• Fixed an issue with Firefox bookmark indexing.

• Finder Browsing: Select Finder and press Right Arrow to get a list of all folders that are currently opened in Finder.
• Improved Services support. If a service provides a return value, this value is now selected in LaunchBar.
• Improved HTML bookmark scanner: Added support for URLs relative to bookmark file.
• Improved “Quit Application”, “Toggle Mute”, “iTunes - Rewind” and “iTunes - Fast Forward” scripts.
• When opening the Calculator by selecting and opening the Calculator script, the previous calculation now gets selected so that it can be overridden by typing a new calculation.
• “Play from Music Library” no longer brings iTunes to front when playing a song, but starts playback in background.
• Added “Start Screen Saver” to built-in scripts.
• Improved some icons for Leopard.
• Append Text now preserves the file's creation date.
• Added FAQ item to Help menu.
• Fixed a problem when searching the LaunchBar Help in Help Viewer.
• Fixed an issue causing Firefox history indexing to fail.
• Fixed a minor display glitch in the indexing progress window.
• Fixed an issue when showing the list of mounted volumes on Leopard.

- New Preference option “Switch to Calculator when pasting a numeric expression”.
- Improved detection of pasted numeric expressions.
- Added built-in scripts: Increase Volume, Decrease Volume, Toggle Mute.
- Improved instant messaging support (Yahoo Messenger, Jabber / XMPP).
- Improved reading an application's recent documents.
- Revised search templates in factory configuration.
- Added “Yahoo Video” and “Manual Page” search templates to factory configuration.
- Fixed an issue causing keyboard control of the configuration window's “New” toolbar item to fail.
- Fixed an issue causing toolbar items to have no icon in the Customize Toolbar sheet.
- Fixed some typos in the documentation.

• When sub-searching a folder's contents via Space bar, the search is now performed recursively across all subfolder levels (provided that they are indexed by LaunchBar). In contrast, sub-searching via Right Arrow key only searches the very first folder level (same as in previous versions).
• The Files and Folders indexing rule now allows to specify folders to be skipped depending on their contents. For example, to skip all folders that contain an Xcode Project File, add //*.xcodeproj to the rule's "Skip Subfolders" list.
• Added "Quit Application" to built-in AppleScripts. Allows to quit a selected application via "Send To".
• Improved application scanner to provide access to the following CoreServices applications: Archive Utility, Installer, Network Diagnostics, Screen Sharing.
• Improved Instant Calculate to accept multiplication sign (×) and division sign (÷).
• Improved "iTunes - Play/Pause" script to better work during playback from a separate iTunes playlist window.
• Improved fast user switching support: The User Accounts indexing rule now provides access to Leopard's guest account.
• Revised HTML syntax of help files.
• LaunchBar's file icon caches are now updated more reliably.
• Running Automator Workflows didn't work on Leopard. Fixed.
• Fixed a bug in the "New Mail Message" AppleScript.
• Address Book changes are now observed more precisely. Prevents unnecessary index updates while editing in Address Book.
• Fixed a performance issue related to arrow key browsing (most noticeable when browsing an application's recent documents).
• Fixed a crashing issue when running Calculator with Autohiding turned off.
• Slightly enhanced overall performance due to improved handling of running processes.
• UTF-8 files are now handled correctly with "Append Text" and when browsing or searching a text file's contents.
• Wrong Calculator results when using comma as decimal separator. Fixed.
• Fixed an issue when browsing the contents of the system's root folder (some hidden Unix folders wrongly showed up).

Overview

LaunchBar 4.3.3 improves compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and introduces a new Instant Calculate feature for super-fast calculations based on numbers contained in arbitrary documents. It further includes a bunch of improvements as well as a number of minor bug fixes.

New Features and Improvements

• Instant Calculate: If the text sent via Instant Send appears to be a valid calculator expression, the results are displayed automatically.
• The built-in calculator can now be utilized from external applications via URL commands (e.g.: x-launchbar:calculate?expression=(1+sqrt(5))/2&title=Golden%20Ratio).
• Improved "Files an Folders" indexing rule. The "Skip subfolders" option now allows to skip particular folders as well as folders with a matching name. It's now also possible to drag the desired folders to the list.
• Improved x-launchbar:execute URL command. The new "argument" parameter gets any necessary quoting and escaping applied automatically.
• Added "Send to" support for mailing labels.
• Added support for running "scptd" AppleScript bundles.
• Improved Calculator input on notebook keyboards: The key left from the "1" key can be used to enter a decimal separator.
• Improved auto-detection of thousand separators: In ambiguous cases (e.g. "12.000 + 3,123") LaunchBar now considers the number format as specified in System Preferences > International.
• The Autohiding of LaunchBar can now be turned off temporarily, e.g. to make the selected item a better accessible target for subsequent drag and drop operations. Click the gear wheel icon and choose "Turn Hiding Off" from the menu.
• Improved "Show in Finder" action to work around a bug in Finder.
• Improved compatibility with Safari 3.
• Improved file icon caching.
• Improved sending URLs to applications via "Send to".
• Different types of OmniOutliner documents are now grouped in a single category.
• The "Send to LaunchBar" services menu shortcut has been changed to Command-Shift-F1 to prevent conflicts with some third party applications.
• The "Hide Classic Applications with Command-H" and "Hide Others with Command-Option-H" options have been removed.

Improved Leopard Compatibility

• The appearance of the LaunchBar window has been slightly adjusted to better match the new look of Leopard.
• Developer Documentation index scanner updated for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• Dock index scanner updated for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• Improved compatibility with Time Machine.
• Fixed "Recent Projects" browsing for Xcode 3.
• Fixed a crashing issue with the Sherlock indexing rule on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• Fixed an incompatibility of the "New Mail Message" script with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• LaunchBar now properly considers the system's generic folder icon.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Calculator's auto-detection of thousand separators.
• Fixed an issue causing Calculator to fail with some Asian keyboard layouts.
• Typing fn-period no longer hides LaunchBar.
• Accidental attempts to move the home folder to the trash are now prevented.
• When placing the bar at the bottom of the screen, there's no longer a one pixel gap below the bar.
• Fixed an issue causing Instant Send to stop working when opening System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse.
• Fixed an issue causing LaunchBar sometimes to become active after quitting other applications.
• Fixed an issue sometimes causing the fade in/out animation to jerk.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused "Look Up in Dictionary" to fail if Dictionary.app wasn't yet running.
• Fixed an issue when playing a disabled iTunes track in "Play from Album" mode.
• Fixed an issue with the iPhoto Library index scanner.

• Smart Calculator Input: Square brackets can be entered as an alternative to parentheses. The Equals sign can be typed to enter '+'. A lowercase 'x' can be used for multiplications. In some cases the multiplication operator can be omitted at all, for example in "17(3+5)" or "2pi".
• Smart Brackets: Calculator automatically inserts closing brackets if appropriate. Entering a bracket puts selected text in brackets instead of replacing it. Smart Brackets can be turned off in LaunchBar preferences.
• Improved application switcher: Press Command-H to hide the selected application, press Command-Option-F to force quit the selected application.
• Improved mounted volumes ordering: removable media (CDs, DVDs, mounted disk images) are now listed above other ejectable volumes.
• New preference option: "Convert filename extension to lowercase when renaming a file".
• New preference option: "Append English filename if different from localized name". Users with a non-English language preference can use this option to search for applications by their English name (e.g. "Preview" instead of "Vorschau").
• Opening x-launchbar search templates (Large Type, Go to, etc.) with Return now always triggers "Enter Text", regardless of the preference setting for opening search templates.
• Revised documentation for application switcher and Calculator.
• Fixed an issue causing abbreviations that didn't yield a search result to be turned into text items.
• Fixed an issue causing the first name / last name preference of Address Book not being considered in contact details.
• Fixed an issue related to browsing recent documents of BBEdit.
• Fixed an issue in Calculator with results close to zero.
• Fixed an issue with Calculator, which wrongly removed surrounding parentheses from expressions.
• Improved compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Instant Open / Opening Items
Instant Send / Send to…
Selecting Items, Searching for items
Browsing
Calculator
User Interface
Improved iTunes Support
Address Book, Contact Items
Search Templates
Built in AppleScripts
URL commands
Other New Features and Improvements
Bug Fixes