Well, more trouble has turned up on Lion, primarily with Carbon applications that have been released recently such as BBEdit 10 and Filemaker Pro 11. Default Folder X 4.4.3 was released today to address the issues, as well as a problem with Lion’s full-screen mode and several other less crucial bugs. You can grab your copy from the Default Folder X Release Page.

I’m finally heading for bed…

Today’s update of Default Folder X adds a couple of important fixes for everyone upgrading to Mac OS 10.7 Lion. We’ve tracked down a couple of bugs that could cause crashes of both Default Folder X itself and of applications that you’re working in. It’s very important that you update to this new version – there’s more information and download links on the Default Folder X Release Page.

App Tamer 1.0.9 is available, delivering compatibility with Mac OS 10.7 Lion. Older versions could crash when your Mac woke from sleep. This version also improves gaming mode by stopping Time Machine backups and Spotlight indexing – things which tend to cause annoying stutters because of all the disk I/O they perform.

Grab your copy from the App Tamer release page. If you’ve got an suggestions or feedback, don’t hesitate to drop us a note!

Default Folder X 4.4 shipped this morning – finally! I’m very happy to have implemented some suggestions from Default Folder X users that add greatly to its capabilities:

1. Offline Favorites: Default Folder X now shows you favorite folders even when the disk they’re on is not available. If you click on one of them, the disk will be mounted if possible, and then the folder opened. This helps immensely if you do any work with file servers.

2. Preloading of Recent and Favorite folders: Default Folder X has to check to see whether folders are available and load their icons. Doing this ahead of time makes the menus drop down almost instantaneously.

3. Swipe left to go up a folder: Three finger swipe up or to the left to go up a folder – thanks for the suggestion Ben

And of course, there’s additional compatibility with Firefox 4, Chromium, Brother ControlCenter, Shimo and Neu; a new scripting verb; fixes for some pretty uncommon bugs (but important, nonetheless for the few people that encounter them!) and tweaks to hotkey handling.

Grab a copy from the Default Folder X Release page – the update is free for all registered version 4 users. One word of warning: If you downloaded a copy early this morning, go back and re-download and install it again. The first build that was posted (version 4.4(13515)) had some problems due to some Xcode funkiness. These were fixed in 4.4(13531).

Oh yeah – and it supports Lion too, though not fully yet. Sandboxed apps (TextEdit, Preview, and Safari’s plugin helper) don’t get Default Folder X with this release – that’s hopefully coming soon.

You may have noticed that HistoryHound can’t see your browser history when you’re using Firefox 4. The Firefox team used a new version of the SQLite database to store the history and bookmark info in version 4, and that new version actually uses a new file format. Here’s a pre-release build of HistoryHound that’s been updated to understand the new files:

http://www.stclairsoft.com/download/HistoryHound-1.9.9fc1.dmg

This will be released officially next week (both through our store and the Mac App Store) but we’d like everyone to download and double-check to make sure we haven’t missed anything. Please give it a spin and let us know if you encounter any issues.

Thanks!

- Jon