Introduction to GreaseMonkey: Sometimes when you use a web service, you thought wouldn’t be faster if the developer has added this button so that you don’t have to go thru all those navigations. Like me, I find it very harsh by not having a delete button in my Gmail account. Everytime I need to delete an email, I need to go to the pull down menu and select “Move to Trash”. Recently I have discovered GreaseMonkey extension. It allows users to use customize scripts, or even code on your own (if you know javascript) and able to add/improve feature on website – especially on web site usability and its navigations. Instructions: Recommend scripts For end user without programming experience, don’t worry. There are whole stack of scripts already available for you to just install. Here’s my top recommendations: Link Resources for GreaseMonkey: General and Scripts:
How to use GreaseMonkey GreaseMonkey Development Site GreaseMonkey User Script Directory
Development on GreaseMonkey:
Free Online Development Book on GreaseMonkey – Dive Into GreaseMonkey Development – DOM Parsing With XPath and JavaScript Article development – XML in Mozilla JavaScript: DHTML API, Drag & Drop for Images and Layers GreaseMonkey compiler – convert any greasemonkey script to a full functional firefox extension Greasemonkey: Hacking the Web with JavaScript
Blogs and News on GreaseMonkey:
Wired News: Firefox Users Monkey With the Web Blog: Greasemonkey will blow up business models (as well as your mind) O’Reilly Radar on Annotate google Greasemonkey script mnot’s blog on Greasemonkey and the Web
More and more resource will be added. Stay tuned more on how to speed up your web broswering.
