Greasemonkey 0.9.20 - Changelog

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.20:

May 16th, 2012

Enhancements:
· When the toolbar is in text-only mode, the "Greasemonkey" label on the toolbar button will be striked-out when Greasemonkey is disabled. (#1544)
· When selecting a script editor, the previous choice will be remembered and displayed. (#1546)

Bug fixes:
· A change in 0.9.19 broke setTimeout() for a variety of cases, that has been reverted. (#1549, #1552, #1553)
· Scripts with long names and/or file names could fail to install in Windows. (#1548)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.19:

April 24th, 2012

Enhancements:
· A custom wrapper to make setTimeout() work even when Javascript is disabled. (#1209)
· Restored the "script installed successfully" toast notification. (#1511)
· Scripts download more incrementally; the install dialog should appear as soon as the script metadata has been downloaded, not after the entire script is downloaded. (#1523)

Bug fixes:
· Specifying a script editor in a non-ASCII folder will work (Firefox 4+ only). (#1173)
· Scripts installed while the Add-Ons Manager is open will show their icon. (#1535)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.18:

February 29th, 2012

Enhancements:
· Automatic update checking can be enabled, without automatically installing updates. (#1455)
· Script updating is enabled by default. Please read the blog post describing this new feature. (#1462, #1463, #1480)

Bug fixes:
· Add-on Manager shows correct data when re-installing (e.g. to update) a script. (#1476)
· Re-installed scripts are put into the same directory as the original. (#1515)
· The matches property of GM_info is now a list of (pattern) strings. (#1516)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.17:

February 14th, 2012

Bug fixes:
· Error: "aForced is not defined". (#1517)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.16:

February 11th, 2012

Enhancements:
· Expose information (including Greasemonkey version) to user scripts via GM_info.
· Track the install time of scripts. (This is designed to better support automatic updates for scripts ... still coming soon.)

Bug fixes:
· Editing script from the "New User Script" feature, to change any remote dependency (@icon,@require, @resource), could the script to malfunction. (#1504)
· Enabling/disabling scripts from the status bar menu (Firefox 3 only).
· Incompatibility with GreaseFire.
· Failures during "Check for Updates" from the Add-on manager.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.15:

January 26th, 2012

· Editing an installed script to change any remote dependency (@icon, @require, @resource) could cause one or many scripts to be deleted. (#1466, #1502)
· Certain @requires can break a script, due to javascript semicolon insertion rules. (#1491)
· Toggling the enabled state of a script via the main (Tools > Greasemonkey) menu failed on Mac. (#1496)
· Installing a script from local disk failed in 0.9.14. (#1501)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.14:

January 23rd, 2012

Enhancements:
· For new script installs, and installed scripts' updates (still not enabled by default) there is a progress meter for the download. (#1419)

Bug fixes:
· Revert the changes to GM_xmlhttpRequest() in 0.9.13 (which were supposed to have no effect, but created a subtle bug). (#1472)
· Guarantee that the developers do not create a specific kind of memory leak. (#1482)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.13:

November 12th, 2011

Enhancements:
· Script updates install automatically. (#1442)
· In 0.9.12 we added update checking. In 0.9.13 updates install automatically, but there's still some discussion over how to handle this best (#1455), so checking is still not enabled by default. We hope to figure this out by the 0.9.14 release. Some other update related work was done, mostly to make Firefox 3 work better. (#1421, #1422, #1423)
· Provide an Options item in the Monkey Menu. (#1447)
· Add a Cancel button to the Options window. (#1454)

Bug fixes:
· GM_getResourceText() was broken. (#1438)
· You can properly select an application (bundle) for the editor on Mac OS X. (#1439)
· Fix GM_openInTab for Firefox 3. (#1444)
· Fix when pages reassign the location during page load. (#1445)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.12:

October 11th, 2011

Enhancements:
· Script update checking (limited!). (#1053)
· Scripts run with the latest available version of Javascript. (#1403)

Bug fixes:
· Shared window object. (#1278)
· Right-clicking a script in the Monkey Menu works, even when no editor is configured. (#1405)
· Fix launching the editor. (#1409)
· Scripts with @match could break loading all other scripts. (#1414)
· When browsing local files, menu commands for all scripts (on all tabs) no longer display. (#1424)
· Fix GM_openInTab(). (#1428)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.11:

September 8th, 2011

· Apply a work-around for the problem Tab Mix Plus causes when attempting to open links in a new tab.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.10:

September 6th, 2011

Bug fixes:
· You will be prompted to pick a new editor if the existing setting is an invalid path. (#1386)
· Changing views within the Add-ons Manager could cause the user script sort order to be wrong. (#1394)

Enhancements:
· When a script causes an unhandled error, the display in the Error Console will be a bit easier to read. (#1396)
· When Growl is not installed, Greasemonkey's notifications are less obtrusive. (#1397)
· A range of internal code clean ups. (#1395, #1398, #1399, #1400, #1401)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.9:

September 6th, 2011

Bug fixes:
· Pressing 'back' could rarely cause a script to run twice on the same page. (#1083)
· Extended characters would get corrupted in new scripts. (#1236, #1315)
· A full disk could cause loss of data (especially config.xml). (#1301)
· (Affecting 0.9.8) Scripts would not install (all scripts in Firefox 3: #1389, always for certain scripts: #1391)

Enhancements:
· GM_xmlhttpRequest() provides progress events. (#1081)
· GM_xmlhttpRequset() provides a synchronous mode. (#1269)
· By popular demand: a UI for editing @includes and @excludes. (#1362)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.8:

August 8th, 2011

Bug fixes:
· User scripts cannot run in any about: pages besides about:blank.

Enhancements:
· Global, user specified, @exclude rules.
· New @run-at metadata imperative, which supports value document-start, as well as the standard document-end behavior. Please see the documentation.
· Support for @match metadata imperative, as implemented by Google Chrome. Thanks to Scriptish for original implementation.
· Support for full regular expression syntax in @include/@exclude rules. Please see the documentation.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.7:

July 21st, 2011

Bug fixes:
· Scripts with broken @icons will install, just with no icon.
· Editing the @icon line of a script will take effect immediately.
· Remote resources (@require, @resource, @icon) that redirect to other URLs will now work.

Enhancements:
· Compatibility with Firefox 6 and 7.
· GM_openInTab() will respect the insertRelatedAfterCurrent preference.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.6:

July 11th, 2011

Bug fixes:
· GM_openInTab() fails in Firefox 3.
· Firefox 5: Error in Add-ons Manager.
Enhancements:
· Add "get user scripts" link to the Add-ons Manager.
· Pass site cookies when downloading scripts.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.5:

May 30th, 2011

· Primarily because a serious issue was found in the not-yet-reviewed 0.9.4, version 0.9.5 has been hurried out.
Bug fixes:
· Installing and uninstalling the same script many times does not work properly. (#1353)
· GM_xmlhttpRequest() does not work in Firefox 5 betas. (#1354)
· (Introduced in 0.9.4:) Cannot enable nor disable scripts. (#1355)
· Installing the first user script while the user scripts pane of the add-ons manager is open leaves the "no user scripts" warning. (#1356)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.3:

May 7th, 2011

· Error message logged ("Redeclaration of const document")/high CPU usage when closing the sidebar.
· Navigating to a .user.js inside a frame works like anywhere else.
· The list of user scripts in the Add-ons Manager would sometimes forget its sort order.
· Compatibility enhancement with AutoPager (broken in 0.9.2).
· Passing a non-function to GM_registerMenuCommand()'s commandFunc broke the entire menu, and items showed up in the wrong order (both broken in 0.9.2).
Enhancements:
· Passing the Referer header works, for GM_xmlhttpRequest().
· Accessibility: The sort buttons in the Add-ons Manager work with keyboard input (space/enter).

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.2:

April 13th, 2011

· This release primarily fixes some of the problems discovered since 0.9.0.

Bug Fixes:
· Failure on OSX when Growl is installed, but not running.
· Incorrect display of Greasemonkey icon in Add-ons window (Firefox 3.6, OS X). Provide a sort bar, to control display order of the scripts in the Add-ons manager, for Firefox 4. Remove "accelerator" keys from GM_registerMenuCommand().
· Work around incompatibility with Personas Plus extension.
Enhancements:
· Provide a toolbar button, and remove the status bar icon for Firefox 4.
· When re-installing a script (e.g. for an update), keep it in the same execution order.
· Keep the add-ons manager view up to date when changing (installing/enabling/disabling/etc) user scripts.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.1:

January 27th, 2011

Bug fixes:
· Fix user script sandbox wrapping. This deals with lots of problems like eval().
· If your script(s) stopped working with 0.9.0, this should fix them.
· Fixed rare bug when installing scripts. (#1250)
· Fixed errors when Growl is not installed on Mac OS X. (#1249)
· Fixed problems with relative @require imperatives. (#1262)

New features/improvements:
· Allow sorting by descending (as well as ascending) execution order. (#1217)

Known issues:
· Incompatible with All-in-One Sidebar. (#1252)
· Incompatible with Personas extension. (#1253)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.9.0:

January 22nd, 2011

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.
· A global options dialog, where the script editor can always be selected.

· Live in-place editing for the entire script, including metadata (@name, @require, @include, @exclude, etc.).

· Web pages that end in .user.js are loaded as normal, instead of being installed as a user script.

Bug fixes / minor enhancements:
· All Greasemonkey windows respond to standard close window keyboard shortcuts.

· Support for @icon metadata imperative, displayed in the new add-ons manager integration.
· Support user and password for GM_xmlHttpRequest().
· Support @version metadata imperative.

· Suppress spurious Error: not well-formed (// ==UserScript==) error messages.
· The "install" menu item is removed.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.8.20100408.6:

April 9th, 2010

Features:
· Add a hidden preference to allow greasing the unmht: scheme. (#1038)
· Allow relative URLs to be used for GM_xmlhttpRequest(), just like standard XMLHttpRequest. (#1057)
· Performance enhancements and code improvements to internal logic behind @include and @exclude rules. (#1070 #1074 #1089)
· Added translations: ca-ES, cs, fr, nl, sr-RS, vi.


Bug fixes:
· GM_xmlhttpRequest() can fail when Object.prototype has been modified. (#1065)
· Two warnings upon making new script via "New User Script". (#1069)
· Installing scripts from the hard drive (instead of via the web) can fail.Link (#1077)
· Fix a flaw that could allow websites to prevent Greasemonkey from running. (#1082)
· Error "this.menuCommanders is undefined" bug when closing a browser window. (#1087)
· Error "ScriptDownloader is not defined" Linkwhen performing view source on a user script. (#1091)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.8.20100211.5:

February 12th, 2010

· Add an abort() method for GM_xmlhttpRequest. (#1007)
· Increase compatibility with bleeding-edge Firefox versions. (#1054)
· Display a "welcome" page to new users when they install. (#1006)
· Fix hooking into the console object for Firebug 1.5.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.8.20091209.4:

December 21st, 2009

· Properly specify the .finalUrl for GM_xmlhttpRequest results. (#1063)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.8.20090920.2:

September 28th, 2009

· Do not inject scripts into file: and about: URLs by default, for security reasons. (#1000)
· The GM_openInTab() function respects the background loading tab behavior from Firefox preferences. (#1003)
· Specify label/control associations in "New Script" dialog, for accessibility. (#1010)
· Minor code clean ups and improvements. (#1011, #1020)
· Remove "forced" upgrade code. (#1013)
· Remove extra spacing around the status bar icon. (#1014)
· When adding include/exclude rules, include the port number in the default suggestion. (#1015)
· Reduce noise logged to the console when interacting with Firebug. (#1018)
· Apply security checks to GM_listValues() and GM_deleteValue(). (#1019)
· Fix missing localized strings in various locales. (#1022)
· Grease pages loaded into the sidebar. (#1023)
· Allow user scripts to access the latest available JavaScript engine. (#1026)

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.8.20090123.1:

February 18th, 2009

· This release adds compatibility with Firefox 3.0.
· There is also a new feature that allows modularization of user scripts that comes in four pieces: @resource, @require, GM_getResourceURL, and GM_getResourceText.
· GM_xmlhttpRequest now includes the finalUrl property.
· Internal code quality improvements.
· New attractive graphics by Pak-Kei Mak.
· Scripts that do not use top level return get the benefit of a this object.

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0:

November 20th, 2008

· This release adds compatibility with Firefox 3.0.
· There is also a new feature that allows modularization of user scripts that comes in four pieces: @resource, @require, GM_getResourceURL, and GM_getResourceText.
· GM_xmlhttpRequest now includes the finalUrl property.
· Internal code quality improvements
· New attractive graphics by Pak-Kei Mak
· Scripts that do not use top level return get the benefit of a this object

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.7.0.8.20080609.020080121.0:

June 16th, 2008

· This release adds compatibility with Firefox 3.0.
· GM_xmlhttpRequest now includes the finalUrl property.
· Internal code quality improvements
· New attractive graphics by Pak-Kei Mak
· Scripts that do not use top level return get the benefit of a this object

What's new in Greasemonkey 0.7.20080121.0:

March 28th, 2008

· This fixes a potential security issue in the previous release and enables FF3 beta support.
· Fixed the bug where you can't install scripts if you have never disabled Greasemonkey.
· Fixed the bug where drag and drop in the manage dialog only works once per view.
· Fixed the bug where removing a script in the manage dialog also removes the last script.