SwiftDial: Release Notes

v2.2 (05/12/2021)

New:

By popular demand we've added the ability to move Sites between Site Groups (accessible through Site context menu)
Every group in the "Site Groups" panel now has the "Switch and close" button that allows you to change group and close the panel in one click
Completely removed the "Access to the active tab" optional permission, as it turned out to be redundant

Changed:

[Edge version] New tab icon to workaround the issue where the default one showed up as a black or a white square in Edge

Fixed:

Fixed the default homepage background color momentarily showing up when opening a new tab on some systems
Other fixes and improvements

v2.1 (25/11/2021)

New:

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Toolbar icon panel now adapts to smaller screen or browser window sizes
Added touch input support for all buttons

Fixed:

Auto theme now applied correctly to the toolbar icon panel
Other fixes and improvements

v2.0 (13/08/2021)

New:

Introducing customizable menu themes that adapt to your prefered color
Updated the look of some elements of the SwiftDial's interface
[Keyboard navigation] You can now use the Del key to remove sites without the need to open the context menu

Changed:

In order to prevent accidental changes, activation of the buttons for restoring or resetting SwiftDial settings now happens after holding them for 0.5 seconds

Fixed:

Various fixes and improvements

v1.9.1 (08/06/2021)

Changed:

[Firefox only] Added a workaround to make the new Firefox redesign display the toolbar icon properly

v1.9 (12/05/2021)

New:

You can now learn about SwiftDial's main features in the About section
SwiftDial can now inform you about updating to a new version (can be disabled from the Global Settings section)
Added image loading indication

Fixed:

Improvements in the Site Groups section
Small improvements

v1.8 (09/03/2021)

New:

You can now download SwiftDial for the Firefox, Chrome and Edge browsers

Fixed:

Some improvements

v1.7 (06/02/2021)

New:

Pasting links into the "Site Address" field now automatically removes the placeholder text (https://)
Pasting values into color fields now automaticlly removes unwanted characters (for example, "#" at the beginning of "#FFFFFF")

Fixed:

Fixed color picker sliders not displaying properly with some window/display sizes
The "Share Site" feature now works correctly with links containing Unicode characters
Many other fixes and improvements

v1.6 (14/12/2020)

New:

Introducing Site Groups, a new way to group your sites into categories

Changed:

In order to prevent accidental changes, activation of some buttons for images manipulation now happens after holding them for 0.5 seconds

Fixed:

Toolbar button pannel now works correctly in multiple browser windows
Fixed the isuue of the 1.5 version, where the toolbar button panel didn't display properly in some cases

v1.5 (21/10/2020)

New:

SwiftDial now supports 5 new languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Italian. If you want to help localize the extension to other languages or if you found any mistakes in the existing translations, please contact us via the support email

Fixed:

A few minor improvements

v1.4 (12/08/2020)

New:

Theme support for the menus
Added the Light, Dark and High Contrast themes
The Auto option sets the Light or the Dark theme depending on the OS preferences

Fixed:

Some fixes and improvements

v1.3 (14/07/2020)

The previous versions of the extension were able to generate images if a user gave the "Acces To Websites" permissions at least once, while the users who never gave that permission encontered an "infinite loading" situation when the extension tried to generate an image (due to a particularity of Firefox).

Thanks to Reddit user BubiBalboa for pointing this bug out.

To deal with this issue SwiftDial now requires "Access To Websites" permission to generate images.

v1.2 (04/07/2020)

New:

Ability to open sites in a new tab
Ability to open sites in a new window
Ability to open sites in a new private window
Ability to copy site links right from the context menu
Ability to easily share site links on social media

Fixed:

Bug fixes and improvements

v1.1 (26/06/2020)

New:

Support for keyboard-only navigation

Fixed:

Fixed a visual bug

v1.0.0 (28/05/2020)

New:

Ability to easily add sites to SwiftDial using the icon from the browser toolbar
Custom color picker tools
Support for entering 3-character color names (for example #FFF)

Changed:

Updated the look of the menu panels

Fixed:

Fixed not loading correct fonts in some menu windows on some platforms

v0.9.0 (09/05/2020)

New:

Ability to generate site images, icons or screenshots
Ability to add site images by supplying an image address

Changed:

Background images are now saved to .png instead of .jpeg to preserve transparency of some images
The ability to add a background or site image by suppluying the image's web-address doesn't require any special permission
The "Add Site" and "Edit Site" dialogs now scroll to the top when adding or generating a site image on smaller screens or in a small-sized browser window

Fixed:

Some minor improvements

v0.8.0 (31/03/2020)

New:

Additional feature to download background images directly from web adresses provided by the user
Permission manager to manage permissions for the additional features
Ability to reset background image to the default one

Fixed:

Fixed the bug that prevented restoration from some backup files

v0.7.0 (25/03/2020)

New:

Backup and restore settings and sites
Reset SwiftDial to default settings
Clear all sites from SwiftDial

v0.6.0 (21/01/2020)

Initial release.