What's new in Lightning 4.2
Sep 19, 2018
- Minor adjustment of background colour for Mojave, Improved interface to blocking functionality, Same Lightning Speed.
New in Lightning 4.1 (Mar 23, 2018)
- Fixed a few long standing bugs,
- Added accessibility tags,
- 64-bit ready.
New in Lightning 4.0 (Mar 15, 2018)
- Updated to be 64 bits. Same Lightning speed.
New in Lightning 3.4 (Oct 7, 2017)
- Minor tweaks - same Lightning performance.
New in Lightning 3.3 (Aug 16, 2017)
- Minor updates for compatibility. Same Lightning speed as ever!
New in Lightning 3.1 (Apr 15, 2014)
- Recent history is now fully searchable from the address bar.
- A high visibility reader forming a highspeed alternative to all that site “chrome”.
- A site analyser showing all web traffic which can be used to block tracking sites.
- A site watcher notifying you when any web site/blog you select has changed.
- An automatic, realtime RSS feed follower.
- Unique “Split Screen” side-by-side view.
- Automated import of Safari Bookmarks.
New in Lightning 3.0 (Feb 15, 2014)
- RSS feeds, site watching/analysis and a high visibility reader added but the focus on speed remains the same. This is why Lightning remains resolutely 32bit like Chrome -it’s just that little bit faster. Scan the tooltips for each button on the interface to catch up on the new functionality. If grey isn’t your thing you can now set transparent colours for the title bar.
New in Lightning 2.3.2 (Dec 14, 2012)
- "Do-Not-Track" is now turned on by default. New two headed mode where the last two tabs selected can be viewed side by side in the same window.
New in Lightning 2.3.0 (Aug 21, 2012)
- Enables you to link browsers and have them co-browse sites together in real time.
- Lightning is also sandboxed now which means Java Applets will no longer work and you will need to migrate your settings.
- Links on zoomed pages now work.
New in Lightning 2.2 (May 29, 2012)
- New "reload with flash" cmd-shift-R menu item when you browse routinely with flash turned off.
- Improved support for twitter and pages can now request the print dialogue successfully.
New in Lightning 2.1 (Jan 25, 2012)
- The release will not prefetch parges which have a "query" in their URL. There is also a new private browsing menu option.
New in Lightning 2.0.5 (Jan 6, 2012)
- Page Prefetch, Minor usability tweaks along with resolution of occasional crashes.
New in Lightning 2.0.4 (Dec 8, 2011)
- Page pre-fetch and find-in-page.
New in Lightning 2.0.2 (Sep 13, 2011)
- Lightning now pre-fetches your next page off-screen when you hover the mouse over it's link. New "rewind to last search" button along with improved memory management and a cause of very occaisional crashes due to popup windows fixed. If you have a "hash mismatch" error on updating please delete your old "/Applications/TurboWeb.app".
New in Lightning 2.0.1 (Sep 2, 2011)
- Now prefetches the next page when you hover the mouse over a link along with more memory management improvements. If you are upgrading from versions prior to 1.4.3 and get a "Hash mismatch" error, delete your old "/Applications/TurboWeb.app".
New in Lightning 2.0.0 (Aug 17, 2011)
- Renamed browser "Lightning".
- If you are getting a "hash mismatch" error on upgrading as a result, deleting the old /Applications/TurboWeb.app binary resolves this.
- Other changes include: buttons for bookmarks and history, better memory management, correct handling of in-page links.
- Now sets UserAgent correctly to resolve problems with Google+ etc.
- If problems persist for say, yahoo mail use the "Pretend to be Chrome" option in preferences.
New in Lightning 1.4.3 (Jul 28, 2011)
- Renamed browser "Lightning". If you are getting a "hash mismatch" error on upgrading as a result, deleting the old /Applications/TurboWeb.app binary resolves this. Other changes include: buttons for bookmarks and history, better memory management, correct handling of in-page links.
New in Lightning 1.4.2 (Mar 2, 2011)
- Visual Bookmarks Bar and resolution of problems navigating in some sites notably facebook.com.
- Right-click options now work. Java applets work as a part of WebKit.
New in Lightning 1.3.2 (Feb 15, 2011)
- Ability to block Flash Content and Cookies, Icon Size and set home page fixed. Improved shortcuts, better memory management and finally "proper" tabs.
New in Lightning 1.3.1 (Feb 10, 2011)
- Ability to block Flash Content and Cookies, Icon Size and set home page fixed. Improved shortcuts, better memory managment and finally "proper" tabs.
New in Lightning 1.2.10 (Feb 4, 2011)
- Now supports multiple tabs, many keyboard shortcuts, (optional) popup windows, full history, bookmarks and internationalization. Get in touch if you would like to add your locale to the server list (currently en, fr, de, es locales)