TextExpander for Chrome
8
What's New
Detailed Release Notes
8.2.3
March 17, 2025
- Various bug fixes and UI improvements.
8.2.2
March 7, 2025
- Various bug fixes and UI improvements.
8.2.1
January 14, 2025
- Fix for Snippet expansions in Google Docs.
- Added ability to quickly gather logs directly from the setting menu.
8.1.1
October 30, 2024
- Fix for Snippet expansions in Google Docs.
8.1
October 28, 2024
- Security improvements to authentication.
- Various bug fixes and UI improvements.
8.0
July 22, 2024
- Improvements to communication between the TextExpander Chrome extension and TextExpander Web App.
8.2.3
March 17, 2025
- Various bug fixes and UI improvements.
8.2.2
March 7, 2025
- Various bug fixes and UI improvements.
8.2.1
January 14, 2025
- Fix for Snippet expansions in Google Docs.
- Added ability to quickly gather logs directly from the setting menu.
8.1.1
October 30, 2024
- Fix for Snippet expansions in Google Docs.
8.1
October 28, 2024
- Security improvements to authentication.
- Various bug fixes and UI improvements.
8
July 22, 2024
- Improvements to communication between the TextExpander Chrome extension and TextExpander Web App.
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What's New
Detailed Release Notes
7.9.1
June 30, 2024
- Clear Cache added to Chrome Extension. In the event a user cannot uninstall and reinstall extension to clear cache.
7.9
June 27, 2024
- Extension updated to support Chrome Manifest V3
- Snippet type “Formatted Text, Pictures” is now “Rich Text”
- Rich Text is now the default Snippet type
- Add New Snippet button to UI
- Inline Search hint added when searching within TextExpander main window
- Bug fixes
7.7.3
April 18, 2024
- Contextual Click menu added.
- Chrome Notifications added.
- Fixed Fill-in Bug.
7.7.1
November 15, 2023
- Fixes for Expand and Match
- Fix for date adjustment not being respected in excluded optional
- Fixes issue with text selection Google Docs
- Improves placement of Inline Search & Fill In windows
- Use snippet's prior fill-in window size on Chrome
- Additional fixes and improvements
7.7
September 19, 2023
- TextExpander for Chrome now has the full experience you know and love from the macOS and Windows applications!
- Create, edit, move, and delete Snippets directly from the TextExpander Chrome application!
- TextExpander for Chrome can now be run alongside TextExpander for macOS and Windows!
- Fix ability to enter Optional Section using arrow keys
- Bug fixes and optimizations
7.5.2
May 30, 2023
- Fixes display of Optional Sections in Fill-In windows
- Fixes expansion after reloading extension
- Fixes empty expansion of Fill-Ins
- Fixes abbreviation removal when expanding Fill-Ins
- Fixes typing performance in large Fill-Ins
7.4.1
January 17, 2023
- Improved accuracy of Snippet statistics
7.3.1
October 31, 2022
- Improved search performance
- Fixes Quick Actions buttons
7.9.1
June 30, 2024
- Clear Cache added to Chrome Extension. In the event a user cannot uninstall and reinstall extension to clear cache.
7.9
June 27, 2024
- Extension updated to support Chrome Manifest V3
- Snippet type “Formatted Text, Pictures” is now “Rich Text”
- Rich Text is now the default Snippet type
- Add New Snippet button to UI
- Inline Search hint added when searching within TextExpander main window
- Fixes expansion of Show at Top when using Script Snippets
- Improves editing of links in the Snippet Editor
- Fixes backspace potentially breaking tables in the Snippet editor
- Fixes copying and pasting of Optional Sections
- Fixes crash when editing lists in some circumstances
- Fixes closing a dialog via Esc key
- Fixes expansion, Inline Search & Fill Ins in Excel
- Preserve first item as default selected index for Popup Menu
- Add clipboard restoration toggle to preferences
7.7.3
April 18, 2024
- Contextual Click menu added. You can now quickly create a snippet by highlighting text and right clicking it.
- Chrome Notifications added. Users now have the ability to see expansion information and other helpful information related to Snippets in their Chrome Notifications. This needs to be enabled in both Chrome and host OS in order to work.
- Fixed Fill-in Bug. In certain instances navigating from the fill-in window to expand a new snippet, the fill-in window would close. This has now been resolved so the fill-in window remains until finishing the expansion operation.
7.7.1
November 15, 2023
- Fix for date adjustment not being respected in excluded optional
- Fixes issue with unnamed embedded fill-ins
- Use Snippet’s prior fill-in window size on Chrome
- Fixes issue where Chrome’s inline search may not appear
- Fixes expand and match expansion
- Select existing text after Chrome Tab keypress
- Fixes expansion in Google Calendar description field
- Fixes crash when deleting popup menu default option
- Fixes crash when deleting first item in list
- Fix for text selection in Google Docs
- Fixes placeholder text when editing Fill Ins
- Fixes expansion with cursor positioning in Microsoft Word
- Improves performance of Quick Actions expansion
- Improves placement of Inline Search & Fill In windows
7.7
September 19, 2023
- Fix ability to enter Optional Section using arrow keys
- Update extension icon
- Fix Chrome Quick Actions context menu
- Improve fill-in and inline search placement
- Fix to retain default popup option after deletion of item
- Fix dialog Esc key behavior
- Fix issue where multiple delete dialogs could display
- Fix copy/paste of snippets from context menu
- Provide keyboard command focus fallback in Quick Actions
- Fix treatment of embedded JavaScript snippets on Chrome
7.5.2
May 30, 2023
- Fixes display of Optional Sections in Fill-In windows
- Fixes expansion after reloading extension
- Fixes empty expansion of Fill-Ins
- Fixes abbreviation removal when expanding Fill-Ins
- Fixes typing performance in large Fill-Ins
7.4.1
January 17, 2023
- Improved accuracy of Snippet statistics
7.3.1
October 31, 2022
- Fixes Open TextExpander from Chrome Quick Actions [TEC-2060]
- Fixes Quick Actions not showing Snippets after restart [TEC-1438]
- Fixes for creating a new Snippet from the clipboard [TEC-1429]
- Evaluate %date: macros before executing scripts [TEC-1307]
- Improve search performance [TEC-2593]
1
What's New
Detailed Release Notes
1.3
February 18, 2021
- Fixes removal of preceding character when an abbreviation ends with spaces
- Fixes expansion of ignore case snippets when abbreviation is all capitals
- Fixes abbreviation removal when space is the only delimiter
- Fixes expansion of popup macros without any entries
- Other minor fixes and improvements
1.2.1
January 20, 2021
- Resolves expansion issue when used with Zendesk
1.2
January 19, 2021
- Adds Quick Actions to TextExpander Omnibar item
- Other fixes and improvements
1.1.3
April 10, 2020
- Fixes expansion failure in Intercom
- Resolves case where abbreviation is not removed in certain online editors
- Resolves case where excess characters are removed in Zendesk
- Other fixes and improvements
1.1
February 16, 2020
First public release to Chrome Web Store1.1.2
February 16, 2020
- Works with Freshservice
- Other fixes and improvements
1.1.1
September 23, 2019
- Cancelling fill-ins cleans up abbreviations
- Escape key dismisses fill-in windows
- Resolves incorrect JavaScript timeout
- Fixes expansion in Intercom
- Eliminates double expansions in Zendesk
- Other fixes and improvements
1.0.4
July 15, 2019
- Resolves additional issue with options settings
1.0.3
July 10, 2019
- Resolves issues with options settings
1.0.2
June 28, 2019
- Improves expansion in a variety of online text editors
- Improves rich text expansion in a number of circumstances
- Improves expansion in Help Scout’s Beacon chat
- No longer expands in password fields
- Other fixes and improvements
1.0.1
May 21, 2019
- Improves Google Sheets support (basic expansion, cursor positioning and keyboard keys)
- Adds support for Google Voice
- Expands abbreviations within text fields of fill-ins
- Fixes Parts of fill-in expansion getting truncated
- Fixes case where user options changes failed to save
- Fixes expansion in Evernote and adds support for special key delimiters
- Improves expansion in Help Scout
- Improves expansion in Outlook and Notion
- Other improvements and fixes
1.3
February 18, 2021
- Fixes removal of preceding character when expanding snippets with an abbreviation that ends with a space [TEC-1144, TEC-1301]
- Fixes expansion of ignore case snippets when abbreviation is all capitals [TEC-1291]
- Fixes abbreviation removal during expansion when using space as the only delimiter [TEC-1289]
- Fixes expansion of popup macros without any entries [TEC-783]
- Allows expansion of a single zero-width-space if it is the only snippet content [TEC-1329]
- Fixes crash at startup if an RTF-formatted snippet exists [TEC-1327]
1.2.1
January 20, 2021
- Resolves expansion issue when used with Zendesk [TEC-1285]
1.2
January 19, 2021
- Adds Quick Actions to TextExpander Omnibar item
- Other fixes and improvements
1.1.3
April 10, 2020
- Fixes expansion failure in Intercom [TECHR-112]
- Resolves case where abbreviation is not removed in certain online editors [TEC-734]
- Resolves case where excess characters are removed in Zendesk [TECHR-118]
- Other fixes and improvements
1.1.2
February 16, 2020
- Works with Freshservice [TEC-651]
- Other fixes and improvements
1.1.1
September 23, 2019
- Cancelling fill-ins cleans up abbreviations [TECHR-22]
- Escape key dismisses fill-in windows [TECHR-113]
- Resolves incorrect JavaScript timeout [TECHR-115]
- Fixes expansion in Intercom [TECHR-112]
- Eliminates double expansions in Zendesk [TECHR-116]
- Other fixes and improvements
1.0.4
July 15, 2019
- Resolves additional issue with options settings
1.0.3
July 10, 2019
- Resolves issues with options settings
1.0.2
June 28, 2019
- No longer expands in password fields [TECHR-69]
- Improves rich text expansion on sites such as anotepad.com [TECHR-72]
- Removes abbreviation when expanding in Drafts-based editors [TECHR-74]
- Improves expansion in Help Scout’s Beacon chat [TECHR-75]
- Improves expansion in additional online text editors [TECHR-78]
1.0.1
May 21, 2019
- Improves Google Sheets support (basic expansion, cursor positioning and keyboard keys)
- Expands abbreviations within text fields of fill-ins [TECHR-66]
- Fixes Parts of fill-in expansion getting truncated [TECHR-54]
- Fixes user options bug [TECHR-58]
- Fixes expansion in Evernote and adds support for special key delimiters
- Fixes case where whitespace delimiters can prevent whitespace characters from being typed [TECHR-61]
- Partial fix for abbreviation not removed in Google Sheet [TECHR-53]
- Appends TEChrome/ to user agent
- Expanding in a Google Document no longer undoes auto-capitalization [TECHR-56]
- Fixes expansion in body of Outlook online [TECHR-64]
- Fixes issues with expansion in Notion [TECHR-62]
- Fixes snippets with a right square bracket ( ] ) in the abbreviation failing to expand [TECHR-63]
- Ignores abbreviations in password fields [TECHR-69]
- Improves formatted text snippets processing
- Improves expansion in Help Scout [TECHR-61]
- Adds support for snippets that contain new line characters to the copy/paste method