Common Greasemonkey Pitfalls
December 9th, 2005 | Filed under Javascript, GreasemonkeyThe Greasemonkey user script that saves me several minutes of typing every day broke with Firefox 1.5 and Greasemonkey 0.6.4. But thanks to the ever-instructive Mark Pilgrim and his O’Reilly article about safe Greasmonkey scripting, it now works. Specifically the “Pitfall #3: Named Forms and Form Elements” section addressed the bit that was tripping up my old code.
If you too use Movable Type, my user script autofills in the upload directory with a date-based folder name - great for rapid-fire posting with tons of images, like on Lifehacker.
Set MT Upload Directory [Scribbling.net]
O’Reilly Network: Avoid Common Pitfalls in Greasemonkey [O’Reilly Network]