I’ve updated BetterSearch, my Firefox/Flock addon, to version 1.21. Here’s what’s new:

• Compatible with Flock 2 beta+.
• FIX: Action icons are back.
• FIX: Delicious support unbroken! It’s glorious.
• FIX: MSN/Live support works again.
• FIX: Statusbar tooltip was showing the wrong version number. Silly thing.
• FIX: Made some minor enhancements to Google URL normalisation.
• FIX: Removed remnant code (”big icons” etc.).
• CHG: Removed support for everything but Yahoo!, Google, MSN and Delicious. Sorry, don’t have the time anymore to keep track of anything else.

Go get the new version while it’s still hot! :)

Brings no new features to the table (sorry) but compatibility with Firefox 3.0.* and Flock 1.2.

Enjoy! (The new version should also appear on AMO soon.)

I’ve updated my Firefox addon BetterSearch to version 1.19. The update brings Firefox 3 and Flock compatibility and fixes the thumbnails for Yahoo! Search. Also, it now looks a little bit better due to new icons, c/o FamFamFam.

You remember BetterSearch, right? No? Oh, okay.

“An extension for Firefox and Flock which enhances Google (all international flavours, too), Yahoo Search, del.icio.us, MSN Search [...] by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product images and info (type, price, rating for US/DE/UK/CA/FR products), a quick preview feature as well as “Open in New Window”, “Site Info” and “Wayback Machine” links to the search results.”

The other changes are minor and mostly under the hood to prepare for the next major version.

Go check it out!

Next up: better thumbnails. Work, work…

Technorati WTF. Technorati launches their WTFsystem. I see the possibility of serious abuse, but we’ll see whether I am too paranoid. Anyways, the short summary:

Know something that’s hot? Explain why! This is your opportunity to write a quick explanation for the buzz around a popular subject. No blog required!

getElementsByClassName() in Firefox 3. Native, built-in! Because John said so.

Get your URLs straight. A good explanation why everyone should be using disambiguated URLs by (of course) Mr. Willison. (Now all I need to do is “fix” my site.)

Presently. Apparently Google is working on a presentation tool. Is anyone really surprised? I ain’t. For the time being, I’ll stick with S5, tho. But I believe Google will be taking a slightly different approach than the creator of S5, i.e. they’ll continue catering to non-geeks.

The aforementioned tech article is available now on YUIblog.com! It’s explaining a way to use the excellent YUI library in Greasemonkey scripts. I’m sure that this approach is neither the perfect nor the only solution to achieving YUI/Greasemonkey integration, but it works for me and I thought sharing can’t hurt.

Well, the article is here, and the example script can be downloaded from this very site.

Many thanks to Eric Miraglia for giving me a soapbox. :)

If you have comments and suggestions about the implementation, feel free to post a comment to the actual article.