BrokenURL - Version History

Improvements:

• Added browsers support:
  • Cent Browser
  • MS Edge Dev/Can builds
• Optimized startup time
• URL shorteners list update
• Support for browser icon indexes

Fixes:

• Default browser registration issues (emails), more detailed registration error messages
• Esc key behavior in main window - now triggers rule creation if "save choice" is checked
• Behavior of "copy original url" command in main menu - works only for shorteners and copies shortened url
• Minor "URL editor" fixes
• Behavior of up/down commands for browsers in open with list
• And more.

Features:

• New style of the settings window
• Optional override of browser name in open with list
• Mailto "browser" in open with list

• Fixed browser settings loading when starting without URL (reports 317-319)

UI:

• Dark theme improvements
• Themed "updates available" hyperlink
• Autoselect System/Dark theme for Windows 10
• Left/Right keys now navigate between subbuttons (private/new window)
• Added hamburger menu button
• Added tooltips in main window (can be turned off)
• Like project on brokenevent website through About window
• Scroll if there is too much of browsers to show

Fixes:

• Update frequency setting is no more ignored when no updates found
• Fixed occasional crash on saving settings
• Improved error handling on detection of default browser on Win10 (report 193)
• "Save choice" checkbox now works once (is cleared when showing save preset dialog)
• Fixed ignore of filters for non-working browsers
• Fixed filter creation when no caller process exist
• Fixed icons acquisition (recent version of Waterfox)

Features:

• Add custom browser manually
• Browsers profiles and/or command-line settings
• Block filters (check "Save choice" and then click outside of the window)
• "Paste URL from clipboard" command-line command
• Edit URL before opening - double-click on URL or via context menu command
• Filters now can select URL by query string and resource path parts of the URL
• Preventing unfocus/hide for 0.5 seconds from start to avoid accidental close
• Chromium-based Edge support
• Better Firefox settings to support all of the builds like Developer Edition
• Hold Shift while starting the app to suppress filters (same as Alt)
• "Copy to clipboard" button to selection list. May be turned off and may be used for filters.

• Browsers detection stabilization (including browsers with broken registration)
• Settings UI improvements
• Added themes support
• Added context menu for browser buttons in main window
• Fixed opening from Windows Explorer search

• New browsers support (private/new window commands):
  • SeaMonkey
  • PaleMoon
  • Basilisk
  • Comodo Ice Dragon
  • Brave
  • NAVER WHale
  • 360 SE
  • Chromium
• Improved browser detection: parse browser commandline without quotes, like Lunarscape does
• Improved startup time by caching browser icons
• Added donate link

• Added really big shorteners list (200+ domains)
• Fixed crash on invalid/unparseable url
• Better shortened URL revealing
• Better caller process icon extraction (desktop and UWP)
• Browser detection improvement: remove duplicates for strange browser registration like Waterfox does
• Added browser settings for: Waterfox, Vivaldi, Opera 12/Presto, MS Edge
• Open in New Window support
• Main window UI improvement - show "Open in Private"/"Open in New Window" as side buttons instead of separate browser buttons
• Sort browsers by usage, Manual browsers sorting
• Updated icon (will look good on any windows scale), Separate icon for URL shortcuts
• Hold Alt when opening URL to suppress saved choices execution.

• Browser detection stabilization
• Keyboard works in main window
• Added 'Show Caller' setting

• Added Microsoft shortener
• Better support for menu and icon
• HiDPI support
• Themed main window render
• Browser buttons autoheight
• "Copy original URL" menu command
• Fixed opening from fullscreen 3D applications
• Fixed showing subforms in taskbar