[Greasemonkey] Error when loading many iframes and then parsing through whole document for links

[Hans Schmucker]

Seems like my message didn't make it either... let's try again then, shall we?

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From: Hans Schmucker <hansschmucker at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2006 7:11 PM
Subject: error when loading many iframes and then parsing through
whole document for links
To: greasemonkey at mozdev.org


This is driving me crazy:

I've written a little gallery module
( http://hansschmucker.free.fr/google/googlemassivegallerycrea.user.js )
which has a very strange behaviour... and I'm not sure if it's a
Firefox, Greasemonkey or a self inflicted problem.

It is supposed to load when you do a Google image search (for example
http://images.google.com/images?start=980&q=test&imgsz=xxlarge&svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&filter=0
) and collect the results across multiple result pages into a single
iFrame. It does this by parsing through the current page, extracting
all results page links and loading them in iframes... the GM script
when applied to a resultspage checks if it's loaded into an iframe and
in that case starts writing the results back to the mainpage.

Strangely enough, it suddenly stops working if I let it search through
the whole page for resultpage links, but works perfectly if I limit it
to the navbar. Just look at line 68. All it does is redirect the link
search to the id=navbar element. Without that, nothing works. I don't
even get an error, it's just that nothing happens: The iframes
suddenly don't even start executing their code, which is visible
because GM_log should get executed once per page, nomatter what, but
it doesn't. Problem is that the link that links to the current page
(with corrected offset) is above... so I want to parse the whole page,
not just the navbar.

Any ideas what's causing this weird behaviour??? Any help would be
highly appreciated!

Hans Schmucker.