Customize the way webpages look and function.
Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages. As Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script.
Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functionality to web pages (for example, embedding price comparison in Amazon.com web pages), fixing rendering bugs, combining data from multiple webpages, and numerous other purposes. Well-written Greasemonkey scripts can integrate changes so well that their additions appear to be natural parts of the web page.
Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functionality to web pages (for example, embedding price comparison in Amazon.com web pages), fixing rendering bugs, combining data from multiple webpages, and numerous other purposes. Well-written Greasemonkey scripts can integrate changes so well that their additions appear to be natural parts of the web page.
Greasemonkey for Users
Firefox Required
Once you have the Greasemonkey addon installed, there's a heap of scripts that you can get to improve your daily web browsing experience.
- Get Greasemonkey Addon from Mozilla.
- Browse the directory of User Scripts.
- If you need help, read the Greasemonkey Manual
My User Scripts
Here are a few user scripts that I have created:
- Squidoo Workshop Addon for Firefox
- This adds extra features to the Lens Workshop and a few other pages on Squidoo. The most significant improvements are: large text boxes, colored tags, detailed stats, integrated ping and improved support for Groups.
- Cleaner SquidU
- Tidies up the SquidU Forum interface, and adds highlighting.
- Twurl Link Info
- Shows information about all Twurls found when on Twitter.
Other Good Scripts
I have found a few scripts that have proved to be quite useful:
- Google Reader - Colorful List View
- Colorizes the item headers in Google Reader list view
- Intercepter
- In twitter.com: replace short and meaningless tinyurls with the domain of the actual web site using tinyurls' preview feature.
- Twitter Hashtags
- Adds links to hashtags.org or twemes.com to tweets on twitter.com
Greasemonkey for Developers
You can use Greasemonkey to build your own personal scripts, or as an alternative to making a stand-alone plugin. If you already know Javscript and modifying the DOM tree, then writing your own scripts will be easy to do.
- Greasepot - the official blog and homepage for Greasemonkey.
- GreaseSpot Wiki is community documentation for user scripting with Greasemonkey.
- Get started with the Editing Scripts section of the manual, as well as the Greasemonkey API.
- There's also Dive Into Greasemonkey (rather old material).
Blog Posts from Greasespot
- Greasemonkey 0.8.4 released
- Hot on the heels of 0.8.3 is a single critical bugfix in 0.8.4: Properly specify the .finalUrl for GM_xmlhttpRequest results. (#1063)
- Greasespot: Greasemonkey 0.8.3 Release
- Greasemonkey 0.8.3 aka "0.8.20091129.3" has been released. It contains the following changes: Add Firefox 3.6 compatibility flag. Use platform-dependent line endings when creating a script file. (#1004); Properly handle error events, ...
- Greasemonkey API Usage
- I've been intending to write this post for months, but various things got in the way. Well, it's finally ready! Some of my ideas for Greasemonkey 1.0 would involve major changes to the way that Greasemonkey runs user scripts. ...
- Greasemonkey "0.8.2" Released
- The latest version of Greasemonkey, "0.8.2" (full version: 0.8.20090920.2) has been uploaded to AMO. It includes the following changes: Do not inject scripts into file: and about: URLs by default, for security reasons. ...
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