[Greasemonkey] Greasemonkey 0.6.4
Aaron Boodman
zboogs at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 15:41:08 EST 2005
The Greasemonkey 0.6.4 on mozdev.org does not have that ID, it has the
GUID one. Are you sure you aren't using some copy from the mailing
list or something?
On 12/1/05, Bill Hilke <whilke at gmail.com> wrote:
> is the em:id in install.rdf suppost to be different in 0.6.4? its set
> to greasemonkey at youngpup.net, which means upgrading doesn't work.
>
> On 11/30/05, Aaron Boodman <zboogs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Attached is the Greasemonkey I'm planning to release as the final for
> > Firefox 1.5.
> >
> > Everything you can access from a user scripts, with the singular
> > exception of unsafeWindow, is now an XPCNativeWrapper. This means
> > everything is safe by the definitions we set forth so many eons ago.
> >
> > In a nutshell, Greasemonkey's security policy is:
> >
> > * It should not be possible for content scripts to gain increased
> > priveledges through Greasemonkey (by way of GM_* for example).
> >
> > * It should not be possible for content to detect, disable, or
> > interfere with Greasemonkey itself.
> >
> > * It should not be possible for content to detect, disable, or
> > interefere with user scripts _generically_. By this, I mean content
> > could affect any user script using a single technique. It still may be
> > possible to target individual scripts on a case-by-case basis, but
> > nowhere near as easily.
> >
> >
> >
> > Additionally, this XPI contains all the UI work I've been doing, and
> > various other fixes.
> >
> > It is only compatible with Firefox 1.5+.
> >
> > The main API change which may bite you is that there is no longer an
> > XMLHttpRequest for user scripts. You should use GM_xmlhttpRequest
> > instead. Examples of scripts which were bitten by this:
> >
> > * XMLHttpRequest debugging
> > * Gmail preview
> >
> > I fixed Gmail preview to use GM_xmlhttpRequest and it's attached to
> > this message as well.
> >
> >
> >
> > I tested many scripts from the popular listing on userscripts.org, and
> > had really good results:
> >
> > working scripts:
> > =============================
> > * google search link on yahoo!
> > * pure google
> > * form tooltips
> > * yahoo cleansser
> > * espn single page format
> > * autologinj
> > * check range
> > * yahoo secure
> > * linkify plus
> > * geotag.flickr.multimap
> >
> >
> > broken scripts:
> > =============================
> > require xmlhttprequest
> > * flickr photo page enhancer
> >
> > content DOM changed (not GM's fault)
> > * delicious >>> myweb
> > * flickr multimailer
> >
> >
> > Test this out and let me know what you think. If there are no huge
> > objections, I'll push it out through autoupdate tonight.
> >
> >
> > - a
> >
> >
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