Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Greasemonkey 0.9.0 Release

It's been a long time coming, but it should be worth the wait! The next major release of Greasemonkey, version 0.9.0, is ready. Let's dive right into the new features:

New Features:
  • Compatibility with Firefox 4! Note that because of Firefox bug 612025 this is somewhat unsafe for 4.0b7 to 4.0b9 (inclusive). Beta 10 should be fixed (the nightly build on January 14th definitely is). Firefox 4 support is still preliminary. Everything probably works, but not everything works really well. The backlog of bugs for the next release is primarily focused on this.
  • Complete integration with the standard Firefox Add-ons dialog, treating User Scripts as just another kind of browser add-on.
    For Firefox 3, the User Script management dialog now looks like:

    And for Firefox 4.0:
  • A global options dialog, where the script editor can always be selected. (#1012, #1109)
  • Live in-place editing for the entire script, including metadata (@name, @require, @include, @exclude, etc.). (#1148, #1157, #1165)
  • Web pages that end in .user.js are loaded as normal, instead of being installed as a user script. (#1184)
Bug fixes / minor enhancements:
  • All Greasemonkey windows respond to standard close window keyboard shortcuts. (#1085)
  • Support for @icon metadata imperative, displayed in the new add-ons manager integration. (#1096)
  • Support user and password for GM_xmlHttpRequest(). (#1100)
  • Support @version metadata imperative. (#1110)
  • Suppress spurious Error: not well-formed (// ==UserScript==) error messages. (#1134)
  • The "install" menu item is removed. (#1196)

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2 comments:

  1. Please note: the new official release has been sent to the addons.mozilla.org site but it is stuck in review. We have no control over Mozilla's review process. Please be patient.

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  2. Our preliminary review has come back, negative. There's only a few small issues which I'd expect to have fixed in the next few hours. Submission and re-review should then be completed in (I hope) 24 to 48 hours more.

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