Greasemonkey: The 7 Best New Browser Tweaks and How to Use Them - Page 2
For Wikipedia
Add Wikidatabase History to Every Wikipedia Page
Wikipedia is great if you make sure not to take anything there on face value. A page's edit history is almost as important as its content and this script adds a drop down box on every page that shows its edit history.
For Videos
This script puts a video player on a page when there's a link to a YouTube page that appears. It's a time saver and will probably help you actually watch more videos that people are sharing if they are right there on the page for you. It can mess up the layout a little bit to have a video player thrown onto the page, but that's usually ok.
For Twitter
There are a whole lot of cool Greasemonkey scripts out there for Twitter, but here are some of our recent favorites. See the screen shot below to see how they all look together.
Search.twitter.com is really understated in its placement on the Twitter site. This script ads a search box to the sidebar of every Twitter page!
It's always nice to get some context whenever looking at a person's Twitter profile page. This script places the most recent public replies they've received on their profile page sidebar.
The lack of nested replies is something that people used to complain a lot about in Twitter. This script inserts them into every page - making previously one-sided conversations immediately comprehensible.
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Endless Tweets is my favorite: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24398
I think its also fair to advise those looking to get into Greasemonkey to be advised of New trojans which target Firefox as it masquerades as Greasemonkey.
Here is an excellent write-up on this matter:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081205-new-trojan-targets-firefox-masquerades-as-greasemonkey.html
As this details:
Please note, this trojan is not actually the Greasemonkey add-on, and only identifies itself as such. Mozilla has confirmed that the official Greasemonkey release contained within Mozilla's own extension repository (and available here) is malware-free. If you're currently using Greasemonkey or are interested in doing so, there's no reason to avoid the legitimate add-on at this time, so long as you download it from Mozilla's page or an equally trusted source.
A safe interwebz is a happy interwebz :-)
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Greasefire is an add-on that helps you find Greasemonkey scripts for the web sites you visit:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8352
Please check it out!
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Quite useful information
Great article. Thanks for the information.
For all the scripts I've installed, then uninstalled, only one has impressed me to be the most useful: CheckRange . It's incredibly useful in daily browsing and when you have to fill out, (or un-fill out), surveys and opt-in/outs.
Great article. Thanks for the information!!!
Yup GreaseMonkey and FireBug are my two FAV add ons for Firefox!
jess
www.privacy.es.tc
I have been using this Add-On lately ... not a Greasemonkey one, but makes it convenient to get around the the websites I use ...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9866
Steve
I think the oink.plus script is by far the most amazing thing to happen to greasemonkey! whos with me?
Really like Nested Twitter Replies, but in my couple minutes of usage it appears it doesn't play nicely with AutoPagerize—the nested replies don't appear past page "one".
Adding the search box to Twitter is priceless. Thanks for the tips!
fyi Greasemonkey is already built in Opera.
So no need to download it if you use that browser.
GM is my favourite extension for firefox. I like how you can customize the look of Google searches also.
I have the Better Flickr script set installed along with some FoxyTunes-related scripts.
please test google chrome
thanks
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"Wikipedia is great if you make sure not to take [notice of] anything"