diff --git a/ui (gen4)/css/widget/browse.css b/ui (gen4)/css/widget/browse.css
index 517aa051..719a2eb9 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/css/widget/browse.css	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/css/widget/browse.css	
@@ -197,15 +197,20 @@
 
 	opacity: 0.4;
 }
+/* highlight seach... */
+.browse-widget .list>div .text b {
+	background-color: rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.5);
+}
 .browse-widget .list>div.strike-out .text {
 	text-decoration: line-through;
 	opacity: 0.3;
 }
 .browse-widget .list>div.highlighted {
 	font-style: italic;
+	font-weight: bold;
 }
-.browse-widget .list>div.highlighted:after {
-	content: '*';
+.browse-widget .list>div.highlighted .text:after {
+	content: ' *';
 }
 .browse-widget:not(.flat) .list div:not(.not-traversable) .text:after {
 	content: "/";
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse-walk.js b/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse-walk.js
index 0cac036a..90c79cba 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse-walk.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/lib/widget/browse-walk.js	
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ function(path, make){
 var listDirfs = 
 module.listDirfs =
 function(path, make){
+	var that = this
 	path = path.constructor == Array ? path.join('/') : path
 	path = /^[a-zA-Z]:/.test(path.trim()) ? path : '/'+path
 	// XXX the windows root path must have a trailing '/'
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ function(path, make){
 							// 		so we'll not wait...
 							if(res && dir){
 								var i = 0
-								glob(path +'/'+ file +'/*+(jpg|jpeg|png|JPG|JPEG|PNG)')
+								glob(path +'/'+ file +'/'+ that.options.fileCountPattern)
 									/*
 									.on('match', function(){
 										i += 1
@@ -231,6 +232,8 @@ WalkPrototype.options = {
 	pushButton: false,
 
 	list: listDir,
+
+	fileCountPattern: '*+(jpg|jpeg|png|JPG|JPEG|PNG)',
 }
 WalkPrototype.options.__proto__ = browse.Browser.prototype.options
 
@@ -243,16 +246,30 @@ object.makeConstructor('Walk',
 
 
 var makeWalk = 
-module.makeWalk = function(elem, path, showNonTraversable, showDisabled){
-	var w = Walk(elem, { 
-		path: path,
-		showNonTraversable: showNonTraversable == null ?
-			WalkPrototype.options.showNonTraversable
-			: showNonTraversable,
-		showDisabled: showDisabled == null ? 
-			WalkPrototype.options.showDisabled
-			: showDisabled,
-	})
+module.makeWalk = function(elem, path, showNonTraversable, showDisabled, fileCountPattern, rest){
+	var opts = {}
+	if(rest){
+		for(var k in rest){
+			opts[k] = rest[k]
+		}
+	}
+
+	opts.path = path
+
+	opts.showNonTraversable = showNonTraversable == null ?
+		WalkPrototype.options.showNonTraversable
+		: showNonTraversable
+
+	opts.showDisabled = showDisabled == null ? 
+		WalkPrototype.options.showDisabled
+		: showDisabled
+
+	opts.fileCountPattern = fileCountPattern == null ?
+		WalkPrototype.options.fileCountPattern
+		: fileCountPattern
+
+	var w = Walk(elem, opts)
+
 	return w
 }
 
diff --git a/ui (gen4)/viewer.js b/ui (gen4)/viewer.js
index a9e566e6..42a0629f 100755
--- a/ui (gen4)/viewer.js	
+++ b/ui (gen4)/viewer.js	
@@ -3453,6 +3453,8 @@ function(path){
 var FileSystemLoaderActions = actions.Actions({
 	config: {
 		'index-dir': '.ImageGrid',
+
+		'image-file-pattern': '*+(jpg|jpeg|png|JPG|JPEG|PNG)',
 	},
 
 	clone: [function(full){
@@ -3623,7 +3625,7 @@ var FileSystemLoaderActions = actions.Actions({
 			// XXX not sure if this is the way to go...
 			this._base_path = path 
 
-			glob(path + '/*+(jpg|jpeg|png|JPG|JPEG|PNG)')
+			glob(path + '/'+ this.config['image-file-pattern'])
 				.on('error', function(err){
 					console.log('!!!!', err)
 				})
@@ -3663,7 +3665,7 @@ var FileSystemLoaderActions = actions.Actions({
 			var base_pattern = RegExp('^'+path)
 
 			// find images...
-			glob(path + '/*+(jpg|jpeg|png|JPG|JPEG|PNG)')
+			glob(path + '/'+ this.config['image-file-pattern'])
 				.on('end', function(lst){ 
 					// create a new images chunk...
 					lst = lst
@@ -3778,7 +3780,9 @@ var FileSystemLoaderUIActions = actions.Actions({
 			base = base || this.base_path || '/'
 
 			var o = overlay.Overlay(this.ribbons.viewer, 
-				require('./lib/widget/browse-walk').makeWalk(null, base, false, false)
+				require('./lib/widget/browse-walk').makeWalk(
+						null, base, false, false, 
+						this.config['image-file-pattern'])
 					// path selected...
 					.open(function(evt, path){ 
 						var item = o.client.selected
@@ -4186,7 +4190,7 @@ var URLHistoryUIActions = actions.Actions({
 			var makeRE = function(path){
 				return RegExp('^'
 					// quote regular expression chars...
-					+p.replace(/([\.\\\/\(\)\[\]\$\*\+\-\{\}\@\^\&\?\<\>])/g, '\\$1')
+					+path.replace(/([\.\\\/\(\)\[\]\$\*\+\-\{\}\@\^\&\?\<\>])/g, '\\$1')
 					+'$')
 			}