June 5, 2008 at 02:24What is Greasemonkey and how will it improve your online life?
Modern web services for the most part have incredible functionality, which often borders on the common sense of a simple Internet user. But, despite this state of things, each user of the same Gmail or Flickr has thought more than once that such and such little things are not enough for "well, in general complete happiness." If you use the popular Firefox browser, there is good news for you: you can build up the functionality of any popular service almost endlessly.
For such a “tuning” of your favorite services, you will need to install the best Firefox browser for today, and then the plugin for it - Greasemonkey. This is how Greasemonkey Wikipedia writes: Greasemonkey - Mozilla Firefox extension, which allows you to add custom JavaScript to any page written in the format of this extension.
But do not be afraid of imaginary difficulties, just a simple user does not need JavaScript knowledge. By installing the Greasemonkey plug-in on Firefox, you will discover such an incredible amount of new improvements for online services that this plug-in will remain on your PC for a very long time.
The installation process looks like this (provided that Firefox is already installed on your system):
After clicking on Install, the script will be installed. The result of the installation will be that geotagged (tied to a map) photos will now be displayed on maps from Google, instead of a solution from Yahoo! ..
Scripts are managed through the icon shown. You can disable all installed scripts with a simple click on the icon with the left mouse button. And now I’ll tell you about a few scripts, looking at them, you will understand that Greasemonkey is applied decisively everywhere. Writing Room 4 Google Documents. This script is intended for those who use the office suite Google Docs for editing documents. Its essence is that it increases the size of the workspace by reducing the size of a sufficiently large header by default. Before:
After:
Vkontakte external links . If you are a user of the VKontakte social network, then you know how the transition to external links was made there - you, when you click on the link, are transferred to the buffer page with the question “Are you sure you want to leave“ VKontakte ”?”. Now all links will become direct for you, and this page will no longer appear! Well, if you are a fan of Facebook and the The Matrix movie, then use the Matrix Facebook Skin scriptwhich will turn this social network into what the operators in this movie saw on the screens :) YouTube Lyrics . If you like to go on YouTube through music videos, of which there are just a huge number, then why don't you read the lyrics of the songs at the same time as watching the next video?
And, in conclusion of the review, a couple of very useful scripts for Flickr. Flickr Rich Edit Have . A script that allows you to use HTML when commenting on photos in this photo hosting. A very convenient solution, because in the basic configuration you use plain text, and sometimes you really want to put the gain on something bold or underline! Flickr photo prefetchhelp save time when traveling on Flickr. The fact is that when you browse someone’s album with a lot of photos, then, moving to the next photo, you are forced to wait for all the previews to load. So why not load them in advance so that when you enter the page you will receive photos instantly from the browser cache? It is this proactive download that this Flickr script will do.
By the way, if you are a fan of white plastic computers from Apple and use the Safari browser on an ongoing basis, then take a look at Greasekit - the closest analogue of Greasemonkey for this browser. I am sure that you will not resist the temptation to try Greasemonkey for your favorite sites. After all, being the most convenient tools, they always have something to add to make them even better!
Vyacheslav Baransky
Source: HRC Roiber
For such a “tuning” of your favorite services, you will need to install the best Firefox browser for today, and then the plugin for it - Greasemonkey. This is how Greasemonkey Wikipedia writes: Greasemonkey - Mozilla Firefox extension, which allows you to add custom JavaScript to any page written in the format of this extension.
But do not be afraid of imaginary difficulties, just a simple user does not need JavaScript knowledge. By installing the Greasemonkey plug-in on Firefox, you will discover such an incredible amount of new improvements for online services that this plug-in will remain on your PC for a very long time.
The installation process looks like this (provided that Firefox is already installed on your system):
Download the latest version of
Greasemonkey. After installing the plugin and restarting the browser, you will see a monkey at the bottom of the browser. This means that the plugin has been successfully installed!
- Next, go to userscripts.org, the largest script repository for Greasemonkey, and find what you are interested in. Here's how to install a script to replace the somewhat miserable Yahoo! Map, which is used by default in the Flickr photo hosting, for a more functional version of Internet maps Google Maps.
After clicking on Install, the script will be installed. The result of the installation will be that geotagged (tied to a map) photos will now be displayed on maps from Google, instead of a solution from Yahoo! ..
Scripts are managed through the icon shown. You can disable all installed scripts with a simple click on the icon with the left mouse button. And now I’ll tell you about a few scripts, looking at them, you will understand that Greasemonkey is applied decisively everywhere. Writing Room 4 Google Documents. This script is intended for those who use the office suite Google Docs for editing documents. Its essence is that it increases the size of the workspace by reducing the size of a sufficiently large header by default. Before:
After:
Vkontakte external links . If you are a user of the VKontakte social network, then you know how the transition to external links was made there - you, when you click on the link, are transferred to the buffer page with the question “Are you sure you want to leave“ VKontakte ”?”. Now all links will become direct for you, and this page will no longer appear! Well, if you are a fan of Facebook and the The Matrix movie, then use the Matrix Facebook Skin scriptwhich will turn this social network into what the operators in this movie saw on the screens :) YouTube Lyrics . If you like to go on YouTube through music videos, of which there are just a huge number, then why don't you read the lyrics of the songs at the same time as watching the next video?
And, in conclusion of the review, a couple of very useful scripts for Flickr. Flickr Rich Edit Have . A script that allows you to use HTML when commenting on photos in this photo hosting. A very convenient solution, because in the basic configuration you use plain text, and sometimes you really want to put the gain on something bold or underline! Flickr photo prefetchhelp save time when traveling on Flickr. The fact is that when you browse someone’s album with a lot of photos, then, moving to the next photo, you are forced to wait for all the previews to load. So why not load them in advance so that when you enter the page you will receive photos instantly from the browser cache? It is this proactive download that this Flickr script will do.
By the way, if you are a fan of white plastic computers from Apple and use the Safari browser on an ongoing basis, then take a look at Greasekit - the closest analogue of Greasemonkey for this browser. I am sure that you will not resist the temptation to try Greasemonkey for your favorite sites. After all, being the most convenient tools, they always have something to add to make them even better!
Vyacheslav Baransky
Source: HRC Roiber