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Greased Lightbox v0.17 by Joe Lencioni

April 27, 2008 by Joe Lencioni

Change Log

Fixed compatibility issues with Firefox 3 betas
Added support for images on Blogger/Blogspot blogs
Added re-centering feature when window is resized

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12 Comments

Robbie G said
April 27th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

Awesome! Thanks!
Joe Lencioni said
April 28th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

@RobbieG: No problem! I hope I didn’t break anything
ev said
April 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

hey, thanks for the nice script.
got a question. if i have to uninstall previous version first, how can i keep my ‘excluded pages’ ?
is there a way to export them and import them again after i update to a newer version?
Joe Lencioni said
April 28th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
@ev that’s a great question. I hadn’t thought about that. I’m naming my script something different on each update to prevent something else, but maybe after this version I will go back to the standard naming conventions.

As sort of a round-about way, you could download the Greased Lightbox script to your computer, change the line that says:
```
// @name			Greased Lightbox (v0.17)
```
to:
```
// @name			Greased Lightbox (v0.16)
```
And then load that up into greasemonkey. Hopefully that makes sense!
Artis said
April 28th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

Thank you very much for the added blogspot support!
sent you a few dollors for a beer from me : )

cheers!
Joe Lencioni said
April 29th, 2008 at 6:44 am

@Artis: Thanks! I added your name to the list of donors.
Ignacio Larrain said
July 12th, 2008 at 12:33 am

Thanks for your work!

I’ve got a suggestion:
Wikipedia sites are supported correctly, but there are many sites using MediaWiki and the script won’t work as expected (including wikipedia commons, the wikipedia’s media site). As a temporary solution, I’ve changed the line 112 from:
includeRegExp : /^https?:\/\/(.*?\.)?wikipedia\.org/i,
to:
includeRegExp : /^https?:\/\/(.*?\.)?wiki[mp]edia\.org/i,
And that addresses the commons problem, but does not help with any other site running MediaWiki. The best solution would be to implement some sort of MediaWiki detector. I know way to little to implement this myself, so thats why its a suggestion.
Tobias said
July 18th, 2008 at 8:03 am

Thanks for the update to this great script, Joe!

Can I put in a request for a keyboard shortcut (perhaps v) to “View the image in it’s original context”?
Three Years — Shifting Pixel said
July 30th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

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Davie Walker said
August 28th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Don’t get me wrong, I like Greased Lightbox but I’d like to turn it off sometimes. Mainly when in Flickr, I like to see the comments.

If it can’t be turned off, I’ll need to remove it, how do you do that?

Keep up the good work.

Cheers
Davie
Joe Lencioni said
August 30th, 2008 at 11:55 am

@Davie: You can disable any script for any site using Greasemonkey. This video explains how http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/videos/exclude-pages.html
nati rubinstein said
October 17th, 2008 at 5:35 am

hi jon,
i really like your script and i was wondering if i could use it in my new site that i am building, i am using lightbox already and i just want to enhance it with all the nice tricks u did with the + and – and the nice frame and etc.
could u give an idea how can i use it with out the need of firefox or greasemonkey ?
thank u very much