Obsolete bookmarklets, user scripts, etc.

About this page

This is a page for things that were on my main user scripts page that no longer work or are no longer necessary. See that page for more details, and also see that page for things that actually work.

Contents

(Click the link to go to the section; actual bookmarklet links below.)

• No YT Autohide [B]
• Enable TVTropes display options [G]
• Web archive [G]
• Miscellaneous

No YT Autohide [B]

Since I have the stylesheet (on the main page), I haven't been keeping the bookmarklet up-to-date, and it doesn't really work anymore. (I should fix that at some point.)

Fix the new YouTube player so that the playback bar is always visible and doesn't cover up the bottom of the video. Apply the user style (better), OR put the bookmarklet in your bookmarks bar, and click it when you have a video open (the bookmarklet will apply only to that tab).

Known issues:

• For some reason the change seems to be partially applied to any other videos you open on the same tab; refreshing seems to get it back to normal, and re-clicking the bookmarklet fully reapplies this fix. (Only an issue in the bookmarklet version.)
• (actually the bookmarklet hasn't been tested recently; use the user style instead)
• YouTube doesn't update the time unless it thinks that the controls are visible; fix this by keeping the mouse cursor over the play button.)
• Clicking the circled-i icon breaks it a bit. Re-clicking on the bookmarklet fixes it. (Less of an issue in the user style version.)

Bookmarklet: No YT Autohide (bookmark this link)

javascript:document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-chrome-bottom')[0].style.bottom='-41px';document.getElementById('movie_player').style.overflow='visible';document.getElementById('placeholder-player').style.marginBottom='51px';document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-gradient-bottom')[0].style.display='none';document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-chrome-bottom')[0].style.opacity='1.0';document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-chrome-bottom')[0].style.background='black';document.getElementById('movie_player').style.cursor='default';undefined;

Beautified:

javascript:
document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-chrome-bottom')[0].style.bottom = '-41px';
document.getElementById('movie_player').style.overflow = 'visible';
document.getElementById('placeholder-player').style.marginBottom = '51px';
document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-gradient-bottom')[0].style.display = 'none';
document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-chrome-bottom')[0].style.opacity = '1.0';
document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-chrome-bottom')[0].style.background = 'black';
document.getElementById('movie_player').style.cursor = 'default';
undefined;

Enable TVTropes display options [G]

Update: This script seems to no longer be necessary since their latest redesign.

Web archive [G]

Display the current page, or any linked page, in Web Archive. Helpful for if you're browsing an old webpage and come across a bunch of broken links. (Also it offers to save the page if it's not there but available online.)

This is available as a bookmarklet (on the main page) and as a user script. The user script adds an item to the context menu to find older versions of the current page or of any link (which is useful if the page now redirects somewhere unhelpful).

Known issues:

• <menu> is deprecated and only supported on Firefox; the user script won't work on other browsers, and at some point it might stop working on Firefox. This issue only applies to the user script. (Apparently recent versions have now dropped support, which is why this is on this page.)

The user script: Web Archive context menu (updated 2021-04-11)

Miscellaneous

Fix Bitbucket scrolling [S]: Bitbucket for no apparent reason has the main content scrolling separately from the window, which makes scrolling work weirdly (scrolling diagonally doesn't work). User style: Fix Bitbucket scrolling (This doesn't seem to be an issue anymore.)