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Tomorrow, we'll learn that Amazon has patented the Wiki. After all, they invented it, and even if they didn't invent it, they have given us so many other inventions that we should just shut up and let them get away with this patent.

Amazon sucks. Buy somewhere else. If you can't kick the amazon.com web site habit, use it for finding what you want and then buy somewhere else. BookBurro makes it simple and usually gets you a cheaper price as well.

Help screw Amazon: use Book Burro. It lets you use Amazon's web pages, then finds the cheapest price for you among many different retailers.

Stop Searching
After you find a book don't search for the lowest price - let your browser do the work for you!

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When Book Burro senses you are viewing a book, it will add a small panel to the upper right corner.

Clicking the panel will trigger the agent to go query for prices at other book sites

It's a pretty cool tool.

What is Book Burro? It knows about many popular book sites on the web, and does a comparison shop between all of them, offering you a tiny on-screen pop-down way to find the cheapest price.

But that's if you're cheap, and don't want to support slashdot with your referral dollars. Personally, I like giving referrer dollars to whoever actually deserves them. Perhaps not at double the cost, but I like shopping through sites I frequent whenever possible.

They are making progress on binary patching. They stretched themselves thin when they released 1.0 and the update feature wasn't completed. I think it will be really going for 1.1

Jesse

Book Burro - the firefox extension for finding cheap books
Greasemonkeyed - Userscripts Repository

2. Script-specific configuration values. I don't think these are commonly used, but they could be nice to have. Oh well, chances are your scripts will keep working.

If your scripts rely on GM_[set|get]Value, they won't work. The scripts may still run, but what value will they have? For example, I have a script that is only useful in the presence of GM_*Value and GM_xmlhttpRequest. Without that functionality, my script will add a useless bar to the page and never populate it with any data.

4. Fancy GM_XmlHttpRequest. This is just like XmlHttpRequest but without domain restrictions. This may cause a few extensions to stop working (not many, but a few), but it also closes the security hole.

It also breaks one of the biggest features of GM -- the ability to pull data from other sites and integrate it into the current page. Scripts like Book Burro are now completely useless. Security is important, and it is the right thing to do to remove this functionality while the GM folks look for a better fix, but it does make GM much less attractive (you're pretty much left with page cleanup scripts now that you can't pull data from other sites).

Any idea why all of the GM_* functions had to go? I can see why GM_xmlhttpRequest could be a problem, but what's wrong with GM_log, or the GM_*Value functions?