Help making userscript work in chrome

Posted by Vishal Shah on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Vishal Shah
Published on 2010-04-24T14:41:50Z Indexed on 2010/04/24 14:43 UTC
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I've written a userscript for Gmail Pimp.my.Gmail & i'd like it to be compatible with Google Chrome too.
Now i have tried a couple of things, to the best of my Javascript knowledge (which is very weak) & have been successful up-to a certain extent, though im not sure if it's the right way.

Here's what i tried, to make it work in Chrome:
The very first thing i found is that contentWindow.document doesn't work in chrome, so i tried contentDocument, which works.
BUT i noticed one thing, checking the console messages in Firefox and Chrome, i saw that the script gets executed multiple times in Firefox whereas in Chrome it just executes once!
So i had to abandon the window.addEventListener('load', init, false); line and replace it with window.setTimeout(init, 5000); and i'm not sure if this is a good idea.

The other thing i tried is keeping the window.addEventListener('load', init, false); line and using window.setTimeout(init, 1000); inside init() in case the canvasframe is not found.

So please do lemme know what would be the best way to make this script cross-browser compatible. Oh and im all ears for making this script better/efficient code wise (which is sure there is)

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