Safe Exam Browser MacOSX Release Notes

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New query at installation: Up to now, the SEB icon on the desktop was created automatically and in any case. Now the installation asks the user in a dialog window whether a shortcut shall be created or not.

Bugfix: When SEB was prematurely quit or crashed, the Windows Registry values (for the blue Windows Security Screen) remained changed (e.g. the Task Manager was disabled also in normal use). Now the user can during configuration define the values not only for inside but also for outside of SEB. If something goes wrong during SEB operation and the registry values are out of tune, you simply start SEB once again and quit it using the SEB exit sequence (e.g. F3_F11_F6). This will reset the registry values to the normal ones, and the Task Manager will be available again.

Bugfix: Reloading / Refreshing the current page in the browser window by pressing the F5 key did not work. Now it is possible, provided that the F5 key is admitted. The new default setting for the F5 key is therefore "enabled".

Bugfix: Clicking on the SEB icon of the user's desktop in some cases launched the SEB installer rather than the actual SEB application. Now the SEB installer creates a shortcut to the SEB application on the common desktop. Thus the SEB icon and shortcut are visible to all users, and clicking on this icon launches the SEB application as intended.

Bugfix: When finishing, SEB restored the default registry values for Task Manager etc. (on the blue Windows Security Screen). Now, SEB instead restores the previous registry values (= the values before SEB was started).

Easens configuration for the teacher. It is now possible to do the configuration in a new GUI editor called SebWindowsConfig.exe using mouse clicks, without directly editing the initialisation files SebStarter.ini and MsgHook.ini.

The file format of these ini files has been simplified and is now better human-readable.

In addition to the full version of SEB (installation via .msi file), a classic portable version can be built (copying of a zip file without installation), which has less functionality.

Easens configuration and deployment for the teacher. It is now possible to modify the configuration files before rather than after installation, so the students can directly install SEB without patching it by additional configuration files after installation. Also, an Administrative Install via network is now possible.

Multilingual (German, English, French menus and error messages) based upon the current user default input language.

Improved abort behaviour when SEB fails to start (no zombie process "Seb.exe" anymore).

XULRunner bugfix: problem when downloading a file and start a third-party application according to its file extension now works.

New file locations for .ini and .log files match policy for modern Windows applications.

XULRunner version. Fixes a bug regarding the logfile (SEB startup problem when LOGFILE=0 and logfile could not be created due to lack of write permission).

Portable Firefox version. Fixes a bug regarding the logfile (SEB startup problem when LOGFILE=0 and logfile could not be created due to lack of write permission).