Greasemonkey 0.2.5: XMLHTTP across domains and tool menu commands

0.2.5 is available. This was a pretty cool release because it had contributions from four different people.

GM_xmlhttpRequest - XMLHTTP across domains

Using the new global GM_xmlhttpRequest function, user script authors can make XMLHTTP requests to any domain. These type of requests used to be limited by the traditional browser sandbox of only making requests to the same domain of the current page.

Here's an example request:

GM_xmlhttpRequest({
method:"POST",
url:"http://someurl.com/monkey",
headers:["Header-A":"hotdog","Header-B","foobar"],
data:"foo=bar&hot=dog&mon=key",
onload:function(result) { alert(result.responseText) }
});

There are other options as well.

GM_registerMenuCommand - user scripts that add commands to the tools menu

You can use the new GM_registerMenuCommand function to add things to the tools menu. Here's an example:

GM_registerMenuCommand("My command", function() {
alert("hello, from a user script!");
});

This should enable many user scripts that have a component that should be executed by the user on demand, like a bookmarklet.

Other random things:

• Added an "enable all"/"disable all" feature to the greasemonkey options screen
• Fixed a bug that was preventing greasemonkey from applying user scripts to XHTML strict documents
• Removed all default scripts from installation. These were causing problems for too many people, and there's no longer any need for example scripts now that we have the repository.