firefox-pwgen 0.4.5 released

Jun 20th, 2010

Hello there!

I know… it has been a long time since the last release and I know, many of you were awaiting for the bug fix identifed by Armin Juhlke @juhlke.de  - I was able finally today to put some time aside and look at it – here is the new release….

This release includes some bug fixes and had underwent a medium code cleanup from the 0.4 branch including some XUL improvements and a new feature added.

Here is the raw changeLog

1. Bug reported by Armin Juhlke @juhlke.de
“The digit 0 is not excluded from generated password when specified in the list of excludec characters”

2. Feature added – Password History added for current session.The user is now able to select whether or not they want to keep a history of the generated passwords… those passwords are not “saved” and only exist in memory; the user can then clean the buffer. That being said, the logged passwords do not survive a firefox restart.

3. JS Preference Code Cleanup – Optimization in metadata table

4. XUL Interface + CSS major improvements

5. Added support for Firefox 3.7a6pre

The addon was just uploaded, thus is available through https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/92313/pwgen-0.4.5-fx.xpi – Once it has been reviewed by Firefox AMO Editors, it will then be available on the addon’s main page.

Cheers,

Ali

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  1. Alan Baxter
    Jul 8th, 2010 at 01:40
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    Hi, Ali. Thank you for pwgen. It seems to work great. Just one change that I’d really appreciate. I don’t want a dedicated, always present status bar icon just for creating an occasional password. If at all possible, I’d like the option to simply have a selection in the Tools menu instead.

  2. Geekoid
    Aug 12th, 2010 at 00:59
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    A perfect add-on for the Firefox browser. Thank you very much for creating it!

    The only option I would add would be to have an icon in the top address/navigation bar, rather than the bottom corner, as I frequently work full-screen and moving down there causes either the task bar or my instant messenger application (Trillian Astra) top pop into view each time.

    I hope you’re able to add that feature if you have time.

    Thanks!