Plug: LJ New Comments Greasemonkey Script

[marcmagus]

The LJ New Comments script for Greasemonkey is really cool. It keeps track of which comments you've already read, and gives handy keyboard shortcuts to jump to the [n]ext/[p]revious new comment.

It works with Dreamwidth, too.

It even works in Opera (did I mention I've been playing with Opera? I have. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet [it doesn't trivially provide some ui features I'm used to from firefox+vimperator], but it's really quick and lightweight compared to firefox) with a little fiddling. To get it to work in Opera:

• Install the Greasemonkey Library Emulation UserJS.

• Modify the New Comments script by wrapping it in:

  (function () {
  ...
  })();

• Do the obvious stuff like configuring Opera with a UserScript directory and putting the New Comments script there.

Comments

[marcmagus]

Having said that, I'm not sure if the remembering which comments you've read aspect is working correctly in Opera. That might require more fiddling.

[nameandnature]

Glad you like it!

The script needs GM_SetValue to work cross-domain, which it won't if the Opera emulation layer uses cookies. There was some discussion of this in a thread on the entry I use as the home page for the script: I think someone got it working eventually.

[marcmagus]

Thanks for the heads-up! With the information in the thread and a bit of poking around I think I have it working, in Opera, with both LJ and DW!

See my new post at http://marcmagus.dreamwidth.org/107291.html (also linked in the aforementioned thread)