How to Transfer All Greasemonkey userscripts to Tampermonkey on Firefox 57+

Question

After read that Greasemonkey recommends users to install Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey.

I've installed Tampermonkey and now I'm trying to transfer all my Greasemonkey 3.x scripts to be opened on Tampermonkey, but I can't find it's location or even how to do it.

I've read this question that says where and how it's located on Chrome, but where is it on Firefox 57+? How can I transfer it?

PS: I'm expecting I won't need to update every userscript I have.

Sedgewake

Answer 1

Based on derjanb comment I'm answering the question showing the steps I took to achieve the transfer of the userscripts.

1. Enter about:support on firefox address, then find and click open folder

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2. Now find and open gm_scripts folder, click to search inside it and type .user.js, when the search finishes select all userscripts you want to transfer.

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3. Now right click the selected files and choose Send To - Compressed (zipped) folder.

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4. Once your zip file is created find it on Desktop or where it was created and open the Tampermonkey Dashboard

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5. Go to utilities tab and on Zip select import, find your zip file and once you click open button, it should load

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5. Finally a list with all scripts inside the zip should open, asking which one you desire to import. If you want all, just click import.

That should do it. Check it out on Installed userscripts tab.

Sedgewake

I'm sorry. It looks like I didn't know how to do it, before my comment I searched how to make a Community Wiki answer and the link I saw said I should just flag it to a moderator change it, and that was what I did. Edited I just saw it on edit mode. – Sedgewake

I couldn't find the user scripts in the profiles folder. But there is a simpler method to export/import, see my answer. – Edy

Answer 2

How to export scripts from Greasemonkey to a zip file:

1. Click the Greasemonkey plugin
2. Click Export a backup...
3. Save file

How to import scripts to Tampermonkey from a zip file:

1. Click the Tampermonkey plugin
2. Click Dashboard
3. Navigate to Utilities tab
4. Click Browse... under Zip menu
5. Select the exported zip file
6. Click Import

Edy

THANK YOU! There's no gm_scripts folder in my profile, for some reason, so I had no way to follow the other answer's instructions. And this technique is WAY better, too! – Lewin