In this post I promised a new release of Ubiquity to be compatible with Firefox 3.6. It’s been a while so I thought I should update you on that.
The situation is a little complicated, because there are two “branches” of Ubiquity development: the 0.1 line and the 0.5 line, which differs significantly.
We’ve released an update to the 0.1 line, Ubiquity 0.1.9.1, which works with Firefox 3.6. It can be downloaded from Addons.mozilla.com.
The Ubiquity 0.5 codeline is turning out to be more difficult to update to Firefox 3.6 than we anticipated. (i.e. there are actual incompatibilities that produce parser problems; we can’t just tweak install.rdf and release.) We’re going to have to find some time to do some serious hacking and bug-fixing on it before we can release a compatible 0.5.x version.
Ultimately, I’d prefer to re-merge the codelines and have only a single version; having 2 is confusing and there’s no real reason for it.
But for now, at least you can use Ubiquity 0.1.9.1 on Firefox 3.6.
Not The User's Fault 
February 18, 2010 at 9:06 pm
We should at least be able to release a beta version (0.5.XpreY), shouldn’t we?
> there are actual incompatibilities that produce parser problems
Do we even have a bugzilla entry (not ticket I guess, as our trac sunk in spams) for this?
February 19, 2010 at 3:20 am
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February 19, 2010 at 10:20 am
Thanks so much!
I recently moved to Sweden and had awful trouble lately without Ubiquity when I was searching for a new apartment. Going back to copying & pasting addresses and text into Google maps and Google translate really felt like such an arduous task. I’m glad to have ubiquity back, even if it just stays as is. 🙂
February 19, 2010 at 11:17 am
Although I don’t really recommend this as a general procedure for ‘outdated’ add-ons, I have tweaked the install.rdf file in Ubiquity 0.5 to make it compatible with FF 3.6.
I have to say I have been using Ubiquity since the very early FF3.6 releases and it works like a charm. At least for the verbs I use most : translate, map, email, define, search, and run [bookmarklet].
February 19, 2010 at 11:20 am
Precision : I have been using Ubiquity since the beginning (much before Ubi0.5 and FF3.6 releases) but *this* tweaked version (just updated the emMax version line in install.rdf of Ubi0.5) works like a charm with FF3.6.
February 20, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Can we push for some mockups for a new UI along with the pre-release 0.5 version.
March 2, 2010 at 11:13 pm
[…] Ubiquity har bare ikke virket i lang tid – under FireFox 3.5. Den findes imidlertid i både en 0.1 og en 0.5 udgave. Med førstnævnte i version 0.1.9.1 kan man installere WP Codex Search, også i FF 3.5 og 3.6. Du kan læse mere her: Quick update on Ubiquity and Firefox 3.6. […]