329309 - User script support, similar to Greasemonkey on Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Joshua Surber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060223 Camino/1.2+ (camino.undo.it)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060223 Camino/1.2+ (camino.undo.it)

While support for XUL doesn't fit in with Camino, most FF extentions could be easily converted to userscripts, such as those run by GreaseMonkey. Support for these (similar to user stylesheets) would make Camino much kinder to use, and with a simple "Do you trust this page" dialog (like FF XPI downloads) could be make resonably secure (esp. if run in a sandbox).

Perhaps making the "register echo handler" and "unregister echo handler" AppleEvents work userscripts could be implemented through AppleScript and require some knowledge, which would scare off newbies and keep them safe from themselves, if those events work as I understand.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Isn't this kind of what CamiTools does?

Comment 2

[Joshua Surber]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Isn't this kind of what CamiTools does?
> 

Similar, except CamiTools lets you do this with user CSS files, what I am requesting is user JavaScript. Most of this (except something like a XMLHTTPRequest sandbox allowing for XSS and the like) could actually be done with AppleScript once Camino's AS dictionary is fully functional, but still not quite well enough, and that would still not be able to use GreaseMonkey scripts "out of the box"

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I'm going to confirm this as a legitimate RFE, based on previous conversations we've had on IRC.

Targeting for Future.

Comment 4

[Håkan Waara]

This would be neat.

Comment 5

[Alexander]

I strongly support this feature. Camino has no site-specific, functional tweaking abilities, and with the expansive repertoire of Firefox extensions, Greasemonkey and Javascript access is not to much to ask for. 

Maybe a folder like the "chrome" folder that allowed users to modify sites with Javascript instead of CSS. Or a real Greasemonkey plugin. Something to attract Firefox Mac users who need extensions (like a few people I know who cannot use Camino for this reason).

Comment 6

[Stuart Morgan]

Please use the vote feature to express support for feature requests, rather than commenting.

Comment 7

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]