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Save time on Firefox with GreaseMonkey

Updated: 2005/06/03

Introduction to GreaseMonkey:
Sometimes when you use a web service, you thought wouldn’t be faster if the developer has added this button so that you don’t have to go thru all those navigations.

Like me, I find it very harsh by not having a delete button in my Gmail account. Everytime I need to delete an email, I need to go to the pull down menu and select “Move to Trash”.

Recently I have discovered GreaseMonkey extension. It allows users to use customize scripts, or even code on your own (if you know javascript) and able to add/improve feature on website - especially on web site usability and its navigations.

Instructions:

  1. Install GreaseMonkey Extension Updated: 2005/05/28
  2. After restarting firefox, come back to this page and right click on the script link below. You should able to see “Install User Script…” on the popup menu. Click that to install the script
  3. The script will then install into GreaseMonkey. By default, the script should be automatically included with one or more web pages.

Recommend scripts
For end user without programming experience, don’t worry. There are whole stack of scripts already available for you to just install.

Here’s my top recommendations:

  1. Gmail Smart-Delete Button Modification: Enable to add a “Delete” button on Gmail interface! (more..) Updated: 2005/05/28
  2. Ta-Da List Enhancements: “This script will add your lists to the right hand side of the list page.” (more..) Updated: 2005/06/02
  3. CustomizeGoogle - enhance Google search results by adding links to other useful services.
  4. Webolodeon - keep you out of meaningless web surfing. (more..)
  5. Del.icio.us popularity: Sort listed entries by number of linkers! Very useful.
  6. Bloglines Sidebar Squeezer: If you have so many blogs in bloglines like me, you really want to see more sites on the sidebar. This script able to remove the extraneous header and squishes the text of the sidebar so you can see more feeds at once.
  7. Google Image Re-Linker: “It’s purpose is to make links in Google Image Search point directly to the image, instead of loading up a thumbnail in a frame.” (more..) Updated: 2005/05/28
  8. Hotmail Single Window: Remove the javascript wrapper around hotmail external links which spawn new windows.
  9. Del.icio.us Skinner: Able to beautify del.icio.us.

Link Resources for GreaseMonkey:
General and Scripts:

Development on GreaseMonkey:

Blogs and News on GreaseMonkey:

More and more resource will be added. Stay tuned more on how to speed up your web broswering.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, May 14th, 2005 at 8:03 pm and is filed under Lifehack, Tips, Lifehacks, Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

12 Responses

  1. Paul_M says on May 18th, 2005 at 7:24 am:

    I wrote the Gmail Smart-Delete Button Script. It works flawlessly under GreaseMonkey 0.2.6. GM is currently developing a 0.3 beta extension, which makes some major changes and consequently, breaks many user scripts.
    Mine is one of them. Please alert your readers that if they install the 0.3 beta, Gmail Smart-Delete Button will not work. I have contacted the author of GreaseMonkey and will get a 0.3 ready script out as soon as I can.

  2. Leon says on May 18th, 2005 at 10:00 pm:

    Thanks Paul. Good info. I have updated it in the post. Cheers.

  3. Paul_M says on May 27th, 2005 at 2:29 am:

    GreaseMonkey has rolled out a new version (0.3.3).

    I have updated Gmail Smart-Delete Button script accordingly.

    Get it at:

    http://smart-delete-button.blogspot.com/

  4. Leon says on May 28th, 2005 at 7:39 pm:

    Thanks Paul. I have reupdated the post along with other new stuff.

  5. Matt labrum says on May 29th, 2005 at 6:54 pm:

    heya could you change the link for my Del.icio.us Skinner to “http://www.thedt.net/gm/del.icio.usskin.user.js” Ive recently changed hosts so all requests from darkt.everywebhost.com gets fowareded to my thedt.net site.
    thanks

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  7. Bitplayer451 says on June 1st, 2005 at 12:25 pm:

    I installed the Del.icio.us skinner (#7) and found that i no longer was able to edit each entry. The edit link doesn’t show up. I just updated Greasemonkey (0.3.3) and have Firefox (1.0.4) on a mac ibook (10.3.9).

    Thanks for all the Greasemonkey stuff. It is really cool!

  8. Bitplayer451 says on June 1st, 2005 at 12:30 pm:

    NEVER MIND! I forgot to log into Del.icio.us and THAT’S why my edit link wasn’t visible. Sorry.

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  11. Leon says on June 6th, 2005 at 12:06 pm:

    Thanks Matt! It is updated.

  12. Jalansutera says on June 13th, 2005 at 1:58 pm:

    Thanks, Matt. I have updated some of the scripts.

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