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##Version History

• 1.5.2 download

  • [NEW] Start signing Sparkle updates. (rentzsch)

• 1.5.1 download

  • [FIX] Was trying to update via Sparkle on every Flash load. (rentzsch).

  • [CHANGE] Change appcast hosting from @rentzsch's personal Amazon S3 to Github. (rentzsch)

• promoted 1.5fc2 to 1.5 download

• 1.5fc2 download

  • [FIX] Abandon 1.5fc1's Yet Another Installer Rework -- it causes Installer deadlocks that we can't figure out. bug 214 (rentzsch)

• 1.5fc1 download

  • [NEW] Use HTML5 <video> element instead of QuickTime plugin to view H.264 YouTube content on Safari 4. <video> plays better with HTML in general, respecting things like CSS's z-index. (Andreas Fuchs)

  • [NEW] Add white border to Flash badge, improving contrast against dark backgrounds. bug 131 (Simone Manganelli, rentzsch)

  • [NEW] Only 60% top-bias badge for flickr.com. (rentzsch)

  • [NEW] Add Realmac Software applications to application whitelist. (Nik Fletcher)

  • [FIX] Yet Another Installer Rework. Move to mpkg so we require a password for installation only when necessary (on 10.4 when a non-admin user attempts to install ClickToFlash after an admin user already installed it). bug 214 (Simone Manganelli, Mo McRoberts)

  • [FIX] Open in QuickTime Player now works on Snowy. bug 216 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Unchecking 'automatically check for updates' only stopped the check on startup, not subsequent ones. bug 268 (Simone Manganelli)

• 1.5b5 download

  • [NEW] Support for HD YouTube videos. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] YouTube H.264 support now works with embedded videos. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Website whitelist works again. (Simone Manganelli's fault for the bug, also for the fix 1, 2)

  • [NEW] Mac app devs can opt out of ClickToFlash on their own by setting 'ClickToFlashOptOut' to YES in their app's Info.plist file. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [CHANGE] Gear contextual menu is now always displayed, unless hidden pref 'drawGearImageOnlyOnMouseOver' is set to YES. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Zattoo, iWeb added to the internal application whitelist. (Mo McRoberts, Jonathan Rentzsch)

  • [FIX] Added Front Row to the application whitelist so that understudy works. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] 'Check Now' button is still enabled even if auto-updating is turned off. bug 200 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Sparkle status window goes away if the user chooses to restart the app after install at a later date. bug 191 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Modified installer package bundle ID back to 'com.github.rentzsch.clicktoflash.pkg' (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] More clang static analyzer fixes. (Jeff Johnson)

  • [FIX] Changed name to the canonical spelling 'ClickToFlash' plug-in-wide. (Simone Manganelli 1, 2, 3)

  • [FIX] Various fixes for H.264 variant checking. (Chris Suter 1, 2, Simone Manganelli 1, 2)

  • [FIX] Enable building when the project path has spaces. (Nathan de Vries)

  • [CHANGE] Deleted unused 'Remove from Whitelist...' contextual menu item. bug 79 (Jonathan Rentzsch)

  • [FIX] Added :restart task to Rakefile so that Safari is restarted when compiling a new ClickToFlash version. (Ale Muñoz)

  • [FIX] YouTube views now have a 'YouTube' badge if the 'Load H.264' preference is checked. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [CHANGE] Badge shows an ellipsis (...) if it's still checking for H.264 variants. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Shortened obscenely long tooltips to 200 characters. bug 234 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Vertical top-bias the badge by 60% so that centered loading text doesn't obscure the badge. bug 56 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Sites that loaded 'about:blank' into an iframe for ads were having their ads auto-loaded. bug 240 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] YouTube videos loaded from www.youtube-nocookie.com were not being recognized by ClickToFlash. bug 249 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Changed 'Open YouTube.com page for this video' to open in the current window in the host app rather than in a new window in Safari. (Sven-S. Porst)

• 1.5b4 download

  • [NEW] "Play Fullscreen in QuickTime Player" contextual menu command for viewing YouTube videos in QuickTime Player (which has niceties like supporting the Apple remote). bug 216 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] Application-wide whitelisting for apps like Hulu Desktop, PandoraJam and Wii Transfer that utilize Flash. bugs 26, 118 and 230 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] User preferences now are stored in a separate file, allowing them to be shared across application. Parasitic prefs are migrated to the external file and then deleted. bug 73 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] Uninstall button (with a confirmation sheet) in the settings window. bug 226 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] Gradient on 10.4 now looks the same as 10.5 and 10.6. (Kevin Hiscott)

• 1.5b3 download

  • [NEW] Additional executable architechure: x86_64. This addition enables ClickToFlash to work on Safari 4 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. ClickToFlash retains compatiblity with 10.4-and-later on both PowerPC and Intel (the full list: 10.4/ppc, 10.4/i386, 10.5/ppc, 10.5/i386 and 10.6/x86_64). (rentzsch)

• 1.5b2 download

  • [NEW] Gear icon only appears upon mouse-over (hovering). (Otyr Ugla)

  • [NEW] Add custom gear image (derived from Cocoatron) for 10.4 systems which lack NSActionTemplate. (Michael Baltaks, Math Campbell)

• 1.5b1

  • [NEW] Restoring 10.4 compatibility. (Michael Baltaks)

  • [NEW] Installer-package-building overhaul. Now creates 10.4-compatible .pkgs. Abandons evil .pmdoc files. (rentzsch)

  • [CHANGE] 10.4 compatiblity: only use -[NSBundle loadAndReturnError:] when it's available. (rentzsch)

  • [FIX] Work-around MATrackingArea 10.4 GC incompatiblity. (rentzsch)

• 1.4.2 download

  • [CHANGE] Set WebPluginDescription to Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22. We have to bald-face lie in order to tip-toe around various in-the-wild broken Flash version detection scripts. bugs 176, 177, 178, 180, 185, 187, 188, 192 (Jeff Johnson)

  • [DEV] Start restoring 10.4 compatibility. Currently incomplete. (Michael Baltaks)

• 1.4.1 download

  • [FIX] Tweak WebPluginDescription from 9.0.151.0 to 9.0.151. bugs 161, 162, 163, 168, 171, 174 (Jeff Johnson)

• 1.4 download

  • [CHANGE] Rename WebPluginDescription from ClickToFlash Flash 9.0 r151 to Shockwave Flash 9.0 r151 (ClickToFlash) to better spoof sites (like CNN video) that check for specific flash versions. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [CHANGE] Version now included in the 'Installed Plug-ins' page; added version number to settings window. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [CHANGE] Removed the installation check for Safari, because it was causing problems for people who had moved it from its standard location, and stupid PackageMaker doesn't have a way to check via bundle identifier. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [CHANGE] ClickToFlash's extension to .webplugin. Activate GC support in both ClickToFlash and Sparkle. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Sparkle now correctly relaunches WebKit instead of Safari after installing an update. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] "Install plugin for user" Xcode target shell script. bug 153 (pom)

  • [CHANGE] Use same version numbering scheme as Flash plugin, because stupid web sites check for this. bug 161 (Jeff Johnson)

  • [FIX] Prevent installation on volumes other than the root volume. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Replace use of deprecated methods. (Jacques Vidrine via twitter)

  • [FIX] Confusing installer UI that says it will install for all users and then only installs for the current user. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Quote pathnames in installation script. (Cédric Luthi)

• 1.4fc6 download

  • [NEW] Option to disable ClickToFlash globally. bug 94 (Patrick McCarron)

  • [NEW] Contextual menu item to download H.264 file from YouTube. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] Contextual menu item that opens the YouTube.com page for embedded YouTube players. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] .icns file so the Sparkle update dialog doesn't show the generic document file icon (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] Dynamically loads Sparkle from internally bundled framework when host doesn't already use Sparkle. bug 99 (rentzsch

  • [NEW] Allow host apps that use Sparkle 1.5 or later to update ClickToFlash. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Work-around an Installer bug. bugs 95, 96, 113, 122, 125, 126, 128, 133, 144 (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Sparkle crasher in scheduleNextUpdateCheck. (Jeff Johnson)

  • [FIX] Hang when loading Walmart pages. (Jeff Johnson and Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Gear image was drawn in an incorrect position in rare cases. (Peter Hosey and Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] If the gear icon isn't drawn, the contextual menu no longer pops up if you click in the upper-left corner of the view. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [FIX] Correct tooltip on "Enable ClickToFlash" checkbox. (rentzsch)

  • [CHANGE] Opacity changes are now added to the original styles (instead of replacing) so positioning and other attributes remain unaffected. (Simone Manganelli)

• 1.4fc5 download

  • Removes April Fool's special edition feature, fixes most broken sites.

• 1.4fc4 download

  • April Fool's special edition. [Simone Manganelli]

• 1.4fc3 download

  • This update is exactly the same as 1.4fc2 and only exists to test/demonstrate Sparkle updating.

• 1.4fc2 download

  • [NEW] Added buttons in settings panel to allow for manual update checking. (Simone Manganelli)

  • [NEW] Nil hosts get whitelisted by default. This effectively disables ClickToFlash in Dashboard and other places where it might be desirable to do so. (millenomi)

  • [DEV] Add 1.4fc3 to appcast. It's functionally identical to 1.4fc2 and only exists to test Sparkle updating.

• 1.4fc1 download

  • [NEW] Menu command to load all flash views -- or just invisible ones -- on a page. This should fix a number of sites that don't at first seem to work with ClickToFlash. (Simone Manganelli, et al.)

  • [NEW] "Click To Flash" menu item(s). Installs automatically into Safari and Vienna under their application menus. (Simone Manganelli, Jeff Johnson, et al.)

  • [NEW] Explicit YouTube support. Built-in support for directly loading higher-quality H.264 versions of videos (contextual menu item "Load H.264"). (Joey Hagedorn, et al.)

  • [NEW] Explicit sIFR support: ignore sIFR, always load it or always suppress it. bug 49 (Ian Wessman, et al.)

  • [NEW] Edit whitelist in Settings panel. bug 25 (Ben Gottlieb 1, 2, et al. 1, 2)

  • [NEW] Old custom installer replaced with a standard Installer.app .pkg. bug 27 (Alexander Brausewetter)

  • [NEW] Automatic plugin updating via Sparkle. bug 28 (rentzsch)

  • [NEW] Whitelisting now takes into account an object's src URL, which should allow embedded videos from whitelisted sites to play (e.g. YouTube). bug 57 (Ian Wessman)

  • [CHANGE] Badge now renders better on a variety of backgrounds.

  • [FIX] Fixed bugs identified by clang static analyzer. (Jeff Johnson)

  • [FIX] Fixed leak that caused all CtF views to not be deallocated by using validateMenuItem to update the Add <site> to Whitelist menu item instead of a binding. (1)

  • [DEV] Fix deprecated use of +stringWithContentsOfFile:. (Chris Parker)

  • [DEV] Clean up build settings. No need to build universal in Debug or link to Carbon. (Jeff Johnson)

  • [DEV] Add build warnings. Fix resulting warnings. Treat warnings as errors. (Jeff Johnson 1, 2)

  • [DEV] Populate CFBundleVersion with ${PRODUCT_VERSION} instead of hard-coding with 700. (Dave Dribin)

• 1.3+tiger download tiger/leo version

  • [NEW] Universal Tiger/Leo PPC/Intel Compatibility! (Well, its been tested on Tiger/PPC and Leo/Intel, but the plugin is now universal and should work everywhere)
  • [NEW] The installer now also works on Tiger
  • [FIX] Darkened gradient on Tiger for better visibility
  • [FIX] Removed Copy address contextual menu as it was flakey

• 1.3 download

  • [NEW] Flash badge is now drawn in code (vector image), and draws smaller in smaller flash boxes. bug 12

  • [NEW] Flash badge rotates counter-clockwise for narrow flash boxes. bug 12

  • [NEW] "Add to whitelist" contextual menu item now lists the url that's to be whitelisted. bug 20 (Kevin A. Mitchell)

  • [NEW] Extend coverage to <object> and <embed> tags that lack type or classid attributes by adding swf to the plugin's WebPluginExtensions Info.plist key. bug 19 (fds)

  • [NEW] Kill badge flicker for whitelisted sites (bug 17) and load all flash boxes when whitelisting one (bug 10).

  • [FIX] Remove -menuForEvent: as it already returns the NSResponder's -menu by default. (Dave Dribin)

  • [FIX] Remove CTFInstaller.m from the bare plugin target. bug 44 (Chris Parker)

  • [DEV] Make Rakefile honor build products directory. bug 43 (Chris Parker)

• 1.2+tiger download tiger version

  • [NEW] Added copy address to clipboard (Peter Hosey)

• 1.2 download

  • [NEW] Handle <object> and <embed> that are missing a type attribute. That fixes a number of the broken sites. bug #19 (Jason Foreman)

  • [NEW] Activate on mouse-up, instead of mouse-down. Draw as "pressed in" during mouse-down, tracking the mouse like normal button. (Peter Hosey)

  • [NEW] Added a seperator to the context menu.

  • [FIX] Release build-time script that includes the project's entire build directory. (Peter Hosey)

• 1.1 download

  • [NEW] Tasteful "Flash" icon now drawn on top of the gradient to make it more clear that it's blocked Flash content. (Ricky Romero, Justin Williams)

  • [NEW] Contextual menu and simple whitelist editor. (Dave Dribin)

  • [NEW] Show the Flash box's source as a tooltip. (Jason Foreman)

  • [NEW] Installer can update older versions. (rentzsch)

  • [NEW] Rakefile to compile & upgrade the plugin by running 'rake' in the directory. (Ale Muñoz)

  • [NEW] Localization support. (Eric Czarny)

  • [DEV] Clean-up. Nonatomic properties, remove unused methods, unsigned => NSUInteger. (Jim Correia)

  • [DEV] Change CFBundleIdentifier from com.google.code.p.clicktoflash to com.github.rentzsch.clicktoflash. (rentzsch)

  • [FIX] Installer now quits when canceling. (rentzsch)

  • [FIX] Removed the container image from the installer. (Eric Czarny)

• original Google code project deleted. This fork takes on official-ish mantle.

• 1.0+rentzsch download

  • Forked from original Google code project (Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch)

  • [NEW] Site whitelisting by holding down option key when clicking a flash box. (Gus Mueller)

  • [FIX] Use -[NSEvent modifierFlags] instead of Carbon's GetCurrentKeyModifiers(). (Chris Parker)

  • [DEV] Store white-listed sites in an array instead of composite keys. (Jean-Francois Roy)

• 1.0 original Google Code release