How to edit greasemonkey scripts.

>> right click the little monkey’s head in your status bar:
>> now click “Manage User Scripts”
>> then select the script you want to edit
>> click the “Edit” button
>> select your text editor* (first time only)
>> edit & save!

*notepad is located in C:/Windows/Notepad.exe
* for Ubuntu users, gedit is located in usr/bin/gedit

now if nothing happens when you click the edit button or you would like to change you text editor..

>> type about:config in the firefox address bar and press enter.
>> now in the filter box at the top type greasemonkey
>> then right click on “greasemonkey.editor” and click reset
>> the edit button will now work again!

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31 Responses to “How to edit greasemonkey scripts.”

  1. XxMiguelxX 3:59 pm Mon Aug 28 2006

    thanks for tha info it helped

  2. Jeremy 12:34 am Thu Aug 31 2006

    So when i go there and type grease monkey in the filter, it shows me “greasemonkey.version” and “greasemonkey.enabled”

    wth? the comments on homepage says “error loading comments” all the time and i wanna fix it.

  3. drew 12:54 pm Thu Aug 31 2006

    it doesn’t work if your profile is private.

  4. Anthony 6:18 pm Sat Sep 16 2006

    Is there a way to organize these scripts under “Manage User Scripts”?

    Thanks for providing these tips and tricks by the way.

  5. Teresa 10:05 pm Wed Sep 20 2006

    This code is great but i have mac and i was wondering what text editor do i use?

  6. Teresa 2:18 pm Sun Sep 24 2006

    never mind i found out how to do it … =]

  7. mystery 12:29 am Mon Nov 6 2006

    i made a script but how do i put it or install it??

  8. Mirna 4:09 pm Thu Dec 28 2006

    This is so awesome! You’re a genious!

  9. kathleen 8:22 pm Wed Jan 31 2007

    Umm wheres your status bar?
    yea im slow.
    lol
    PLESASE HELP THANKS

  10. bulala 1:00 pm Tue Feb 20 2007

    does this work on a mac? what is the text editor that I choose on a mac?? (its my first mac…loved having this on my pc) help!

  11. alex 11:12 pm Fri Mar 9 2007

    mmmmmm mine is working it says error loading comments . help please

  12. Andres 3:16 am Sat Apr 28 2007

    Thx i Love you

  13. The Mallegonian 6:29 pm Wed May 2 2007

    Cool! Thanks, helped save me when I set the editor to ‘/bin/nano’…

  14. joe 9:35 pm Sat May 12 2007

    when i edit and save, nothing changes (i tried to edit the name and description)
    what should i do?
    thanks

  15. kevin 11:22 am Wed Jun 6 2007

    I copy and pasted the script into the New User Script. I see the script on some sites but when i click home it says “No Scripts Installed”. Also what does this mean 5. replace the 6 digit hex color code with your own and save! With your own what?

  16. Pedro 1:01 pm Mon Jul 16 2007

    I just installed greasemonkey. So being me click the edit button and was skimming threw my programs and accidentally clicked notepad. now the edit button doesn’t do anything. help please?

  17. Matt A 9:01 am Thu Jul 26 2007

    awesome-o. i’ve drank myself silly trying to figure out how to edit those monkeys. now thanks to joyboner i can again!

  18. lpkb 8:48 am Tue Jul 31 2007

    brilliant…thanks for including the ubuntu guidance. very helpful.

  19. aleshgirl 12:59 am Thu Aug 16 2007

    I can’t edit the script!! why?

  20. James 5:09 am Sun Sep 2 2007

    Coool.

    but now a days greasemonkey.editor option is not coming in my firefox.

    By the way I knew this already but u r doing a gr8 job for many others.

  21. Jason (Yoopergeek) 9:55 am Thu Oct 4 2007

    Awesome, this worked great for me, thanks!

    Talk about annoying. Click ‘edit’…nothing…no error message, nothing. Yeesh. Shouldn’t this be fixed in greasemonkey somehow?

  22. AFX 9:00 pm Sun Dec 9 2007

    Hi,
    I just wanted to thank you for the useful information.

    Cheers!
    AFX

  23. Tim 12:04 pm Mon Dec 31 2007

    Thank you very much =) Very helpful

  24. Adrian 11:13 pm Sat Jan 5 2008

    Thanks dude!!

    :) I really hope they do add an error message, like Jason (Yoopergeek) said.

  25. angel 10:19 am Thu Feb 28 2008

    thanks for the help !!

  26. Steve 2:29 pm Thu Mar 13 2008

    Very helpful. Thanks a lot!

  27. molok 9:33 am Fri Mar 28 2008

    Thanks, this post saved my day.
    :)gg

  28. Daniel 11:24 pm Tue Apr 15 2008

    Thanks! Found this right away when searching for this problem. Very helpful.

  29. costel333 5:48 am Mon Apr 21 2008

    HI…I CAN’T EDIT THE SCRIPTS…ALL I CAN DO IS TO MODIFY ITS NAME..THAT’S ALL I CAN DO

  30. Keith 9:06 am Tue Jun 10 2008

    More thanks here, especially for teaching me how to reset the Edit button. I had no idea how to do that.

    Now the only problems I run into are the ones I create myself. That’s much more fun!

  31. c4mden 2:00 pm Thu Jan 15 2009

    awesome, *very* helpful!

    for those trying to use this on a Mac, the string you enter for greasemonkey.editor is /Applications/TextEdit.app

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