What’s new

• Core: Ability to embed local resources in content scripts
• Core: Internationalization support
• UI: New method kango.ui.browserButton.setBadgeBackgroundColor
• UI: Ability to close options page programmatically
• UI: Options page is not opened twice anymore
• Builder: Chrome Web Store package generation added
• Builder: Ability to build IE extension on Mac OS and Linux (wine and makensis required)
• Firefox: Generated extensions are restartless now
• Firefox: Storage is not cleared anymore when user clears all browser history
• Firefox: Popup visual glitches fixed on Mac OS and Linux
• Chrome: kango.browser.windows fixes
• IE: 64 bit browser support
• IE: Windows 8 compatibility
• IE: Options page keyboard input and theming fixed

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What’s new

• Messaging API: Performance improvements on Firefox and Internet Explorer
• UI: Added Options page component
• Tabs API: Added KangoBrowserTab.close method
• Tabs API: KangoBrowserTab.dispatchMessage dispatches message to all frames now
• Content scripts: added new user script header keys @require and @all-frames
• Firefox 17 compatibility
• Core: Fixes and optimizations

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What’s new

• Chrome 21 (manifest version 2) support
• Safari 6 support
• Firefox 15 support
• Tabs API: KangoBrowserTab.getId method
• Core: Fixes and optimizations

How to upgrade from older versions

See new Popup API syntax.

What’s new

• Core: Simple support for JS libraries in background and content scripts
• Core: Sandbox for background scripts in Firefox and IE
• UI: New Popup API (see PopupDemo sample and documentation)
• Storage: New storage engine in Firefox

How to upgrade from older versions

You shouldn’t use kango.ui.addEventListener(kango.ui.event.Ready, ...) anymore. Background script runs after Ready event now:

// replace
kango.ui.addEventListener(kango.ui.event.Ready, function() { new MyExtension(); });

// to
new MyExtension();

What’s new

• Core: Auto-update
• Core: Moved all extension code in one namespace (required to pass addons.mozilla.org review)
• XHR: Access local extension files via kango.xhr.send
• Tabs/Windows API: Fixes
• Builder: Fixes

What’s new

• Core: Tabs API implemented
• Core: Windows API implemented
• Core: Messaging API implemented
• Core, Builder, UI: Fixes and optimizations

Waiting for your feature requests!

What’s new

• Core: Opera & Safari support added
• Builder: Mac OS support added
• Core, Builder, UI: A lot of fixes and optimizations
• Content scripts: userscript header parser optimized

You can find examples of projects made using Kango on “Our customers” page.