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When I install Greasemonkey. Firefox will not load. The process does, but the actual program doesn't show. Even with no scripts installed. I have Aurora

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It was working fine until some point I am not sure what happened.

I been OCing stuff lately so not sure if that has something to do with it. But I have latest Aurora and Greasemonkey, and for some reason the process loads, but not the program. It doesn't display at all.

I had no idea what was causing it and kinda started removing one by one and found out which it was.

I even tried removing all the scripts but that didn't work.

Tampermonkey works fine with Chrome atm. So I do not understand. I have pretty much the same scripts installed.

For any possible information would help. I tried asking about greasemonkey but nothing from that atm. My problem seems kinda unique so I am posting here to possibly find this out. It bothers me not using my scripts I like.

It was working fine until some point I am not sure what happened. I been OCing stuff lately so not sure if that has something to do with it. But I have latest Aurora and Greasemonkey, and for some reason the process loads, but not the program. It doesn't display at all. I had no idea what was causing it and kinda started removing one by one and found out which it was. I even tried removing all the scripts but that didn't work. Tampermonkey works fine with Chrome atm. So I do not understand. I have pretty much the same scripts installed. For any possible information would help. I tried asking about greasemonkey but nothing from that atm. My problem seems kinda unique so I am posting here to possibly find this out. It bothers me not using my scripts I like.

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Could be this:

Firefox Nightly invisible w/ Greasemonkey 1.13 beta 5 & 6
https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/issues/1833

Recommends:

Please try 1.14beta1 if this is still happening for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/versions/

Does that work?

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Chosen Solution

Could be this:

Firefox Nightly invisible w/ Greasemonkey 1.13 beta 5 & 6
https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/issues/1833

Recommends:

Please try 1.14beta1 if this is still happening for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/versions/

Does that work?

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Creating a new profile I was able to launch it after installing Greasemonkey, but not sure how to load up the same scripts I had yet. I tried putting them into the same folder but that seems to not be enough.

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Yes now Greasemonkey and Firefox works.

Not sure how to readd the scripts I copied out before though yet. I can do the long process and reinstall each one I suppose. Thanks for getting it to work. Did not see that solution before.

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Greasemonkey has a file which has metadata on your installed scripts. I remember looking at it once when there was a controversy about updates, but I don't know how to mine it for data.

What happens if you exit Firefox and startup in your old profile and install GM 1.14 beta? Does that rescue your original setup?

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You could try the Windows "previous versions" feature on gm_scripts\config.xml

First make a copy of the existing file in a safe place.

Then right-click > Properties > Previous Versions

Exactly when Windows 7 creates shadow copies is a mystery to me, but you might be able to roll back (or copy out) a recent enough version to at least be able to view the old list.

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Yes. The problem now seems solved. Thanks for the help and the extra info on the scripts.

Modified by RPGX Omega