So, I updated Firefox a few minutes ago, and now all of my lovely userscripts are gone - as Greasemonkey along with a whole other slew of plugins are no longer supported with Firefox 53.
… So, do any of you fantastic coders know any workarounds - other than switching to Chrome and Tampermonkey? I had everything all set up and synced as I liked it, and could hop between computers with Firefox and all my scripts.
And Stylish has disappeared too. (So I’m back to having my eyes bleached over here with too much WHITE on the Discourse standard settings.)
I have noticed Tampermonkey is in the list of addons when I search for Greasemonkey now, updated in August. It mentions being buggy since the change.
Also Violentmonkey updated Sept 3.
Anyone have experience with either/both on Firefox have a preference?
I only use Firefox for browser compatibility testing, but I just upgraded from v51 to v55. It actually required a few updates in a row to get to v55.
Anyway, GreaseMonkey is still working fine.
From what I’m reading in that article you posted, it sounds like they’ve only discontinued NPAPI plugins, which is the same thing Chrome did years ago. In fact, that change was done over a year ago in Firefox.
That being said, they ARE going to discontinue ‘legacy’ plugins in November 2017. New plugins will have to use their WebExtensions interface. I read that the GreaseMonkey developers aren’t very happy with the limitations of WebExtensions. They’ve been looking at TamperMonkey as a reference, since TamperMonkey is already a WebExtension.
So… I installed TamperMonkey. Seems to work fine with the half dozen scripts that I have installed… Ultimate Timeline, Dashboard Progress Plus, SRS Grid, Clean Dashboard, Self-study Quiz…
But yeah, for me, going from Version 52.something to 53… Greasemonkey and Stylish and 100% of my scripts all disappeared.
Only my browser theme remained. T_T
… I’m on Windows 7 at the moment. (And will NOT be updating Firefox on XP after this… for whatever random time my XP drive decides to let me run the OS without freezing… since it’s so rare…)
Interesting… I wonder why it disabled them. It didn’t do that on mine. But then again, I didn’t stop to test at v53 before jumping to v55.
Anyway, good luck! If all else fails, there’s still TamperMonkey. Honestly, I find TamperMonkey to be a lot more intuitive anway, though some people may not.
Weirdly, the same thing happened to me when I updated to v55 some weeks ago on my Win7 VM, but everything went smooth (nothing disabled) on my win10 (non-VM).
This isn’t a VM, however it’s a unique setup… I’m dual-booting this computer, with Win 7 essentially shoved into a USB 1TB external drive. (And Windows 7 doesn’t want to be installed on any external media.)
Probably has nothing to do with this, though. More likely just a unique Win 7 hiccup.
They said they’re turning off Legacy support in November.
So, either GreaseMonkey will have to have a new WebExtension complete by then, or you’ll need to switch to TamperMonkey or one of the other options.
I update for the bug (and sometimes security) fixes.
Specifically my last version apparently had a “you can’t upload to YouTube” bug. And… while I haven’t done anything with my channel for a while… I would like to be able to.
I haven’t been using that… Or any Rikai-kun/chan/etc. addons. I’ve been using a Jisho bookmarklet. (And I have 2-3 others, Weblio, goo, and ALC… but I never remember which of those three other ones I like. XD) I made one for Leo (German-English dictionary) too.
