Chrome now has Greasemonkey support. The Chromium patch came from Aaron Boodman, who is at once a Google employee and the brains behind the original Firefox Greasemonkey extension.
It makes me wonder if this is the plan for Chrome add-ons. Forget about anything like Firefox’s add-on mechanism and just rely on Greasemonkey. With the right APIs, [...]
Tags: Ajax·Chrome·Extensions·Firefox·Greasemonkey·Javascript
I recently explained how I created my first Greasemonkey script as an experiment, then converted it to a standalone Firefox plugin/extension/add-on using an automated tool. Official homepage here. The experiment continues, as I subsequently submitted it to Mozilla, and it’s now been approved as an official plugin.
I’ve been curious about the process people go through [...]
Tags: AddOn·Extension·Firefox·Greasemonkey·Links·Mozilla·Plugin·Teleporter
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p>My previous post outlined Domain Teleporter, a first attempt at a GM script. Continuing the experimentation (as I have a comlpetely different real example in mind), I wanted to see how easy it was to create a self-contained FF extension from the GM script … I figure there’s a significant population who have FF and [...]
Tags: Amazon·Extension·Firefox·Greasemonkey·Javascript·Links·XPI
Update: As an experiment, converted this into a Firefox extension (Blog Article, Extension homepage)
DomainTeleporter, my first Greasemonkey script, is related to this blog post from last April:
If you shop at Amazon.co.uk, you’re often out of luck when it comes to reader comments. So I often find myself editing the URL, switching back and forth between [...]
Tags: Amazon·Firefox·Greasemonkey·Javascript·Links
You’ve probably noticed the buzz around Flock, a browser built on Firefox. Information’s limited, but it seems to pick up on the “social” buzzword – tagging, annotations, RSS etc. Thing is, all of these things are possible in Firefox too via extensions. But extensions haven’t really taken off, and the reason is, quite frankly, poor [...]
Tags: Browsers·Extension·Firefox·Flock·Greasemonkey·Plugin·Software·Software Architecture·Web·Web 2.0
Tweaking a Greasemonkey script is easy. It’s just a single file, so you download the file locally, edit it, and install it the same way you’d install any other script.
I did this because I needed a quick fix for the super-helpful XMLHttpRequest Debugging script. Sometimes the console has a little trouble with positioning – using [...]
