2.3. Coding your user script [Dive Into Greasemonkey] - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Sep 08
  

  Avdi Grimm
  • If you need to reference your user script's variables or functions later, you will need to explicitly define them as properties
    of the window object
• 28 Jun 08
  

  Reder Tseng

  Greasemonkey

  • Specifically, it automatically wraps your user script in an anonymous function wrapper.
  • variables and functions that you define in a user script are not available to other scripts. In fact, they are not available at all once the user script has finished running
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  • • The best solution is to define an anonymous function yourself and pass it as the first argument to window.setTimeout.
• 14 Nov 07
  

  suckmysocks

  firefox programming

• 12 Jan 07
  

  aakarsh

  dive into grease monkey extensions firefox greasemonkey links your first user script

• 12 May 05
  

  David Corking

  lots of sites call for scraping and tweaking with Javascript or Lisp to make them more useful or more web servissy
  
  This is an open online book about the UA tool Greasemonkey (a Firefox extension.)

  Web development

  • This accomplishes the same thing as the previous example, but it leaves no trace, i.e. it's undetectable to other scripts.
    
    I find that I use anonymous functions regularly while writing user scripts.

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