General update

This bug with migration which everyone keeps encountering is really frustrating. It occurs on a large percentage of machines, but not for any of the Greasemonkey developers. For anyone who is still seeing problems where GM appears to not work at all after upgrading to 0.5.x, please see the directions here for a simple fix.

I have created a patch which forgoes automatic migration completely and just warns the user that they need to move the folder by hand, but I'm not sure whether to push it yet. I suppose it depends on how many people who were using 0.3.x have not yet upgraded.

In other news, I've made quite a bit of progress on a new Greasemonkey - 0.6 - which uses a more stable injection technique which should solve a whole other class of problems. It works really well, is super simple, and uses standard APIs. So I don't expect it to have the same inconsistency across machines that the 0.5 series does.

Unless I keep getting a ton of reports about bad migrations, I think I'll just leave 0.5.3 as the last of that branch and focus on 0.6, which will not have auto-migration, and thus cannot have this nasty migration bug.

I guarantee that nobody is more frustrated by these bugs than me. But 0.6 should be a lot better. So just hang on, and we can all forget 0.5 as soon as possible :-).