Greasemonkey_Manual:Managing_Scripts

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Management Interface

     

These are the interfaces that are used to control the user scripts that have been installed. The viewport can be resized by grabbing the outside edges and dragging it to a suitable, user preferred size.

Changes to the management interface are effective once the individual action is complete unless otherwise specified. Each browser page will need to be reloaded for these changes to be effective.

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Actions

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Opening

 

It is important to know how to open the list of installed user scripts. This can be achieved in several ways:

• Use the the Monkey Menu → Manage User Scripts...
• Use Tools → Greasemonkey → Manage User Scripts...
• Use Tools → Add-ons and then navigate to the User Scripts interface.

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Selecting

• Selecting any installed user script in the list will allow, and optionally display, additional options pertaining to individual script management.

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Reordering

• Changing the order of execution of the installed scripts is achieved by a right click on the target script that is desired to be reordered and a menu should pop up.

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Creating

 

• Use the Monkey Menu New User Script menu item to invoke the interface.
• Use the Tools → Greasemonkey → New User Script to invoke the interface.
• Create one in the operating system with a favorite editor. Then drag and drop the new user script onto the browser or use the browsers File → Open File and navigate to the locally created new user script.

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Filtering

• Script injection rules are directly changeable by clicking the edit button if available, or right clicking and selecting edit to modify the selected scripts metadata block directly.
• Alternatively the options or preferences button on each script can be used to display a interactive interface. This interface allows UserInclude and UserExclude XML tags to be added to the config.xml and should persist across updated scripts.
• Global Script Management found under the preferences of Greasemonkey Extension also provides a universal @exclude rule set for all installed scripts. This may not be recommended since some scripts may actually need to inject on certain pages. These should persist across updated scripts as well.

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Enabling

• Use the Monkey Menu → script name to enable or disable scripts in context when on a web site.
• Use Tools → Greasemonkey → script name to enable or disable scripts in context when on a web site.
• Enable or disable each selected user script in the list by toggling the Enabled button or checkbox.
• Use the Global Script Management to enable or disable global excludes
• Use the Monkey Menu to enable or disable all scripts.
• Use the Tools → Greasemonkey → Enabled to enable or disable all scripts.

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Editing

• Right clicking on the selected script provides script editing capabilities. The Context menu, or right click menu, on most interfaces allows browsing of the Containing folder for all elements of a particular script.

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Updating

 

• Updating is currently controlled on the Firefox Add-on update scheduler using the following preferences:

  • about:config?filter=extensions.update.enabled
  • about:config?filter=extensions.update.autoUpdateDefault
  • about:config?filter=extensions.update.interval

• Additional user script specific source control can be utilized by the metadata block keys @updateURL, @downloadURL and @version.

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Uninstalling

• Clicking the Remove or Uninstall button will queue the script to be uninstalled when the interface is closed. Immediate uninstallation can be achieved by closing the interface or right clicking the script again and selecting uninstall if available.

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Getting Started ⬌ Installing Scripts ⬌ Managing Scripts ⬌ Monkey Menu ⬌ Creating Scripts ⬌ Environment ⬌ Other Useful Tools ⬌ API

Notes

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