Search Results for: Greasemonkey

Facebook Purity removes annoying quiz messages etc from your Facebook Homepage:  If you’re on Facebook, you really need this, trust me.  The quizzes are getting out of hand.  Sometimes, they were over half my page.It’s a Greasemonkey script, so you need Greasemonkey  first.

Inside the High-Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend: This is a compelling story about the search for Jim Gray, the Silicon Valley pioneer that went missing on his sailboat a few months ago. Jim has geek friends from a lifetime of work, and everyone pitched in to try and find him. The notion [...]

Userscripts.org – Universal Repository: Here’s a site full of Greasemonkey scripts for about everything you could ever imagine. I like this one, that automatically switches all Amazon affiliate links in the page you’re viewing to your own affiliate ID. Sneaky. This one for Blogines continually checks your feeds in the background via the API, and [...]

I’m setting up a new machine, and tonight I was getting Firefox all pimped out with extensions. I’ve installed five of them, which are — without a doubt — crucial to me (even though two of them are new for 1.5). Here are my top five: Web Developer Once you use it to develop a [...]

Greasemonkey 0.4.1 (The Next Generation): Apparently Greasemonkey has been gutted and put back together to fix the huge security hole in the last version. I can confim that, despite massive architectural differences, GM-TNG is incredibly backward-compatible, even with complex user scripts like Book Burro, BugMeNot, and GMail Persistent Searches. I can also confirm that this [...]

Major Security Flaw Found in Greasemonkey: The best round-up I’ve seen so far of all the issues and information surrounding the recently-discovered Greasemonkey vulnerability. If a user running a vulnerable version of Greasemonkey visits a website that triggers at least one of their user scripts then that website can read any of the user’s files [...]

It’s time for server-based Greasemonkey. I support an organization of a dozen or so people, and I find myself answering the same questions about the same Web sites and teaching people the same things over and over There are so many times in the few weeks since taking that first puff of Greasemonkey, I’ve thought [...]

mozdev.org – platypus: index: Holy cats — Greasemonkey is going to change the Web forever. This plugin works with the latest version of Greasemonkey, to let you change pages visually, then save the results as a Greasemonkey script. Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser — “What [...]

Resizeable Textarea 0.1a: The guys over at Lifehacker are on my “happy list” today for pointing out this Firefox plugin. It lets you hover over the edge of a textarea, grab it, and resize the box. I know a lot of Firefox plugins are just gee-whiz stuff, but this is truly something I’ve been waiting [...]

Jon Udell: Visualizing change: I wish I was Jon Udell, as he gets everything he asks for. This time he — along with some help from Andy Baio — got someone to write a script that animates Wikipedia changes inline. See the picture at the above link, and he apparently has a screencast on it [...]