Comments on: Writing your first Greasemonkey script – adding menus to Facebook’s top menu

By: vixery

vixery — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:06:23 +0000

hi, I am a luddite, I don’t know how to enter user scripts into greasemonkey. every post i find about this says “greasemonkey can be used to —blah blah blah” but I don’t get HOW. thanks for helping me and sorry if this is annoying.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:57:39 +0000

Well you have to love firefox. It seems like to much trouble for me tho..

By: Somebody

Somebody — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:29:48 +0000

Why would somebody’s *first* greasemonkey srcript be so “complicated” ?

Some kind of “Hello World” would be far more appropriate.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:11:47 +0000

Your profile has been added to Island Website :-) You can access your's here

By: Tone Przyszlak

Tone Przyszlak — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:32:54 +0000

Change these lines from
recentLink.href = ‘http://www.facebook.com/friends/?recent&ref=tn’;
to
requestsLink.href = ‘http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php’;

and

statusLink.href = ‘http://www.facebook.com/friends/?status&ref=tn’;
to
statusLink.href = ‘http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=app_**********’;

Go to your FB home page, click on Status Updates on your left and use the number at the end in your address bar.

That worked for me, basically find the current link and adjust your old one. Face Book like to mix things up.

By: Steve Farbota

Steve Farbota — Sat, 09 May 2009 07:21:52 +0000

I am trying to add an option to the “Preferences” dropdown menu in Meebo (which only shows up once you sign in). I have been trying to modify this code to work with that but I can not seem to figure out how to do so. Any ideas?

By: asvin

asvin — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:03:47 +0000

@Nathaniel unfortunately 2 days after I wrote this post, FB changed the friends list ;-( Will try to find out the link

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:17:30 +0000

Alright. It adds the menus but when you click on them it just goes to the all friends list. Any way around the new face book updates

By: Balaji_Getfriday

Balaji_Getfriday — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:06:50 +0000

Great article! Thanks for taking the time to explain.
I’ve been thinking about similar topics lately, and it’s good to see that I’m not alone. What do you think about Putting a YUI Face on a Java Web Application?