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Strings, booleans, and integers are currently the only allowed data types.  
Strings, booleans, and integers are currently the only allowed data types.  


Per [[Version_history#1.13|Greasemonkey 1.13+]] values are saved per userscript in a [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Storage SQLite] database <ref>Corresponding ticket for moving to SQLite: {{GitTicket|1798}}.</ref>. You can find the corresponding database by the userscript <code>basedir</code> as defined in the <code>[[config.xml]]</code>. The values are only accessible by opening the database is an SQLite reader, like add-on [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/ SQLite Manager].
Since [[Version_history#1.13|Greasemonkey 1.13]] values are saved per userscript in a [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Storage SQLite] database <ref>Corresponding ticket for moving to SQLite: {{GitTicket|1798}}.</ref>. You can find the corresponding database by the userscript <code>basedir</code> as defined in the <code>[[config.xml]]</code>. The values are only accessible by opening the database is an SQLite reader, like add-on [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/ SQLite Manager].
 
In older Greasemonkey version, values are saved in the [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/Preferences Firefox preferences] back end and can be manually inspected or changed by typing [[mozillazine:About:config|about:config]] in the address bar and searching for the preference name "<code>greasemonkey.scriptvals.[[Metadata Block#.40namespace|namespace]]/[[Metadata Block#.40name|script_name]].value_name</code>".
(For appropriate values of <code>namespace</code>, <code>script_name</code> and <code>value_name</code>.)
 
The Firefox preference store is not designed for storing large amounts of data. There are no hard limits, but very large amounts of data may cause Firefox to consume more memory and/or run more slowly. <ref>Please see [http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users/t/ca5a0dfac5c5998b this mailing list thread] for details.</ref>
Integer preferences must be in the range -2<sup>31</sup>-1 to 2<sup>31</sup>-1. Numbers outside this range can be stored by using <code>.toString()</code> before <code>GM_setValue</code>. <ref>"Note: Preferences cannot store non-integer numbers or numbers outside the signed 32-bit range -(2^31-1) to 2^31-1, If you have such a number, store it as a string by calling toString() on the number before passing it to this method" [https://github.com/mozilla/mozilla-central/blob/master/services/common/preferences.js#L86|Firefox's source code on Github]</ref>


Compatibility: [[Version_history#0.3_beta|Greasemonkey 0.3b+]]
Compatibility: [[Version_history#0.3_beta|Greasemonkey 0.3b+]]

Revision as of 14:52, 24 January 2014


Description

This method allows user script authors to persist simple values across page-loads.

Strings, booleans, and integers are currently the only allowed data types.

Since Greasemonkey 1.13 values are saved per userscript in a SQLite database [1]. You can find the corresponding database by the userscript basedir as defined in the config.xml. The values are only accessible by opening the database is an SQLite reader, like add-on SQLite Manager.

Compatibility: Greasemonkey 0.3b+

Syntax

function GM_setValue( name, value )

Arguments

name
String The unique (within this script) name for this value. Should be restricted to valid Javascript identifier characters.
value
String, Integer or Boolean Any valid value of these types. Any other type may cause undefined behavior, including crashes.

Returns

undefined

Examples

Set the name foo to hold the value bar: 

GM_setValue("foo", "bar");

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Corresponding ticket for moving to SQLite: #1798.
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