[Greasemonkey] API brainstorming: GM services?

[mark rickerby]

> One limitation I see with GM script is that they keep restarting. Of
> course, there is GM_getValue and GM_setValue to store some state, but
> there is no way of keeping initialized objects in memory between
> pages.

What about something like GM_getObject and GM_setObject? Or perhaps:

var storage = GM_getSharedObject();
var config = storage.getObject('mySettings');

I could definitely see uses for that, especially if users didn't have
to care how/where the objects are persisted...

cheers,
Mark