Javascript / Greasmonkey Question

**trogdor1024** · Jul 3, 2007 19:35

I go to a website that has a javascript based timeout and I was wondering if there was a way (using a Greasemonkey script?) that I could either disable the timer or significantly increase the timeout value. Below are the relevant parts of the html on the page...

Code HTML4Strict:

<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
var timeout = 600*1000;
var btimd = timeout + 5000;
var tOF = '';
 
function lOut() {
newwin.close();
location.href = 'http://www.somewhere.com'
}
 
function timedOut() {
clearTimeout(tOF);
tOF = setTimeout('lOut()',btimd);
}
 
timedOut();
</script>
</head>
<body>
...whatever...
</body>
</html>

The most promising thought I've had is setting up a Greasemonkey script that basically runs "clearTimeout(tOF)" but that does not work, perhaps I cannot reference "tOF".

Do you have any thoughts on where to go from here?

thx,

Trogdor

**felgall** · Jul 3, 2007 19:38

Possibly overriding the timedOut() function.

function timedOut() {}

**trogdor1024** · Jul 3, 2007 19:50

Originally Posted by felgall

Possibly overriding the timedOut() function.

function timedOut() {}

I did try that too but I am still redirected to "www.somewhere.com" after the time runs out.

**Kravvitz** · Jul 3, 2007 23:53

Check this out.

**kyberfabrikken** · Jul 4, 2007 02:00

The function timedOut has already been run, so it won't help to redefine it. You might be able to redefine lOut instead, since it's not run until the timeout. Eg.:

Code:

lOut = function() {}

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