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ChangeLog

Version 2.0.1 (18 Feb. 2006)

• Reverted change that encoded search terms based on encoding of web page

Version 2.0 (21 Sep. 2006)

• Support for Firefox 2.0 and Thunderbird 2.0.

Version 1.5 (17 Nov. 2005)

• Dictionary search will now follow version numbering of Firefox
• Removed access key
• Support for Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5. Dropped support for Mozilla Suite
• Using new way to package extensions

Version 0.9.3 (15 Aug. 2005)

• Fix possible security exploit
• Fix in option window
• Support for Deer Park

Version 0.9.2 (18 Apr. 2005)

• Also support Thunderbird again (Patch by Henrik Jensen)

Version 0.9.1 (17 Apr. 2005)

• Also support Firefox 1.0.2 and below (Patch by Henrik Jensen)

Version 0.9 (17 Apr. 2005)

• Support for Firefox 1.0.3. (Patch by Henrik Jensen)
• Following locales were added: ca-AD, cs-CZ, es-ES, fi-FI, he-IL and sl-SI A thank you to all the translators.

Version 0.8 (7 Jan. 2005)

• Selection now always made lower case before submitting it to a search engine.
• Norwegian locale added. Provided by Tor Egil Hoftun Kvæstad
• Changed default dictionary to thefreedictionary.com
• Changed default menuitem text to Search Dictionary for ".."

Version 0.7 (14 Nov. 2004)

• Support for Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 0.9
• Italian locale added. Provided by Giuliano Masseroni.
• Brazilian Portuguese locale added. Provided by Charlie Brown.

Version 0.6.3 (10 Jul. 2004)

• The people of update.mozilla.org told me to lower the supported version of FF to 0.9.2 and TB 0.7.2.
• Fixed the bug that dictionarysearch did not work properly in Mozilla Mail
• Polish locale added. Provided by Piec

Version 0.6.2 (29 Jun. 2004)

• Dictionarysearch will now install up till version 1.2 of both TB and FF

Version 0.6.1 (17 Jun. 2004)

• Added support for Thunderbird 0.7
• Added an icon for the extension manager

Version 0.6 (13 Jun. 2004)

• Added locales de-DE (Kai Henning) and fr-FR (Ternier Sylvain)
• Updated the extension so it can be installed in Firefox 0.9

Version 0.5.1 (17 Apr. 2004)

• Help in the Options dialog now works. (Forgot to check it in for version 0.5)

Version 0.5 (4 Apr. 2004)

• Support for Thunderbird and Mozilla Mail.
• Support for textareas (i.e. areas of a webpage where you can type) in Firefox and the Mozilla browser

Version 0.4 (7 Mar. 2004)

• Dictionary Search now supports up to 4 dictionaries.

Version 0.3 (14 Feb. 2004)

• Searching for phrases, like "The King" is now possible. You simply select the phrase and search for it in an online dictionary. NOTE not all dictionaries support multi word queries.
• Dictionary Search now respects the setting of "Open Links in the Background" in the Advanced Settings.
• Fixed bug: Mozilla Suite or Firefox in some special cases hangs where the user selected multiple lines of text.
• Fixed bug: Dictionary Settings not always saved correctly in Mozilla Suite.

Version 0.2 (29 Jan. 2004)

• Added options dialog for Firebird and preference panel for Mozilla to be able to specify the the dictionary to use and the menuitem text.
• Website now contains a number of dictionaries from which the user can choose.
• Characters which are not letters are automatically stripped from the word which is selected. These characters are currently stripped &()[]{}",.!?':;

Version 0.1 (5 Dec. 2003)

• Initial version only supporting dictionary.com. Gids Goldberg provided a version supporting the cambridge dictionaries.