> This string has a length of 73 characters. Together with a 91 characters long scriptname, the path is 255 characters long. For the 92 chars, it's 257. You know 256 is some kind of magic number. I think it might be good to investigate in this direction.
256 does appear to be a magical non-existent number in your example above ;) See this link regarding maximum path lengths: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx#maxpath On May 4, 2012 9:00 PM, "LWChris@LyricWiki" <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 04.05.2012 20:07, schrieb Anthony Lieuallen: > >> On Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:45:20 AM UTC-4, Anthony Lieuallen wrote: >> >>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Dzhim<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> If a script's filename and name added together equals more than 165 >>>> characters, the next time you start your browser the script is not >>>> listed in config.xml anymore but remains in it's directory. Tested in >>>> Firefox 12.0. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://github.com/**greasemonkey/greasemonkey/**issues/1548<https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/issues/1548> >>> >>> >> > I think I might have a hot track: > > I named my scripts "1234567890123...". With 91 digits it works. With 92 it > crashes. > > We have the following path to a script: C:\Users\Username\AppData\** > Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\**Profiles\a1b2c3d4.default\gm_** > scripts\scriptname\scriptname.**user.js > Now we apply the Windows path variable for the application data folder: > %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\**Profiles\a1b2c3d4.default\gm_** > scripts\scriptname\scriptname.**user.js > Then we remove the scriptname: %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\** > Profiles\a1b2c3d4.default\gm_**scripts\\.user.js > > This string has a length of 73 characters. Together with a 91 characters > long scriptname, the path is 255 characters long. For the 92 chars, it's > 257. You know 256 is some kind of magic number. I think it might be good to > investigate in this direction. > > Everything in the menu and the manager worked as always, but as soon as it > switched from evaluating the config.xml to the actual file path, it failed. > I guess Firefox has a limited path length. > > In my trials afterwards, 91 characters also failed, but I think it's > nevertheless a good point to start. > > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "greasemonkey-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to > greasemonkey-users@**googlegroups.com<[email protected]> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greasemonkey-users+** > [email protected]<greasemonkey-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en> > **. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en.
