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Release 2012.1.3

Mo Flanagan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:05:00 +0000

A new version of WindowTabs is available for download.

* reduced CPU and memory utilization, increased responsiveness
* added the “WindowTabs Manager” for choosing which applications are tabbed – now it’s possible to add tabs to only certain applications and leave all others un-tabbed.
* add an MSI Installer option for download, adds a shortcut and makes upgrading easier
* converted WindowTabsSettings.bin to a human readable text format WindowTabsSettings.txt

Release 2011.12.26.1

Mo Flanagan — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:53:01 +0000

A new version of WindowTabs is available for download.

* added the ability to rename tabs
* improved tab text rendering quality (using ClearCase to render text)
* switched to a Year.Month.Day.Revision format for version numbers in the “Version” window.
* added an icon to the WindowTabs.exe
* fixed a bug which can cause the drag animation to “hang” on screen after dropping a window.

New Release, UserVoice Forum and Twitter

Mo Flanagan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:32:28 +0000

I have made a new release of WindowTabs, checkout the download page for installation instructions (it’s just a single exe). I’ve also updated the features page to describe some of the newer features (taskbar integration, tab customization).

In addition to the new release, I have setup a uservoice forum for WindowTabs. I am pretty excited to start collecting feedback here.

For product updates and other news, I will be posting to this blog and also to the new WindowTabs twitter account.

Beta Release: Windows 7 Taskbar Integration

Mo Flanagan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:34:53 +0000

This release includes integration with the Windows 7 taskbar / preview. This is an important new feature and I think it will make WindowTabs much more useful on Windows 7. Here is a video which demonstrates how the Windows 7 Taskbar reflects your tabbed groups, allowing you to quickly preview and select a tabbed window.

Also in this version, you can use “CTRL + W” to show or hide tabs for a window or window group. Note that this beta version expires December 1st.

Get the latest beta from download section and let me know what you think.

Fixed issue with Outlook windows not closing

Mo Flanagan — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:24:34 +0000

I wanted to get this fix out as soon as it was ready because its a pretty annoying bug. This release fixes an issue where Microsoft Outlook windows would not close – or they would close and then immediately reopen. This would happen, for example, after you sent an email. Get the fix from the download page.

Beta Release: Better Performance, Highlighting and Minimize & Maximize!

Mo Flanagan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:58:59 +0000

Hello Friends!

I’m making great progress on the new WindowTabs. This release is way better than the previous one – if you’re following the beta, its well worth the time to upgrade!

Fixed issues w/ maximized windows

If you dragged tabs into a maximized window, you would end up with a window that was “frozen” in the maximized position until you giggled it around. This is fixed and there should be no problem with maximized windows now aside from a little ugly flicker which I will get to down the road.

Smarter handling of minimized windows

Minimized windows were getting pulled out of the group – no fun. Now, minimized windows stay in your tab group which means you can go through and minimize the whole group if you want (i’ll probably add a shortcut for that by right clicking on a tab)

Lighter on your CPU

I’m constantly looking for ways to reduce the footprint in terms of both memory and CPU. In this release, I filtered out a bunch of noisy, wasteful messages from the Windows OS – for you this means less CPU usage especially when you are launching new windows .

Other nice changes

Added a right click context menu to the tabs
Added a close button on the tab
Added nicer tab highlighting (mouse hover, window focus)
Hide the tabs correctly when you move or resize a CMD window

As usual, get the latest beta from download section and please let me know if you run into any problems!

WindowTabs Version 650

Mo Flanagan — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:10:59 +0000

Fixed: Closed Outlook windows reappear when WindowTabs is shutdown.
Fixed: Tab groups do not come to the top when activated from the taskbar.

Install WindowTabs (v650)

WindowTabs Version 645

Mo Flanagan — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:45:56 +0000

Fixed: PuTTY windows are not correctly resized within a tab group (thanks Oliver!)

Install WindowTabs (v645)

WindowTabs Version 640

Mo Flanagan — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:11:11 +0000

Fixed: When WindowTabs starts, minimized windows do not get tabs
Fixed: Newly opened Microsoft Office Communicator chat windows do not get tabs
Fixed: Tabs are positioned incorrectly in high DPI mode on Windows 7
Changed: Removed diagnostics page. To submit diagnostics, use “Feedback” and check “include diagnostics”

Install WindowTabs (v640)

WindowTabs Version 629

Mo Flanagan — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:28:38 +0000

Fix a bug in 625 which causes WindowTabs to exit when you access the settings menu from the tray icon.

Install WindowTabs (v629)

WindowTabs Version 625

Mo Flanagan — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:36:59 +0000

This version includes some minor improvements and internal changes in preparation for larger feature enhancements which are planned for release next week.

Fixed small issue with diagnostics report.
Reduced startup time.

Install WindowTabs (v625)

WindowTabs Version 580

Mo Flanagan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:46:34 +0000

There was a bug in 570 which caused WindowTabs to not validate your license key (if you have one) until you open the “License” page on the settings window. This means that even though you have a license, you would still hit the three tab limit. This version fixes that.

Fixed issue with hitting the three tab limit on licensed versions of WindowTabs.
Added a cancel button to the “Feedback” form.

Install WindowTabs (v580)

WindowTabs Version 570

Mo Flanagan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:07:06 +0000

There has been a long standing issue where settings are not saved for some users on 64-bit Windows Vista / Windows 7 due to the fact that WT was saving to the local Program Files directory.

In an effort to fix this, WindowTabs is now installed to your Local User Data directory instead of Program Files – this is the same way Google Chrome and all “ClickOnce” .NET applications are installed.

Also, I will be moving to a more manageable release cycle (2-4 week) which will give me time to tackle bigger features between releases.

Fixed an issue which caused settings to not be saved on x64 Windows Vista and Windows 7
Fixed a bug where you are prompted to restart WindowTabs after viewing advanced settings, even if you have not made changes to the settings.
WindowTabs is now installed to your user data directory instead of Program Files.
Added version info to the WindowTabsSetup.exe file.
Added the WindowTabs version to the WT notify icon tooltip.
Removed the license.txt and desktopstate.dat, save that data to settings.dat.

Install WindowTabs (v570)

WindowTabs Version 540

Mo Flanagan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:31 +0000

WindowTabs sends an error report if the WindowTabs dll fails to unload, this will help me eliminate some of the errors caused by locked dll’s when upgrading
WindowTabs sends a ping to Google Analytics when it starts, this will help me track the number of successfully completed installs.
Added a feedback form, right click on a tab and click “feedback”.
Changed the AutoHide setting back to false by default.
Save the location of the settings form.
Made the settings form a tool window.
Fixed an issue which prevented tabbing between items in the settings form.
Minimizing a window now minimizes the whole group instead of removing the window from the group (this was an issue when you turned the Hide in taskbar setting off).

Install WindowTabs (v540)

For next week

My goal for next week is to provide an “upgrade” button in the app which will download the latest version, do the upgrade and restart in one click.

WindowTabs Version 510

Mo Flanagan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:04:31 +0000

Now you can choose to show only the active tab in the taskbar (the default behavior) or you can choose to show all windows in the Taskbar. This is a pretty significant feature that still needs some more work. I am really excited about improving the taskbar integration over the next few weeks and I would appreciate feedback on this so please give it a try!

Added the “Hide taskbar buttons for tabbed windows” option
Made auto hide turned on by default for new installs
Made the option to add tabs to CMD windows on by default and removed the check box, if you want to remove tabs from CMD windows, just use the standard filtering mechanism

Install WindowTabs (v510)

For next week

Next week I am going to focus on the user experience around updating. I’m not happy with the update process right now and with a weekly release cycle, updates need to be painless.

WindowTabs Version 490

Mo Flanagan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:50:14 +0000

This isn’t the most exciting release I have ever made but its still an important one. I fixed several crash issues and a nasty issue where you could get duplicate tabs if you drag a tab out of a group fast enough. Also, if you have been running into problems upgrading due to “WindowTabs32.dll” being in use, this new version should help going forward, the installer will now only try and replace WindowTabs32.dll if the version of that dll has changed.

Added a version check to the installer for the WindowTabs32.dll. This should make it much less likely that upgrades will fail due to the WindowTabs32.dll being in use.
Fixed a bug where tabs appear “behind” windows sometimes. This often happend on top level windows like Task Manager.
Fixed a random crash bug that was introduced in build 465 (sorry!)
Fixed a bug where a two tabs could appear for the same window if you drag the window out of a tab group quickly.
Fixed a minor issue where windows would be shuffled around in zorder when WindowTabs starts.
Fixed a very rare crash issue when restoring a window.

Install WindowTabs (v490)

For next week

Next week, I want to provide an option which keeps windows in the taskbar. This would allow you to switch between windows using tabs or the taskbar. The lack of this feature has been a deal breaker for many people so I am eager to get this in there!

WindowTabs Version 465

Mo Flanagan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:57:51 +0000

This release includes some look and feel improvements and (finally!) adds a simple context menu to access the settings by right clicking on a tab. I’ll be adding a lot more to the context menu over the next few weeks.

Added a right click context menu for accessing WindowTabs settings.
Fixed a bug where hidden tabs would reappear incorrectly when your mouse moved over another window.
Disabled DWM transition animations so that you don’t see as much “flicker” when switching tabs and so that tabs don’t appear before the window when you restore a window from minimize.
Reduced the delay when hiding tabs on a maximized window.
Fixed a crash on Windows 2000.

Install WindowTabs (v465)

WindowTabs Version 450

Mo Flanagan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:40:20 +0000

This weeks release is a bunch of little bug fixes with some rendering issues and some problems with message boxes getting lost. Also, after a long hiatus, the diagnostics report is working again.

Fixed the diagnostics report, it was not working at all in previous builds.
Fixed an issue where “close all tabs” dialoge box would fall behind other windows when closing IE8. This also affected text editors which promt when you close with unsaved text.
Fixed a very rare crash which happens if a window closes while the trial splash screen is showing.
Fixed an issue where IE8 would display artifacts and not properly redraw.
Fixed a rendering issue where Chrome would not draw its tabs on Windows 7.
The drag thumbnail now dissapears before showing the window which looks nicer.

Install WindowTabs (v450)

WindowTabs Version 430

Mo Flanagan — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:35:21 +0000

This weeks release gets Windows Live Messenger working again on Vista / Win7, thanks to Oli for the heads up! Also, I added a much requested feature, the ability to activate tabs while dragging – especially useful for moving files between explorer windows.

Windows Live Messenger works (again) on Vista / Windows 7
Restarting windows tabs after changing settings no longer causes random crashing
Whitespace is now correctly removed from your filtering settings, this was causing the filter to not recognize some process names
You can now drag files, text – anything – over a tab and the tab will activate, take a look

Install WindowTabs (v430)

WindowTabs Version 420

Mo Flanagan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:01:47 +0000

It’s a long time since the last release but this version makes up for it with one major new feature (auto hiding) and a bunch of important bug fixes for Outlook, Visual Studio and Microsoft Word users

Automatically hide tabs on maximized windows so they don’t cover the caption bar (in Chrome for example), take a look
Fixed an issue where apps like VS .NET and Windows Live Messenger stayed on top of other apps
Fixed an issue where the tabs would disappear on maximized VS.NET windows
Removed the keyboard shortcut to hide tabs on a window – auto hide makes this unnecessary
Fix a bug where closing a Word document in a group of multiple documents would leave tabs floating in space
Fixed an issue where tabs were not being hidden after you close an Outlook window
The “latest version” checker wasn’t working quite right, now it is
Fixed an issue where Outlook would dissapear if you closed an email window in a group

Install WindowTabs (v420)