diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 97b30e70..fc2bd57b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 build
 local
 *.sublime-*
+
+test
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d185c806..eb76137b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ It profits from these great projects:
 * adds no JavaScript fallback to PHP version
 * fixes duplicate tree entries and empty main views
 * adds Google Analytics support (async)
+* improves filter (now case-insensitive, now only checks if chars in right order)
 * adds `hu` translation by [Rodolffo](http://github.com/Rodolffo)
 * updates to [jQuery.qrcode](http://larsjung.de/qrcode/) 0.2
 * updates to [jQuery.scrollpanel](http://larsjung.de/scrollpanel/) 0.1
diff --git a/src/_h5ai/config.js b/src/_h5ai/config.js
index 5589798c..88e6dc61 100644
--- a/src/_h5ai/config.js
+++ b/src/_h5ai/config.js
@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ var H5AI_CONFIG = {
 
 		/*
 		 * Allow filtering the displayed files and folders.
-		 * Note: filters will be treated as JavaScript regular expressions
+		 * Will check entries for right order of characters, i.e.
+		 * "ab" matches "ab", "axb", "xaxbx" but not "ba".
+		 * Space separated sequences get OR-ed.
+		 *
+		 * Filters will be treated as JavaScript regular expressions
 		 * if you prefix them with "re:".
 		 */
 		"filter": {
@@ -129,7 +133,7 @@ var H5AI_CONFIG = {
 		 * see: http://support.google.com/googleanalytics/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=27612
 		 */
 		"google-analytics": {
-			"enabled": false,
+			"enabled": true,
 			"gaq": []
 		},
 
diff --git a/src/_h5ai/js/inc/ext/filter.js b/src/_h5ai/js/inc/ext/filter.js
index 2af67a7b..ec75b5ce 100644
--- a/src/_h5ai/js/inc/ext/filter.js
+++ b/src/_h5ai/js/inc/ext/filter.js
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ modulejs.define('ext/filter', ['_', '$', 'core/settings', 'core/resource'], func
 		escapeRegExp = function (sequence) {
 
 			return sequence.replace(/[\-\[\]{}()*+?.,\\$\^|#\s]/g, '\\$&');
-			// return sequence.replace(/[|()\[{.+*?^$\\]/g,"\\$0");
 		},
 
 		parseFilterSequence = function (sequence) {
@@ -72,10 +71,15 @@ modulejs.define('ext/filter', ['_', '$', 'core/settings', 'core/resource'], func
 
 			sequence = $.map($.trim(sequence).split(/\s+/), function (part) {
 
-				return escapeRegExp(part);
+				return _.map(part.split(''), function (char) {
+
+					return escapeRegExp(char);
+				}).join('.*?');
+
+				// return escapeRegExp(part);
 			}).join('|');
 
-			return new RegExp(sequence);
+			return new RegExp(sequence, 'i');
 		},
 
 		update = function () {