Comments | lj_nifty: GreaseMonkey

happysteve in lj_nifty

GreaseMonkey - My LJ Style

Apr 10, 2005 17:18

For those who use Firefox and has the GreaseMonkey extension installed, I wrote this for YOU:

My LJ StyleThis will add "?style=mine" to the URL of everybody's livejournals and communities. Plus, it will add it to all LJ links in the page, too ( Read more... )

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camomiletea April 11 2005, 18:45:57 UTC

How to make it work? (I downloaded the GreaseMonkey.)

dark_olim April 11 2005, 18:48:43 UTC

right click on the link above and select add script or something of that nature.

That's after greasemonkey is installed of course

revgeorge April 11 2005, 18:49:28 UTC

Once GreaseMonkey is installed and you've restarted FireFox, right click on My LJ Style and choose "Install User Script..."

dark_olim April 11 2005, 18:47:51 UTC

Works like a charm for me, though the normal page does start to load my style overrides it rather quickly. I suspect that's more to do with modifications I've made to firefox than anything else.

serena_lesley April 11 2005, 18:52:43 UTC

No, mine does it too, it's not a big thing though.

Fantastic idea and script, thanks!

panoptican April 11 2005, 19:59:09 UTC

Doesn't work for me...

Is this an S2 only thing?

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happysteve April 12 2005, 03:27:30 UTC

huh, didn't realize it didn't work for S1 people. oops.

camomiletea April 12 2005, 17:27:16 UTC

Well, it will kind of work. It's just different in S1. If you use S1, adding ?style=mine to comment pages will only show them in the default LiveJournal scheme, because S1 doesn't support customized comment pages. It's still useful for people who absolutely hate customized comment pages, and would prefer to see the regular LJ scheme. It still should work on the pages with recent entries or friends entries, etc. But it's funky. I think if you try using ?style=mine on my journal while being in S1, it will show you my custom S1 style I created. (I'm more of S2 person now, though.)

And I have a question. I would still like to be able to preview styles of others via the ?s2id= type of link. Is it possible? I tried adding this:

http://*.livejournal.com/*s2id=*

to Excluded pages, but I haven't restarted FF yet.

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z3bulin April 11 2005, 20:31:34 UTC

Sweet!

timwi April 12 2005, 13:05:43 UTC

// @include http://www.livejournal.com/users/*
// @include http://www.livejournal.com/~*
// @include http://www.livejournal.com/community/*
// @exclude http://*.livejournal.com/*.bml*This seems to be missing an @include http://*.livejournal.com/* before the @exclude.

Also - not knowing GreaseMonkey - when is this script executed? It would seem that it's executed when a page finishes loading, which would cause the "unwanted" layout to appear first and then a reload taking place. Is that right?

happysteve April 12 2005, 14:13:04 UTC

I did try the "@include http://*.livejournal.com/*" at first, but it was causing some pages to break, which is why I now specify these @include statements... just to be on the safe side. You can always add it yourself under Tools->Manage User Scripts->My LJ Style

GreaseMonkey is supposed to execute after the DOM is fully loaded, but before the page finishes loading. In the script I set the new location right off the bat, but yeah I see the "unwanted" page first load as well. (I've manually added the ?style=mine to all my LJ bookmarks now.)

If anybody knows a way of immediately changing the location BEFORE even starting to load the page, I'll gladly credit you in the script. Thanks.

camomiletea April 12 2005, 17:41:22 UTC

Okay, never mind my comment above. I'll just add

http://*.livejournal.com/
http://*.livejournal.com/friends*

timwi April 12 2005, 23:58:10 UTC

Why only Recent Entries and Friends?

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