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Yet another Spider update is available

The major change is to script-loader.js which no longer uses the subscript loader to load external user hook functions.

Spider 0.0.2.11 removes the auto update functionality due to bug 378216. You will need to update Spider manually until such time as I have a secure method for automatic updates.

Yet another Spider update version 0.0.2.10.

This version reworks the external script loader used to load user hook scripts to work around issues with the Gecko 1.8 branch and trunk. Due to changes in how eval works on the trunk, the previous version 0.0.2.8 changed from using XMLHttpRequest to load external scripts and scope.eval to evaluate the script in the appropriate scope to using the JSSubScriptLoader. However this caused problems on the 1.8 branch where the scripts were not always loaded. I’ve therefore moved to a hybrid approach where XMLHttpRequest/eval are used on the 1.8 branch while JSSubScriptLoader is still used on the trunk. Let me know if you have any issues with this release.

If you are already a user of Spider in Firefox, you can simply update the extension via the add-ons menu, otherwise you can download it.

Housekeeping

I’ve changed the category for Spider on this blog to be a top level category which is no longer part of the Mozilla category tree. This should keep YASU announcements from polluting Planet Mozilla where they are out of place.

Spider 0.0.2.8 replaces the use of scope.eval(...) with JSSubScriptLoader to work around recent changes to eval on the trunk.

My shell account at Dreamhost was compromised and this site was vandalized. It appears this was a wide spread event and a number of other sites hosted at Dreamhost were affected. If you have an account at Dreamhost, I recommend you change your passwords for your shell and email and check your web content for modifications.

I’ve cleaned up the mess (I think). Although as far as I can tell the Spider.xpi was not modified, I have generated a new version of Spider 0.0.2.7 to force an update to any Spider users.

Spider has been updated to 0.0.2.6. This update adds the command line argument uri as a synonym for url to work around a bug in Thunderbird which tries to process any command line argument named url as a mailto url.

This will allow Spider 0.0.2.6 or later to be used in the “download checker” tool to download, install and report on Thunderbird 2.

Current users of Spider can simply update. New users can install from spider.xpi.

Thanks to Scott MacGregor for finding and fixing the problem.

Spider 0.0.2.5 fixes a permissions problem in remote HTML and XUL invocations of Spider. Thanks to Jason Sutton for the bug report.

Oops! Spider 0.0.2.1 removes a debugging alert I left in 0.0.2.0. Sorry. Either do Tools->Add-ons->Update or get the new version from here.

Spider finally has command line parameters and going forward should be able to update using Firefox’s add-ons manager. See news and help for the details.

Minor update to fix Help link, race and other issues with automatic dialog closing and to add file:// as a supported scheme. See news for the details.