Thank you for using Google Desktop for Mac beta. Click a link below to find release notes for the latest version and older versions of Google Desktop for Mac. The current version of Google Desktop for Mac is v1.6.0.1552.
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Version 1.6.0.1552 (9/30/2008)
Feature improvements:- Google Updater is no longer required to install or uninstall Google Desktop.
- Installation issues
- During initial indexing, Google Desktop may have a noticeable impact on your computer, especially if your hard drive is highly fragmented or low on disk space. We've designed Google Desktop to be usable - if a bit sluggish - during this period. Once indexing is complete, your computer should return to its normal, speedy self. To expedite indexing, we recommend that you have at least 10 percent disk space remaining and defragment your hard disk before installing.
- If you put the 'Double Click to install Google Desktop' file on a FileVault volume before running it, you may see an error message stating that you need insert a disk. To avoid this issue, don't move the file out of the DMG before running it.
- Mail and browser issues
- Indexing Gmail may take a long time because emails are downloaded in batches; each 'batch' is separated by two hours, and there's no progress meter.
- If you use MailTags, you need to delete the existing MailTags Spotlight importer from /Library/Spotlight or ~/Library/Spotlight and reinstall version 2.0b9 or later. Earlier versions cause crashes during indexing.
- Inability to search for MailTag tags in emails; the mail contents themselves can be searched normally. We are working with the MailTags author to resolve this.
- If you have both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 installed, you may see a message appear in the following instances:
- The first time you launch Firefox 3 after updating to the latest version of Desktop, an 'Add-on' dialog will appear and the Desktop Search 1.1 extension will be installed.
- If you launch Firefox 2 after having launched Firefox 3 and installing the Desktop Search 1.1 extension, you'll see an 'Incompatible Add-ons' dialog. If you see this message, click Don't Check. Despite this message, both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 should work normally with Google Desktop.
- Indexing issues
- Desktop may slow down and appear unresponsive when completing an operation that involves a lot of files, such as installing Logic Studio. It will eventually catch up.
- Other issues
- We've received reports of some CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) updates failing with I/O errors. The workaround is to disable indexing during the update and re-enable after the update is complete.
- If you're working with programs like CVS or SVN (Subversion), you may experience large amounts of file I/O. There's a known issue in Mac OS 10.4+ where large amounts of file I/O may cause a kernel panic. To resolve the issue, we recommend adding any CVS or SVN associated items to your Privacy list.
Older versions
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Version 1.5.0.1243 (6/6/2008)
Feature improvements:
- Improved machine responsiveness while indexing.
- Reduced initial indexing time on machines with a large number of files by up to 40 percent.
- Added full support for Mozilla Firefox 3.
- Added full support for developer builds of Camino.
Version 1.4.2.1007 (3/20/2008)
Bug fixes:
- Fixed crashes and redraw problems within the Safari web browser (For this reason, we also recommend restarting Safari after upgrading).
- Fixed crashes when a file had an owner with a very high UID.
Version 1.4.1.891 (1/29/2008)
Feature improvements:
- Added ability to drag results from the Quick Search Box list to other applications, such as the Finder or the Dock.
- Added support for Camino 1.6.
- Fixed several memory leak issues during indexing.
- Fixed the accidental auto-mounting of network filesystems during indexing.
Version 1.4.0.826 (11/28/2007)
Feature improvements:
- Indexing improvements that reduce indexing time and improve machine responsiveness.
- Support for Google Gadgets. Get more information regarding Google Gadgets for the Mac.
Version 1.3.1.806 (11/16/2007)
Bug fixes: We've fixed several bugs that caused crashes during indexing and in the Quick Search Box and the Google Desktop Agent.
Version 1.3.0.748 (10/23/2007)
Feature improvements:
- Support for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- Indexing drives where Spotlight has been disabled.
- Architecture improvements:
- Removed some Spotlight dependencies.
- Removed use of Input Managers.
- Removed use of files in /System.
- Time Machine won't back up Desktop indexes, nor will Desktop search Time Machine backups.
- Desktop no longer tries to index PGP disks.
- Desktop preferences pane now supports keyword searching in System Preferences for various settings.
- Improved crash reporter's (Breakpad) internal thread-safety during crashes.
- Fixed localization issues in the user interface.
- Fixed the problem where Desktop was showing revisions for a file that was moved in and out of the privacy list.
Version 1.1.0.520 (8/31/2007)
Feature improvements:
- Added new languages.
- Support for nine new languages (English UK, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese, and Dutch)
- Support for non-English and non-Roman languages, especially Japanese
- Improved the crash reporter.
- Support to ignore email identified as spam in Mail and Entourage.
- Support for contact groups in Address Book and Entourage.
- Kernel extension split into two parts to avoid future reboots on Tiger.
- Fixed cmd-cmd hotkey getting tripped accidentally.
- Fixed the problem where GoogleDesktopDeamon locks up when trying to send messages to itself.
- Fixed the slow performance when changes are made on a volume that's not being indexed.
- Fixed the slow performance on files with an extraordinary number of unique terms.
- Fixed non-Google pages getting OneBox results.
- The search box now launches after install.
- Fixed the problem where index exists on an external volume but can't be deleted in the preference panel.
- Renames that were made to an offline volume are now detected.
- Search box appears correctly when the display changes.
Version 1.0.3.301 (5/31/2007)
Feature improvements:
- Shorter crawl-time after restart.
- Added XML API to get results from web server.
- Ignore deleted applications in search box.
- Now compatible with Camino 1.5.
- Display of paths in search box.
- Updater UI lists multiple products.
- Improved Updater security model.
- Improved Updater manual update UI.
- Handling of diacriticals when indexing and searching.
- Improved amount of memory used when indexing large files
- Several critical bugs would cause the machine to either crash or become unresponsive, especially when using Google Toolbar in Firefox.
- Greatly sped up display of large documents in revision history.
- Install would fail if the machine's PERL installation was missing certain items.
- Constantly re-crawling email identified as spam by the subject line.
- Pasting into the Search Box wouldn't work after the initial install.
- Memory consumption during Gmail downloading.
- Crash when user disconnects from the Internet in the middle of Gmail download.
- Cases where Search Box wouldn't show offline Gmail, even when offline.
- Memory leaks.
- Throttle crash reporter to only send one report per hour.
- Search Box help screen supports multiple keyboard layouts.
Version 1.0.1.216 (4/24/2007)
Feature improvements:
- Speed of re-crawl (after restart) improved by about 20 percent.
- Memory use when quickly indexing a large amount of data (by compressing it until we can process it).
- Handling of UTF-8 in Gmail.
- Support for datefrom: and dateto: query restricts.
- Display of search results when a document has been moved or renamed.
- Performance when indexing has been turned off in Preferences.
- Detection of the command-command key to reduce the chances of activating it by accident.
- Thumbnails for image files in the Web UI.
- Duplicate and spam email messages are not re-crawled.
- Spotlight Privacy settings on external volumes, FileVault, and ~/Library/Mail are now respected.
- Real-time events on external volumes are now ignored.
- Fixed alignment issues for certain large fonts (e.g. Devangari) when displaying results.
- Fixed the problem where the Quick Search box could be hidden behind the menu bar and would fade in after the helper window on the first launch.
- Fixed the problem where web history in Firefox and Camino would crash when the display was set to anything other than 32-bit color.
- "Alive/Update" ping was not always sent; now it is sent per the Privacy Policy.
- Fixed several activation and IME bugs with the Google Desktop search box.
- Fixed scripting support of Google Desktop app.
- More robust loading of data from corrupt indexes which would result in rolling crashes in GoogleDesktopDaemon.