April 24, 2005, 10:27 PM ET
Greasemonkey compiler
I've written a Greasemonkey compiler, which makes a Firefox browser extension (XPI) from a given Greasemonkey user script.
This is useful if you're a script developer and want to distribute your work to people without having to ask them to install Greasemonkey. It can also be a helpful starting point if you want to write a more advanced Firefox extension.
There's no support yet for the proprietary Greasemonkey JavaScript functions, but I've tested it on a bunch of existing user scripts that don't use those functions, and the generated extensions have worked nicely.
The compiler's Python source code is also available.
Post a comment:
Comments on this entry are closed.
Don't see any comments? That's because my Web hosting provider has made a server upgrade that broke the commenting feature on this site. I'm working to restore that; please check back later.