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Run Greasemonkey on html files located on the local filesystem?

I have an API documentation lying around on my Harddrive and to ease my workflow, I have written a simple script that modifies the page for my needs. I've developed it using FireBug on FireFox.

@include-ing webpages works correctly, but Greasemonkey does not seem to detect pages on the local file-system?

I would like to have an include like

// @include        *R13/Python*R13/*

Which should match for example

file:///Z:/Eigene%20Dateien/Cinema4D/Documentations/R13/Python%20R13/modules/c4d/index.html

But it is not recognized. How can I achieve that the userscript runs on local html files, too?

Thanks in advance,

Solution

  • Since a couple of releases there are two new 'hidden' preferences:

    greasemonkey.aboutIsGreaseable
    greasemonkey.fileIsGreaseable

    The default value is "false". If you want Greasemonkey to run on file:/// urls, you have to set the second one to "true" (in about:config).

    Quoted from here:

    http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users/browse_thread/thread/ad67ee03ae92e3f0/1dc4075bdb53438a