Year of the Code Monkey

With Firefox 1.5 moving ever closer to an actual release, I am doing my best to keep Googlebar Lite up to date. The nightly trunk builds recently changed the maxVersion for installed extensions (it’s now 1.5). The bad news is that the latest version of GBL (3.0.1) only supports the 1.5 beta builds (maxVersion of 1.4). The good news is that I am working on Googlebar Lite 3.1 which will fix this problem. Other changes in this upcoming release include Google Maps search in the context menu, an updated about box (giving credit to all the translators), and other miscellaneous changes. I am aware that the Swedish translation is corrupt, and I hope to remedy that situation as well.

One of the great new features of Firefox 1.5 is the vastly improved extension manager. An article over at the MozillaZine Knowledge Base details how to use the new extension manager system to do dynamic extension development. I’ve given it a try with Googlebar Lite, and I can only say that I am truly amazed! I can now easily edit the XUL and JavaScript for Googlebar Lite and see the results in real time (no more re-packaging and re-installing). This change in my development cycle has streamlined things quite a bit, so I hope to have GBL 3.1 available very soon.

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