Loading userscripts from your computer filesystem

[Paul Gee]

Is this not supported anymore?

All Firefox does is show the file as a text file.

It used to install the userscript.

Like: file:///C:/xxxxxxxx/programming/javascript/directory/Greasemonkey/138421.user.js

If it is not supported, is there any work-around, or do I have to put it on a server and load it that way?

[Anthony Lieuallen]

https://groups.google.com/g/greasemonkey-users/c/2Z9E_XTLR5s

[Paul Gee]

Says 404 page not there

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 6:18:16 AM UTC-7, Anthony Lieuallen wrote:

https://groups.google.com/g/greasemonkey-users/c/2Z9E_XTLR5s

[Anthony Lieuallen]

Actually it says 403 (probably..).  Try:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/greasemonkey-users/2Z9E_XTLR5s

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[Paul Gee]

Thanks.

No file://access for now, and maybe forever.

That is unfortunate.

I might make a PHP script where I upload a file and then offer it from the server.

[T Z]

This hasn't been supported for a while for (good) security reasons, but it's easy enough to host a single directory. Here's a nice list of one-line web servers: https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

So, for example, if you happen to have python 3 installed then you can run "python -m http.server 8000" in the directory where your script is, then browse to http://127.0.0.1:8000 and when you click the script it will install properly.

Cheers!