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Another new Google Chrome Portable!

I’ve been working on other stuff too, really! 🙂  Just trying to get the bugs that people report to me out of the way…

Biggest change is the Portable Passwords feature.  It’s opt-in so you’ll need to use the INI to enable it since it creates a bit of a hassle (you need to enter a master password on startup, to keep your passwords safe).

More details in help.html.

• Stable (3.0.195.33)
• Beta (4.0.223.16)
• Dev (4.0.249.11)

Minor update to fix up the source code for another official PortableApps.com release.  Other than updating Stable and Dev channel versions, no changes anyone will notice.

• Stable (3.0.195.33)
• Beta (4.0.223.16)
• Dev (4.0.245.0)

I made a load of changes this time around.

Downloads:

• Stable (3.0.195.32)
• Beta (4.0.223.16)
• Dev (4.0.237.0)

Oh yeah, I am now featured on PortableApps.com!  Hooray! 🙂

Here’s the main changes for this version:

• Updated Stable to 3.0.195.32, Beta to 4.0.223.16, Dev to 4.0.237.0
• Using new versions based on launcher versions rather than Google Chrome versions.
• Default locations for Beta and Dev builds changed to “GoogleChromePortableTest” and “GoogleChromePortableDev” to fit with PAF.
• Fixed bug where themes would stop working when GCP’s path or drive letter changed.
• Added support for PortableApps.com Menu language selection. Set UsePAMLanguage to false in the INI to use the user-selected language in Chrome instead.
• On request of PA community, did more agressive cleanup of registry keys and directories left behind after quitting.
• Backup and restore local Chrome’s unique identifier information used for collecting usage data.
• Updated launcher crash cleanup guide.

To celebrate the inclusion of Google Chrome Portable in the PortableApps.com official apps list… I’ve, um, started working on it again and fixed all reported bugs.

Downloads: Stable/Beta | Dev

Fixed a particularly nasty bug where RunLocally and CacheInTemp were always forced on.  Also themes now work properly between sessions.

[Edit: Updated Dev download with the latest Chrome Dev build released today.]

[Edit: Update downloads to remove nsexec which some av products falsely label as malware.]

[Edit: Updated Dev build to *.223.11 which fixes a crash bug with RSS feed extensions.]

EasyScreenshot.NET v.7.0 has been released.  Grab it here, and view the complete changelog here.

These changes are of particular note:

• Added Capture Monitor and Color Picker modes.
• Added PrintScreen simulation option for capturing transparent windows.
• Many changes and bug fixes to clipboard code.
• Tweaks to the overlay, especially to the overlay text.
• Misc bug fixes.

[Edit: Updated to 1.7.1: Potentially fixed a bug where crashes could occur when opening the Options dialog or using the Capture Monitor menu item.  The person who reported the bug to me hasn’t been available to test the fix but I’m confident I fixed the right thing.]

Not many changes, fixed a bug preventing GoogleChromePortable.ini from working, disabled Java Portable plugin inport, and tweaked the help files a bit.

3.0.195.21 Stable/Beta

4.0.206.1 Dev

Details here.

Downloads: Stable, Beta, Dev.

Well not really, I think it just was a failure to test it thoroughly on my part, but it’s still odd.  Apparently, in Firefox, a checkbox’s .value property is always “on” even if it isn’t really “on” so all the pictures were coming out with critical backgrounds.  Using “.checked” solved that problem.

http://www.mzzt.net/tf2/

One of these days I’ll style it.

Whenever my mic stops working, I must remember to try the following diagnostics in the following order to avoid maximum frustration with the dumb thing: [Read more →]

Thanks to Clutch for pointing out that ES.NET could use up an obscene amount of memory.  While technically memory leaks aren’t possible in .NET unless you leak unmanaged objects, in this case I was constantly creating large bitmaps and forgetting to .Dispose them, and .NET was taking it’s time in cleaning them up.  This has been fixed in 1.6.1.  Download now.

[Edit: Fixed a couple bugs in my fix… Capture Clipboard/Desktop won’t crash now, and hotkeys work again.  Oops.  Download updated to 1.6.2]