SwiftDial: Release Notes

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.