Software As She’s Developed

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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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