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Monkeying around with Firefox

A script-manager for Fire Fox.

 

Mozilla add-on page
Wikipedia:Greasemonkey
http://www.greasespot.net/ - The weblog about Greasemonkey; rather low-volume — usually updates.
GreaseMonkey wiki - in intermap as GreaseSpot:

UserScripts.org - repository to download and install Greasemonkey scripts.
GreaseMonkey-DEV google-group

 

Mark “Dive into X” Pilgrim’s GreaseMonkey Hacks as a wiki on O’Reilly commons
Dive Into Greasemonkey cc 2005 - the predecessor to the book

  • Avoid Common Pitfalls in Greasemonkey - follow-up article by Pilgrim; inside of the wiki, as well. Touches on security problems in pre 0.3 GM, and situations for GM coders to avoid/be aware of.

 

 

some history, relating to code internals — see message-thread for more context

 

Greasefire: find greasemonkey scripts for your url

 

Stack Overflow questions

 

how to disable greasemonkey scripts on your site

 

“When Emacs and The Browser converge - firefox customizations via Greasemonkey... author compares Emacs’ extensibility to greasemonkeying w/ Firefox. from 2005

 

lots of interesting scripts to study from Arantius, creator of the GreaseMonkey#compiler

 

 

GM source at GitHub

 

 

Development

GitHub home for GM development

 

 

Jquery in Greasemonkey, eh?

JQuery in Greasemonkey...
more jQuery in GreaseMonkey

 

see also: J Query

 

 

Auto-update scripts

I’ve never done any of this.... looks interesting, though
User Script Updates — auto-updates GM scripts (haven’t tried)
userscripts discussion of various methods including MonkeyUpdater, which doesn’t require the script to be hosted at userscripts.org

 

 

GMail API

GMail GreaseMonkey API from google-code
an experience

 

 

Compile GM-scripts into Firefox extensions

Compile GM scripts to FF extension - auto-create an XPI file
Lifehacker mentions the compiler and the author chimes in with background in the comments

 

NOTE: it seems that the compiler requires the foo.js file to end with a semi-colon (;), whether or not the code actually requires one (eg, ends with a function definition that ends with a curly-brace (})). ... Because it pulls in the script through an eval statement???

 

NOTE: there is an updated version of the xmlhttprequester in Grease Monkey proper, but the compiler has not been updated; I’ve got a patch from GM-captcha-scripter Shaun Friedle; need to add that in here, don’t think it’s been distributed....

 

 

as GM does, the compiler is evaluated inside a Sandbox.

 

A number of GM functions are replicated, but not all.

 

suported functions

[Get Code]
sandbox.GM_addStyle=function(css) { \$shortname_gmCompiler.addStyle(sandbox.document, css) };
sandbox.GM_setValue=\$shortname_gmCompiler.hitch(storage, "setValue");
sandbox.GM_getValue=\$shortname_gmCompiler.hitch(storage, "getValue");
sandbox.GM_openInTab=\$shortname_gmCompiler.hitch(this, "openInTab", unsafeContentWin);
sandbox.GM_xmlhttpRequest=\$shortname_gmCompiler.hitch(xmlhttpRequester, "contentStartRequest"

 

 

unsupported functions

[Get Code]
sandbox.GM_registerMenuCommand=function(){};
sandbox.GM_log=function(){};
sandbox.GM_getResourceURL=function(){};
sandbox.GM_getResourceText=function(){};

 

 

Others

another Greasemonkey to XPI-plugin compiler (haven’t tried it, but doesn’t look as fully featured)
Gina Trapani’s multi-script compiler as used in the “Better Google” series
announcement

 

 

 

XML Path Language

Wikipedia:XPath
GreaseSpot:XPath
SO:xpath
W3 Xpath 1.0 standard
XPath and Xpointer — O’Reilly wiki-book thing.

 

Using the Mozilla Javascript Interface to XPath
XPath tutorial
W3 schools XPath Introduction
Brian Donovan - Substituting XPath for DOM tree walking in Greasemonkey User Scripts
XPather — firefox extension and documentation

 

Xpath 2.0 regular expressions

 

 

Converting to other platforms

 

Greasemonkey_compatibility_and_equivalents_for_other_browsers
Greasespot: cross-browser user-scripting

 

Opera

http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/userjs/
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/operaStuff/userJavaScript.html
http://userscripts.org/topics/765

 

Chrome

see Chrome#userScripts

 

 

IE turnabout

http://projects.ischool.washington.edu/tabrooks/turnabout/index2.html
GreaseMonkey 4 IE(approve sites)

 

 

When do GM scripts run?

“Grease Monkey’s scripts can run only when the DOM is already parsed (i.e. after page scripts already run).”

 

see discussion thread on runtime-comparison with NoScript

 

 

Chickenfoot

a greasemonkey-like extension
Chickenfoot home

LifeHacker plug

 

 

Passwords and encryption

(notes for a GM project)
http://www.security-hacks.com/2007/06/21/5-essential-greasemonkey-security-scripts
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/364498.html
http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/2008/05/30/freedom_and_privacy_cloud_call_action
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-202896.html

 

 

Custom work for hire

Are you looking for a GreaseMonkey script for a particular purpose? You can hire me as a free-lancer to get it done!

 

What have I done? Other than build this page of resources that you’ve found, I used a greasemonkey-related engine to make SkipScreen, a top-25 Fire Fox extension that is used by over 400,000 people daily.

 

 

See Also

Firefox
Java Script
EmacsWiki:JavaScriptMode
Emacs.JavaScript
Chrome#userScripts

 

 

Category tags

Programming javascript firefox browser