APR AUG OCT 12 2003 2004 2005 14 captures 10 Apr 04 - 21 Jan 10

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Upgrade file for Windows 98 and ME: http://WebSpeedReader.com/Browser/wsrUpgrade.zip

Upgrade file for Windows 2000 and XP: http://WebSpeedReader.com/Browser/wsrUpgradeXP.zip

These files are little more than 300K, and will download in less than 1 minute even on a dial-up connection. Unzip the file, make sure that WebSpeedReader is NOT running, click on Setup.exe, and your new version of WebSpeedReader will appear almost instantly. You do NOT have to close any other programs or your Internet connection to install.

What's New with WebSpeedReader

This page list all of what's new to WebSpeedReader since January 1, 2004. You can also read the archive of What's New to see all changes between April 28, 2002 and December 31, 2003. You can read this page to decide if you want to upgrade to a new edition of WebSpeedReader at any time. You can upgrade even if you are only in the trial phase. If you purchased the product, you can upgrade at any time at no additional cost! You can quickly access this page by selecting Help } What's New from the  menu in WebSpeedReader.

Ebay Log On Bug Fix - August 9, 2004

Version 8.6.27 - When a user tries to log onto Ebay, Ebay gives an error message that the browser is not accepting cookies, and suggests various ways of changing it. However, it is not a cookie problem, because not only does WebSpeedReader use the same cookies and settings as Internet Explorer, it stores them in the same place. Furthermore, you can find the Ebay cookie in the Cookies subfolder in Windows. This is a problem with Ebay's programming, which seems to be using programming that is conditional on the user agent string in trying to retrieve the cookie, even though getting and setting cookies is standardized (See the HTTP State Management Mechanism specification at http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2109/rfc2109), and thus, does not require consideration of the user agent. Nonetheless, this edition fixes that problem.

Add Sound for Queued Links for Windows 98 and ME Version - Minor Bug Fixes - August 8, 2004

Version 8.6.25 - In WebSpeedReader, when a user clicks a link that downloads right away, the user would hear the same sound that Internet Explorer makes when a link is clicked; however, if the link was queued, the user would hear nothing. This has been changed so that even if the clicked link is queued, the user will hear the usual sound to provide feedback that the click was successful.

A few minor bugs have been fixed in this edition.

Important Bug Fix - August 6, 2004

Version 8.6.21 - Under certain circumstances, selecting Add to Favorites would cause WebSpeedReader to crash. A few other minor bugs have been fixed in this edition as well.

New Add to Favorites Form with Unicode Support - Bug Fixes - August 4, 2004

Version 8.6.17 - The Add to Favorites form has been redone so that it looks better and fully supports Unicode. Numerous bugs have been fixed in this edition, including narrowing the initial width of the sidebar. The sidebar can be resized by clicking on it, then pressing Alt+Left Arrow to decrease the size and Alt+Right Arrow to increase it. Make sure that the mouse pointer stays inside the sidebar or it will lose focus. If that happens, just click on the sidebar again, and continue.

AutoComplete - Drop-Down List Now Shows all History for Current Session - July 30, 2004

Version 8.6 - The new address box is now fully Unicode-enabled, and comes with autocomplete. Type in any part of an URL, and the drop-down box will display all matches from your Favorites. Select any match to download in the current browser window. You can select an entry by clicking it, or by using the keyboard.

If there are no matches, just continue typing, and the window will disappear after there are no matches. You can also continue typing to reduce the number of matches for quicker access. To select a match, you can press Tab or ↓ to select the 1st entry. If there is only 1 entry, then WebSpeedReader will navigate to that URL right away. If there are more entries, you can continue to press either key to go down 1 line at a time. You can also press Page Up or Home to go to the 1st entry, or Page Down or End to go to the last entry. Press ↑ to move up 1 line at a time. Once the desired entry is highlighted, just press Enter, ←, or → to navigate to that page.

The autocomplete window will display a maximum of 25 entries to make it easier to choose. If there are more than 25 matches, then the autocomplete window will not be displayed until the number of matches <= 25.

You can set focus to the address box either by clicking it, or pressing Shift + Ins. You can clear the address box when it has focus by pressing F4.

History - The drop-down list, which can be displayed by clicking q right next to the address box will show all history entries from all windows. Remember also, that you can check all loaded windows in the sidebar, and you can get a more complete picture of all documents by displaying the WebSpeedReader Report.

Tip: Type that part of the URL that will yield the fewest matches for quicker choosing. If there is only 1 match, just press Tab to go to that page.

Contrast: You can also filter Favorites in the sidebar by typing in the Filter box above the sidebar with the F tab selected. The advantages to doing it this way, is that all matches will be displayed, clicking the links will download the URLs in the background, and you can click as many links as you like. The Favorites list will stay open until you replace it with something else. Also the typed characters are matched not only against the URL, but also against the title, document keywords, and document description. Because this takes increased processing power, the list will only be displayed after you press Enter.

Bug Fixes and Minor Enhancements - July 10, 2004

Version 8.5.12 - RSS, RDF, and OPML file are now saved to disk before being displayed, making it easy to go back. Also fixed a bug that prevented the download of more than 1 RSS, RDF, or OPML file per page. Sometimes, when displaying the History page, WebSpeedReader would lock up when it encountered illegal characters in text areas such as document descriptions and keywords. This has been fixed. The readability of the Help file has been improved, and numerous minor bugs have been fixed.

Bug Fixes - June 28, 2004

Version 8.5.8 - Fixed a few bugs regarding the display of RSS and OPML files. Also added highlighting for most of the toolbar buttons.

Form Tools - June 23, 2004

Version 8.5

There are 3 new toolbar buttons at the top concerning forms: The 1st button—0 | Ctrl + 0—resets all of the forms on the current document. The 2nd button—- | Ctrl + -— saves the form data to a database. This data is NOT ENCRYPTED presently! So don't save any confidential information if security is a concern! Thus, you can fill out the information that you want to save, then save the data, then fill out any more fields that you didn't want saved, or that changes with each submission. The 3rd button—= | Ctrl + =—will fill any form field that it recognizes. It works by first comparing the document's URL with any in its database. If it recognizes any fields associated with the current URL, it fills it in with that information. If the URL is new, then it will search its records for any form field name that it has stored previously. It will fill any fields where it can find a match. If it happens to fill in a field with the wrong information, then you can double-click it to clear it and set focus to it to enter what you want. The advantage of associating the URL with the form data is not only better accuracy, but also allows you to use aliases on different sites, which some people do to protect their privacy. As you use it more, it should become more accurate, even on new sites. This will continually be improved, so look for updates.

Tip: Remember, you can also log onto any password-protected site or submit a form without even going to the page with 1 click, if you saved it previously as a Favorite. You can also fill any form field with a context menu of any information that you desire. And you can clear any form field and set focus to it by double-clicking it. Read the Help for more details.

There have been  many minor improvements and bug fixes to this edition.

Minor Enhancements - June 8, 2004

Version 8.4.37

Added the Internet Movie Database, both to the main search page and as an address bar search. To download search results in the current window, for instance, type in the address box "i Dodgeball"; to download in the background: "i/Dodgeball".

It is now easier to copy any note to a form field. Just select the note, click the Copy Note to Clipboard tab, and then right-click the form field where you want to paste the note, and select Paste from the context menu.

Search from the Address Box - Minor Enhancements - June 8, 2004

Version 8.4.33

Search from the address bar - You can now search using the address box any of 16 search engines. You can also choose to download the search results in the current window or in a background window. Each search engine is designated by the 1st character (case insensitive) in the address box. You can follow that character by either a space or by the forward slash (/), and then your search terms. If you use the space, the download will occur in the current window; if you use /, then the search results will be loaded in a background page.

Example: to search Amazon's A9 for "business", type "9 business", then press Enter, to download in the current window, or "9/business" to download in the background. Downloading in the background is beneficial when you want to keep reading the current document, or you want to search more than once.

These are the current search engines:

Right-click a link to download in the current window - WebSpeedReader downloads clicked links in the background, so that you can continue reading. You can right-click the link to download in the current window. Read the Help for many more options.

A few minor bugs have been fixed in this release.

Increased Font Size for the Sidebar - Help Enhancements - June 8, 2004

Version 8.4.29

The font size for the sidebar has been increased to 10 points, making it more readable, which keeping it small enough to display a lot of information. The Help file has also been enhanced.

Use the Mouse Wheel to change Font and Image Sizes - Important Bug Fix - June 7, 2004

Version 8.4.25

Bugs:

• There was a serious bug that caused WebSpeedReader to crash when a document in a frame was clicked. Download this new version to correct this.
• The Navigation - Next Window function was not working correctly. When selecting Next, it sometimes didn't go anywhere at all, or selected the wrong document.

Enhancements:

• The mouse wheel can now be used to change font and image sizes. Press Ctrl while turning the wheel toward you to increase sizes. Each notch of the wheel increases the size by 5%. Turn it away to decrease sizes by 5% for each notch. Press Ctrl + click the mouse wheel to return the document to normal size.

Complete Description of IE's Context Menus in Help - Important Bug Fix - June 4, 2004

Version 8.4.19

If WebSpeedReader downloads a page in the background that has script that sets focus to one of its elements, it can cause WebSpeedReader to lock up. Download this version to fix this. Also, sometimes the status bar was not displaying the correct window number or total number of windows. Both of these problems have been fixed.

Enhancements:

• WebSpeedReader has different functions for the mouse to make browsing easier and faster. However, it can also display IE's context menus, if the user presses Ctrl + right-clicking on the document, picture, or selection. These options including being able to save or email pictures, copy HTML to the clipboard, and numerous other functions. Read the complete details in the Help file.

Full-screen Mode for Note Editing, Page Setup, Print Preview, and Printing - June 2, 2004

Version 8.4.13

New Feature and Enhancements:

• By clicking on the Full-Screen mode tab for notes, you can edit the note using the entire viewing area of your monitor. You can also set up the page for printing, print preview, or print the note.
• Keyboard short-cuts have been added. First, to use the short-cuts, you no longer have to toggle the

  Navigation } Previous Window	t	Z	< ,	Shift + F12
  Navigation } Next Window	u	X	> .	F12	Ÿ Del

   Scroll Lock key on. If you are editing a document or form, the keys will work as usual. When browsing, then certain keys will have a special function to make browsing much easier. The new short-cuts are for moving to the next or previous windows. These have been added for notebook users, who may not have a numeric keypad. Note that, because the X key is now being used to move to the next document, you can no longer close windows by holding down the X key while clicking on them. You can still close all read windows or all windows except current from the context menu on the Windows section of the sidebar.

Mnemonic: Next Window is a frequent command, so there are several keys that select it. The X and . have been selected because they are close to the space bar. Thus, you can easily page down with the space bar and select next by pressing the X or the . , depending on whether you want to use your left or right hand. This feature is particularly useful if you are using a notebook computer without a numeric keypad. Naturally, the keys to go to the previous window are to the left of the Next Window keys. If you have a numeric keypad, you will probably find it most convenient to use the 0 to page down and the . to move to the next document.

If you have a lot of documents downloading in the background, the space bar sometimes doesn't page down—click the document to regain focus, or just press the Space Bar again.

Bug Fixes:

• Sometimes WebSpeedReader would display a blank page if an XML file was downloaded that wasn't an RSS or RDF file, such as some pages at microsoft.com.
• There was a bug where printing a note truncated lines that were wider than the printing page. This has not only been fixed, but greatly enhanced.

Quick Folders - May 26, 2004

Version 8.4

Quick Folders are your favorite folders that can be displayed in the sidebar by clicking the

tab on the toolbar above the address box. Clicking on any folder downloads all links in that folder. You can designate any folder in your Favorites as a Quick Folder. Adding and removing links is the same as you would add and remove links in any folder in the Favorites form. You can also quickly add any current page to a Quick Folder by right-clicking the folder and selecting Add Current Page to this Quick Folder. You can also remove a folder from the Quick Folder list using the same context menu. Click here to see the Quick Folders entry in the online Help file for more information.

Enhancements:

• Toolbar Search Box - the search box at the top of the sidebar can be used for looking up information from various sources. You can now change sources simply by double-clicking the textbox to clear it and give it focus, then typing the letter of the corresponding tab, followed by space, then followed by your lookup terms. Press Enter to submit your search. If you want to use the same source, then just type in your terms, and press Enter. Click here to see the entry in the online Help for more information.
• Notes textbox has been doubled in size.

Bug Fixes:

• RSS - RSS files that are generated by a CGI program and don't have the proper file extensions were not being displayed as HTML, such as these files at Yahoo's RSS Feeds.

Version 8.3.31

Enhancements:

• Selecting 4 on the numeric keypad if Scroll Lock is on will keep the current document in memory and move to the next document. This is another way to select Keep in Memory, which prevents a document from being replaced.
• Sidebar now shows all documents that will not be replaced by subsequent downloads as bold (Keep in Memory). Documents that have been selected for higher priority in reading sequence will have a white background instead of a light yellow.

Bug Fixes:

• Load Past Session and Continue Past Session were not working.
• Status bar was not showing the correct window number or total number of windows.
• Numerous other minor bugs were fixed.

Quick Links Sorted with most Frequently Clicked Links at Top - Bug Fixes - May 19, 2004

Version 8.3.21

Enhancements:

• Quick Links, when displayed in the sidebar, is now arranged by number of visits. Links with the most visits are at the top, making them easier to find. If there are Quick Links that you are not actually using, they will be at the bottom. You can remove them from the Quick Links list by right-clicking the link, and selecting Remove from Quick Links.

Bug Fixes:

• When right-clicking a password textbox or a textarea, choosing text to insert from the context menu failed.
• If a user modified the computer's HOSTS file to block ads, or installed ad-blocking software, this could cause WebSpeedReader to download multiple pages in the same window, even before they are read. It also prevented more pages from being downloaded until the user moved to the next document.
• In some framed documents, the focus was not properly set on the largest frame when the page is first displayed.
• If the DOWN arrow was pressed, it would sometimes cause the focus to shift to the address box.

May 16, 2004

Version 8.3.17

To conserve memory, WebSpeedReader re-uses windows to download more documents as they are read. To prevent a page from being replaced, you could toggle Keep in Memory for a particular window, but oftentimes a user would forget to do this. The Keep in Memory toggle now not only toggles the Keep in Memory property, but it also displays the next document, thereby eliminating an extra move. Therefore, the user can use this to move to the next document and preserve the page that was just read. Accordingly, you should not select this feature until you are done with the page for the moment. There are several other possibilities for preventing a page from being replaced as well. Read the Help file for more details.

A few minor bugs have been fixed in this release.

May 13, 2004

Version 8.3.11

Enhancements:

• Notes - New tab to copy note to clipboard.

  The toolbar buttons Edit and Delete this Favorite have been added to the top toolbar. If the page that you are currently viewing is a Favorite then you can edit or delete the Favorite right away by clicking on the appropriate button. Clicking the Delete tab will delete the Favorite and move to the next document, although the deleted Favorite document will still remain in memory. (Important Note: these toolbar buttons will NOT BE VISIBLE unless the current page was a Favorite that you clicked on. This includes anything from the Quick Links or Scheduled Links sidebar.)

• Tip: an easy way to get rid of Favorites that you never use is to View Favorites, then click a folder to download all Favorites in that folder, or Ctrl + click a folder to download all Favorites in that folder and all subfolders. Then view each page in WebSpeedReader. If you want to keep the Favorite, just select the next document. If you don't want it, simply Delete the Favorite by clicking on the toolbar button, and this will move you to the next document automatically. You can continue to do this until you have reviewed all of the Favorites that you downloaded. You can also edit any Favorite to add notes or to change the title, description, keywords, or anything else.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug that didn't display RSS files if the files were generated by CGI or ASP programs.

May 9, 2004

OPML Files - Version 8.3.7

In addition to RSS files, WebSpeedReader can now display OPML files, which are XML files frequently used as a data source of links to RSS files and to corresponding HTML pages. Check out these 2 samples: http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/ziffdavis.opml and http://www.blawg.org/newsfeeds/categories/ip.opml. If you download these files in Internet Explorer, they will simply be displayed as XML files. If you download them in WebSpeedReader, the XML will be rendered as HTML, allowing you to easily read the file, and click any links that interest you.

May 7, 2004

Full Screen Mode - Version 8.3.4

Full screen mode hides all toolbars, the status bar, and the sidebar for a bigger viewing area. Only the menu is visible. Press F11 to toggle full screen mode on and off, just as in Internet Explorer. You can also hide or show the sidebar independently of full screen mode by pressing Ctrl+F11. The following keyboard shortcuts have been changed: Previous Document - F7; Next Document - F8; Search Page: F9; Load in Internet Explorer: F12.

May 6, 2004

WebSpeedReader can now read RSS files! - Version 8.3.2

WebSpeedReader can now read RSS files! These files are XML files that can be downloaded and read just like any other web page. Most users reading these files use special RSS readers to download and display the XML file as a web page. WebSpeedReader can now do this natively! Furthermore, RSS feeds as they are sometimes called, can be scheduled or added to Favorites just like any other web page; or store them in a folder and download them as a group by clicking on the folder in Favorites. The main advantages to the RSS files is that, being only text, they download much faster, and because the fonts are not specified in pixels, as many web documents are, the RSS pages are much more readable. Each entry includes a title, the URL, and a description. If you want to read the article, just click on the title or URL, and it will download in the background, as most clicked links do in WebSpeedReader. So if you see a XML link (frequently denoted by this image:) that you want to read, just click on it, and read it like any other page on the Internet. Load this page, http://www.extremetech.com/article2/1,3973,869830,00.asp into WebSpeedReader, and click on the various links that you see on the page. Read the articles that explain RSS and its history. Be amazed at how much faster the XML pages download than the corresponding home pages of the sites! And when you download these pages, click the § tab in WebSpeedReader to display the headings in the sidebar. Click on any heading to go that entry immediately.

April 20, 2004

Important Bug Notice for Outlook 2000 and WebSpeedReader - Print Notes - Minor Enhancements  - More Reliable Scrolling - Version 8.2.110

If you have Outlook 2000, and updated it with Service Pack 3 from Microsoft, you need to patch it with this fix from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811167. Without this patch, when Outlook displays reminders, it starts to consume 100% of the CPU, causing other applications to freeze, including WebSpeedReader.

A few minor enhancements have been made to notes. You can now print notes. Also, the cursor is moved to the end of the note when copying text to it, or adding the date, title, or URL, and the appended text is scrolled into view.

Scrolling is more reliable, particularly using the spacebar to scroll down. When large numbers of pages are downloading simultaneously, the keystrokes would often go to a hidden window instead of the active window. This has been fixed.

The help files have been improved, and a bug that displayed the history menu even after another document has been loaded in the current window has also been fixed.

April 7, 2004

Bug Fixes and Enhancements  - Version 8.2.58

A tab has been added to the notes tools to add a line feed. Thus, you can click a tab to insert the current date, title or URL of the current document, or a line feed, to start a new line simply by clicking on the appropriate tabs. You can select text in the current document, and append it to the current note by right-clicking the selection for the context menu and selecting  } Append Text to Current Note  from the menu.

Numerous bugs have been fixed in this edition, and the user interface has been made more intuitive. The document can now be scrolled down more reliably by pressing the space bar        .

April 4, 2004

Bug Fixes and Enhancements  - Version 8.2.24

The most serious bug that has been fixed caused a textbox to lose focus when it is clicked. This prevented the user from entering any text unless the user tabbed to the textbox. Other fixes:

• The current note wasn't saved when a user clicked a new note. The current note is now saved automatically when a new note is selected.
• When a link is clicked, the link's URL, if it is not queued, now appears in the sidebar immediately instead of when it actually starts downloading.
• All form submissions that are POST transactions are now downloaded in the same window as the form. This is to prevent occasional errors that arise when the form results are downloaded in a different window from the form. POST transactions are form submissions where the form variables are uploaded in the document; in contrast to a GET transaction, where the form variables are appended to the URL, after a ? mark. POST transactions can still be downloaded in a background window by pressing the Shift key while submitting the form.
• When accessing http://office.microsoft.com/, Microsoft's website would report, in ugly red text, that the site is best viewed by Internet Explorer and Netscape. WebSpeedReader uses Internet Explorer as its rendering engine, and thus, will render any page exactly as Internet Explorer does. This has been fixed so that Microsoft's website will detect Internet Explorer.
• Numerous mistakes in the help file have been fixed.

March 31, 2004

Notes - Serious Bug Fix  - Version 8.2.12

You can now write notes and copy text from a web page to a note. The notes area display at the top of the sidebar. Click on the notes tab ¯ on the 2nd toolbar. There are numerous tabs below the textarea that do the following:

¦	Append current date to note.
T	Append title of current document.
U	Append URL of current document.
¥	New note. Save the current note, if any.
r	Delete note.
56	Hide or show note links.

Below these tabs are the links to any note that you have saved previously. Click on the link to display the note. Right-click any note, and select Delete to delete the note. You can select text on the current web pages, right-click on the document for the context menu, and select Copy text to current note. You can do this even if the notes area is not displayed! Read the help for more information about this new feature.

Serious Bug Fix: A serious bug caused WebSpeedReader to crash when the user tried to change the size of the sidebar. In addition to numerous minor bug fixes, this has been fixed.

March 24, 2004

Serious Bug Fix  - Version 8.1.32

Version 8.1.26 had a serious bug that prevented navigation in click links in framed documents, which this version fixes.

March 22, 2004

New Mouse Commands - Better Help - Toolbar Display Fix  - Version 8.1.26

Some new mouse commands have been added to WebSpeedReader. Hold down the right-mouse button and (1) rotate the mouse wheel to scroll a few lines at a time, instead of a page at a time; (2) click the document to go to the top of the document; (3) double-click the document to go to the end instantly. Thus, using only the mouse, you scroll up or down a page at a time; a few lines at a time; go to the top of the document instantly; or go to the end of the document. You can also just right-click the document to go to the next document. See the new, improved Help for more options for both scrolling and for mouse commands.

The Help files have been greatly improved and made more readable.

The 2nd toolbar at the top of WebSpeedReader was scrunched in low-resolution monitors. This has been fixed.

March 12, 2004

More References - Headings Displayed in Outline Form - Sidebar Bug Fixes  - Version 8.1.6

On the new 2nd toolbar, you can now search specific references by entering search terms in the textbox, and clicking the appropriate following tabs:

• D - Define the word or phrase.

• T - Look up synonyms and antonyms in the thesaurus.

• M - Look it up in the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia.

• C - Look it up in the Columbia Encyclopedia.

These tabs are directly to the right of the tabs for searching and highlighting. You can use more than 1 reference at a time for the same terms. Just click the tabs for the information that you want. Each page will download in the background. If you use the same reference for more than 1 word or phrase, then you can just press Enter after typing in the search terms to submit that search.

The textbox can be quickly cleared, either by double-clicking in it, or, if the textbox has focus, by pressing Esc.

Headings Displayed in Outline Form - WebSpeedReader can display in its sidebar the headings of any current document. Just click the § tab to display the headings. It can now display these headings in outline mode, where H2 - H6 headings are displayed with increasing indentations. H1 headings are not indented at all. You can see an example of this simply by pressing F1 to load the Quick Help. As before, you can click any heading to go to that heading in the document instantly. As the current document changes, any headings will be displayed in the sidebar until you click another tab. Clicking the W tab, for instance, will close the headings tab, and just display all the open windows.

Note: many documents on the web don't have any headings, so the Headings block may not show anything for the document. The Headings sidebar is best for long documents that have actual headings.

A few bugs related to the sidebar and the tabs have been fixed. There was also a minor change. The tab for highlighting terms has been changed to U, for underscore, since H is being used for History. The highlighting still works the same way. The H tab will filter the history list, restricting the list to any entry that has the characters in the textbox in the title, URL, description, or keywords. If history is being displayed, then it will display the list in the main document, but if history isn't being displayed, then the list will be displayed in the sidebar. If history is not being maintained, then nothing will be displayed in either View - View History or trying to filter the history list, since there will be no list.

March 10, 2004

New Second Toolbar - More Room to Display Info in Sidebar - Version 8.1

A new toolbar has been added below the main one, which has mostly links dealing with the sidebar. The tabs that were at the top of the sidebar have been moved to the second toolbar. There is now only 1 textbox, on the left side of the toolbar, that is used to do searches, highlight terms in documents, and to filter the Favorites or History list. Enter some terms or characters in the textbox, then select the appropriate tab to the right. Just hover the mouse over any tab to the get a tooltip. Read the Quick Help for more complete information. Moving the textbox and tabs to a new toolbar at the top makes more room in the sidebar to display information, and if you have to scroll down in the sidebar, the new toolbar remains visible.

February 29, 2004

New Context Menu - Bug Fixes - Version 8.0.46

A new context menu has been provided. By selecting text in a document, then right-clicking the document, or by pressing Ctrl + right-clicking a word (no need to select first in this case), brings up the following context menu:

• Open URL - Select an URL that you see in a document, then select this option to load it in the background.
• Highlight Selection - Highlights the selection on the current document and all subsequent documents that are read until the user clicks the H in the sidebar.
• View Source - this is a quick way to view the source of a selection, but it does not include attributes set by stylesheets.
• Google Search
• Vivisimo Search
• Define - Defines the word or phrase.
• Encyclopedia - Looks up the word or phrase in Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia. Not all of the articles are available free, but most of the major articles are.
• Columbia Encyclopedia - this is a more concise encyclopedia, but all of the articles are available free of change.

One excellent advantage of using WebSpeedReader with these sources, is that you will see many cross references. You can click as many as you like, as you read. WebSpeedReader will download them in the background while you continue reading.

Bug Fixes and Changes

• The context menu for links has been eliminated. The menu items are still available from the top menu, under OpenLinks. This was done so that the user can right-click most anywhere on the document to move to the next document.
• The Show Questionable Links for the Link Checker was not working right.
   

February 29, 2004

Window Management Enhancement - Bug Fixes - Version 8.0.38

Right-clicking one of the window captions in the sidebar will bring up a context menu with the following menu items, that are mostly self-explanatory:

• Close This Window
• Keep This Window - this option prevents the document in the window from being replaced with another document unless the link was clicked in that window. This is a toggle, so if you click it once, it's on, if you click it again, it's off. If the window caption in the sidebar is underlined, then it is on; otherwise it is off.
• Close All Read Windows
• Close All Windows Except Current
• Stop All Downloading - you might want to use this option if you selected too many links to download.
• Cancel All Queued Links - what WebSpeedReader doesn't download right away, it queues. Selecting this option empties the queue.

The last 4 menu items can also be selected by clicking the appropriate menu item in Navigation - Windows Management.

Note: although you have several options to close windows, you don't have to, and in most cases, shouldn't. Unlike tabbed browsers, WebSpeedReader re-uses those windows, replacing read documents with new ones when you move to a new window, thereby eliminating the need to close windows.

The following bugs have been fixed.

• Press Esc while the Favorites filter box had the focus cleared the search box; it now clears the filter box. Pressing Esc while the search box has the focus clears the search box. Tip: you can also clear either box by double-clicking the text box.
• Shift + clicking a link wasn't setting it as the next document, and some links were displayed before they were fully downloaded, even when they were not selected as next.
• Sometimes, more than 1 folder with the same keywords would appear in the Favorites View.
• The History document is displayed much faster.

February 27, 2004

New Context Menu for Easier Highlighting and Searching - Minor Bug Fixes - Version 8.0.34

A new context menu has been added. Select text in a document and right-click for the context menu, which consists of the following menu items: Open URL, Highlight Selection, Google Search, and Vivisimo Search. If the selected text is an URL, then select Open URL to open that URL in the background. You can also search the selection with Google or Vivisimo, or you can highlight the selected text in the current document and subsequent documents until you turn it off by clicking on the H tab in the sidebar. A few minor bug fixes have also been included in this release.

February 23, 2004

Bug Fixes - Version 8.0.30

• This edition fixes a bug that was causing multiple downloads of the same page when downloading scheduled links or multiple links at the same time.
• Another occasional problem that has been fixed is that some clicked links were not downloading.
• This version also helps to prevent loss of focus that sometimes occurred with background operations.
• A few minor bugs relating to the display of all open windows and history have also been fixed.

February 18, 2004

Minor Enhancements - Version 8.0.12

The history page now has better headings, and if you hide or show descriptions and keywords, then that setting will remain in effect even if you change the sort. WebSpeedReader now prevents the loading of the same URLs. Sometimes, when selecting Open All Links, Image Links, Internal Links, External Links, or Selected Links, there will be more than 1 link pointing to the same page, and thus, that page will be loaded multiple times. This is now prevented.

You can now access the OpenLinks menu by right-clicking on any hyperlink in the main document. You can click on the desired menu item, or just keep the right-mouse button depressed, highlight the item you want, then release the button.

February 16, 2004

Major History Enhancement - Version 8.0

History has been greatly improved, and also uses a new file format, so when you download the new version, a new history will be started anew. You can prevent WebSpeedReader from saving any history by unchecking Maintain History of Visited Websites in the WebSpeedReader Options dialog box. If history is enabled, which it is by default, then WebSpeedReader will store the date, title, URL, number of visits, and if available in the document, the description and keywords. View history by selecting View - History from the menu. A new history menu will be displayed in the sidebar that will allow you to hide or show descriptions and keywords, sort by date, domain, title, or number of visits, and the list can be filtered by entering characters in the history filter box in the sidebar, then pressing Enter. Thus, to show only those history links that have the word health in the title, URL, description, or keywords, just enter that word in the history filter box and press Enter. To re-display all history links, just select Show All History Links in the sidebar. Furthermore, when you select sort by date or domain, the dates or domains appear in the sidebar. Just click on a date or domain in the sidebar to go to that section of the main history document. Dates or number of visits is sorted in descending order, with the most recent date or largest number of visits at the top of the document. If you hide descriptions and keywords for a more compact view, then you can click Show Description and Keywords in each history entry that has this information to see the information for that particular link. When you move to the next window, the history sidebar will be replaced by the open window links.

February 13, 2004

Minor Enhancement, Bug Fixes - Version 7.9.28

The minor enhancement is that WebSpeedReader now uses a new history format. Consequently, when you download the new version, the history information will be richer, including keywords and description, but your history will restart from the day that you install the upgrade. Also, there was a bug in the history filter in the sidebar that didn't include the first 2 characters in the filter. The filter has been enhanced to search for all typed characters not only in the title and URL, but also the document description and keywords, if the document had them. Many don't, but this upgrade makes the filter far more useful. Another bug was caused by the closing of windows. The status bar sometimes did not reflect the actual number of windows or the current window correctly. Also, new windows sometimes popped up to replace the ones that were closed, which also occasionally created duplicates. This has been fixed, but remember, you do not have to close any windows because WebSpeedReader re-uses the windows for new documents, unless you select Keep in Memory for individual windows, although you can close windows if you want to.

Paging with the mousewheel - scrolling with the mousewheel often didn't work properly. This has now been fixed.

February 6, 2004

Minor Enhancements, Bug Fixes - Version 7.9.22

A few minor enhancements have been added in this addition, including slightly faster link checking, and a Windows sound signifies when the link checking is done. However, the focus to window was eliminated, and a bug was fixed for flashing the window after the link checking was done. Also, whenever focus was given to the search textbox at the top of the sidebar, it was cleared. This has been eliminated to enable easier editing, and to easily submit a search, then clicking the H tab to highlight the search terms. To quickly clear either textbox on the sidebar, just press the Esc key. A bug—pressing the X key cleared the document—has been fixed.

February 2, 2004

Sidebar Redone - Bug Fixes - Version 7.9.2

The sidebar has now been redone to make it easier to use. At the top of the bar is the search box, but with 3 tabs beneath it. The G tab submits your searches to Google; the V tab submits your searches to Vivisimo. Any new terms can be submitted to the same search engine by pressing Enter. The 3rd tab is the H tab. Click on this to highlight any terms on any documents loaded in WebSpeedReader. The terms will continue to be highlighted until you click this tab again to toggle it off. Thus, you can enter some search terms, submit to Google or Vivisimo, then click the H tab to highlight the terms on any and all documents, including frames. Very convenient! You can highlight multiple terms at 1 time by separating the terms with the backquote key (see the entry directly below for more details). However, the dialog box for highlighting has been eliminated, since using the sidebar will be much easier and quicker.

There are now more tabs beneath the filter box. The Links bar is now displayed the clicking the L tab. Open windows are displayed by clicking on the W tab. The S tab shows all scheduled links. The F tab and H tab use the filter box to display links from your Favorites or from History. The F tab will display any links that have the typed characters in the keywords, title, or URL. The H tab displays any history links that have the typed characters in the title or URL. Note that the history filter will not display anything if you are not maintaining history. Also, nothing will show in either tab if there are no matches.

The function of the tabs will be easy to remember since the letter on the tab is related to its function. You can also hove the mouse over any tab for a tooltip.

There have been a few minor bug fixes with this version, the most notable is that terms can be highlighted in any frame as well.

January 31, 2004

Highlight multiple terms in documents - Version 7.9

Highlight search terms - (Important Note: a few details have been changed, so this entry has been modified to reflect those changes.) You can enter multiple terms that are highlighted separately by separately the terms or phrases with the backquote character ` . This is the unshifted tilde key located next to the 1 key on the top row of most keyboards. The backquote key was chosen as a separator because it is rarely used in text. Click the H tab to highlight the text; click it again to stop highlighting. The text will be highlighted for any active window, and for any downloaded documents in the active window (after the document has downloaded completely). Thus, to search for 2 presidents, you would enter in the search box at the top of the sidebar "George Washington`Abraham Lincoln" without the quotes. The current document, if it contained only 1 sentence would look like this: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are two of the greatest presidents of the United States. Note that case is unimportant; so you could have entered "george washington`abraham lincoln" to get the same highlighting even though in the text the terms are capitalized.

Note: This feature takes some processing power, so if you are highlighting many terms in a long document, or very common terms, it could take several seconds or more to see the effect. So when you are done with highlighting, be sure to turn it off by clicking the H tab again. If you want to highlight new terms, click the H tab to turn it off, enter new terms in the search box, then click the H tab again to highlight the new terms.

January 27, 2004

Important Bug Fix - Version 7.8.120

A serious bug was crashing WebSpeedReader at various times. This has been fixed. Please download this new version. I apologize for any inconvenience.

January 27, 2004

Link Checker Improved - View All Links that point to files on your computer - Bug Fixes - Version 7.8.118

The link checker has been improved. Any links that have a description, document keywords, or notes, will display that information in the link check, thereby allowing you to make a better decision as to whether to keep the link or not. It will also check all local links, links that point to files on your computer. If the file does not exist, then the link is automatically deleted. All local links automatically deleted will be listed at the end of the Check Links document. Also, any Favorites that does not have an URL will be deleted automatically. These will not be listed, since often, they are simply empty records.

View, Organize Local Files - In viewing Favorites or organizing Favorites, you can select all local links—links that point to files on your computer—by right-clicking on the background of the Favorites list, and selecting Show Local Links to Files on your Computer from the context menu. This will display only links to files on your computer.

This edition has minor bug fixes and improved error handling.

January 21, 2004

Main Help Updated, Bug Fixes - Version 7.8.88

The main WebSpeedReader help has been upgraded to make it more readable, and to reflect recent changes made to the program itself. There was a bug that sometimes prevented a user from scrolling a window unless they scrolled the document by using the scrollbar. Sometimes the document wouldn't scroll even after clicking on it to give it focus. None of the scrolling keys works; only the scrollbar. This has been fixed.

January 19, 2004

Enhancements, Bug Fixes - Version 7.8.70

Enhancements:

1. Delete file from hard disk (File - Delete this File; Ctrl+D) - If you are viewing a file from your computer in WebSpeedReader, you can select this option to delete the file. A good way to manage your HTML files on your computer is clicking on them in Windows Explorer; if you selected WebSpeedReader as your default browser, then each file clicked will be loaded into WebSpeedReader. You can then switch to WebSpeedReader, look at each file, and if it is something you don't want, just delete it directly in WebSpeedReader.
2. New Window - To conserve memory, WebSpeedReader re-uses windows that contain documents that have already been read. However, if you press Alt+click a link, that link will force the creation of a new window. Doing this will prevent WebSpeedReader from re-using any windows.

Bugs:

1. Right-clicking a form textbox presented a menu of items that you can insert by selecting it. These items are created by entering the items as lines in the Form Data textbox (Edit - Edit Form Data). However, selecting the 1st item didn't enter it in the form textbox. This has been fixed, and now the 1st item is Edit Form Data so that you can quickly add or delete items from the context menu.
2. Pressing Shift while WebSpeedReader starts up causes it to load a blank page instead of downloading home pages. The key to do this has been changed from Ctrl to Shift to keep it to a Windows standard. For instance, loading a CD while pressing the Shift key prevents the CD from running automatically.