I finally got around to updating my chess related greasemonkey scripts for Firefox 4.

The scripts convert the main playing boards to practice boards with unlimited moves, undo and reset. Castling works as well, just promotions need some more work.

The scripts can be found over on userscripts.org.

I think I’ve complained before about the pain of creating a file release on sourceforge. While I can understand the motivation behind the design, it’s still a big pain, especially updating the processor and file type for each plugin!

So, today I finally spend some time puttng together a small greasemonkey script to make life easier. it’s still a but crude, but works well enough for my purposes.
What it does is the following:

1. Iterate over all select elements and pick the ones named processor_id and type_id,
2. if not already selected select ‘Platform independent‘ and ‘.zip‘,
3. if the dropdown was modified also modify the table row (set background to some red),
4. and also add a target to the form to allow submitting forms to a new tab to avoid having to reload the page for each submit

Admittedly, that’s all rather specific for my needs but on the off-chance that someone might find it useful – here it is.