Greasemonkey
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
For users of Firefox - and I guess that is probably most readers of blogs who would be remotely interested in such a thing - there is a wonderful extension called greasemonkey. It don't so nothing on it's own, like - such as fixing double negatives, for example - but in combination with a growing number of downloadable javascript files it can work wonders on any web sites you visit.
One of the small annoyances I find with gmail, for instance, is the lack of a delete button. With greasemonkey I can download a script, activate it, and now whenever I visit my gmail inbox I get a delete button. That works.
And if you want to start writing your own scripts you can download Mark Pilgrim's Dive into Greasemonkey. The great thing is that you're not doing anything permanent to the web site itself - this isn't vandalism - but simply changing little things to improve your use of a site.
One of the small annoyances I find with gmail, for instance, is the lack of a delete button. With greasemonkey I can download a script, activate it, and now whenever I visit my gmail inbox I get a delete button. That works.
And if you want to start writing your own scripts you can download Mark Pilgrim's Dive into Greasemonkey. The great thing is that you're not doing anything permanent to the web site itself - this isn't vandalism - but simply changing little things to improve your use of a site.
