Well, I'm very proud to announce that Scriptish 0.1 has finally been released!

Thank you

This is an event that has taken a long time to achieve, and I have had so much help from so many wonderful people that it has been a great pleasure to work on this project.

Greg Parris

Greg forked Scriptish and started contributing back in Oct '10 and he's been a constant help ever since. Greg has written plenty of code, made the wiki readable, improved the usability and user experience, and no doubt has spent countless hours testing. Thank you Greg!

Olivier Cornu

Olivier really showed me the way, he had forked Greasemonkey long before I ever started Scriptish, making a extension called Webmonkey which used Firefox 3 as the minimum supported version and taking advantage of the benefits that Firefox 3 had to offer. I pulled some code from Webmonkey and made Olivier the author (which he told me would be alright), but he really provided me with a proof by example of a simple idea, that a far better user script engine could be made by increasing the minimum supported version and taking advantage of the new features. Thank you Olivier!

Kirs Maglione

Kris has helped out with some error handling contributions early on, answering more than a few of my questions on IRC, and for doing the last few reviews on AMO which I'm sure took some time. Thank you Kris!

Nils Maier

Nils wrote some wonderful commits revamping the install window and really improving the UX of user scripts in the extension manager. I think these changes are the most visible to the average user, and are great improvements imo, so his help has been invaluable. Thank you Nils!

Dave Townsend

Dave is one of the developers of the new Addon Manager in Firefox, and he made a restartless extension called SlipperyMonkey (which he blogged about here) showing off a bunch of Firefox 4's new features. I've pulled a lot of this code in to Scriptish, and had the pleasure to meet Dave at the 2010 Mozilla summit in Whistler when he was showing SlipperyMonkey off, and got a change for a quick ~5min QA which proved to be most helpful to me. Thank you Dave! (and thank you David Dahl for telling me to speak with him, which I might not have done).

Mozillians

A community really makes all of the difference, and I've met no better. Just look at the documentation, look at the support, look at the inspiration, and look at the goals. Thank you Mozillians!

Github

I quite honestly wouldn't have bothered spending so many unpaid hours managing a open source project without a site that helps me administrate it like Github does, because it'd just be a waste of time. Thank you Github!

I've always wished that Firefox had a "Restart" menu item, and because of that I've used the Quick Restart Firefox add-on quite a bit in the past. At some point last year while the Jetpack prototype was still being developed I even wrote a jetpack to add the menu item in less than 50 lines for a contest that Mozilla had. I used that for a while, but these days I live on the FIrefox nightly (aka Minefield) and both of those old options aren't available to me any longer. So I decided to write a restartless add-on to add a "File" -> "Restart" menu item to Firefox.

I'm calling this add-on "Restartless Restart" and it works on FIrefox 4+, it's 1KB at the moment, and it does not require a restart to be enabled, disabled, installed, or uninstalled. You can find it on addons.mozilla.org here. If you want to contribute, then you can find the project on GitHub, where all of my projects can be found.

The part that I love most is that it's still less than 50 lines =]

About three weeks ago GitHub removed a bunch of links to a repository's 'downloads' section replacing them with one big downloads button, which is only available to you on some pages, and instead of taking you directly to the 'downloads' page/section you now get a AJAXy popup that only displays some of the available downloads to you and provides a link to the 'downloads' section.

In my expert opinion this button sucks. It's hard to remember which pages it's available on, except for the source page so I always go there to find it, then I have to wait for a popup that I don't want to see inorder to get the link that I'm after.. another option is to correct the url in the location bar, which is the route I was taking before I finally decided to write a user script to bring the old tab back.

Sceenshots

This is what the old 'Downloads' tab looked like:

This is what their new button looks like:

User Script

Find this user script at userscripts.org here.

I understand that they had too many links to the 'downloads' section before, but the only one I ever used was the 'downloads' tab, and it's the only one that I find myself wanting now that the old links have all been replaced with the big awful button. So I decided to write a user script to bring back the 'downloads' tab and remove the new button, here it is:

Gist 644434 embed above

Well I started this week working on Scriptish, but I felt that I needed a break after working on it nearly every day for the past few weeks, so I spent about half the week working on a few other things.

Mozilla Lab's Prospector add-ons, which they announced two weeks ago, caught my attention and I started doing a little hacking on one of them; after spending some time using 2 of the currently 4 prospector add-ons I can tell you that I really like them, because they each focus on solving a single, particular, searching UX/usability issue in the context of the browser, and they're restartless!

Done

Scriptish

• Released Scriptish 0.1b5 on the 19th.
• Replacing the status bar icon with a frequently requested toolbar menu-button (It's a button & a drop-down menu), which is added to the add-on bar when Scriptish is installed for the first-time, or when Scriptish is upgraded from a version less than or equal to Scriptish 0.1b5.
• Added a ID field to the new script window.

GitHub Flavored Markdown

• Created some GitHub spice for compare urls (issue #9).

MDC

I noticed that there wasn't any documentation on em:bootstrap on the page describing install manifests, so I added something basic with a link to more information.

Mozilla Labs: Prospector - Find Suggest

• Performance tweaks.
• Bug fix when using the find bar on a blank page, which causes an error to be thrown (issue #1).
• Sorting words with equal frequency alphabetically (issue #3).
• Changing the regular expression used to split words (issue #4).
• Requiring words to be 3 characters or longer (issue #2).
• Making the suggestion limit a user preference (issue #7).

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Done

Scriptish

• Merged in some changes to how scripts are evaluated by Kris Maglione. This allows Scriptish to provide much better error reporting. Also @unwrap is no longer supported.
• Created a staging/beta build/channel with updates enabled, you can find these releases on the github downloads page for Scriptish. After Scriptish 0.1 is released I will only release non-betas and non-alphas (ie: "stable" releases) to AMO, and all stable/beta/alphas will be released thru this staging channel.
• Supporting thumbs for @screenshot.
• Supporting @updateURL; Scriptish now updates user scripts I also had a chance to write a blog post that talks all about this earlier today while I was watching some football.
• Fixed a bug that froze Firefox when pressing the "options" button. Greasemonkey has the same issue, so I made a patch for Greasemonkey as well.
• Auto-generating homepage URLs for user scripts downloaded from userscripts.org (when not in private mode).

GitHub Flavored Markdown

Made a patch for issue 5, which is basically that GitHub spice is being added to code blocks.

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