Where are my scripts

[Dan P]

OK so after a FireFox update I no longer have an easy way to find where my custom scripts are located.  When I click the Greasemonkey icon and click my script name, then click edit, it opens in a FF tab instead of an editor and I can't figure out what the path is to the script.

[Anthony Lieuallen]

There is none.  WebExtensions do not have file system access.

[Dan P]

So how do I update them?

[Jakub Mareda]

Even more importantly, how the hell do I back them up and move to different computer. Or was it decided that it's not an useful feature to have access to the scripts?

[brunoais]

Ask mozilla about that. They are the ones who decided that, not the greasemonkey devs.

[Jakub Mareda]

Mozzila ain't got nothing to do with that. Tampermonkey in Firefox has simply button to save the script as file.

Dne sobota 16. prosince 2017 12:47:05 UTC+1 brunoais napsal(a):

[brunoais]

Do you mean downloading the scripts for backup purposes?

[Vivek Das Mohapatra]

They're stored in an sqlite database: extensions.json has the id of the extension, and the path to the sqlite database is something like:

"/home/USERANAME/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE-ID.default/storage/default/moz-extension+++210603c8-7803-408e-a983-066a8d0a43fb^addonId=%7B13fc6545-ada2-42bb-9faf-98940d531666%7D/idb/61413404gyreekansoem.sqlite"

The userscript is wrapped in a json-style wrapper (the format is binary, not actual json) together with all its metadata. If the script contains non-ascii characters it is actually stored as utf-16 (or maybe UCS-2) bytes. This binary-json-ish lump is then compressed with snappy and stored as a binary blob of data in the sqlite database.

(This is true in firefox 52 or so, I've not looked at 57).

[Anthony Lieuallen]

This is barely true at best.  The best answer is that they're not stored in a way that you can expect to access.  You might want to watch https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/issues/2747

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[Dream Dancer]

Not just backing up, but modifying, adjusting, renaming, moving / transferring, in general, having access to my data without a third party holding it hostage.

[brunoais]

It's not that they don't want to give this to users, it's that but they don't know how to make good UX with the new restrictions.

I've been following the discussions and they are working on adapting to the new restrictions.
Users just want it to work but devs need to know how to make it work.

So far, they have been hitting onto the platform's limitations but an alternative that seems to work is now nearly complete.
Using external editors properly is still being a pain, though.

[Dream Dancer]

So, officially, this is yet another mozilla puck-up.