14 November
2008
Highbrow v0.4.0
Where Keith inches towards a new product
Announcing a new Prerelease of Highbrow: Juggle all of your browsers with ease! Highbrow always knows which one you want to use. If you haven't yet met Highbrow, let me give you a proper introduction now. From our Highbrow page:
Highbrow makes its presence felt in the menubar, always showing you what your default web browser is. Highbrow shows its mettle by changing the system wide browser according to your habits. Highbrow can of course keep a single browser as YOUR browser, but its value is in switching your default to the most recently used or most recently launched browser. Highbrow can even ask you which browser you were looking for.
Since the
last prerelease, here's what we've accomplished:
- Implemented "Ask me which browser to use" feature
- Highbrow now recognize newly installed browsers (assuming that they are in /Applications or ~/Applications)
- Added the cmd-ctrl-h hotkey to show the Highbrow Menu without using the mouse (Helium Foot is all about mouselessness)
Some of what's still needed:
- Better automatic updates: nicer interface, more control
- The icon is temporary
- There is no first-run window
- There is no help file
Go ahead.
Download it!
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kalperin at
12:57
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Comments (7)
Hi Keith,
Highbrow is looking very good so far, but I noticed that links from NetNewsWire don’t open in Firefox 3.1b1. They work quite happily with Camino and OwniWeb though.
Karen
Hi Karen, can i ask you to elaborate on what is happening? Which Highbrow behavior are you using and what happens when you click on a link in NNW?
As always, thanks so much for your support!
K
Hi Keith,
I’ve got “Use the most recently used web browser” selected. In NNW, I have “open links in default web browser“. If I find a feed article that I’m interested in and Camino is the current Highbrow default, hitting a link in NNW opens the article in Camino. The same happens with OmniWeb (and Safari which is my OS default browser). However, with Firefox, nothing happens at all when I try to open an article from NNW.
I’m seeing the same behaviour with the 1.0 beta.
If I can provide any more information to help, please let me know.
Thanks,
Karen
Karen, this is great information, thanks! I'm curious to know what happens if you quit Highbrow, and then set Firefox 3.1b1 as your default browser (i'm looking at it now, and i think that without Highbrow, you may need to use Safari to set the system wide default). Once you have that set, does NNW work correctly?
Thanks!
K
Hi Keith,
Aha - you are entirely correct. The problem occurs between Firefox 3.1b1 and NNW, regardless of whether Highbrow is in use or not.
Sorry for thinking that Highbrow was in any way to blame!
Karen
Karen, i'm sorry that i haven't helped you, but you've definitely helped me. Especially that part about not finding any Highbrow bugs ; -)
Hi Keith,
Just a note to say that Firefox 3.1b2 fixes this issue.
I'm looking forward to being able to get a Highbrow license on the 15th.
Thanks,
Karen