Dipl.-Ing. Martin Haller Software-Engineering & EDV-Beratung

Version 1.2.0 - 05 Mär 2018

• Additional Functionality:

  • General: Apart from 'Internet Explorer' and 'Mozilla Firefox', now the following browsers are support with add-ons:
    Firefox ESR, Pale Moon, Basilisk, Waterfox, Chromium, Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Iron.
  • Firefox-Add-on (Fx): Modifications for browser 'Pale Moon' added.
  • Firefox-Add-on (WE): New implementation with WebExtension API.
  • Chromium-Add-on (CR): New implementation with WebExtension API (usable for all Chromium-based browsers).

• Program Modifications:

  • HM WebCopy: Internet Explorer 10 and 11 compatibility implemented and tested.
  • HM WebCopy: Windows 7/8.x/10 compatibility implemented and tested.
  • HM WebCopy: Improved presentation on high resolution displays (DPI aware).
  • HM WebCopy: Default for 'Formatting' in options changed to 'Minimal'.
  • HM WebCopy: New Homepage and email forwarding addresses.
  • Firefox add-on (Fx): The add-on's ID changed to '{3D72687C-60F7-4F01-BA29-B80A1FA3C97D}'.
  • Setup: Detection of installed browsers improved and extended.
  • All modules: Minor tweaks.

• Bug fixes:

  • HM WebCopy: HM WebCopy: In rare cases syntactically wrong URLs were generated.
  • HM WebCopy: Launching the browser failed in Windows 7 and later (elevation problem).
  • Setup: Wrong global Firefox add-on folder fixed.

Version 1.1.2 - 21 Sep 2011

• Program Modifications:

  • HM WebCopy: Internet Explorer 9 compatibility implemented and tested.
  • HM WebCopy: New homepage and email forwarding addresses.
  • HM WebCopy: Some minor source code optimizations.
  • HM WebCopy: Now the GUI language can be changed at runtime without a restart of the program.
  • Firefox browser extension: New homepage and email forwarding addresses as well as a new link for the automatic update feature of the browser extension (add-on).
  • The ID of the Firefox browser extension adjusted to the new homepage address.
  • Firefox browser extension: Firefox 5.0 and 6.0 compatibility implemented and tested.
  • Firefox browser extension: The Firefox extension ID changed to '{3D72687C-60F7-4F01-BA29-B80A1FA3C97D}'.

• Bug fixes:

  • Firefox browser extension: The error in the hyperlinks of the "About" dialog is fixed.

• Miscellaneous:

  • Hence, the installer package and the application are digitally signed.

Version 1.1.1.1 - 06 Feb 2011

• Program version 1.1.1.1 is a bug fix release concerning the Firefox extension only. The version of the HM WebCopy program itself remains unchanged 1.1.1.

• Program Modifications:

  • HM WebCopy: Windows 7 compatibility tested.
  • HM WebCopy: Help themes concerning the Firefox browser extension updated.
  • Firefox browser extension: Firefox 4.0 compatibility implemented and tested.
  • Firefox browser extension: The Firefox browser extension is no longer installed system-wide but user-own now.
  • Firefox browser extension: The installation kit file HMWCFX.XPI is now saved again into the target folder of the application (for simply manual installation).

• Bug fixes:

  • Firefox browser extension: A minor bug relating to filenames containing non ASCII characters is fixed. The effect of this bug was the displaying of a garbled HTML end tag in the copied HTML document.

Version 1.1.1 - 28 Apr 2009

• Program version 1.1.1 is a bug fix release which mainly fixes several errors and additionally contains some few minor program modifications. The most important modifications and bug fixes are listed below.

• Program Modifications:

  • HM WebCopy: Windows Vista compatibility implemented and tested.
  • HM WebCopy: Additional program shortcut 'License Activation' added to the HM WebCopy program group. Use this program to activate quickly and easily your end user license.
  • The graphical user interface is multi-lingual now. The desired language can be set on the program's 'Options' dialog (Tab 'Others').
  • HM WebCopy: Help themes updated.
  • HM WebCopy Installer: New 'Update' installation type added.

• Bug fixes:

  • HM WebCopy: Frequently occured error message "unknown protocol" when saving the selected HTML area of a webpage is fixed.
  • Internet Explorer browser extension: Internet Explorer 8 compatibility implemented and tested.
  • Internet Explorer browser extension: Window handling with all IE versions improved and several minor program optimizations implemented.
  • Firefox browser extension: Firefox 3.x compatibility implemented and tested.
  • Firefox browser extension: The invalid URL for the automatic update function of the browser extension fixed.
  • Firefox browser extension: The Firefox extension ID '{3EACDFF9-9C25-4503-A42B-F13E4E5D237A}' changed to 'hmwebcopyfx@hmse.dyn24.net'.
  • Firefox browser extension: Error concerning Unicode encoded webpages fixed (the HTML text saved by HM WebCopy contained mistakenly a garbled closing html tag at the end).
  • Firefox browser extension: The usage of user pref "hmwcfx.hmwcAppPath" has been removed. The application path is now read directly from the Windows registry. As there are no user prefs anymore, the Options dialog has been removed.
  • Firefox browser extension: The installation kit file HMWCFX.XPI is no longer saved into the target folder of the application (was unnecessary).

Version 1.1 - 27 Jan 2008

• Additional Functionality:

  • The HM WebCopy menu item integrated in the browser's context menu now provides addionally the new function 'Remove selection' which you can use to remove unwanted banner ads, images and text passages, included within the text area you want to save, before you are selecting this text area.

• Improved User Interface:

  • The main window of HM WebCopy now contains an additional button 'About' to make it easier to open the dialog window with the program and license information.

Version 1.0 - 15 Apr 2007

• This version ist the first published version.
  Therefore, there is no previous version history.