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Chrome Userscript Development

I have a private script that I'm trying to get to run as a userscript in Google Chrome, how do I do this without uploading it to a shared site like userscripts?

I've got google chrome setup with the additional startup parameter --enable-user-scripts

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You should be able to name the script file yourscript.user.js and then just open it in chrome (e.g. go to file:///C:/myscript.user.js )

Annie  2009-12-23 01:58:35
this just shows the script as a plaintext file in the chrome tab, no install extension shows up like it does if I click install at user scripts.
Tom J Nowell  2009-12-23 02:04:43
if I goto http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/download/helloworld.user.js I can install the script, BUT if I copy its contents into a js file and open that using file:// it does not work. Same is true if I put it on my website and open the url
Tom J Nowell  2009-12-23 02:12:39
ag .user.js not .js
Tom J Nowell  2009-12-23 02:14:39
Strange, it works for me. I'm on dev channel--4.0.266.0. If I download a script from userscripts.org and then copy the file path into the urlbar, I get a message on the download bar asking me if I want to continue, and when I click "Continue" it installs the user script. Maybe you need to get on the dev channel? (jldupont's link has more info on that)
Annie  2009-12-23 02:35:23
yeah my script was ending in .js not .user.js so it wasn't being interpreted as a user script
Tom J Nowell  2009-12-23 05:59:55

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