DarkTrojan

Over the past few weeks I've been working my butt off (NOT!) on new versions of Open With (v4) and Shrunked (v2.5).

Open With is undergoing a major rewrite to make it more flexible and better performing. So far I've eliminated large chunks of repetitive code. The next phase which is almost ready is moving the core of the addon into a javascript module so that all the heavy lifting is only performed once when needed (before, it would happen for each window you had open).

Shrunked has picked up some code contributed from some users - it now scales images with much better quality, and in the next version will handle EXIF data from digital cameras.

Since I last posted the number of Open With users has grown, quite a lot. So I thought I'd repeat my totally unscientific locales test and compare the results. There was a certainly surprise or two (hint: look at the big red bar in the middle).

In this chart, the Y axis is each locale as a percentage of the en-* locales, so for every 100 English users there are now 14.3 German users. (In the previous chart the Y axis scale is different so they don't match up.)

Today I have for you a pretty graph:

There's not really much point to it but I've made it now so I wanted to do something with it.

It's a graph of the locales of the people who use Open With (excluding English because that's a huge column and would make the rest of it useless). The red bars are locales I don't have a translation for so I should probably work on doing something about that.

After a bit of crafty hacking, I'm here to show off a new feature of Open With that should make the next release - pretty buttons. See:

I've just uploaded a new release of Open With to AMO, with some major new features.

First, and probably more importantly, Open With now works on OS X and Linux. However, on those platforms all browsers need to be added manually, as I've no way of looking for installed browsers as I can with the Windows registry. Yet.

Second, and also important, you can now add browsers manually. This is a really handy feature which was requested a fair bit. Now you can add Open With menu items for browsers without them being listed in the registry. Which is especially useful if you don't have a registry, like if you're a Mac user.

If you use Open With, get to AMO and get the new version, it won't auto-update (see rant below). And drop me a comment saying you think it's cool.