You can send key events, and anything listening for them will get them, but they will not change the input, so you will not see the letter A appear, for example. This is mostly a security thing; see “Manually firing events” for a discussion about that. So, if you want the letter to appear, you … Read more
Apparently, document.addEventListener() is unreliable, and hence, my error. Use window.addEventListener() with the same parameters, instead.
Use DOMParser() to convert responseText into a searchable DOM tree. Also, your attempts to search/use anything derived from responseText, must occur inside the onload function. Use code like this: GM_xmlhttpRequest ( { … onload: parseAJAX_ResponseHTML, … } ); function parseAJAX_ResponseHTML (respObject) { var parser = new DOMParser (); var responseDoc = parser.parseFromString (respObject.responseText, “text/html”); console.log … Read more
Greasemonkey 2.0 has just been pushed to all Firefox browsers set to auto-update. (GM 2 was released on June 17, 2014, but it can take a few weeks to get through the review process.) Greasemonkey 2.0 radically changed unsafeWindow handling: Backwards incompatible changes: For stability, reliability, and security the privileged sandbox has been updated to … Read more
Here is a complete script that does that. It uses jQuery for the :contains() selector. Update: Modified script to account for reported AJAX. // ==UserScript== // @name _Click on a specific link // @include http://YOUR_SERVER.COM/YOUR_PATH/* // @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js // @require https://gist.github.com/raw/2625891/waitForKeyElements.js // @grant GM_addStyle // ==/UserScript== /*- The @grant directive is needed to work around … Read more
To use Greasemonkey’s GM_ functions from code that must run in the page scope (Such as your timeBtn click handler), do the following: Have the page-scope code use postMessage to send the data in string format. Have the Greasemonkey script listen for the appropriate messages and call the desired GM_ function(s) with the message data. … Read more
The script should do these things: Detect if the current URL is already to the compact site. Load the compact version of the page if necessary. Beware of “anchor” URLS (they end with “fragments” or “hashes” (#…) ) and account for them. Keep the unwanted pages out of the browser history so that the back … Read more
I put this at the top of my scripts to avoid running on frames or iframes: if (window.top != window.self) //don’t run on frames or iframes return;
You can use fetch(), response.blob() to create an Blob URL of type application/javascript from returned Blob; set SharedWorker() parameter to Blob URL created by URL.createObjectURL(); utilize window.open(), load event of newly opened window to define same SharedWorker previously defined at original window, attach message event to original SharedWorker at newly opened windows. javascript was tried … Read more
Refer to the W3C spec for keyboard events. Several boolean attributes are provided to determine if modifier keys were pressed in conjunction with whatever target key you are interested in. They are: ctrlKey — The “Control” key was also pressed. shiftKey — The “Shift” key was also pressed. altKey … Read more