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Mindeye,

Thank you my friend for the inspirational and well written auto-update functionality! I had been using 'User Script Updates' for some time with my 'Google i&Search Dark + Enhancements' (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12917) script to turn Google services black, until the update-checking stopped working reliably with a recent FF-version-update. I noticed the code your wrote/added and was inspired by its simplicity and efficiency. I then grabbed the few functions and variables and got it working. I really am thankful for your effort in the update checker! Great job and keep up the good work! =)

Best regards,
Gabe D

Mindeye,

First I must thank you again for the auto-update functions!

Second, I made a small improvement (usability-wise) to the functionality and thought I'd share back:

When the update notification pops up, and you click install, it does bring up the install dialog, but the notification is still there & gsscriptVersionNotificationHide is not set to 1.

If you add id='gsscriptVersionInstallUpdate' to your Install link, like I did here:

"< a style='color:#fcc !important; font-size:16px; font-family:Trebuchet MS, Verdna;' id='gsscriptVersionInstallUpdate' href='" + scriptFileURL + "' title='Install the script update now'><blink>INSTALL UPDATE</blink>" +

Then add a second listener below the first listener, like this:

// Adds event listeners to the hide update-notice upon Install or Hide
$("gsscriptVersionInstallUpdate").addEventListener("click", function(evt) {
	sSt.gsscriptVersionNoticeHide = "1"; // Sets a sessionStorage variable to prevent the notice to be shown for this session
	scriptShowUpdateMessage(false, null);
}, false);
$("gsscriptVersionMessageHide").addEventListener("click", function(evt) {
	sSt.gsscriptVersionNoticeHide = "1";
	scriptShowUpdateMessage(false, null);
}, false);

Then when the user clicks the updater 'INSTALL' link, the notification goes away and the update check is postponed for X[in our case, 24h]

Not a drastic change but a good usability improvement.
Hope you like the idea

Best regards, GD

PS: I diff your script from time to time to see if you've made update-check mods, but haven't seen any thus far. Kudos on the well written code!