17 Greasemonkey Scripts to Turbocharge Your Browser
June 25, 2008 – 5:53 AMThe Internet offers a wealth of excellent tools, information, and entertainment–and it asks very little from us in return. So don’t get upset when a poorly designed online tool or site gets on your nerves; instead, use Greasemonkey, a free Firefox add-on that harnesses the power of JavaScript to right usability wrongs and improve the functionality of specific Web sites and of the Internet at large.
Greasemonkey can improve just about anything it touches–whether by adding must-have features to Gmail, streamlining your social life in Facebook, or speeding up your blog posts. The best part? Thousands of Greasemonkey scripts are free to download, and installing them is as simple as clicking a single link.
In my day job as senior editor of Lifehacker, I regularly use Greasemonkey scripts to streamline my online workload, stay organized, and speed through the Web.
Even though Greasemonkey scripts are written primarily for use in Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension, many of them also work with Internet Explorer (via IE7Pro or Trixie), Safari (try GreaseKit or Creammonkey), and Opera (which includes built-in support for the scripts). After installing the appropriate add-on for your browser, you’re ready to improve your Web experience.
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