Tampermonkey: userscript missing in popup on dynamically loaded pages

[Mottie]

I use @jerone's GitHub JSON dependencies linker userscript intermittently, meaning that I only turn it on when I need it. The problem is that it doesn't show up in the popup when I need to turn it on.

Details:

• Within the userscript, the @include block has this entry // @include https://github.com/*/package.json to only target specific files on GitHub.
• To reproduce this issue:
  
  
  
  • Start from any main repo page, e.g. https://github.com/jquery/jquery.
  
  
  • Click on the package.json file from that page to navigate to its source page.
  
  
  • The userscript does not appear in the popup.
  
  
  • Reload the page, and the userscript appears.
  
  

[jerone]

@Mottie Doesn't this have to do with GitHub's PJAX solution... where it doesn't do a full page redirect, but only content update (plus location update). Github JSON Dependencies Linker doesn't include PJAX listeners, like my others scripts do.

[Mottie]

No, this is Tampermonkey not showing the userscript in the popup. And I think TM does detect history (URL) changes, so it should work.

[jerone]

If TM indeed detects pushState changes, then yes this script should be in that list on that page.

[derjanb]

TM does not detect pushState changes, because it's unclear what to do. Is the script still running or does it need to be injected again? Only the script can make a good choice on how to handle this.

So the solution is to @include all possible source pages and to either use the mentioned PJAX event solution or to overwrite pushState to initiate a normal page load.

Related: #200