Metafilter Scroll Tag has disappeared

April 29, 2019 3:55 PM

The "Metafilter Scroll Tag" Greasemonkey script has stopped functioning. As in, the tag no longer appears, and the unread count isn't shown. Just me or is anyone else experiencing this?

I've cleared cookies, and set the options through the Greasemonkey menu to make sure *.metafilter.com/* is included for the script. I think it's due to the latest Firefox update, but I don't know how to further troubleshoot. It looks like the proper cookies are being created when going to each subsite, so the script is probably executing, but can't seem to find a way to see the content of the cookies in Firefox anymore to verify what it's doing.

posted by team lowkey to Bugs at 3:55 PM (6 comments total)

still working for me in FF 66.0.3 on windows 10.
I'm using this version: https://github.com/mefiscripts/mefiscripts/blob/master/userscripts/scroll_tag.user.js
posted by namewithoutwords at 4:25 PM on April 29, 2019

Okay, on first blush installing that version seems to be working fine. Weird. I wonder what changed to break the one I was using. I guess I can diff them to find out, if I really care. Thanks!
posted by team lowkey at 10:07 PM on April 29, 2019

Nothing to see here. Move along.
posted by terrapin at 8:08 AM on April 30, 2019

The Mystery of the MetaFilter Scrolls...
posted by pracowity at 10:52 AM on April 30, 2019 [1 favorite]

This was just the canary in the coalmine, Firefox has broken everything:
https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/978
posted by team lowkey at 11:47 PM on May 3, 2019 [1 favorite]

Thread on the blue about the Firefox extension issue.
posted by Chrysostom at 9:23 PM on May 4, 2019