What's new in HistoryHound 1.9.12
Nov 3, 2016
- Fixed several crashes that occur when running under macOS 10.11 and 10.12.
- Clicking on the status message on the right near the top of the main search window will now open the index status window.
- If a web page redirects to another page due to an HTTP 401, 403, 407 or 410 error, HistoryHound won't follow the redirect and won't try to repeatedly re-index that page.
- You can now copy multiple URLs in the index status and error windows.
- HistoryHound no longer tries to follow safari-extension URLs.
- Added support for the Vivaldi browser.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.11 (Jan 10, 2015)
- HistoryHound now fully supports new Safari 8 History and Cache formats
- When adding individual items to your HistoryHound indexing preferences, you can now use http and https URLs
- HistoryHound will automatically use your Mac App Store license if you originally bought HistoryHound there (run the new version once BEFORE you replace the App Store version in your Applications folder)
New in HistoryHound 1.9.10 (Oct 15, 2014)
- Updated support for the latest versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera and NetNewsWire.
- Previous versions of HistoryHound could miss some content on web pages. This has been fixed.
- HistoryHound is now a 64-bit application and requires Mac OS 10.6.8 or higher.
- HistoryHound will quit correctly if a second copy of the application is already running.
- Eliminated a crash that could occur when viewing RSS feeds in the search results.
- Rebuilding your search index has been improved.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.9 (Nov 18, 2011)
- Added support for Firefox 8.
- Added support for RockMelt.
- First-time users now see an intro screen to help get them set up.
- Further optimized page indexing and fixed bugs and compatibility issues.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.7 (Oct 27, 2009)
- Added support for Safari 4.0.
- Added support for Opera 10.0.
- Added support for Google Chrome.
- HistoryHound can now index folders full of .webbookmark, .webhistory, and .webloc files.
- Improved handling of web pages that perform redirects.
- The download engine is faster, more efficient and reports errors more clearly.
- You can now select multiple URLs in the Index Status window and open them or copy them all at once using the contextual menu.
- HistoryHound now catches and ignores URLs that are ridiculously long.
- The browser window is cleared when the search field is cleared.
- HistoryHound ignores Safari's safe browsing database because it contains no useful information.
- Fixed a problem with settings not always being recognized after quitting and relaunching HistoryHound.
- "NSInvalidArgumentException" errors from the web page indexers have been fixed.
- Resolved a conflict that could cause an "Uncaught system exception" error.
- Eliminated warning messages in the Console from plDatabase.
- Worked around a bug that could cause crashes when downloading RSS feeds.
- Corrected a display problem when using the in-application purchase engine.
- The small search bar no longer spuriously resets while you're typing.
- Fixed a few memory management bugs.
- Corrected French localization errors.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.7 Beta 2 (Oct 12, 2009)
- Fixed a conflict that could cause an "Uncaught system exception" error while indexing.
- Corrected French localization errors.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.7 Beta 1 (Oct 8, 2009)
- Added support for Safari 4.0.
- Added support for Opera 10.0.
- Improved handling of web pages that perform redirects.
- You can now select multiple URLs in the Index Status window and open them or copy them all at once using the contextual menu.
- HistoryHound now catches and ignores URLs that are ridiculously long.
- The browser window is now cleared when the search field is cleared.
- Modified the download engine to reduce CPU load and improve error handling.
- HistoryHound ignores Safari's safe browsing database because it contains no useful information.
- Fixed a problem with settings not always being recognized after quitting and relaunching HistoryHound.
- Fixed a bug that could result in an "NSInvalidArgumentException" error being displayed for a web page indexer.
- Warning messages in the Console from plDatabase have been eliminated.
- Worked around a bug that could cause crashes when downloading RSS feeds.
- Corrected a display problem when using the in-application purchase engine.
- Fixed a few memory management bugs.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.6 (Nov 3, 2008)
- HistoryHound now indexes .webarchive files.
- A bug that could cause sporadic crashes has been fixed.
- The error log is now saved between launches. It is always truncated to 1000 lines before it is saved.
- Corrected a problem in which filters for file urls would begin with "(null)" if there wasn't a host name in the URL.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.5 (Oct 8, 2008)
- HistoryHound now performs searches about 10 times faster than before.
- You can constrain your searches by date. Click on "Optons" in the toolbar to open the drawer and see these new choices.
- Control-clicking on a result in the search window or on an URL in the index window pops up a contextual menu with commands to go to that URL in your browser, remove the URL from your search index, and create a new filter.
- HistoryHound now supports Firefox 3 and iCab 4, and also includes updates for the latest versions of NetNewsWire, Safari, Shiira, OmniWeb, Camino, Flock and Opera.
- HistoryHound is smarter about the files it downloads and will skip any unsearchable file (.zip and .dmg, for instance) and will not download any page larger than 2MB.
- The preference window and mini search palette are now resizable.
- The display of RSS feeds in HistoryHound's browser window is more robust and more attractive.
- HistoryHound intelligently locates the Safari cache so it works seamlessly with both Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5.
- There is now a "restore defaults" button in the Filters preferences to reinstall the default URL filters.
- Fixed errors and crashes that would occur when downloading and parsing certain sites.
- Eliminated high processor load that could occur while scanning the Safari cache.
- Fixed a problem where HistoryHound would bet stuck in a loop on some sites that had odd frame hierarchies.
- Fixed a crash that would occur if HistoryHound tried to cancel indexing and a download timed out.
- Resolved the random clearing of the URL filter list in the prefs.
- Threading problems that caused HistoryHound to generate a deluge of errors to the Console have been fixed.
- HistoryHound no longer crashes when you click the "Customize" button in the toolbar when running on Leopard.
- Error messages have been improved in the error log.
- Corrected various user interface inconsistencies.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.5 Beta 2 (Sep 12, 2008)
- Window positions are now correct when HistoryHound is launched for the first time.
- HistoryHound now intelligently locates the Safari cache so it works with both Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5.
- Fixed crashes and exceptions that were occurring when downloading and parsing certain sites.
- Display of RSS feeds in HistoryHound's browser window is now more robust and more attractive.
- HistoryHound will not download files larger than 2 MB (this limit used to be 1 MB).
- Improved the look of the preferences window.
- The miniature search palette is now resizable.
- Fixed various user interface inconsistencies.
- Set up correct defaults for first-launch.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.5 Beta 1 (Sep 1, 2008)
- Support for NetNewsWire is back!
- Updated support for the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Shiira, OmniWeb, Camino, Flock and Opera
- HistoryHound will no longer download large .dmg and .zip files before it realizes they aren't something it needs to look at.
- The list of search items in the prefs and the list of indexed items in the drawer are now sorted alphabetically.
- Improved the error messages that are logged when page downloads fail.
- The preference window is now resizable.
- Eliminated high CPU load will scanning the Safari cache.
- Added a contextual menu to the Index Status window.
- Fixed many small bugs and cosmetic problems.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.5 Development 7 (Jul 31, 2008)
- Resolved crashes with Firefox indexing.
- Fixed a problem where the indexer would loop on some sites that had odd frame hierarchies.
- Corrected a number of site-specific bugs in the html parser.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.5 Development 6 (Jun 21, 2008)
- Added support for Firefox 3.
New in HistoryHound 1.9.5 Development 4 (Jun 10, 2008)
- HistoryHound now uses a faster search API that is available in Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5. Searches are much faster now.
- You can constrain your searches by date. Click on "Optons" in the toolbar to open the drawer and see these new choices.
- Control-clicking on a result in the search window pops up a contextual menu with commands to go to that URL in your browser, remove that URL from your search index, and create a new filter.
- Threading problems that caused HistoryHound to generate tons of errors to the Console have been fixed.