[Greasemonkey] Cannot use GreaseMonkey :-(

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 6/4/05, Guess Who am I <shiftcode at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, in the Tools menu of Firefox, options "Install user script" and "user
> script commands" are grayed (unavailable). There is no context menu entry in
> the link context menu, and when I use "Manage user scripts" in the Tools
> menu, clicking on the edit button at the bottom of the window (near
> "Enabled" checkbox), the window GreaseMonkey window closes itself, without
> doing anything else.

"Install user script" is only enabled when you're currently viewing a
user script in the window.

"User script commands" is only enabled when a user script has
registered some commands.

It's normal for the UI to go away when you click edit.

So the only weirdness you're seeing is that you're not getting shelled
to your text editor when you click "Edit".  Do you actually have any
scripts installed?  I notice that if you don't have a user script
selected in the list on the left, GM behaves the way you describe.

Go to the directory page, view a user script, and see if Install User
Script becomes enabled:
http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts

Here's an example script, for ease:
http://www.langenhoven.com/code/gsearch/gsearchrate.user.js

And an explanation of what it does:
http://www.langenhoven.com/code/gsearch/gsearchrate.php

Anyway, once you've installed that, see if the edit button behaves
like you'd expect.