A little while ago my custom user script for Chrome stopped working. I’m currently using the “dev channel” at home. When I first switched to Chrome, that was the only version that supported user scripts (basically GreaseMonkey from FireFox integrated into Chrome).
My script is simple, it makes some font and color changes to a few websites that I view regularly to make them more legible (IMHO). I should bundle it into an extension some day…
Anyway, it took a bit of research to figure out what happened. Look here on the Google Chrome blog:
[r33013] Disable –enable-user-scripts. (Issue: 27520)
NOTE: You can now install user scripts by navigating to them. You will have to reinstall your current scripts (they aren’t migrated).
— http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/12/dev-channel-has-been-updated-to-4.html
So, scripts are still supported, but I have to install it again. I didn’t quite understand “navigating to them” meant, but it actually means exactly what it says. In the address bar browse the file system, e.g. go to here:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User Scripts
Then double click on your .JS file, and a little extension installation prompt pops up. It’s pretty cool actually.
Hmm… now that Google Chrome regular version supports extensions, I might be able to take myself off the dev channel.