Update name, email and URL in Blog Comment Autofill Greasemonkey script

ADVERTISEMENT

Blog Comment Autofill is a Greasemonkey script that pre-fills your comment details (name, email and URL) in blog comment fields. It currently supports WordPress and Movable Type, which constitute a large number of useful and comment-worthy blogs out there.

After installing the script, it asks you for your details once so that it can fill it up every time you load a blog page with a comment form. What if, you launch a new blog and need to promote it? There is no direct method to update it from options. This tutorial shows you how to use a simple and quick about:config hack, you can update the details at will.

  • Type about:config into the address bar and hit enter. Click OK to get through the warning and reach the about:config settings page.
  • Type “blog” (without quotes) to the field named “Filter”. A few entries by the name “GreasemonkeyScriptvals.bca/BlogCommentAutofill” will come up(screenshot below).
  • The three values that you may need to edit end with “.author”, “url” and “email”. Double-click on the value to get a popup box into which you can type the new details. Make sure to not edit any other setting.

Update details in Blog Comment Autofill script

ADVERTISEMENT

Your settings will now have been updated. Whenever you need to update them, follow the above procedure.

To get our latest articles, click here to sign up for our free email newsletter or subscribe to RSS feed

Related reading
§ Comments
  • Binny V A says:
    July 15, 2008 at 11:27 pm

    Thanks – I was going to create a script like this. You saved me some time!

  • Keith Dsouza says:
    July 16, 2008 at 1:49 am

    You can do this much more easily without having to use about:config by right clicking on Greasemonkey icon and selecting Reset Prefill Comments from the User Scripts Commands menu :)

  • Sumesh says:
    July 16, 2008 at 7:02 am

    @Binny: Glad you found it useful.

    @Keith: But then, you’d have to enter all three details again – with this method, you can edit precisely what you want and leave the other settings intact.

  • Keith Dsouza says:
    July 16, 2008 at 7:48 am

    @Sumesh Quite true, I agree with you on that point.

    But several lay users may find the latter method useful since it does not involve editing something they are not comfortable with.

  • mike says:
    March 24, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    i’ve been searching for such kinda info for long …i did check out the method you mentioned its worthy.
    thnx

  • kumpulblogger says:
    May 26, 2009 at 5:47 am

    thanks for this script. easy to comment now

  • promosyon says:
    July 28, 2009 at 8:40 pm

    thank

  • Obviouschild says:
    August 4, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    Thanks; that could save some time, but chrome and other such browsers pretty much auto fill-in anyway don’t they?

    • § Leave a Reply