JQuery/Greasemonkey in Google Chrome. Why won't this work? No Alert shows up.

Question

I'm unable to get this script to work as an extension in google chrome. No alert shows up. normal javascript alerts work.

// ==UserScript==
// @name           voip
// @namespace      1
// @description    voip
// @include        *
// @require        http://jquery.com/src/jquery-latest.js
// ==/UserScript==

$(document).ready(function() {  
        alert("Hello world!");
});

Answer 1

Greasemonkey support in Chrome does not include require statements. You'd be better off creating an extension rather than a Greasemonkey script.

That, or you could use the Google API to load jQuery.

Answer 2

Easy solution (if viable for you) would be to just copy paste the minified version of jQuery into your greasemonkey script.

// ==UserScript==
// @name           voip
// @namespace      1
// @description    voip
// @include        *
// ==/UserScript==
//jQuery 1.4.2 minified code
(function(A,w){function ma(){if(!c.isReady){try{s.documentElement.doScroll...
....
A.jQuery=A.$=c})(window);
//your code
$(document).ready(function() {  
    alert("Hello world!");
});

Answer 3

This is a nice article: How to play nicely with jQuery and Greasemonkey

The method explained works for chrome as well.

Update:

I came up with a better method that works on all browsers, which you can read about here.