Greasemonkey User Scripts
Update - Firefox 2.0 is now officially in beta. The official release version of Greasemonkey will not install in this beta version. To my knowledge, most parts of GM just work so I patched the version info in install.rdf to make Firefox 2.0 correctly recognize the GM installer. More details on my Greasemonkey for Firefox 2.0 beta page.
Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension, which can change web pages by applying cleverly crafted user scripts after they are loaded in the browser. Below are a couple of my user scripts.
For Safari (for OSX) there is a plugin Creammonkey - you may be able to run some user scripts with this plugin, as long no specific Firefox and Greasmonkey functions were used. YMMV...
- Ikea Availability Check - Check for availability of items in all local Ikea stores directly from a product details page.
- Exif Thumbnail Fetcher - load embedded thumbnails of digicam images.
- Microsummaries Generator - create microsummaries for Firefox 2.x.
- Password Composer - one master password serves them all (and be sure to read the FAQ)!
- RSS Panel - serves as a live site index, through auto discovery of a RSS feed connected with the current web page.
- Linkchecker - Client side link checker.
- PodsafeMediaLinks - download "Pod safe media" directly from music.podshow.com.
- Resize useit.com - use more modestly sized text styles.
- Annotate Links lists all external links at page bottom.
- Flickr - Link Original Image puts an icon linking to the full size image on top of Flickr thumbnails.
- Nationalevacaturebank Resultaat - content cleanup.
- MacWorld Print Cleanup - remove all extraneous fluff from page printouts.
- Kilometerdeclaratie - look up distances by NL postal code, based on Dutch ANWB route planner.
- Binsearch.info easy click - add search results to selection by simply clicking anywhere on a table row.
- Squirrelmail powered webmail - select or unselect by simply clicking on a table row.
- LinkedIn Relations - extract information about your linkedin.com relations and generate a Javascript Object Definition for further experiments.
- Nederlands Dagblad Print - Vereenvoudigde print weergave van artikels.
Developer notes
Other Greasemonkey resources
- Download the Greasemonkey Firefox Extension
- Buy the book Greasemonkey Hacks by Mark Pilgrim from Amazon (O'Reilly Media, November 2005).
- Developers should check out Avoid Common Pitfalls in Greasemonkey, a must read article by Mark Pilgrim about GM security issues and how to avoid them.
- A central repository of user scripts is at userscripts.org - search, download, upload your own, and rate them here.
- Greasemonkey authours go to diveintogreasemonkey.org, an excellent resource for every detail about authoring user scripts.
- The Greasemonkey Compiler generates a stand alone Firefox Extension (XPI) from an userscript; note that current version 0.1.2 does not understand any of the GM_* functions, like GM_log() etc.
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