Mike’s Musings

Per my social contract, I am making 0.6.2 beta available before placing it on addons.mozilla.org.

It’s available at http://www.kaply.com/operator/operator.xpi

Significant items in this release include:
Fix for the tabbing interaction bugs
Options menu added to statusbar and toolbar button menu
xFolk support (needs to be added explicitly in Options if you are not a new install)
tag support for ma.gnolia.com
Improvements to […]

Jonathan Watt pointed out some preferences you can set to ensure that the JavaScript code in your extension is “clean.”

javascript.options.showInConsole set to true causes chrome JavaScript errors to be displayed in the JavaScript console. This preference is essential when you are writing/debugging your extension. If you don’t have it set, your extension will simply not […]

In my social contract, I taked about using JSLint.
There were two problems reported with the current release of Operator that were very strange when I heard about them. One was that Firefox didn’t honor the “Show the tab bar when only one tab is open” preference anymore and the other was that external links opened […]

In most software installations, the user (you) agrees to a EULA where limitations and restrictions are spelled out. By reading the EULA, you can make a decision as to whether or not you want to install the software. The EULA in a sense gives you the developer’s side of a contract, and by agreeing to […]

Thanks to the great work of the upcoming.org team, the major issues with upcoming.org and Operator are already fixed.

Thanks y’all!

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