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Inquisitor 3.0 Beta 2

I’m pleased to announce that Inquisitor 3.0 Beta 2 is now available for testing.

Inquisitor 3.0 Beta 2 provides an enhanced web searching experience by learning from your use of it over time and then tailoring the experience to suit you best. Websites that you’ve visited before are flagged and prioritized and search keywords you’ve used recently show up ahead of the rest. Best of all, your usage history is stored on your computer and yours alone, so unlike services like Google Personalized Search, you don’t need to worry about some corporation watching and recording your every move.

I’m also pleased to note that Inquisitor 3 has now been downloaded 150,000 times since its release 4 weeks ago. Lastly, I’d like to mention that if you think ‘free’ is an undervaluation of this software, there is a donation box to help make up the difference. If Inquisitor has made your life a bit easier, please consider making the box a bit less empty. :)

  • November 27th, 2006 4:50 am

68 comments...

ron...

so cool!!

i wish i could have used this on all my browsers…thanks.


Manu...

I am a new user to Inquisitor, and all I can say, it is that an absolutely fantastic idea and works extremely well. On payday donation is on it’s way.


Wysiwyg...

Nice! BTW, the site pimpmysafari mentions a graphite look in this version, but i could not find a way to activate it. Does it exists?


Inktomite...

It’s a great app, but was wondering. I changed the default search engine to Yahoo (US). And it worked for 5 minutes, but since then it’s been sending the queries to Google. Is this a bug?


gemp...

Amazing app! As all of what you do… Just installed, instantly adopted.

Small question tho: where does it find its language preference? My system is english, most of my preferences are too, like spell-checking and Google (US), with notable exceptions for my keyboard and timezone… as I’m in France, it helps. But the results I get are mainly in french, which is usually not what I want.

Thanks nevertheless!


Greg...

Just installed “Inquisitor” last week and am really impressed – great job! Would like to see some developer notes, as inquisitor is telling me there’s an upgrade available, but can’t find any comments about improvements / bug fixes etc.


Greg...

Oops – wouldn’t you just know it – I just found the version number and dev. notes. Feel free to edit out the second sentence of my previous comment.

Greg


christoph...

Hey Dave,

youe have created an great app with inquisitor! I’ve recommended it to over a dozen of friends!

but there is one think i’m always a bit annoyed with: the user interface in the safari preferences! It doesn`t integrate smoothly!

All told: inquisitor 3 is fantastic!


Alex...

Wonderful new version – however compared to inquistor 2 i’m noticing some definite text input lag. When Safari is, say, loading a page in another window, Inquistor seems to be missing letters that i’m inputting. Just thought you should know.


demonOrange...

this is really cool software that I used to use all the time with however I recently switched to Omniweb. since it also uses webkit is there anyway to get Inquisitor to work with it?


demonOrange...

well just saw your other comment about that in your other post. so never mind


Eric...

Very cool new features ! :o)

Do you have an idea about why the strings in the alert panels and in the results view can not be localized ? I’ve localized them in Localizable.strings file but they don’t appear localized in the app (other UI objects appear localized).


Joerg...

Hey there,

thanks for the awesome work :)

Is the Camino support coming back one day?

-J


Silvia...

I bought the program a year ago, and I was happy, now I can´t find the window of preferences. I feel Sad. Help me please. TKS. your friend. Silvia


Michael...

Dave,

Just wondering if an older version of Inquisitor [that works with Firefox- am I right about this?] might still be available someplace?

Michael


MacHovis...

Inquisitor is brilliant – I find it really useful. The only thing that I find annoying is that the current browser page is overwritten. Would it be possible to have an option to open a selected item from its search results in a new tab/window?


Raghav...

Is this Inquisitor 3.0 Beta 2 only for Safari or do you have plans for expanding it to firefox and other browser as well…
I am looking forward for an Inquisitor for firefox platform independent.

Please make one and let know…


Dan...

Really awesome application!

The magnifying glass icon still has the drop-down arrow, so I always expect to be able to click it to view recent searches, but it is unclickable with Inquisitor installed.
It would be a cool optoin to be able to click it for that function.


mytuur...

Good Design… nice software…!!


Arvids...

Hi! I would suggest to add more Google regional sites to the menu, such as google.lv which is for Latvia, so that everyone could get his localized results.


BeXeM...

This software is really cool. But this version have a problem: if press keyword and command key, the research (google page) don’t appear in a new tab (like old version) but the research appear in “my” page e not in a new tab.

Bye bye, good work.

PS: I’m italian, sorry for grammatical error :)


krstn...

As Inquisitor is free by now, but not for Camino users, would it be possible to make the 2.6.2 release free for them too? If you did so, i’d also think about a donation. Or is there something I have missed?


Andrej...

Hi

I have one sugestion or feature wish.

Button or menu item that opens found links in tabs. It would be useful to do that in just in one click, and some (make poll/ask users) options for that feature in preferences.

Thanks for the most useful tools on OS X. You are the Best!
My best wishes,
Andrej


Jason...

Dude, inquisitor rocks!!!


Josef...

one suggestion. by installing your great plug-in, i’m missing one feature of the original search box: copying the searched term to the clipboard. safari got quite smart in it lately. some might not like it; perhaps a check box? thanks!


Andreas...

That is a good move. I am not a big fan of Googles urge to store my searches.


PaulG...

Great piece of software. If you use Safari you simply must install Inquisitor, it’s that simple.

Excellent work of the developers, thanks bunch!


JT...

Just stumbled on your site. I have a question about inquisitor. Any chance of it coming to firefox as a plugin?


Dax...

will we ever see inquisitor for firefox?


Tommy...

I love it. I’d give you some cash if I wasn’t a student. One suggestion. Add a keyboard shortcut for the next release.


Dig...

What happened to the post about MacHeist? I was going to read it but than I couldn’t see it anymore, I tried Firefox and Safari.


David...

That’s really slick! Any chance a version that works with Camino will ever show up?


James...

I’ve download 3.0 beta 2 yesterday….
the problem is…the temperture of my macbook pro gets so hot when I use xtorrent 3.0 beta 2…
the temperture won’t get hot from the previous version of xtorrent.
anyone have this problem???


Escher...

Just here to make a feature request for NewsFire. I’d really like to see support for http and socks proxies.

Otherwise, great product! Happily registered user.


Max...

The big thanks for your software! Inquisitor is the peace of art and I love it very much. Thanks again :)


Alen...

Can you please open a forum for Xtorrent software???

Best Regards,
Alen!


LUCA...

Inquisitor 3.0 beta2 prevents Spotlight menu bar from working. Spotlight accessible only by keyboard shortcut.
Hardware: MacBook Black 2GB RAM 160HD 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 DUO
System 10.4.8
Uninstalled using the uninstaller. Reboot. Spotlight Menu works again.
Note that the uninstaller only remove plugin from Inputmanagers folder but do not remove the folder Inquisitor in Home>Library>Application Support. This folder had to be removed manually


Elio...

Please please please create a version for firefox!!


cyber...

very very good


itunesmc...

hi

I wanna ask, if it’s possible to use Inquisitor in Omniweb? :)

When yes, what i have to do?

mc


Richard...

I have just downloaded this and tried it out – very impressive. Just one suggestion, however. It would be good to have a toggle so that it was possible to switch between an Inquisitor search and a conventional Google search.

In the meantime I have added Google to the bookmark toolbar.


Dave...

Just dl’d it and love it. Maybe something already exists, but if not, is it possible to provide a shortcut key to get to the field like using Apple L to jump to the URL field of Safari?


Ian...

Agree with the above comment. It is a fabulous piece of software, though. One other thing: I really miss the list of recent searchwords – maybe you could incorporate this for the future (unless I am missing something). Thanks.


Paul...

Works great! I love the speed and the site icon. fantastic work!

However, the button in the search field (the magnifying glass) doesn’t seem to work anymore. I have Acidsearch as well which lets me choose different search engine just by clicking.

Now it’s either Inquisitor or Acidsearch.


Ben...

Richard: if you press the return key as soon as you type something, it will search google straight away (or whatever search site you setup in preferences)

so, in effectiveness, it’s like both of them together


Paul...

Also, pressing arrow key down doesnt select the next item in the droplist. If it isn’t an intended feature then i’ll hope you add it in the future.


FOAD...

try enter ;)


Christian...

Hi, like this program very much and just innstalled the beta have used the other versions before, but I cant find the button where you can make your own search keycombos f.ex. shift+i+m sends you for a search in the internetmoviedatabase, is this taken away from the beta version?


Christian...

ooops, found it now :P it is in the Preferences in Safari, I think that is nicer as well just was used to the button where the thingy comes up :)


James...

Excellent software, can’t believe how many button presses it saves me!
To comment on Richard’s comment: if I want to do a “conventional Google search” I just hit the enter key after typing, am I missing your point?


Daniel...

very cute!

but it takes up to a second to process my keystrokes and when I get hasty it tends to swallow some which makes another slowdown. in that respect 2 was better!


Daniel...

using an mbp core2duo btw, so its not the cpu :)


Jim...

Make this little gem for Firefox and I’ll happily donate… maybe even twice! ;-)


duyvan82...

I’ve sent you an email asking for help with newsfire registration and haven’t heard from you since. I bought newsfire as part of the macheist bundle a while ago but for some reason it just doesn’t want to register now (i’ve got a new mac…) Please reply me asap.


Thomas...

Tryed it today for the first time – good work!
Only one question: can you add an option to change the colors? Grey on black is really hard to read, white on black isn’t much better. Maybe black on white could be a good choice? (as it looks when you type a url and safari gives suggestions)


jim...

Inquisitor 3 seems slow compared to version 2. Am I alone in feeling this way? I have Saft running, but this was never an issue with Inquisiotr 2.


özgür...

we want Turkish language of google search on Inquisitor


Indraunt...

I’ve been using Inquisitor for yonks, and quite frankly its the only thing that keeps me using Safari… So good job there!
However, through using Inquisitor more and more, I find myself using the Address Bar less and less simply because I don’t always know exactly the site I’m after, or maybe the extension; so it generally just makes more sense for me to just use Inquisitor instead.
What I’m wondering is whether it would be possible to tweak Inquisitor to be tied to the Address Bar instead of the Search Bar?
I understand that you may not want to do this yourself, but I would like ot know whether it’d be possible to do.


Adam...

I have been having a problem with the instant results from google, they do not show up. Has anyone else had a similar problem?


Bill...

Love, love, love Inquisitor! Great job on the programming and the design.

I recently noticed that web site results are no longer displayed if source is set to Google… works with Yahoo, others. Thought you should know.


Jet...

I’m having some trouble – Inquisitor will no longer show website search results, only suggestions. How do I fix it? I tried to uninstall and install again, bot hasn’t worked. I love this program – it saves me time, no complains beyond this…


david...

i installed inquisitor v.3 but it isn’t working as promised. i don’t know how to accurately describe this… i only get the options to go to a google home page. i am not getting the first third of the inquisitor searches that would take me directly to the website i am trying to get to. i have uninstalled and reinstalled but still the same thing.


iGOOSE...

Any plans to make a Safari 3.0 compatible version of Inquisitor?


Wade...

Well, I love Inquisitor 3 on Safari. However, I use Camino most of the time, and I miss your support for Camino. Do you plan on updating I3 to work on Camino?


Leander...

Hello,
The ‘Search History’ doesn’t work at all (yes, prefs are ok).
Can that be fixed?


thomas040...

REALLY think you should port this to windows, as the new safari is out. That would give windows users a taste of the REAL mac experience…. surprised apple hasnt paid you a large sum and bought it from you… it is essential to me in safari….


mini-d...

I think NewsFire needs a rebump in interface, keeping the small and fast use.


SprintSuks.com...

Is there any way to preserve the inquisitor prefs? Anytime i ditch the crappy safari prefs, i have to RE-enter all the engines/extras/changes i’ve added to inquisitor. that is a major pain in the butt

also it needs som acidsearch features, especially the google ’search this site:domain.com’ feature

thx