Just in time for Firefox 3 Download Day, Interclue Ltd releases version 1.5.6 of it’s flagship browser addon, with full Firefox 3 support, new warnings for links to malware and phishing sites, a more compact and usable status bar menu, and many other improvements over the previous release, which was installed by over 120,000 Firefox users, fully one third of them using pre-release versions of Firefox 3, thus ensuring that Interclue and Firefox 3 are a well proven combination for faster and more productive web-surfing.

New Features in 1.5.6

• Potential “Phishing” Site Warnings
• Potential Malware Distribution Site Warnings (Firefox 3 only)
• Auto-correction of (some) broken link URLs: (e.g. http://http://stuff.com is converted to http://stuff.com)

Tweaks:

• Interclue status bar menu is now more compact and easier to use.
• Further improvements in the Linkclue positioning logic. In Firefox 3, it’s almost perfect. In Firefox 2 there are still one or two sites where the Linkclue icons will appear somewhere odd after you mouseover the link.
• Reduced excess whitespace appearing in some summaries.
• The TurboNote+ button will now be enabled by default if TurboNote+ is installed.
• Improved summaries for links to video.google.com
• Pinned-mode activation hotkey now off by default - most people don’t use it and it was irritating when activated accidentaly.

Bug Fixes:

• The Zoom bug got fixed in Firefox 3rc2+. Users with Firefox 3rc2+ should be able to use previews on zoomed pages again.
• Fixed previews for washingtonpost.com (their server responds with unusual content-type, which we now look for)
• Fixed a problem with “403: Forbidden” error messages being cached.

Interclue 1.5.5 is an incremental release with only a few minor interface improvements and bug fixes.

New Feature:

• Interclue now makes a backup of known good preferences to avoid preference corruption.

Tweaks:

• Added links to the online tour at the end of the tutorial
• Made feedback dialog more user friendly for users with small screens
• Made some changes to the “Show Next Similar Link” algorithm

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where certain Clueviews would disable the bookmark and open-in-new-tab icons
• Corrected a spelling mistake in the tutorial
• (Hopefully) Fixes a bug several people reported in which the “Thank you for installing” page appeared many times over. (See here for details.)
• Fixed a bug where a link to a secure domain that didn’t exist shows no clues
• Fixed a compatibility issue with the latest FF3 Nightly version.

Known Issue:

• The clueviewer may break zoomed pages in Firefox 3. As a temporary workaround, on sites where you have used the page-zoom feature, we recommend that you left-click the Interclue icon in your statusbar and select “Disable Interclue for this Site”. This bug appears to be with Firefox rather than Interclue, we have reported it, and we hope that it will be resolved before the final FF3.0 release.