Are there elements of the Web pages you frequent that annoy you? If so, the odds are good that they have also annoyed someone with a working knowledge of JavaScript who has taken it upon his or herself to create a userscript to address the issue. Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on that lets you install and run these userscripts to improve your browsing experience. There is a seemingly endless supply of these userscripts that add or remove elements on a page or change its appearance or behavior. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get up and running with Greasemonkey.
First, a quick note on browser compatibility. Though Greasemonkey is a Firefox add-on, the userscripts written for it may work in other browsers but support will vary. For the purposes of this post, I will keep the focus on installing userscripts via Greasemonkey with Firefox.
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To get started, head to the Greasemonkey add-on page to install it. After installing it and restarting Firefox, you are ready to enter the wide world of userscripts. If you are on a Windows machine, you'll see that after starting Firefox a Greasemonkey buttons gets added to the right of your URL bar. This process isn't automated if you are on a Mac. You'll need to right-click on the area to the right of the URL bar, choose Customize from the right-click menu, a... [Read more]
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