Running a greasemonkey script on a non-HTML page

Question

I have the following fairly basic greasemonkey script:

var newloc = location.href.replace(/^(.*)-xyz-(.*)$/i, "$1$2");
if (newloc != location.href)
    location.href = newloc;

That is, it basically strips out "-xyz-" from the URL and loads the page again. So if you navigate to "www.example.com/a-xyz-b/" it'll reload the page at "www.example.com/ab/".

Now, the script work fine if the page is an HTML page. But if I open a .jpg file or something that's not HTML then the script does not run at all.

Is this just a limitation of greasemonkey? That it only works if the page is actually text/html? What is an alternative way this functionality could be done?

Answer 1

Yes, Greasemoney fires on the DOMContentLoaded event, which doesn't seem to trigger on media objects (no DOM).

Get around this by firing on the parent/referrer pages and changing the links there.

Or, if the file names are on the local machine, use a text editor or batch job to rename/rewrite the links/names.

If neither of these workarounds is viable, post the specific details of how you are feeding these URLS to FireFox (name the browser in use if it's not FF).