Userscripts Updater

By lazyttrick Last update Oct 23, 2011 — Installed 351,751 times.

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Q: How to use?
A: Install this script, then go and install the scripts you want to keep updated. Now just click "Update scripts" to check updates. Options include auto-check, compare changes and icons.

Q: How does it work?
A: When you click install button at the script's page, the updater records the necessary info to check for update.

Q: If I reinstall the updater will I lose track of the other scripts?
A: Not anymore.

Q: Why run the script in all sites?
A: To be notified about updates while browsing other sites (auto-search option). If you don't need this, the scope can be changed to http://userscripts.org/* and it'll work only when visiting this site.

Q: What happened to importing?
A: For security reasons the method used by importing feature is prohibited since Greasemonkey's version 0.8.20090920.2. It's not allowed anymore to read about:cache, which could be circumvented by providing the full path to Firefox profile, however you can't read config.xml too, so there's no way to import at the moment. I'll leave the importing code just for reference.

Q: Is there a workaround to importing?
A: Maybe this will work, no guarantees, etc...
- Downgrade Greasemonkey to this version
- Downgrade Updater to this version
- Browser restarted and page refreshed, try to import...
- Upgrade Greasemonkey and Updater again...
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