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Not an extension, more than likely a Greasemonkey script for Slashdot, i'd bet on Slashdot: Live Comment Tree: Lets you expand and collapse entire threads in an article's comments.

Listen, you clueless zealot: FF-extensions are in no way restricted

All I know is that FireFox 1.5 (DeerPark) broke GreaseMonkey and a lot of other extensions because of this XPC wrapper thingy, which as I understand it, securely wraps extensions to seperate them somewhat from each other and the browser preventing them from doing things they shouldn't. Greasemonkey specific information regarding this can be found here.

You can also check that old thread from back when GreaseMonkey had a horrible security flaw allowing access to local files from a malicious userscript and possibly even website. In there somewhere there's a comment that this wouldn't have been possible on FireFox 1.5.

Before 1.5 Firefox extensions were worse than ActiveX in that there were no restrictions at all other than that they couldn't AutoInstall as they often can in IE. However, now the situation is different, as I understand it.

If you use Firefox, you can do this. Install Greasmonkey and the Secure Gmail script. It forces every Gmail access to https.

Greasemonkey:

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

Direct link to Secure Gmail script:

http://novemberborn.net/greasemonkey/secure-gmail. user.js

Other useful Gmail Greasemonkey scripts here:

http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScriptsSpec ific

--Pat

AdBlocker and greasemonkey are huge in Firefox. I know UserJS exists, but I have not been able to locate anywhere near the type of support firefox users have given greasemonkey

If there decent alternatives to AdBlocker and a repository for UserJS scripts for Opera, please post links.

Just saying they are out there doesn't help much.

An (almost) comrehnsive list of greasemonke\slashdot user scripts.:
http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScriptsSpec ific#head-ec4846dd1f06f8efd2d256a59577b3faaebbbf12

Greasemonkey
Script to auto add mirrordot and coralcache links to stories.

Seriously, stop whining and take matters into your own hands.

Do you have any examples of these sites? I don't see a list in your journal. I see sites linked to your home page but it doesn't appear to say which sites are MSIE-only.

1.) Use Firefox
2.) Install GreaseMonkey
3.) Install the "Add Cache Links" user script from here. You now have links to Mirrordot and the Coral cache in every /. story
4.) Stop worrying about slashdotted sites.

There's also some page info stuff (possible to emulate with Bookmarklets, but not easy), the PageRank (only the One True Googlebar can do that), and text highlighting (a royal pain with bookmarklets, but the open source toolbar could do that. Besides, Firefox and Opera have inline search, making it unnecessary).

Meh. All of that and more can be done with Greasemonkey (scripts directory) (Internet Explorer implementation), without the added clutter of Yet Another Toolbar, and without the potential paranoia of a corporation behind it (referring to the crap storm when Google shipped Autolink in the IE toolbar). Greasemonkey is open source, developed by individuals, and each script is just javascript which you can easily inspect before choosing to install in case you're worried about a script "phoning home" to track your browsing. It's also better than bookmarklets because it runs the scripts automatically (you can tell it what urls to include or exclude, if you don't want a script running on every page).

Finally, once you've installed Greasemonkey or Turnabout (What? You don't already have them installed? For shame!), check out my sig for a script to remove Roland Piquepaille stories from Slashdot.

Get a copy of the Book Burro Greasemonkey script for Firefox.

What does it do? All those Amazon links people put on their web pages still work, and you can still use Amazon product search. But it will give you a price comparison right in the browser (a little floating window on top of the Amazon page), together with links to order from other on-line book sellers.

There are other Greasemonkey user scripts that look up the book in your local library and do all sorts of other nice price comparison things for you.

As annoying as adware is, this is a great ruling because it's a step toward protecting the right to modify sites' content on the client side generally. For example there are Greasemonkyey scripts that do similar things, such as post B&N prices next to Amazon ones. Content providers would love to ban anything that modifies the way pages are shown, so I think we're obligated to side with the adware vendor on this one. How they got the adware on people's computers is another matter entirely.

On a serious note, if those g-d damn advertising pop-ups that masquerade as links piss you off, download the firefox web browser (if you haven't already), and install Greasemoney. Then navigate to http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts and do a quick search for tomshardware which will lead you to a script called Dumbtext. Then right click and install. Make sure greasemonkey is active and reload tomshardware or any other page that uses intellilinks. Tada...the ads are gone!

Now only if there was a script to get rid of those damn Next Page links and view the entire article on one sight...fusker, perhaps?

apologies for replying to myself. I just noticed there are some.

here is one that fixed the jobcentreplus site:

http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts#hea d-49b3c2b6e238f0b8656eed10bc8f782230a75eb4

It's a bit convoluted, but here's how to play these videos on Linux without having to delve into HTML and JS, and without having to use an embedded video plugin (lots of which seem to lock up and crash frequently):

- Install the GreaseMonkey extension to Firefox: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
- Install the Unembed script for GreaseMonkey: http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts
- Install xine and the Windows codecs: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
- Go to http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html in Firefox (the links on each story don't work, they check to see if WMP9 is installed, and then they fail)
- Click on the story you want.
- Right-click on the title above the embedded video (it's the name of the video in blue text, and it's in the same frame as the embedded video). Select "This Frame->Show only this frame" from the context menu.
- There should now be a link next to the video that says "[download]".
- Shift-click on the "[download]" link to open it in a new tab (right-click doesn't work, so you can't copy the link destination).
- Switch to the new tab, and press Ctrl-L Ctrl-C to copy the URL.
- Open a terminal, and type "xine " then Ctrl-Shift-V to paste the URL. Press enter and the movie should play!

Phew!

Granted, I assume that this is informative and accurate, but for God's sake, its 2005. Aside from Microsoft's DRM junk in WMV9 formats, is it still that difficult to view a movie from the web?

The first time I viewed an MPEG that I got off the internet was something like 1994, and the directions were something like 1) download MPEG from FTP site and 2) start whatever Sun called their media player at the time and open the file in it.

It's a bit convoluted, but here's how to play these videos on Linux without having to delve into HTML and JS, and without having to use an embedded video plugin (lots of which seem to lock up and crash frequently):

- Install the GreaseMonkey extension to Firefox: http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
- Install the Unembed script for GreaseMonkey: http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts
- Install xine and the Windows codecs: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
- Go to http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html in Firefox (the links on each story don't work, they check to see if WMP9 is installed, and then they fail)
- Click on the story you want.
- Right-click on the title above the embedded video (it's the name of the video in blue text, and it's in the same frame as the embedded video). Select "This Frame->Show only this frame" from the context menu.
- There should now be a link next to the video that says "[download]".
- Shift-click on the "[download]" link to open it in a new tab (right-click doesn't work, so you can't copy the link destination).
- Switch to the new tab, and press Ctrl-L Ctrl-C to copy the URL.
- Open a terminal, and type "xine " then Ctrl-Shift-V to paste the URL. Press enter and the movie should play!

Phew!

I've been mostly ignoring JavaScript for some time now. With many useful [browser-side, modify web pages locally to suit your presentation desires] Greasemonkey scripts available, however, and the relative ease of creating my own scripts to customise web pages I view, I'm suddenly very interested in JavaScript.

What about you?

Go here and look for the Netflix section. There are scripts that add a link to IMDB from Netflix and vice versa.

That is just what they've invented GreaseMonkey for:
http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts#hea d-ec4846dd1f06f8efd2d256a59577b3faaebbbf12
http://www.mkgray.com:8000/blog/Technology/Javascr ipt/GreaseMonkey.html
http://mkgray.com:8000/userscripts/slashdot-recolo r.user.js

But if they don't mention greasemonkey, then the only excuse I'll accept is that it's too new to appear in print. I'm using it at work to clobber that last webapp so that I no longer have to use IE...

You really should give a link for Greasemonkey, and to the script repository.

Also, shameless pimpage, but I've built a Greasemonkey implementation for IE, GreasemonkIE. It's still in development (missing a pretty major feature right now, which should be sorted out soon -- covered in the blog entry above), but it works quite well considering IE's limitations. GreasemonkIE tries to re-use existing Greasemonkey user scripts as much as possible, but other browsers have user script support too. The new Opera beta has an implementation of user scripts, and PithHelmet does the same for Safari (among many other features). Up until yesterday, IE was the only browser left out of the user script craze, but I'm trying to rectify that.

Hacking Google Print article on kuro5hin.org, explains how Google Print uses cookies to track your access and ensure you don't look at too many pages. Solution: acquire lots of cookies.
Firefox GreaseMonkey scripts -- scroll to "Google Butler"; it will make saving Google Print pages work without extra effort in Firefox.