v5.9.0

October 23, 2017    Pre-release

New Features

  • User Tagger tracks upvotes and downvotes individually (displayed on hover) (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • New Selected Entry addLine option, potentially less intrusive than other selected styles (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • New Profile Redirect module to redirect to old reddit profiles (thanks @andytuba)
  • New keyboard shortcut (U / shift-U) for navigating to the author’s profile (thanks @erikdesjardins)
  • New keyboard shortcut (ctrl-Z) for selecting the previously-selected comment (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • New keyboard shortcut (E) to edit the currently-selected comment or selfpost (thanks @Antrikshy)
  • New Imgur useGifOverGifv option to prefer .gif files (thanks @munumafia)
  • Add no-subreddit-style class to body on pages without subreddit style, for CSS snippets (thanks @nkoxlien)
  • New googleAccount option in Backup & Restore to specify the account to use if you’re signed into multiple (thanks @AgrimPrasad)
  • Comment Navigator starts with AMA mode selected in /r/IAmA and /r/casualiama (thanks @Antrikshy)
  • Expando titles will not be displayed if they’re the same as the accompanying post title (thanks @nkoxlien)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix handling new Gfycat URL format (thanks @kennethjeremyau)
  • Fix hover popup closing when mouse is inside selected item (thanks @Express50)
  • Fix inaccurate viewport size in certain subreddits (thanks @leviroth)
  • Fix misspelled convertGifstoGfycat option title (thanks @isiah-lloyd)
  • Fix missing margin between hidden usernames and user tags (thanks @okdana)
  • Fix inability to select posts on second NER page with large page sizes in Firefox (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • Fix notifications on new profile pages (thanks @andytuba)
  • Fix native reddit expandos continuing to play after hiding the containing post (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • Fix spoiler and NSFW candystriping applying to nested expandos in self posts (thanks @nkoxlien)
  • Fix resources in Wikipedia expandos inadvertantly being preloaded (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • Fix No Participation displaying a warning when removing a vote (thanks @mgiuffrida)
  • Fix handling of new replies added (by you) to comments without any replies (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • Fix Comment Preview getting stuck with contents of top-level textarea (thanks @erikdesjardins)

Housekeeping / Other

  • Selected Entry cleanup (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • i18n in RES gear menu and some top-level interface items (thanks @wojtekmaj)
  • Update deps, clean up polyfills (thanks @erikdesjardins)
  • Minor cleanup (thanks @mc10)
  • Add search keywords for Orangered updateOtherTabs (thanks @erikdesjardins)
  • Edge tweaks (thanks @BenMcGarry)
  • Make keyboard navigation more resilient to errors (thanks @larsjohnsen)
  • Remove some now-unnecessary Onedrive permissions (thanks @erikdesjardins)
  • Contributing doc fixes (thanks @mtblanton)
  • Add link to license to readme (thanks @jasonsedwards)
  • Improve positioning of expando icon in comments (thanks @larsjohnsen)