Greasemonkey User Script: AutoLogin
Greasemonkey to the rescue again. Pure automated bliss!
Posted on 2006-06-19 09:11 by Jørn Støylen [permalink]
This weekend I got Tracks up and running. Hopefully it’ll help me to get things done.
And to help me keep on track (no pun intended!), I set my home page to four tabs: Tracks, Kiko, Backpack and Protopage. (As I wrote about on the Useful Firefox Extensions page, I use the Clone Window extension to make sure the first new window shows the home page but keep subsequent new windows blank.)
After just a couple of days I discovered that it’s a real pain having to log in on each of those tabs (well, except Protopage, which keeps the session even if you restart Firefox). And as David Allen would tell you, it’s pretty important that your system doesn’t irk you like that, or you won’t use it.
I thought there must be some way to automatically log in on sites where Firefox has stored the username and password. So I went searching for an extension to that effect, but no luck.
Then I thought this would probably be the perfect job for Greasemonkey—and I was right. I just downloaded a user script called AutoLogin from userscripts.org. It does exactly what I wanted.
It has issues with Protopage, which keeps reloading, but that’s not a problem. Protopage never logs out anyway, so I can just put it in the script’s “Excluded pages” list.
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