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Hacking the Web with Greasemonkey

Posted by Zonk on from the rolling-your-own-interweb dept.

plasticmillion writes "Greasemonkey is a revolutionary Firefox extension that many feel has enormous implications for the future evolution of the web. By making it easy to write client-side scripts that modify webpages as you surf, it shifts the balance of power from content creators to content consumers. Since its inception, it has given rise to an impressive array of scripts for everything from enhancing Gmail with one-click delete functionality to preventing Hotmail from spawning new windows when you click on external links. In recent Greasemonkey news, Mark Pilgrim just published a comprehensive primer called 'Dive Into Greasemonkey', a must-read for those who want to try their hand at writing their own scripts. It should be noted that Greasemonkey is not without controversy, but this has done nothing to reduce its popularity among web programmers. Even Opera has jumped on the bandwagon with their own version of user scripts. To illustrate the principle to /.ers, I whipped up a handy little script called 'Slashdot Live Comment Tree', which lets you expand and collapse entire threads in an article's comments."

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  1. Let's use this to our advantage by Quarters · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who's going to write the "Hide Roland Pipe" stories from Slashdot.

  2. Re:Disable Greasemonkey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Achtung! You vill sit in ze CHAIR ven you read my book, NOT ON ZE COUCH!!!

    Sieg heil!

  3. Re:Disable Greasemonkey by Eccles · · Score: 5, Funny

    That said, I am going to use this guide to disable Greasemonkey.

    Step 1. Slashdot my own site.

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  4. Re:Disable Greasemonkey by Guy+LeDouche · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ah, good morning Mr. Ballmer.

  5. Choice quote from 'Dive Into Greasemonkey' by JaF893 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can fix rendering bugs that the site owner can't be bothered to fix themselves.

    Could be useful for Slashdot then :)

  6. Crap by mfh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hell, if I want to print it out and use it as toilet paper, I will.

    Now that you've said this, everyone is going to use my site as TP. Thanks, buddy.

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  7. Re:Disable Greasemonkey by mike2R · · Score: 5, Funny

    That reminds me of a holiday cottage I once rented in Wales. There was a note on the dining room door which said: "Please wear long trousers, not shorts, in this room."

    I've been slightly nervous of the Welsh ever since..

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