HELP GREASEMONKEY IN THE WAY – Userscripts.org <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/script_icon.png" type="image/x-icon" /> <link href="http://static.userscripts.org/stylesheets/display.css?1227340079" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="http://static.userscripts.org/javascripts/prototype.js?1227340079" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://static.userscripts.org/javascripts/effects.js?1227340079" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://static.userscripts.org/javascripts/lowpro.js?1227340079" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="http://static.userscripts.org/javascripts/application.js?1227340079" type="text/javascript"></script> <link href="/topics/1178.rss" rel="alternate" title="Subscribe to 'HELP GREASEMONKEY IN THE WAY'" type="application/rss+xml" /> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <ul id="mainmenu"> <li><a href="/articles" rel="nofollow">Blog</a></li> <li><a href="/scripts" rel="nofollow">Scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/forums" rel="nofollow">Forums</a></li> <li><a href="/users" rel="nofollow">People</a></li> <li><a href="/signup" rel="nofollow">Signup</a></li> <li><a href="/login" rel="nofollow">Login</a></li> </ul> <h1><a href="/" title="Userscripts.org"><img alt="Userscripts.org" src="http://static.userscripts.org/images/userscripts.org.png?1227340079" /></a></h1> </div> <div id="container"> <div id="content"> <div class="crumbs"> <a href="/forums">Forums</a> <span class="arrow">→</span> <a href="/forums/1">Script development</a> <span class="arrow">→</span> </div> <h1 id="topic-title"> HELP GREASEMONKEY IN THE WAY </h1> <p class="subtitle"> <a href="/topics/1178.rss"><img alt="Subscribe to HELP GREASEMONKEY IN THE WAY" height="14" src="http://static.userscripts.org/images/feed-icon.png?1227340079" width="14" /></a> 4 posts, 4 voices </p> <a name="posts-4500" id="posts-4500"> </a> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="posts wide"> <tr class="post hentry " id="4500-row"> <td class="author vcard"> <div class="date"> <a href="#posts-4500" rel="bookmark"> <abbr class="updated" title="2007-10-17T11:40:28-05:00"> Oct 17, 2007 11:40am </abbr> </a> </div> <img alt="" class="photo" height="32" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=0dd34311541706163bb0b68bbd2d9a7c&rating=PG&size=32&default=identicon" width="32" /> <span class="fn"><a href="/users/35748" class="admin" rel="nofollow">Guinness</a></span> <span class="role"> User </span> </td> <td class="body entry-content" id="post-body-4500">  <p>i am trying to edit a script in greasemonkey... but i chose a .ico file instead of a programa such as notepad... i cannot reverse it... do you have any clue as to what i should do?</p> </td> </tr> <tr class="spacer"> <td colspan="2"> <a name="posts-4513" id="posts-4513"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr class="post hentry " id="4513-row"> <td class="author vcard"> <div class="date"> <a href="#posts-4513" rel="bookmark"> <abbr class="updated" title="2007-10-18T11:39:52-05:00"> Oct 18, 2007 11:39am </abbr> </a> </div> <img alt="" class="photo" height="32" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=10efd218744713a7fc994684105ac548&rating=PG&size=32&default=identicon" width="32" /> <span class="fn"><a href="/users/15558" rel="nofollow">John M. Dlugosz</a></span> <span class="role"> Scriptwright </span> </td> <td class="body entry-content" id="post-body-4513">  <p>I don't know the answer, but here is what I would do: fire up RegMon or the new Process Monitor tool from Sysinternals. Then click on 'edit', then stop regmon capturing. Look at the log and see what it accessed.</p> </td> </tr> <tr class="spacer"> <td colspan="2"> <a name="posts-4533" id="posts-4533"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr class="post hentry " id="4533-row"> <td class="author vcard"> <div class="date"> <a href="#posts-4533" rel="bookmark"> <abbr class="updated" title="2007-10-20T04:31:50-05:00"> Oct 20, 2007 4:31am </abbr> </a> </div> <img alt="" class="photo" height="32" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=70f3b02d8c8e2831af7a15b0bbab5a65&rating=PG&size=32&default=identicon" width="32" /> <span class="fn"><a href="/users/18428" rel="nofollow">b0at</a></span> <span class="role"> Scriptwright </span> </td> <td class="body entry-content" id="post-body-4533">  <p>That's not only unnecessary, John, but it won't work.</p> <p>Guinness: Go to about:config and edit the pref "greasemonkey.editor" (without quotes). Its value should be the absolute path of an executable.</p> <p><small><small>The way you should've found this is by going to about:config in the first place, where Firefox's stored preferences are exposed, typing something like "greasemonkey" in the filter field to find relevant prefs, and stumbling on that pref.</small></small></p> </td> </tr> <tr class="spacer"> <td colspan="2"> <a name="posts-4550" id="posts-4550"> </a> </td> </tr> <tr class="post hentry " id="4550-row"> <td class="author vcard"> <div class="date"> <a href="#posts-4550" rel="bookmark"> <abbr class="updated" title="2007-10-21T22:40:52-05:00"> Oct 21, 2007 10:40pm </abbr> </a> </div> <img alt="" class="photo" height="32" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=2284f9d29dce601d0d6cf40b9f647e6e&rating=PG&size=32&default=identicon" width="32" /> <span class="fn"><a href="/users/35267" rel="nofollow">Freeze</a></span> <span class="role"> Scriptwright </span> </td> <td class="body entry-content" id="post-body-4550">  <p>Thank you so much! 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