Installing and Operating Greasemonkey Scripts

Written by Gaurav Dua on February 10th, 2007 | 11 Comments

This tutorial will give directions on installing and operating greasemonkey scripts (aka Userscripts). If you are on this post, we assume that you have greasemonkey installed and you know a little bit about greasemonkey. In case you don’t, please refer this article to install and know more about greasemonkey

» Installing Greasemonkey Scripts (Userscripts)

» Procedure 1

This procedure should be used when clicking on a userscript link yields a pop-up window which provides you with the install option.

Whenever you click on the link to userscript, a window pops up
Click on the install option and the userscript will be installed

» Procedure 2

This procedure should be used when clicking on the link of the userscript yields a page with the userscript source and no pop-up window is experienced.

Click on the tools column of your Firefox Browser

Watch out for a Greasemonkey Option
Click on it and find ‘Install This Script’ option to install the userscript

» Procedure 3

This procedure should be used when clicking on the userscript popup’s a window which gives you an option to save the userscript.

Save the file (userscript) in your computer - say on desktop
Right click on the saved userscript and navigate to ‘Open With’ option
Choose Firefox and the userscript will either display source for which you have to follow procedure 2 or a Pop-Up window for which you have to follow procedure 1

» Managing Your Userscripts

In order to view the userscripts right click on the monkey logo in bottom right of your screen and choose ‘manage userscripts’

In the window, you will have all your installed userscripts listed.
You can uninstall, edit, and perform other operations in this window.

These were the common installation techniques which can solve common problems in userscripts installation. If you still have any doubt or if you are facing any difficulties, you can leave a comment so that we can guide you further.

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11 Comments so far »

Mono - March 17th, 2008

i have installed the orkut unlock album script successfully but it doesn’t unlock the albums?? can you please help?

Devilsworkshop - March 17th, 2008

“
Monosaid…: i have installed the orkut unlock album script successfully but it doesn’t unlock the albums?? can you please help?”

@mono

The album hack is not working anymore.

vicky - May 9th, 2008

lock -scrapbook script . but unable 2 view the locked scrapbook. plz help me out ?

faisal - May 15th, 2008

i hit the link successfuly but it dosen’t show me the link anywhere.pls helm me out..

faisal

Gaurav - May 15th, 2008

@faisal - I didn’t get what your problem is. You need to elaborate.

Gaurav - May 15th, 2008

@faisal - in case you are looking for an installation link for greasemonkey, kindly navigate to this post - http://www.orkutplus.org/2008/03/greasemonkey.html

Present post is dedicated to greasemonkey errors and issues.

manoj - July 19th, 2008

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Anonymous - July 20th, 2008

I did all that was said in the post.
but next how to add it to my orkut account

rishabh - August 15th, 2008

how can the user scripts can be attached to orkut ?

Rudick - August 17th, 2008

I used the script to use custom themes but now all I’m getting is a White Screen background. WTF???

Gaurav Dua - August 17th, 2008

@rudick - the first load takes time since it fetches image from the source. It should take around 30 seconds at max, also the load is once unless you clear your browsers cache. Can you kindly provide me the specific theme for which you are facing this issue?