DEVONagent Pro
Your Personal Search Assistant
Only for Mac
USD 59.99
DEVONagent Pro helps you search more efficiently on the web. It searches multiple sources, frees you from hunting for the really relevant results, and gives you power tools for your research.
YOUR PERSONAL META SEARCH ENGINE
DEVONagent Pro is not a simple web search engine interface. It knows how to talk to search engines — and how to squeeze the best out of them.
DEVONagent connects to as many search engines as you want, collects the data, and weeds out the junk that managed to slip through. It also scans your favorite websites and notifies you when it finds something that matches your query. It can even do all of this while you're sleeping; the results will be ready before you pour your first cup of coffee.
GET THE GOOD STUFF, SKIP THE JUNK
DEVONagent Pro is all about filtering what you don't want and giving you the best tools to find more of what you really want.
DEVONagent Pro doesn't simply trust the search engines. It filters all returned results again, allowing you to use advanced Boolean operators, proximity operators, and wildcards of unlimited complexity — something no single search engine allows you to do. DEVONagent's "scanners" can even find e.g. thumbnail galleries or linked PDF or Office documents for you. When you've found what you're looking but want a little more detail, the unique See Also list contains related pages from elsewhere in the search results, online and even from DEVONthink Pro.
THE INFORMATION YOU WANT, THE WAY YOU WANT
View the results as a list or as a smart text summary, and explore them with the topics map. Unread results are marked with a blue dot so that you don't miss the one important piece of information you're looking for. Finally, for viewing web pages there's DEVONagent Pro's specialized web browser. Extract images, RSS feeds, links, email addresses, even linked documents and save them for reference or reuse.
The integrated DEVONagent Express menu extra adds the power of DEVONagent to your menu bar and lets you run even complex searches with a single click.
SAVE YOUR RESEARCH AND COME BACK LATER
Research is not only about finding, it's about collecting data, sharing it, and using it to create something meaningful. DEVONagent Pro exports your filtered and trimmed-to-the-max research results in a variety of formats, from a simple list of bookmarks to comprehensive RTF digests and PDF reports. The searchable archive keeps them for later reference, or you can send your results to DEVONthink. You can save your search and continue later on, or even share it with others via email.
HOW DEVONAGENT PRO CAN HELP YOUR RESEARCH
Researchers: Stay up-to-date on your subject with scheduled searches. Search through specialized online databases, scan important web sites, and get smart summaries. Extract the key facts using DEVONagent Pro's research-centric web browser.
Students/Educators: Find better course materials faster, with DEVONagent Pro weed out the chaff. Cite references for your papers and extract images and lists of links with a single click. Save interesting results in DEVONagent's archive or in DEVONthink.
Journalists: Keep an eye on as many other information sources as you like and dig deeper into the subject you are writing about. Use the smart See Also function to learn more about the article you're reading. Save a search and return to it later if you get interrupted.
Lawyers: Search LexisWeb and FindLaw efficiently with advanced Boolean operations, and use See Also to find related data with a single click. Export comprehensive reports, or save the results for future reference in DEVONagent’s archive or in DEVONthink.
Power users: Use DEVONagent Pro's specialized and easily automated browser to find and collect information and file it in DEVONthink. The object pane and extensive AppleScript, JavaScript, and Automator support make it the #1 browser for DEVONthink users and enthusiasts.
more This maintenance release includes many updates to plugins and search sets. These include several news outlets, e.g., Reuters, the PubMed site, the Latest Software search set, and even the plugin for our DEVONthink Server edition. Unfortunately, due to underlying changes on some sites, we had to remove some, notably Google-related ones. However, we now use multiple search engines for certain features, e.g., for the See Also inspector, to help ensure good results. Beyond that, we made many fixes and improvements to make our application more reliable and efficient.
3.11.11 25 Mar
This update tackles a major change by Google that was blocking access to its search results. We've also taken the opportunity to refresh the Yahoo! and Web plugins. Additionally, we've introduced a new plugin for the Brave Search engine and also included a few minor fixes and enhancements to improve your experience.
3.11.10 23/01/2025
In this latest release, we've enhanced the filtering and parsing of search results, making it easier to find what you're looking for. We've also refined the user interface to provide a smoother experience and improved compatibility with the latest version of macOS, Sequoia. In addition, we've fixed a number of problems, including eliminating a bug that could cause crashes during searches. As always, we've worked hard to enhance the overall performance and reliability of the application.
3.11.9 21/11/2024
Today's release adds a new plugin for the Ecosia search engine. It also includes updates to some plugins, search sets, and scanners. For more focused search results with Google and Web plugins, DEVONagent Pro uses verbatim searches, and proximity searches, e.g., using the NEAR operator, produce better results. Also, audio and video files no longer play automatically, speeding up browsing your results, and importing from Safari now allows adding even larger histories. And we made several fixes and improvements for better performance and reliability.
3.11.8 30/04/2024
Today's maintenance release brings three new plugins: "Neeva", "Caselaw", and "IEEEXplore". Scripts and scanners, e.g., the "Wallpaper" scanner, now retrieve more image formats. In the DEVONagent Pro browser, the "See Also" inspector makes even better suggestions, and for RSS crawling you can use more feeds. For better search results, DEVONagent Pro handles filtering advertisements a bit more aggressively. And as always, we made fixes and again increased overall performance and reliability.
3.11.7 02/03/2023
This maintenance release has many under-the-hood technical improvements. For those creating their own plugins, a new key has been added to send JSON posts to a compatible site. Several plugins have been updated, including the JSTOR plugin, and the "Linked Documents" scanner now finds also EPUB and Kindle files. DEVONagent Pro also better handles and traverses links in RSS feeds. The release, of course, also improves the overall stability and performance.
3.11.6 26/09/2022
This maintenance release focuses on plugins and search sets. We revised a large number of plugins to restore or improve their capabilities. Some plugins or search sets received new names for clarity. And we have again improved both performance and reliability.
3.11.5 22/07/2021
This release brings many fixes and improvements, including support for Apple Silicon Macs. Preview or display a slideshow of selected search results via Quick Look, and find up to 10,000 results with search sets. To help find related web pages, the "See Also" inspector now uses a page's keywords. We added support for importing bookmarks from the Brave browser and we improved RSS feed handling for increased compatibility with certain sites, e.g., Google Alerts. Lastly, we included many fixes and improvements in performance and reliability.
3.11.4 15/12/2020
This maintenance release improves date parsing while searching, updates two search plugins, and fixes a crash with PDFs on macOS Mojave and later.
3.11.3 19/12/2019
This maintenance update for DEVONagent Pro brings optimizations, fixes, and macOS Catalina compatibility.Some changes made in searching, parsing content, and generating summaries now provide better results. Performance and reliability have been improved with several bug fixes. Lastly, some changes relative to DEVONthink 3 have been made, including support for searching the web sharing of DEVONthink Server 3.
3.11.2 17/10/2019
This maintenance release addresses a sporadic crash some users had when accessing the Preferences panel on macOS Mojave, as well as some visual artifacts in the interface. We have also added support for JSON RSS feeds and improved handling of RSS feeds in general. Overall reliability has been the primary focus of this release.
3.11.1 28/01/2019
This release features fixes, including greater compatibility with macOS Mojave, as well as other improvements. We have reorganized the search sets and updated a number of plugins as well as the thumbnail galleries scanner. A new option allows you to group search sets for more easily managing your sets. You can now choose to install and update extras automatically in the Support Assistant. A change to parsing a web page's rendered HTML allows for better See Also, translation, and automation via AppleScript. VoiceOver support in the interface has been enhanced too.
3.11 14/11/2018
This release adds a new Google Scholar (Case Law) plugin and updates several other plugins and search sets. For quick queries, it now supports DuckDuckgo Bangs in the internal browser. We've enhanced the support for live streams with the webcam and video scanners and made it a bit easier to create a custom search plugin, pasting in code you may find on our forums. And as always, we have improved the performance and stability of DEVONagent Pro.
3.10 09/02/2018
This maintenance release enhances the "Search" mode for automatically searching sites. It also improves compatibility to Google Chrome bookmarks as well as the overall performance and reliability.
3.9.8 25/08/2017
This maintenance release sends all requests to Google or Bing over a secure connection (https). A new contextual menu option returns more precise see-also results for selected text, and a contextual menu added to the "See Also" pane of browser windows gives access to commonly used commands. The built-in search sets "Macintosh News (Latest/More)" have been updated too.
NEW
- Command "See Related Text" added to contextual menu of web views; useful to get more precise see-also results.
- Contextual menu added to "See Also" pane of browser windows.
IMPROVED
- All requests sent to Google or Bing use secure connections (https) now.
- "Macintosh News (Latest/More)" search sets updated.
- "See Also" of search results lists also similar archived results now.
- Related website are retrieved more reliably.
- Improved installing and updating of scripts.
FIXED
- Issue where automatic naming of files, e.g. when dragging results to the desktop, could have failed.
- Crash related to the "DEVONthink databases" plugin.
- Rare crash related to closing the last tab if the tabs bar was always visible.
3.9.7 01/06/2017
This maintenance release adds new plugins for the privacy-focused search engine StartPage as well as for searching PDFs with Google. Version 3.9.6 improves sending results to DEVONthink, revises searching in the built-in archive, and adds usability and security enhancements. It also better handles dates and refines support for Google Chrome bookmarks.
NOTE: Starting with this release DEVONagent Pro requires OS X Mavericks or later.
NEW
- "Google (PDF)" and "StartPage" plugins added. Tip: Use CoverFlow to scan all found PDF documents easily.
- "Browsers > DEVONthink databases" plugin added; scans all web sites bookmarked in the currently opened DEVONthink databases.
- Contextual menu added to tabs.
- Option Window > Search Sets > Actions > Destination added for choosing a destination group (requires DEVONthink 2.9.11 or later running concurrently).
- Options "Formatted Note" and "Markdown" added to "Data > Add to DEVONthink" and to contextual and action menus of search, browser and archive windows (the "Markdown" option requires the upcoming DEVONthink 2.9.12).
IMPROVED
- Plugins updated: "DuckDuckGo", "Computer Science > ACM Digital Library", "Medical > PubMed", "References > SEC", "Science > IEEE Xplore", "Social Networking > Twitter".
- Plugin "Browsers > DEVONthink Pro Office" renamed to "DEVONthink server".
- Plugins updated (available via "Support Assistant"): "Stack Overflow (Tags)", "Last.fm Similar Artists Search".
- Searching in results and in the archive revised; the "All" options find any entered word in any part of the metadata. This is closer to matching of web pages while crawling and to the behaviour of Spotlight.
- "See Also" and bookmarks support also DEVONthink Personal.
- Revised "View" toolbar item of "Search" windows makes it easier to switch views.
- Web views support zooming via gestures.
- Plugin menus use localized names if available.
- Tabs bars use standard icons for "Close" and "Add" buttons.
- Better naming of groups automatically created after adding browser pages to the archive.
- Automatically generated or proposed filenames avoid characters not supported on Windows.
- "File results to DEVONthink" script updated.
- AppleScript support.
- Plugin API extended with new, optional 'FileTypes' key.
- Retrieving of dates improved if neither the metadata nor the server returned a date for a result.
- Date of search results doesn't abbreviate the year anymore.
- Date parser improved.
- Credentials of URLs are no longer displayed or included in exported data anymore; the "Sites" tab of the "Search Sets" panel displays the credentials only while editing the URL.
- Better PDF support on macOS Sierra.
- Better support for Google Chrome bookmarks.
- "Help > Report Bug" provides more information.
- Icon and image caching optimized; speeds up, e.g., drawing tabs bars.
- Matching of query terms optimized.
- German localization updated.
- Better check for updates.
- Better console logging.
- Better overall reliability and performance.
FIXED
- Crash related to the browser address bar when bookmarks of other browsers are used.
- Issue where DEVONagent Pro logged some harmless console messages on macOS Sierra.
- Issue where plugins outside of Application Support folder but not inside application package couldn't be edited.
- Issue where searches in results or in the archive using proximity operators with wildcards returned inaccurate results.
- Issue where the contextual menu of archive windows didn't include all "Add to DEVONthink" options.
- Issue where the preview popup of inactive tabs containing online PDF documents didn't work on latest macOS releases.
- Issue where the sorting of archive views wasn't persistent.
- Issue where trying to drag tabs could close them or create new ones.
3.9.6 10/05/2017
This maintenance release addresses issues related to macOS Sierra. It also adds a new plugin for the Qwant search engine, makes it possible to exclude domains and links on the search set level, and updates a number of plugins and search sets. The update brings workflow enhancements and bug fixes too.
NEW
- Qwant plugin.
- "Exclude" tab added to "Search Sets" panel for excluding domains or links.
- "ScanTerm" plugin property added to define a term to filter results, e.g., instead of or in addition to the user's secondary query.
- Alerts dismissed with "Don't show again" can be brought back (see "Preferences > General").
CHANGED FOR MACOS SIERRA
- Renamed 'Mac OS X' to 'macOS' in alerts.
IMPROVED
- HTML pages can be disabled for searches or search sets.
- "Help > Contact us" sends an email via the default email client again.
- Search syntax, e.g., operators or quotes, is removed before copying search queries to the find pasteboard so that "Edit > Find > Find Next/Previous" can be more often used immediately.
- Dropping search results onto e.g. Safari's bookmarks inserts bookmarks instead of exported HTML files.
- "Delete & Exclude Domain" is now an alternate menu item in contextual and action menus.
- "Google Scholar (Articles)" plugin.
- "Marketing" search set.
- Audio Files, Video Files, Thumbnail Galleries, and Linked Documents/Scripts/Sheets/vCard scanners.
- Advertisement filter.
- Compatibility to RSS 1.0 feeds.
- Compatibility of "Download Manager" (user agent is now identical to user agent of web views).
- "site:domain" operator in primary query terms is now stripped before matching to facilitate searching sites using the Google, Bing, and Web plugins or search sets using these plugins.
- Recognition of dates if neither the server nor the HTML metadata specify a date.
- Compatibility to HTTP proxies.
- Support for Bonjour servers including IPv6.
- Handling of URL credentials.
- Handling of large selections, makes the user interface more responsive.
- Saved searches include thumbnails, e.g. for DEVONthink.
- "File results in DEVONthink" action script can be easily customized to store web archives or PDF documents.
- Optimized crawling.
- Registration of macOS Services.
- Handling of background tasks.
- Checking for updates.
FIXED
- Crash related to printing a text view (macOS Sierra).
- Issue where the full screen button of search windows didn't always work (OS X El Capitan and later).
- Issue where the contextual and action menus of results in browser windows didn't include the command "Delete Domain".
- Issue where the sharing popup menu of browser windows caused unnecessary console messages.
- Issue where the position of the menu extra was wrong if the menu bar was automatically hidden.
- Issue where "Help > Report Bug" didn't work if Apple Mail was the default email client (macOS Sierra).
- Issue where toolbar items caused console warnings (macOS Sierra).
- Glitches of properties inspector (macOS Sierra).
- Glitch of progress indication of the address field of browser windows (OS X El Capitan and later).
- Glitch of results list in browser windows.
REMOVED
- Redundant "Tab" menu items from "Window" menu (macOS Sierra).
- Redundant "Sharing" submenu of contextual menu of web views (macOS Sierra).
3.9.5 21/10/2016
This release updates a number of plugins and search sets. Customized fonts can now be easily reset to factory defaults. Version 3.9.4 also adds contextual menu options for HTML 5 videos and improves link and avertisement filtering. It is also faster and more reliable.
NEW
- Option added to reset fonts to factory settings (holding ⌥Option in Preferences > Web changes the Select button to Reset).
- Open Video In Tab, Download Video, and Open Video In New Window contextual menu command added to HTML 5 videos (OS X El Capitan or later).
IMPROVED
- ACM Digital Library, Baidu, Facebook, SEC, and Twitter plugins updated.
- Marketing, New Software, Macintosh News (Latest), and Macintosh News (More) search sets updated.
- Saving web browser tabs with File > Save As and exporting reports with File > Export > Report remembers the last choosen format.
- Format popup of File > Save As panel better structured.
- Web links and bookmarks, e.g., captured, archived, or copied, have better default names.
- Clearing recent searches and enabling private browsing clears the system-wide find pasteboard.
- Handling of HTML refreshs and frames improved; fixes the Baidu plugin too.
- OPML support made more reliable.
- Filtering of links to translation services improved.
- Filtering of advertisements, analytics, and tracking improved.
- Support for XML/JSON plugins using HTTP POSTs improved.
- Handling of background tasks made more reliable.
- Overall reliability and performance improved.
FIXED
- Depending on print settings, footers and headers were added to exported or captured PDF documents.
- Copying selected rows of tables didn't work on OS X El Capitan.
- After expanding an outline item OS X El Capitan returns the wrong selection.
- Glitch of trial button.
3.9.4 05/03/2016
This release improves the compatibility to OS X El Capitan. It also adds four scripts for Safari, updates two plugins, and makes links in created PDF reports more reliable. Embedded videos can be viewed in full screen. The built-in web browser is more compatible to modern websites and smart throttling avoids CAPTCHAs. Version 3.9.3 also improves VoiceOver support and the overall reliability.
NOTE: Starting with this release DEVONagent Pro is 64-bit only and requires OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 or later.
CHANGES FOR OS X EL CAPITAN
- Added support for App Transport Security.
- Fixed non-appearing launch and progress panels.
- Fixed glitch of "Plugins" panel.
- Fixed Twitter access.
- Fixed flipped footers/headers of printed web views.
NEW
- Safari scripts for script menu extra (will be installed in ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/Safari)
- Videos in web views support fullscreen viewing.
IMPROVED
- Updated plugins: "Computer Science > StackOverflow" and "Legal > EUR-Lex".
- PDF reports add real link annotations that don't depend on data detectors anymore.
- "Preferences > General > Interface > Alternating row colors in view" is now disabled by default.
- Automatically updated web browser user agent strings should be more compatible to modern websites.
- Caching of web pages.
- Throttling of network traffic avoids CAPTCHAs in case of search sets using lots of Google plugins.
- Idle system sleep is disabled while searching.
- VoiceOver support.
- Overall reliability.
FIXED
- Glitch of toolbar of "Search" windows.
- Crash in case of broken workspaces.
- Random crash after selecting a group in the "Archive".
REMOVED
- Support for OS X Lion and earlier.
3.9.3 23/11/2015
This release improves the compatibility to OS X Yosemite. It brings a number of workflow enhancements, too, e.g. Clip to DEVONthink can be used for non-HTML documents. Updated Twitter, Thumbnail Gallery, Audio, and Video scanners return better and more accurate results. The update also improves the overall performance and reliability, and fixes bugs.
IMPROVED
- Compatibility to OS X Yosemite.
- Title of online PDF documents displayed in web views is now used if available.
- "Data > Add to DEVONthink > via Clip to DEVONthink" is now also available if the frontmost tab doesn't display HTML.
- "Download Manager" uses up to eight concurrent downloads on OS X 10.10.3 or later again.
- Alignment of menu extra window in case of crowded menu bars.
- New "Search windows" use default plugin settings instead of using the last used plugin settings.
- Updated icon of "Web > Inspectors > Objects" menu item.
- "Twitter" and "Thumbnail Gallery" scanners.
- HTML 5 support of "Video" and "Audio" scanners; "Video" scanner recognizes WEBM, 3GPP and 3GP2 videos.
- Optimized scanning by "Objects" pane.
- "Marketing" and New "Software" default search sets extended and updated.
- Advertisement filter.
- Following of links.
- Filtering of links to social bookmarking.
- UTF-32 support.
- HTML-to-text conversion.
- Handling of HTML/HTTP dates.
- IFRAMEs are no longer stripped from feeds.
- HTML 5 support of "get embedded objects of" AppleScript command.
- Communication with background tasks; more reliable termination of tasks on quit.
- Revised startup alert in case of invalid installation outside of the Applications folder.
- Registration file is now stored in Application Support to avoid conflicts with preferences cleaners.
- Downloads queue is now stored in Application Support.
- Memory management.
- Overall performance and reliability.
- Further minor improvements.
FIXED
- Sending email via SMTP could fail.
- Glitches of "History" menu.
- "Data > Add to DEVONthink > Resource" was enabled if no resource was loaded.
- "File > Export > Digest as Map (PDF)" didn't work any longer.
- "See Also" pane wasn't updated after selecting tabs.
- "See Also" pane was updated even when it was not visible.
- Intro movie didn't play due to recent changes in WebKit’s event handling.
- "get embedded objects of" AppleScript command.
- Crash (caused by ShortcutRecorder framework) after changing the system appearance.
- Typo in the license agreement.
3.9.2 08/08/2015
This update now searches Stack Overflow and GitHub. A new recipes scanner filters results for contained cooking recipes. The new version also updates a number of scanners and default search sets and displays snippets (text extract of the found recipe or source code block) directly in the "Search" window.
NEW
- "Recipes" scanner looking for pages containing recipes; supports microdata, RDFa and microformats.
- "Stack Overflow" and "GitHub Code Search" plugins.
IMPROVED
- Source code scanner — finds code e.g. on Stack Overflow, GitHub, and developer.apple.com.
- Email scanner — recognizes email addresses in HTML metadata, too.
- "Thumbnail Galleries" scanner and "Marketing" default search set.
- "Search" window — shows snippets found by Recipe/Code scanners and highlights occurrences if matching of objects is enabled.
- "History" menu — shortens long items.
- Icons of scanners and the browser toolbar.
- Export to DEVONthink — adds application name and version, the name of the search set, and the search query to the comments.
- HTML to plain text conversion.
- Compatibility to invalid BASE URLs of web pages.
- Requests while testing plugins are throttled, too.
- Handling of HTTP forwards.
- Handling of background tasks.
- Error logging to the console.
- Overall performance and reliability.
FIXED
- Graphical glitches of the tab bar on OS X Yosemite.
- Compatibility to "feed:https:" links sent by Safari.
- Crashes when performing multiple searches concurrently.
3.9.1 15/04/2015
This update cleans up the user interface with a new "Inspectors" pane and vastly revised menus. A new "Properties" pane shows the metadata of a displayed HTML page. The See Also algorithm has been enhanced, plugins and scanners updated, and the overall performance and reliability improved.
NEW
- New "Inspectors" pane. This makes the interface more consistent and easier to use scanners while browsing results. This pane includes properties, See Also, and objects.
- "Properties" pane added to browser windows showing metadata of the current HTML page. The metadata can be selected and copied.
- Menu item "Data > Delete Domain" to delete all results from the selected domains; "Data > Delete & Exclude Domain" is now an alternate menu item.
- Alternate menu item "Help > Report Bug" to comfortably send bug reports.
- Support for .webhistory and .webbookmark bookmark files.
- Retina splash screens.
IMPROVED
- History of Safari 8.x is supported and therefore can be imported or searched again.
- All Google plugins use https:// now.
- "References > SEC" plugin updated.
- More precise See Also algorithm. Improves also summaries and topics.
- Default search set "Web (Movies)" updated.
- "Linked Audio/Video Files" scanners now support embedded streams and videos; renamed to "Audio/Video Files".
- Objects panes are more responsive.
- Retrieval of object thumbnails optimized.
- Scanning for objects in browser and search windows optimized.
- Excluding of domains or links ("Preferences > Search") is now 8 to 200 times faster.
- Setting of Finder comments by the "Download Manager" optimized.
- Revised and unified many keyboard shortcuts.
- Heavily revised "Web" menu.
- Slightly revised contextual menus.
- More reliable automatic restoring of remembered browser selections on OS X Yosemite.
- Sorting uses system-wide settings.
- "DEVONthink" and "View" toolbar items of search windows support text-only toolbars and toolbar overflow menus.
- Selecting a different sound in "Windows > Search Sets > Actions" plays the sound.
- Scripts of "Scripts" menu are cached and so their properties are persistent during runtime.
- Handling of "Scripts" menu is more compatible to third-party software.
- Compatibility to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2.
- French localization.
- Overall performance and reliability.
FIXED
- "Data > Delete & Exclude Domains" didn't fully support "Log" tab.
- "Scripts" menu icon on OS X Yosemite.
- Some scripting issues.
- Memory leaks in case of extensive lists of filtered links and domains.
- Further minor bugs and glitches.
REMOVED
- Obsolete "Tubes" scanner.
3.9 25/02/2015
This maintenance release brings support for DuckDuckGo and a new preference option to stop a search as soon as you open a result. It also comes with two updated search sets and an updated Facebook Profiles plugin. The update improves the overall reliability and performance and is recommended for all users.
NEW
- "DuckDuckGo plugin".
- New option "Preferences > Menu Extra > General > Cancel search after opening result".
IMPROVED
- Search set "Macintosh News (Latest/More)".
- Search set "Blogs & Usenet" renamed to "Blogs".
- Plugin "Facebook Profiles" updated.
- If the metadata of a search result doesn't include a date, DEVONagent Pro tries to retrieve the date from the plain text of the result.
- Better VoiceOver support.
- Sending email messages and executing scripts by search sets is more reliable.
- Better handling of HTML and HTTP dates.
- Termination of (frozen) background tasks, e.g. on quit, is more reliable.
- Overall performance and reliability.
FIXED
- Appearance of menu extra icon in dark menu on OS X Yosemite.
- Opening a result didn't always close the preview popover of the menu extra.
- The Digest view of search window was scrolled to the top regularly while searching.
- Issue of the feed parser causing invalid URLs.
3.8.3 15/12/2014
This maintenance update brings important changes for OS X Yosemite. In addition it adds support for Baidu and comes with a number of improved scanners. A "Share" submenu allows sharing web content via OS X's standard mechanisms. The update is recommended for all users.
NOTE: Starting with this release OS X 10.7.5 Lion is required.
CHANGES FOR OS X YOSEMITE
- User interface elements adapted to OS X Yosemite.
- Inverse display of results is disabled by default on OS X Yosemite.
- Improved inverse display of results.
- Private browsing wasn't reenabled after relaunching.
- Menu extra preview popover fixed.
- Further visual glitches corrected.
NEW
- Baidu plugin.
- Clear button added to search field of search windows.
- "Share" submenu added to contextual menu of web views (requires at least OS X Mountain Lion).
IMPROVED
- Search field and progress indicator of search windows merged, similar to DEVONagent Express.
- Search fields always use system default look.
- New plugin assistant improved.
- Display and naming of URLs.
- Secondary search term, if specified, is used for highlighting and summarizing instead of the default term.
- Title of search windows shows if no plugins or search sets are enabled.
- Too long names in "Move To" contextual menu are now truncated after seven words.
- Scanners are more accurate.
- Filtering of links to social media (e.g. retweeting).
- "Twitter ID", "Thumbnail Gallery", "Tube", "Linked Audio/Video", and "Embedded Multimedia" scanners enhanced and more reliable.
- Updated user agent of web views is more compatible, e.g. to GitHub.
- Better parsing of dates.
- German localization.
- Overall performance and reliability.
FIXED
- Rare delays or freezes after loading a web page.
- Popup menu of "Go > Bookmark > Add" panel.
3.8.2 05/11/2014
This release uses Open Graph to match HTML pages and skips Amazon search results. It comes with an improved MacUpdate plugin and Twitter Accounts scanner. The new version executes menu scripts in the background and handles background tasks better. It also fixes an incompatibility to DEVONthink 2.7.6 and a few other issues. The update is recommended for all users.
NEW
- "Edit > Deselect All" is now an alternate menu item of "Edit > Select All" and available after pressing the ⇧Shift modifier key (or the shortcut ⌘⇧A).
- Matching of HTML pages supports Open Graph properties (title and description), too.
IMPROVED
- MacUpdate plugin updated.
- Twitter Accounts scanner is more reliable.
- Amazon search results are skipped while crawling.
- Many scripts are executed in the background.
- Handling of background tasks is more reliable.
- German localization.
- Overall performance and reliability.
FIXED
- Incompatibility to DEVONthink 2.7.6 causing e.g. delays.
- The address bar wasn't always updated.
- Inconsistencies of displayed remaining trial time.
- Glitch of "Window > Search Sets > Actions > Add Results to DEVONthink > Format".
- Support for RSS feeds using "isPermaLink=false".
- Description of several search sets still mentioned Exalead.
- Rare crash after closing the "Plug-Ins & Scanners" panel.
- Rare issue of split views.
3.8.1 22/07/2014
This maintenance release includes many updates to plugins and search sets. These include several news outlets, e.g., Reuters, the PubMed site, the Latest Software search set, and even the plugin for our DEVONthink Server edition. Unfortunately, due to underlying changes on some sites, we had to remove some, notably Google-related ones. However, we now use multiple search engines for certain features, e.g., for the See Also inspector, to help ensure good results. Beyond that, we made many fixes and improvements to make our application more reliable and efficient.
more Version 3.11.11 25 Mar
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