We are pleased to announce the release of Interclue for Firefox 1.2.3, which focuses on optimizing usability and performance for users by helping them rapidly set several options at once to the ones most appropriate for people with:

• Fast, slow, or average reaction times
• Fast, slow, or average computers
• Fast, slow, or expensive internet connections

Several small interface improvements, performance enhancements and bugfixes are also included.

New Features:

• Added a new “Presets” option tab to allow for quick settings for common situations.
• New button: “open link in new foreground* tab” (ie change focus to the new tab immediately)
• Option to control when the link changes while you’re in pinned mode.

Tweaks

• Tweaked the tutorial.
• Wording changes in the feedback dialog and options tab.
• Moved most images into combined image files to speed up load time.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug where favicons where not being pre-fetched correctly after pageload.
• (Hopefully) Fixed error preventing the options dialog from loading on Ubuntu Feisty
• Linkclues were not fading out without a mousemove.
• Bugzilla cluescript wasn’t showing product/component/severity if user logged in.
• Bugzilla cluescript now shows (edit) link in title if user logged in
• Loading clues reset video playing on a page if the page contained certain css rules.

Interclue 1.2.3 introduces a new “presets” tab in the options dialog that allows for the rapid change of a few settings that correspond to what we think the best options are fore people with

• Fast, slow, or average reaction times
• Fast, slow, or average machines
• Fast, slow, or expensive internet connections

We would love some feedback on whether people think we got the preset values right or whether they need tweaking. And of course if you could verify we didn’t break anything by accident that would be great too.

You can download the beta by clicking here, but you will probably need to give update.interclue.com permission first.

We originally thought this release would fix a problem with the options dialog not opening under Ubuntu 7 as well, but apparently not. We’ll attempt to resolve this issue again before pushing 1.2.3 up to addons.mozilla.org and making it official.