.
The image window code has been rewritten. Hopefully all the old problems were fixed and no new ones were created :-).

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 9 (February 27, 2002)

New Features:

You can drag and drop files to the toolbar. This required some clever hacking, and there is no gaurantee it’ll work in future versions of OS X (of course, I will try to fix it if it breaks).
The “w” and “s” keys can be used while viewing an image to do either “fit to window” or “fit to screen” respectively.
The “Sort Previews” toolbar item now has a menu representation, so you can use it in “text only” mode.

Bugs Fixed:

Better behavior in the preview pane when previewing a single image.
Fixed stupid error when sorting files in the preview pane by kind.

Known Bugs:

On some systems, when you open images they may be displayed off-center or not displayed at all.

1.1 beta 8 (February 26, 2002)

New Features:

Big improvement in moving files to the trash (thanks to a recent Cocoa-dev post).
Slight speed increase when switching gBrowser to/from foreground/background, and when initially opening a gBrowser window.

Bugs Fixed:

Selecting files in the preview pane should no longer make their previews turn black as it did on a few systems before.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 7 (February 20, 2002)

New Features:

Added a good number of new features to the slideshow and image windows: In both you can now rotate images (through the contextual menu or with the “[” and “]” keys on the keyboard and the “0” and “.” keys on the number pad), and zoom images with the keyboard using the “+” and “-” keys (holding shift or option while doing this will give you different zoom increments). In the slideshow only, you can also move images around the window using the number keys on the number pad (or the u, i, o, j, l, n, m, and comma keys, and once again holding the shift and option keys will give you different movement increments). Shift-5 (or shift-k) will recenter the image.
Added a toolbar item for changing preview sizes and a toolbar item for sorting the preview pane.

Bugs Fixed:

None.

Known Bugs:

Apparently on some systems, when you select images in the preview pane they turn completely black. This shouldn’t be happening and I’m trying to figure it out…

1.1 beta 6 (February 19, 2002)

New Features:

New icon! (Thanks to Martin Haecker!)
Update help files to reflect new features.
Some other minor improvements.

Bugs Fixed:

The “Threaded loading” option is now greyed out as well when you choose “on the fly” preview generation (threaded loading is always on if you choose this option).

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 5 (February 18, 2002)

New Features:

Added an option to strip images’ resource forks (to remove gBrowser and GraphicBrowser previews, among other things).
Added an option to generate previews on-the-fly each time instead of generating them once and storing them in the image’s resource fork. This is good for people who want to browse through many small images and don’t want to increase their file size by storing a preview (recommended only for images under 100k or so, or the speed may become unpleasant).

Bugs Fixed:

Bug that might very rarely cause a crash with threaded preview loading fixed.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 4 (February 17, 2002)

New Features:

Improvements to the slideshow option (improved contextual menu, more key commands: you can now use the escape key to close the slideshow window and the space bar to go to the next image, among others).

Bugs Fixed:

On systems where there is for some reason no desktop preferences file, gBrowser will create it when you set the desktop picture.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 3 (February 16, 2002)

New Features:

More toolbar items.

Bugs Fixed:

Bug where some toolbar items (such as the “customize” one) would display with an icon even in text-only mode after a window gets opened was fixed.
The Image menu no longer disappears if no windows are open.
Threaded preview loading no longer confuses gBrowser into thinking it needs to generate new previews if you have automatic preview generation on.
Miscellaneous other bug fixes.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 2 (February 15, 2002)

New Features:

Generic icons option for the file list.

Bugs Fixed:

Bug with adding items to the toolbar not working after they have been removed fixed.
Bug with menu updates while the browser preferences window was open fixed.
Miscellaneous other little improvements.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.1 beta 1 (February 15, 2002)

New Features:

A toolbar! Soon you will be able to add toolbar items for actions such as “Move to Trash” and “Generate Preview”… Currently, you can add folders to it (through the contextual menu in the preview pane or the file list). Clicking on them in the toolbar will cause the base path of the file list to change and will display that folder in the preview pane.

Bugs Fixed:

Worked around Cocoa bug that caused an errant error message while copying files sometimes.
gBrowser will no longer crash if you close a window while previews are loading with threaded loading enabled.
Miscellaneous other little improvements.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.0 beta 8 (February 12, 2002)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Images for failed drag and drops within the preview pane now slide back.
Improvement in the applescript used for moving files to the trash.
Move to Trash enabled in file list, and Move to Trash key equivalent changed from command-forward delete to command-backspace (ie. the “regular” delete key).
Miscellaneous other little improvements.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.0 beta 7 (February 11, 2002)

New Features:

None.

Bugs Fixed:

Those crashes when opening a folder in the preview pane have finally been fixed. For real this time!
Setting a desktop picture works better (ie. it actually does work ;-) on some systems that had trouble before.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.0 beta 6 (February 11, 2002)

New Features:

New contextual menu item in the preview pane that allows you to set an image as your desktop background (10.1 only).
You can now move files to the trash.

Bugs Fixed:

Occational crashes when opening a folder from the preview pane fixed (hopefully). Users of previous versions of gBrowser might want to trash their default preferences file if they continue to have problems (sorry!).
The number of items in a folder used to be found through Carbon, but that counted invisible files beginning with a period (like the “.DS_Store” file) so it wasn’t very accurate. This has been fixed.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.0 beta 5 (February 10, 2002)

New Features:

Opening a single folder from the preview pane causes its contents to be displayed in the preview pane; for multiple selections the folders are opened in the Finder as usual.

Bugs Fixed:

Threaded loading of previews option is now saved (oops!).
Display bug with threaded loading of previews fixed.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.0 beta 4 (February 10, 2002)

New Features:

None

Bugs Fixed:

Display bug after resorting the preview pane fixed.
Worked around bug in the Cocoa NSFileManager for getting the display names of alias files.
Fixed weird display bug that would occur if your first click on a file in the preview pane was a right-click.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.0 beta 3 (February 9, 2002)

New Features:

You can now deselect-all in the preview pane by clicking in empty space
More dragging speed improvements

Bugs Fixed:

Disabled generation of previews for Photoshop files, as some files with many layers would cause unbearable slowness or even crashes.
Funny bug where you could initate a drag on remaining selected items while deselecting an item fixed.
Bug in file list icon size menu (in the menu bar, not the popup menu in the preferences window) fixed.
Files with umlauts in the filename (and perhaps other special characters) would not show up, would show up incorrectly, or would not be copyable.

Known Bugs:

None.

1.0 beta 2 (February 8, 2002)

New Features:

Generates previews for Photoshop files (kinda slow)
A bit of a speed improvement in scrolling the preview pane (I hope!)
Greatly improved dragging in preview pane

Bugs Fixed:

Creating a new folder caused weirdness
Dragging files to the file list from the preview pane sometimes caused the file list selection to change
Setting the default file would work, but wouldn’t update the display in the default preferences window

Known Bugs:

Files with umlauts in the filename (and perhaps other special characters) may not show up.

1.0 beta 1 (January 28, 2002)

New Features:

gBrowser

Bugs Fixed:

None (if only this meant there were no bugs!)