Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. You can use it to make a web site more readable or more usable. You can fix rendering bugs that the site owner can’t be bothered to fix themselves. You can alter pages so they work better with assistive technologies that speak a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. You can even automatically retrieve data from other sites to make two sites more interconnected.
Greasemonkey by itself does none of these things. In fact, after you install it, you won’t notice any change at all… until you start installing what are called “user scripts”. A user script is just a chunk of Javascript code, with some additional information that tells Greasemonkey where and when it should be run. Each user script can target a specific page, a specific site, or a group of sites. A user script can do anything you can do in Javascript. In fact, it can do even more than that, because Greasemonkey provides special functions that are only available to user scripts.
Use Facebook fixer (A Greasemonkey script) to translate facebook status to english, watch bigger version of photo without clicking on the photo, you just need to hover over a photo. It will change the way you use facebook. Facebook Fixer is a userscript that allows you to customize Facebook. It can be downloaded from the download page on userscripts.org.
Installation
If you are using Mozilla Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension installed, just click on this installation link and then click Install when the popup appears.
Yes, split Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome down the middle in one tab. For the multi-tasking type this will enable you to create 2 side by side “panels” in Firefox/Chrome in the same tab so you can browse two sites at once side by side.
Why not switch between tabs?
A few reasons, maybe you want to compare search results on both Google and Yahoo or do side by side comparisons of products or checking templates/themes look. Maybe you want to reference something in the left panel and type about it in the right and switching tabs is a pain.. Well this will enable you to do just that. See examples:
A comparison search for Chrome on Google and Yahoo
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Reference content in one panel, write about it in the other
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To use simply drag and drop the following in your bookmarks…
When clicked, a pop-up box asks for the first URL which will be the left panel and the URL you are currently on will be entered by default however this can be changed so in my dual search i entered Google.com for this one. Once you ok it, it will ask for the second URL which is the right panel and i entered Yahoo.com for my search comparison.
Simple, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox split down the middle with a double panel all in one tab.
1) More screen space. Make your icons small. Go to View – Toolbars – Customize and check the “Use small icons” box.
2) Smart keywords. If there’s a search you use a lot (let’s say IMDB.com’s people search), this is an awesome tool that not many people use. Right-click on the search box, select “Add a Keyword for this search”, give the keyword a name and an easy-to-type and easy-to-remember shortcut name (let’s say “actor”) and save it. Now, when you want to do an actor search, go to Firefox’s address bar, type “actor” and the name of the actor and press return. Instant search! You can do this with any search box.
3) Keyboard shortcuts. This is where you become a real Jedi. It just takes a little while to learn these, but once you do, your browsing will be super fast. Here are some of the most common (and my personal favs):
• Spacebar (page down)
• Shift-Spacebar (page up)
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Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. You can use it to make a web site more readable or more usable. You can fix rendering bugs that the site owner can’t be bothered to fix themselves. You can alter pages so they work better with assistive technologies that speak a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. You can even automatically retrieve data from other sites to make two sites more interconnected.
