TV-Browser 3.0

This page describes the new features of TV-Browser 3.0. This version hasn't been released yet!

The 30-Seconds-Highlights

• Design: Tooltips in the program table. They indicate by which Plugin shows have been marked, running time of a show etc.
• Clarity: Long titles are shortened, the commonly displayed content is shorter, the column width has been optimized etc. All of these features are customizable, of course.
• More Future-Proof: Optimization for Java 6, Java 7, OpenJDK, Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10. However this version won't operate with Java 5 anymore.
• Integration: TV-Browser fits better into your available platforms: Regarding shortcuts, designations, order of menubar items, colors and other details.
• Performance: This version is once again significantly faster (and needs less memory) than its previous versions, even though there are many new features.

The detailed overview

TV-Browser 3.0 has been developed since mid 2008 as the successor of TV-Browser 2.7 (while all other 2.7.x-versions "only" fixed bugs). More than 400 changes, bugfixes and new features have been addressed and implemented. Mainly focused on making the program easier to use by removing many "annoying thingies", better adjusted preferences etc.

To further improve quality the source code has been examined with many static code-analysis tools to find and fix hidden programming errors. That doesn't mean TV-Browser is error-free because of this, but at least we can rule out certain programming errors now.

Only a few of the new features are described below, go ahead and discover the remaining improvements while trying. :)