get greasemonkeyed
Sometimes when browsing various websites, you may been left wishing that there was button to do a certain action or a way of changing the look or behaviour of certain sections.
If this describes your browsing experience, then go and install Greasemonkey – which is a Firefox extension. This enables you to install scripts within your browser to amend and tweaks many well known websites such as Amazon, Delicious, eBay, Flickr, Google and many more – the aim being that you will be able to customise their behaviour and appearance to your own preferences.
The community of scripts is growing fast – a similar tagging system that Flickr uses has been implemented to help categorise and organise them.
What examples of scripts can be used and installed? For example on eBay, you change add a Refresh Item link to each auction page; or on Flickr you could add the ability to sort your subscribed groups by title - the full range and variety is really too large to list here.
The nature of most of these changes (when considered in isolation) are quite small, but once integrated into your browser – they will become an indispensable part of your browsing experience.
If this describes your browsing experience, then go and install Greasemonkey – which is a Firefox extension. This enables you to install scripts within your browser to amend and tweaks many well known websites such as Amazon, Delicious, eBay, Flickr, Google and many more – the aim being that you will be able to customise their behaviour and appearance to your own preferences.
The community of scripts is growing fast – a similar tagging system that Flickr uses has been implemented to help categorise and organise them.
What examples of scripts can be used and installed? For example on eBay, you change add a Refresh Item link to each auction page; or on Flickr you could add the ability to sort your subscribed groups by title - the full range and variety is really too large to list here.
The nature of most of these changes (when considered in isolation) are quite small, but once integrated into your browser – they will become an indispensable part of your browsing experience.
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on Wednesday, September 07, 2005 at 11:55 am.
