Firefox 1.5-compatible Greasemonkey beta now available

I've posted a beta of the next version of Greasemonkey to userscripts.org. You can access it at:

http://userscripts.org/greasemonkey-0.6.2.xpi

This is for Firefox Beta 1.5 only and will not install on other Firefoxes. If you use a version of the browser prior to 1.5, then you should continue using Greasemonkey 0.5.3.

It's a beta, which means that it will likely break some number of your existing, working scripts. Please report these on the mailing list and to the script author. Many breakages will be up to the script author to correct. Typically, the changes required are minor. Authors should consult the Greasemonkey Wiki or mailing list for help.

There is currently no Greasemonkey 0.5.x for Firefox 1.5 beta. It's my hope that user script authors will update their scripts so that such a release is not necessary. So please, bug script authors whose scripts break :-).


What's new?

• Monkey menu: Click the monkey to get quick access to enabling and disabling each of your scripts. You can also see at a glance which scripts ran on the current page.
  
  
• New install UI: We no longer pop up two modal dialogs everytime you install a script. Instead, a simple animated status message to the left of the monkey tells you everything went OK.
  
  
• New injection system: We now use a much stabler injection system which is only available to Firefox 1.5. This should solve all double-injects or non-injects (except for document.domain issues discussed below).
  
  
• New migration system: Greasemonkey no longer tries to migrate the script folder's location on install, which was causing install headaches for some users. Instead, it uses the old location if a previous version was already installed.
  
  
• Fastback support: Previous Greasemonkeys interfered with Firefox 1.5's awesome Fastback feature. This release does not.
  

Known Issues:

• Update: If you install Greasemonkey 0.6.2 without any prior version installed, installing scripts will not work. You'll see a "file not found error. We'll be updating soon to fix this and are sorry for the bug. Meanwhile, the following will fix you up:
  
  
  
  1. cd <your profile directory>
  
  
  2. mkdir gm_scripts
  
  
  3. Unix: touch gm_scripts/config.xml
  
  
  4. Windows: echo "" > gm_scripts\config.xml
  
  
  
  


• Greasemonkey 0.6.2 does not inject on websites which use the document.domain javascript property. Notable examples are search.ebay.com and yahoo.com. This is due to a Firefox bug which will be fixed before 1.5 ships.
  
  
• Scripts which use any of the properties of the location object fail with NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER. This is due to a Firefox bug which will be fixed before 1.5 ships. As a temporary workaround, script authors may wrap code which accesses the location object with a window.setTimeout call. So for instance, instead of window.location.replace('foo'), use window.setTimeout(function(){ window.location.replace('foo') });.
  

XPCNativeWrapper reminders:

The window and document properties in Greasemonkey 0.6.x are XPCNativeWrapper objects, which have many annoying limitations as compared to the normal DOM objects. You can keep up with all the details as documented on the Greasemonkey wiki.