How can I use jQuery in Greasemonkey scripts in Google Chrome?

Question

As some of you may know, Google Chrome has put some severe limitation on Greasemonkey scripts.

Chromium does not support @require,

Answer 1

There's a really easy way to get around including a full copy of jQuery for Chrome scripts when those scripts don't actually use any privileged features (GM_* functions, etc)...

Simply insert the script itself into the page DOM and execute! The best part is that this technique works just as well on Firefox+Greasemonkey, so you can use the same script for both:

var script = document.createElement("script");
script.type = "text/javascript";
script.textContent = "(" + threadComments.toString() + ")(jQuery)";
document.body.appendChild(script);

function threadComments($) {
    // taken from kip's http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/62163
    var goodletters = Array('\u00c0','\u00c1','\u00c2','\u00c3','\u00c4','\u00c5','\u00c6','\u00c7'
                             ,'\u00c8','\u00c9','\u00ca','\u00cb','\u00cc','\u00cd','\u00ce','\u00cf'
                                      ,'\u00d1','\u00d2','\u00d3','\u00d4','\u00d5','\u00d6'         
                             ,'\u00d8','\u00d9','\u00da','\u00db','\u00dc','\u00dd'                  
                             ,'\u00e0','\u00e1','\u00e2','\u00e3','\u00e4','\u00e5','\u00e6','\u00e7'
                             ,'\u00e8','\u00e9','\u00ea','\u00eb','\u00ec','\u00ed','\u00ee','\u00ef'
                                      ,'\u00f1','\u00f2','\u00f3','\u00f4','\u00f5','\u00f6'         
                             ,'\u00f8','\u00f9','\u00fa','\u00fb','\u00fc','\u00fd'         ,'\u00ff').join('');

    // from Benjamin Dumke's http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/68252
    function goodify(s)
      {
         good = new RegExp("^[" + goodletters + "\\w]{3}");
         bad = new RegExp("[^" + goodletters + "\\w]");
         original = s;
         while (s.length >3 && !s.match(good)) {
            s = s.replace(bad, "");
            }
         if (!s.match(good))
         {
           // failed, so we might as well use the original
           s = original;
         }
         return s;
      }  

    in_reply_to = {};


    function who(c, other_way) {


        if (other_way)
        {
            // this is closer to the real @-reply heuristics
            m = /@(\S+)/.exec(c);
        }
        else
        {
            m = /@([^ .:!?,()[\]{}]+)/.exec(c);
        }
        if (!m) {return}
        if (other_way) {return goodify(m[1]).toLowerCase().slice(0,3);}
        else {return m[1].toLowerCase().slice(0,3);}
    }

    function matcher(user, other_way) {
        if (other_way)
        {
            return function () {
                return goodify($(this).find(".comment-user").text()).toLowerCase().slice(0,3) == user
                }
        }
        else
        {
            return function () {
                return $(this).find(".comment-user").text().toLowerCase().slice(0,3) == user
                }
        }
    }

    function replyfilter(id) {
        return function() {
            return in_reply_to[$(this).attr("id")] == id;
        }
    }

    function find_reference() {
        comment_text = $(this).find(".comment-text").text();
        if (who(comment_text))
        {
            fil = matcher(who(comment_text));
            all = $(this).prevAll("tr.comment").filter(fil);
            if (all.length == 0)
            {
                // no name matched, let's try harder
                fil = matcher(who(comment_text, true), true);
                all = $(this).prevAll("tr.comment").filter(fil);
                if (all.length == 0) {return}
            }
            reference_id = all.eq(0).attr("id");
            in_reply_to[$(this).attr("id")] = reference_id;
        }
    }


    // How far may comments be indented?
    // Note that MAX_NESTING = 3 means there are
    // up to *four* levels (including top-level)
    MAX_NESTING = 3

    // How many pixels of indentation per level?
    INDENT = 30

    function indenter(parent) {

        for (var i = MAX_NESTING; i > 0; i--)
        {
            if (parent.hasClass("threading-" + (i-1)) || (i == MAX_NESTING && parent.hasClass("threading-" + i)))
            {
                return function() {
                    $(this).addClass("threading-" + i).find(".comment-text").css({"padding-left": INDENT*i});
                }
            }
        }

        return function() {
            $(this).addClass("threading-1").find(".comment-text").css({"padding-left": INDENT});
        }

    }

    function do_threading(){
        id = $(this).attr("id");
        replies = $(this).nextAll("tr.comment").filter(replyfilter(id));
        ind = indenter($(this));
        replies.each(ind);
        replies.insertAfter(this);
    }

    function go() {
        $("tr.comment").each(find_reference);
        $("tr.comment").each(do_threading);
    }

    $.ajaxSetup({complete: go});
    go();
}

(unapologetically stolen from Shog9 on meta.stackoverflow since he didn't move it here, and I have to delete the meta post..)