Updated Twitter Fixer

I've updated the twitter fixer user script so that now it doesn't cause some twitter information to be impossible to view. Previously if you clicked on a tweet or a twitter user to get further details then the box which contained the further details would be hidden on the right side of the screen.

This new version fixes that issue by presenting it to you in (almost) full screen, in the middle of your display.

If anyone sees any other issues then please let me know via a comment.

Twitter Column Expander

A friend mentioned to me that they were annoyed with the way the new Twitter layout wasted lots of pixels to the left and the right of the timeline. So I knocked together a quick user script for Google Chrome to do this.

I've had this sitting around for a while, but I've finally got around to setting up somewhere where I can put it.

User-scripts in Google Chrome aren't GreaseMonkey scripts

This weekend I was playing around with writing a GreaseMonkey script to force the new Twitter layout to take up the full screen width for the list of tweets.

What I expected to be a 5 minute job turned into an hour and a half. The main issue was that it turns out I wasn't writing a GreaseMonkey script. While the user-scripts in Google Chrome are very similar to GreaseMonkey scripts, they differ in how they handle security (as well as some other more minor differences such as no @require). Eventually I found a helpful page on the Chromiumn wiki explaining the differences.

For me the biggest difference was the absence of unsafeWindow. The easiest way I found to workaround this limitation (which is just a sensible security protect) was to inject the javascript to execute into the document.

The resulting code isn't pretty and is a little harder to debug, but it works and I now don't have large areas of blank screen space when using Twitter.