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It certainly worked for me when I used Windows. Try either of these:

    file:///C:/stuff/scriptlets.js
    file://localhost/C:/stuff/scriptlets.js

I must say I wouldn't want to add a remote 3rd party URL to this setting, what if it updates with bad code?

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Are you using Firefox?

Those URLs do not work for me when using Firefox + Windows. But the code works perfectly fine when I upload it to github gists and use the raw url.

And yeah, like you said do not want to inject remote JS into every site I visit so won't be using a remote URL.

No, I'm using Vivaldi. Chromium-based browsers have an option "Allow access to file URLs" for extensions. In Firefox this functionality is missing. But it might be possible to patch omni.ja to get it anyway:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1266960#c43

Yeah, figured the file access permission was the issue. Thanks for the help!

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