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Viktor in FL, No offense taken. This is my first userscript to share, but not my first one to write. As far as trusting it, the script does three simple things: (1) adds a "Who?" button on the login screens, (2) fills out the login info if the Who menu is selected, and (3) submits the login form. There is no redirection or external URLs in the code.

You do have to store your facebook user-id, e-mail address, and password in the script and that may cause some people to hesitate. For my family, where multiple people share the same computer, it is really convenient. I really welcome suggestions from more experienced coders.

Four Walls, I'm sorry it's not working for you. I only have access to Windows machines so I wasn't able to test it on Mac OS X. I am also using FireFox 3.5.3. Maybe someone else with a Mac can try it and let us know whether or not it works?

I edited the @include statements to include more facebook pages if you want to re-install.

You do have to edit these lines in the source code. Without editing them, the script will still run, but just won't fill in the right account information.

userList[0] = "UserName1|emailaddress1|password1";
userList[1] = "UserName2|emailaddress2|password2";
userList[2] = "UserName3|emailaddress3|password3";

Sure, marta, I'll explain step-by-step what you need to do to use this script:

When you first install the script (before you edit it), you should go into Facebook and hit the "logout" button. That will take you to http://www.facebook.com/index.php . You should see a "Who?" drop-down menu next to the field where you enter user name. The drop-down menu should say "UserName1", "UserName2", and "UserName3".

Of course, you want to change those names and the underlying information. To do that, select the Menu Item: Tools - Greasemonkey - Manage User Scripts. This pulls up a Greasemonkey window. Click on the facebook-multiuser-login and click the "edit" button. This opens the script in your editor (such as notepad). Find the three lines near the top that start with "userList" and change only the information inside the quotation marks. There should be three values inside the quotation marks, separated by a pipe ("|") character: (1) The name you want to show on the pull-down menu, (2) the e-mail address you use to login to facebook, and (3) your facebook password. At first, change only the information for the first user (userList[0])

Save your script and referesh your Facebook page. You should see that first user on the drop-down list.

If you only have two users, you can delete: userList[2] = "UserName3|emailaddress3|password3";

If you have four or more users, you can add lines userList[3] = "UserName3|emailaddress3|password3"; just remember that the number inside the brackets needs to go up by 1 for each user you enter. (Since the first user starts at index "0", the fourth user would have "3" inside the brackets.)

Note that if you make any mistakes in editing (like removing one of the quotations marks) and accidentally introduce some JavaScript compile error, the script just won't do anything. That's why I recommend testing it before you edit the script.

I hope that this makes sense.

A new version (1.1 2011-07-25) of facebook-multiuser-login is finally available , making it easier to log in/out of accounts from any page. If you are using the old version, you'll need to re-add the login information for each user, but you don't have to edit the script directly anymore. If you don't remember which e-mail address and passwords you're using on your different facebook page, be sure to save the old version of this userScript for reference.