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3.6 : 8-jun-2022
- merge Thunderbird branch back into Firefox version now they should be able to be the same again
- honour <shift> for a new window when selecting the explicit open-in-tab options
- add one-off prefs. patch for Thunderbird to make behaviour the most commonly expected
  (the prefs. can be changed back manually, but virtually no one wants links opened in TB tabs or the same window
  the originating email is in;  attempts to replicate other reported TB prefs. oddities/failures failed, so presuming
  these are all now fixed with this codebase and against latest TB/FF [~102] — if not, please raise a bug with details)

3.5.2 : 5-sep-21
- Push with bumped strict_max_version for Thunderbird due to use of experiments APIs

3.5.1 : 7-sep-20
- Remove context menus when there's no selection, per requests
- Workaround issue following links in separate windows on Thunderbird vn. <78

3.5 : 3-sep-20
- Bug fixes from Thunderbird beta release
- Same release now working on both TB and FF (again!)

3.5-beta1 : 31-aug-20
- Adapt WebExtension version for Thunderbird 78

3.4 : 1-jul-19
- Use https URLs by default (and migrate old defaults to https if in use) — from Martin Arndt

3.3.2 : 13-apr-18
- Attempt to properly handle with \\windows-server\share\ URLs

3.3.1 : 07-apr-18
- Don't hex encode file://///windows-server/share/ URIs (issue #7)

3.3.0 : 24-mar-18
- Add ability to open URLs in a private window

3.2.0 : 20-mar-18
- Move sub-menu items up to parent menu if only one submenu is active (always-show-submenu overrides this) (issue #5)

3.1.2 : 23-dec-17
- Minor i18n & prefs-dragging bugfixes

3.1.1 : 30-nov-17
- Reinstate menu control preferences (issue #3).

3.1.0 : 28-nov-17
- Release version with preference editing (issue #1)

3.1.0-beta5 : 27-nov-17
- Try to work around Firefox bug 1408756 which prevents dragging of options for some users

3.1.0-beta4 : 26-nov-17
- Add some special handling of file:/// URLs via the clipboard

3.1.0-beta3 : 26-nov-17
- Translations added to preferences window

3.1.0-beta2 : 25-nov-17
- Stop entries being editing during drag to remove drop caret (prevent ID being added to text occasionally)

3.1.0-beta1 : 25-nov-17
- Prefs editing (translations still to be put back in)
- Hopefully now coping with open pages on add-on install and update.

3.0.0 : 11-nov-17
- Push for formal release / review.

3.0.0-beta4 : 10-nov-17
- Add warning for when it doesn't work due to fresh install / update.

3.0.0-beta3 : 10-nov-17
- Fix bug with “&” in some menu options.
- Try to inject required code into open tabs upon install / update (only works for fresh install so far ...)

3.0.0-beta2 : 05-nov-17
- Reinstate help pages.
- Fix open-tab-in-background preference.
- Hide logging by default.

3.0.0-beta1 : 03-nov-17
- WebExtensions!  Firefox only going forward ...
  No preferences editing as yet;  hopefully if you ran 2.05.0 in the meantime,
  prefs. were migrated ...

2.05.0 : 05-oct-17
- FIREFOX ONLY
- update to convert preferences to new WebExtensions storage.
  (needed to access prefs. from future WebExtensions port of URL Link)

2.04.2 : 04-may-14
- Add always-show-submenu option
- Various bug fixes

2.04.1 : 11-jul-11
- Fix regression when using latest Firefox/Thunderbird and non-Latin1 selections.
- A menu-handling security fix.

2.04.0 : 21-jun-11
Yeah, it's been a while.
- Updated to work cleanly with FireFox 5+ and Thunderbird 5 with new packaging style.
- Now works in Thunderbird's compose window.
- Fixed ampersand in Thunderbird HTML links.
- Added more special Thunderbird-selection newline processing.
- Try to fall-back to Windows encoding for file: links when appropriate (Artur Milczarek)
- Now handles right-clicked file: links as well.

2.03.4 : 30-nov-09
- Now works with selections in the Thunderbird compose window.

2.03.3 : 22-oct-09
- Make it work with "Shredder" (Thunderbird 3.0pre's name)

2.03.2 : 26-sep-09
- Shortcut keys now work! (<Ctrl-]> and <Alt-Ctrl-]>)
  Key shortcuts can be changed with keyconfig extension.
  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyconfig_extension

2.03.1 : 2-jul-09
- Add new custom search and replace options
- Re-organise code-base to prevent pullution of global namespace
- Enhance selection tidying logic
* Some translations not yet completed;
  please feel free to help out at http://www.babelzilla.org/.

2.02.4 : 15-jun-09
- Update to work with Thunderbird 3.0b2
- Allow '()' in URLs when paired (e.g., wikipedia links)
- Allow '@' in URLs (don't encode) for mailto:* custom entries
- Recurse mail selections to try to get best text out of HTML selections

2.02.3 : 11-oct-08
Roll up 2.02.99a

  2.02.99a : 05-oct-08
  - Guarantee rogue '>' fix in prefs. window checked in
  - Fix load of default prefs. (first time)
  - Prevent javascript: being processed for large JS script/links
  - [Seemingly] Fix menu editing turning items 'undefined'
    [didn't do anything beyuond the above but it now works?]

2.02.2 : 22-apr-07
Fix '&'s in URLs (in Thunderbird, at least)

2.02.1 : 14-mar-07
Release for Firefox 3 beta 4 (no other changes)

2.02.0 : 7-jan-07
Release for Firefox 3;  rolling up changes from the following beta releases:

  2.01.99c : 7-jan-07
  - Fix prefs. windows under Firefox 3
  - Update all locales to date

  2.01.99b : 4-dec-07
  - Tidy up hide open/tab prefs. (radiogroup now)

  2.01.99a : 30-nov-07
  - Make Thunderbird text selection better to allow spaces in text but remove line breaks
  - Add menu shortcuts, and parse '&' from prefs. to let users add their own
  - New options:
    - Prefer new window.  Normally we 'follow' links, & <Shift> opens new window;  this option inverts that logic.
    - Only show normal open options (hide tab options);  this option overrides the only-tabs option
    - Only show tab open options (hide normal open options)
  - Should now cope with multiple selection (Firefox 3);  these are added with spaces between them
  - Default 'www.' and 'ftp.' options have '*' in them now, as there was a report of it failing otherwise
  - Given up trying to make keyboard shortcuts work cleanly.  Use the <menu> key and the menu shortcuts ...

2.01.0 : 01-may-07
Rolling up changes from the following beta releases:

  2.00.99c : 19-apr-07
  - Fixes for TB 2
  - New pref. to allow context menu to be at top (new default) or bottom (old behaviour)

  2.00.99b : 1-apr-07
  - '--' in custom menu creates a separator
  - move URL Link items to top of context menu
  - Add Changelog button to allow access to it in TB
    Make Changelog HTML, ditto.

  2.00.99 : 11-feb-07
  - [2.01 pre-release for Babelzilla]
  - Allow <Shift> click to open in new window (Firefox)
  - Add special page for Help so that it works in Thunderbird

2.00.3 : 21-jan-07
- Fix typo. limiting use to Thunderbird 1.5 (should be 1.5.0.*).

2.00.2 : 30-dec-06
- Loads more translations
- More advanced javascript: processing (should work with kelkoo again)
- Start implementing custom search'n'replace
  (some defaults already present: '&amp;' replacement and '\' to '/'
  conversion)

2.00.1 : 24-oct-06
- Croatian & preliminary Russian
- Corrected manifest to actually include the more recent translartions (!)

2.00.0 : 14-oct-06
- Preferences!
- Help!
- Babelzilla!

1.07.0 : 27-sep-06
- Firefox 2 compatability
- Some minor internal reorganisation

1.06.9 : 20-apr-06
- Added Hungarian translations (Szarka Peter)

1.06.8 : 05-apr-06
- Add partial workaround for Mozilla bug 183496;
  this allows you to 'follow' broken links that have also been quoted in emails:
    > > http://www.broken
    > > link.com/
  This will now also work in Firefox, for what it's worth.

1.06.7 : 31-jan-06
- Correctly strip <cr> from browser selections
  (workaround toString() bug)
- Fix 'open with ftp.'

1.06.6 : 29-jan-06
- German translations from Martin Hoppen
- Use new-style 'referer' code (got changed in FF/TB 1.5)
- Try to honour 'open tabs in background' Firefox pref.

1.06.5 : 13-nov-05
- .4 was borked (undid .2 fix)

1.06.4 : 13-nov-05
- Deal with '>'s in quoted broken links

1.06.3 : 12-nov-05
- No-change up-issue to register 1.5 compat.

1.06.2 : 29-aug-05
- Fix document.getReferrer() now missing in trunk

1.06.1 : 26-jul-05
- Fix rawSearchSelected for TB 1.0.6

1.06 : 09-jun-05
- Enhance javascript parsing, and fix priorities of
  selection, erm, selection

1.05.2 : 12-mar-05
- IT translations ("MatrixIsAllOver")

1.05.1 : 03-mar-05
- Minor JS error with Thunderbird separator

1.05 : 28-feb-05
- Fix missing separator when new submenus present
- Add extended javascript: link processing

1.04 : 02-feb-05
- Fix glitch with textbox selections
- Always allow selections to be followed
  (with possible amendments)
- Cope with mailto: links

1.03.1 : 03-jan-05
- Add French translations (Olivier Grange-Labat)

1.03 : 25-nov-04
- Change mechanism for greying out menu options

1.02 : 22-nov-04
- Add profile installation & Firefox/Thunderbird
  extension compatibility

1.01 : 20-jan-04
- Include correct (latest) urllink.jar (!)
  (tabbed opening was broken)

1.00 : 06-may-03
- Rename to URL link, incorporating textlink

0.06 : 12-mar-03
- only convert <space> to "%20" for file: URLs, assume others
  should be "" (Moz bug converts <CR>s to <space>?)

0.05 : 02-jan-03
- fix conversion of driver-letter link to file: URL (need colon)

0.04 : 29-nov-02
- re-insert seperator
- fix install script to allow continuous installs
  (handle err==999)

0.03 : 27-nov-02
- make to work with local NT file specs.
  ("\\server\dir\file")

0.02 : 27-nov-02
- seems to be working OK with normal URLs

0.01 : 27-nov-02
- first version with an actual menu entry up!