History
Nicholas Jitkoff started development of Quicksilver in 2003. He released several versions to the public until 2006 and maintained an internet forum for the tool from the beginning.
On October 30, 2007, the source code for Quicksilver was made available via Google Code. In November 2009, development shifted to using GitHub. Quicksilver is now developed by a team of volunteers known collectively as QSApp.
At the end of 2010, the new website QSApp.com was launched, with the aim of unifying and collating all of Quicksilver's fragmented builds, plugins and support groups. Since its launch, the site has included a new Plugins Repository, Wiki and Downloads section. After several months of development, Quicksilver version β59 was released, a marked point in the history of the application.
Quicksilver's icon is based on the alchemical symbol for mercury, "quicksilver" being an archaic name for the element.
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