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Background: I'm using a websites which uses a pin code locally stored in a cookie for login. As firefox does not recognise the field to input the pin as a password field, it won't store the passwo...
#1: Initial revision
by
samcarter
·
2022-10-06T10:06:39Z (about 2 years ago)
Setting a cookie with a userscript
### Background:
I'm using a websites which uses a pin code locally stored in a cookie for login. As firefox does not recognise the field to input the pin as a password field, it won't store the password for me.
To avoid having to remember the pin myself, I'm using a greasemonkey user script to automatically set the cookie (security is not a concern, the website in question does not hold any important or personal information, so I don't mind that the pin is stored as plain text on my computer)
The user script I'm currently using looks like this:
```
// ==UserScript==
// @name test
// @match *://example.com/*
// @run-at document-start
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
document.cookie = "uuid=xxx";
})();
```
### Problem:
The above user script works fine on the second time. On the first time I open the website I won't be logged in, but if I reload the site or open a second tab, I'm logged in. So apparently the cookie is correctly created, but too late.
Is there a way to create the cookie earlier?
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I'm using
- greasemonkey 4.11
- firefox 102.3.0ESR
- macOS 11.6.8