[Greasemonkey] Any "wait" function in Javascript or in greasemonkey?

Vectorspace vectorspace at ntlworld.com
Mon Aug 28 14:30:28 EDT 2006


http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_timing.asp

Vikas Pandey wrote:
> Orkut.com has one of the shabbiest user-interface I have seen, but, it 
> seems that their server scripts are good.
>
> If one uses userscripts to do repetitive things they somehow catch it 
> and ban the user for several hours.
>
> One thing could be to include some time gap between consequetive 
> accesses to their server. Then, the server will think that it is a 
> human that is doing it because we are not using any supernatural 
> command as such.
>
> I can include a empty loop to kill time, but is there any "wait" sort 
> of function in Javascript or in greasemonkey to provide a 5-10 second 
> delay? doing absolutely nothing, just killing time to simulate the gap 
> to suit human hands.
>
> Thanks.
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