Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity 0.5.5 Release Notes

Main Features

Ubiquity 0.5.5 introduces new features and APIs as well as fixes bugs.

In Depth

Features

• Supports up to Firefox 3.7a2pre (but no longer supports 3.0.*).
• More keys are allowed for the key combo to invoke Ubiquity.
• The help view informs feed updates. (#835)
• Toolbar button is added.
• Bundled feeds use persistent URLs (resource: instead of file:), making profiles portable. (#882)
• About pages got nicer URLs. (chrome://ubiquity/content/cmdlist.xhtml → about:ubiquity?cmdlist)
• Command Editor is now Bespin thanks to cers.
• Setting {extensions.ubiquity.openAt} to "X,Y" makes Ubiquity open at that screen coordinates. ([1])
• Clicking the highlighted suggestion executes it.
• Suggestions are mouse-scrollable.
• Non-left click on a popup menu entry opens its preview instead of executing it.
• Repeating the last command is now possible (essentially the same as Ctrl+Space → Enter, but far faster). Set a key combo for it on [about:ubiquity?settings].
• Command histories are keyboard accessible.
  • Ctrl+↑↓ (or mouse scroll over command entry)
  • Ctrl+(Shift)+Tab completes current input from history.

Commands

new

• Built-in
  • "change skin"
• Firefox
  • "view extension" / "stop" / "print preview" / "open error console"
• Developer
  • "jQuery API"

changes

• "check calendar" shows dates correctly.
• "translate" warns for API limit and fallbacks to page translation (#854), retains the original HTML, displays the detectedSourceLanguage, and supports default/alternate language settings (#884).
  • {extensions.ubiquity.translate.lang.default} : default language code to translate into
  • {extensions.ubiquity.translate.lang.alt} : alternate language code to tranlate into if the source language equals default language
• "weather" is improved by mitcho.
• "open" acts also like awesomebar.
• "email" works again by not using the broken gmonkey API.
• Many search commands got better previews.
• Text editing commands work outside of rich-edits.

Skin

Because of the security fix, the default preview URL is changed. Use:

@-moz-document url(resource://ubiquity/preview.html) {

instead of:

@-moz-document url(chrome://ubiquity/content/preview.html) {

Parser

• Dutch and German are supported.
• Changing the parser and/or parser language no longer requires restart. (#760)
• Parser 1 handles partial modifiers (#889) and verbs on end.

New APIs

Default Feed

• _() works outside of cmd.execute()/cmd.preview().
• Functions prefixed with teardown_ are executed on refreshing/purging the feed.
• Specifying author(s)/contributor(s)/license/homepage to feed itself is now possible. Simply assign those properties to the feed object as you do with command objects.

Ubiquity

execute() / preview()

Utils

new

• currentTab currentTabs tabs.from() BrowserTab()
• chromeWindows hiddenWindow
• sortBy() uniq() seq()
• clipboard.html clipboard.get() clipboard.set()
• regexp() notify() listenOnce() defineLazyProperty() reportError()
• regexp.* prefs.* gist.*

changes

• openUrlInBrowser() conforms to {browser.tabs.loadInBackground} and returns the created tab or window.
• focusUrlInBrowser() can focus across windows.
• trim()/encodeJson()/decodeJson()/json are deprecated.

CmdUtils

new

• CreateAlias() / getCommand() / executeCommand() / previewCommand()
• mixNouns()
• getSelectedNodes()

changes

• Some methods prefixed with get/set can be accessed as getters/setters. (CmdUtils.getWindow() → CmdUtils.window)
• makeSearchComand() has "charset" option.
• onPageLoad() supports GreaseMonkey style page filters.

Nouns

• noun_type_url supports Google Reader (https only).

jQuery

1.4.2

Bugs Fixed

• XML errors on Command List are catched and reported.
• PNG file sizes are reduced. (#888)
• XHTML feeds auto-refresh correctly. (#611)
• Noisy dumps are removed. (#897)
• Preview no longer has chrome privilege. (#714)
• {extensions.ubiquity.inputLimit} is added. (#507)
• noun_type_url is fixed. (was broken beyond belief)
• The bug in noun_type_percentage is fixed, which should fix "zoom".