I took a lesson from my own blog post yesterday about lazy loading and made some drastic improvements to the load time of Regex Hero today. Essentially I'm now loading things like the analyzer and benchmark tool only when they're first called. This reduces the amount of work that has to be done when Regex Hero is first launched. And it should even reduce memory consumption a little bit if you're not using these features. The end result is that Regex Hero loads about half a second faster than before. This affects both the web version and the desktop version. Enjoy.
As Firefox just dropped support for Silverlight I really needed a solution for Regex Hero. So I created an installer for it. It's still Silverlight, but by using the installer you can install it directly to your computer and never need to open it in a browser. If you visit regexhero.net/tester and don't have a browser that supports Silverlight (IE is the only one left), then you'll see download links for 64-bit and 32-bit versions of the installer. When you install it you'll see a link over on the right hand side that says "Activate Regex Hero". This process connects your desktop version of Regex Hero with your online account. So if you're a licensed user this is how you'll gain access to all of those licensed features. Note: Currently there will be a security warning when you try to run either one of these installers. I'm in the process of obtaining a code signing certificate and will update them as soon as possible. You may be wondering a...
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