Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Gmail JavaScript broken by Greasemonkey script

I was unable to use the selecting JavaScript in Gmail (all, non, unread, etc.). By selectively disabling the scripts I noticed that it was the Humane autosave feature that was causing this. By tracking down the script home I noticed there was an update. The update fixed this problem but there were a few other problems that need to be highlighted.

  • There's no way to know that a greasemonkey script has an update
  • Greasemonkey's most current version which allows you to see the script is not available by auto-update. This is a problem common to many extensions.
  • It may become very difficult to tell which Greasemonkey scripts are causing problems and some problems may go undetected.

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