GreaseMonkey & Portable Firefox

Submitted by Maineguy on December 9, 2005 - 6:10pm

I tried to install greasesmonkey in Portable Firefox 1.5. I received an error message. Will Greasemonkey work with Portable Firefox? Any ideas or suggestions?


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I just installed it

Install went fine, downloaded the hover-click script, worked, shut down PFF, moved to a different directory, still worked fine.

Start with the default profile. There may be an issue with your old one. I actually recommend creating a new profile from scratch for FF 1.5 - both regular and Portable FF.

Live with purpose.

Grease Monkey Install

I was finally able to install it. It seems it was an issue with the site and FTP, as opposed to Portable Firefox. Thanks for your help!

Install problem

GreaseMonkey can have an issue during installation.
To install scripts, you have to get a "gm_scripts" directory in your directory profile with a "config.xml" file in it.
It has happened to me, so if installation of scripts failed, you have to check that.

GreaseMonkey Install

I found that I needed to actually download the file (Right-click, save link as...) and then install it from my local copy.

~JOSh-X

NEW version of GreaseMonkey

Older versions of GreaseMonkey don't work with Firefox 1.5. To get a new version of GreaseMonkey (as well as some really cool scripts) got to: