8 Greasemonkey Scripts for the Lazy

Computer users are lazy. Well, not all of them but most are. I just have to look around and see friends to try to automate as much as possible to save some clicks and time. The article Greasmonkey scripts for the lazy is for them, and everyone else who feels the same way. I don’t want to explain Greasemonkey (again) in detail but here is a rather short explanation. Greasemonkey can be installed as a Firefox extension that changes website behavior. To change the behavior you need to install so called userscripts which change elements on websites.

This can be something profane like removing advertisement from websites or disabling comments but also clever additions that increase the usability of a website. You can download the latest version of Greasmonkey from Greasepot. Enough of the babbling, I’m proud to present 10 Greasemonkey scripts for the lazy, enjoy the read:

Googlestream – Never click Next or previous during Google searches again. The script automatically loads and displays the next batch of search results in the same window you are currently in. It loads them when you reach the bottom of the page.
RSS+Atom Feed Subscribe Button Generator – Some websites hide their RSS Feed buttons pretty well and it takes some time to find them. With this userscript the feed options will always be displayed in the upper left corner of the website. No more searching for those darn feed links.
Google Image Direct Links – this userscript links directly to the picture during Google image searches without having to visit the framed website first.
Flickr Photo Page Enhancer – adds links to different sizes directly, generates html code (to quickly copy and paste the html for a thumbnail link) and loads 20 most used tags.
Ebay Show only negative feedback – It takes sometimes pretty long to find the few negative or neutral comments that a user received on Ebay especially when he has thousands of auction comments. This userscript adds two new tabs: Complaints received and Complaints Left.
Technorati English Search Results – Technorati displays search results in all languages unless you choose a specific language in the drop down box before you search. With this userscript only English search results are shown.
Del.icio.us Autotag – When you save bookmarks on del.icio.us the tags from that link are automatically added to your bookmark.
Sourceforge Direct Links – Direct download links for files on Sourceforge plus the ability to choose a mirror from a certain continent.
Digg.com Mirrors – adds links to article mirrors in case the website goes down due to the digg effect. Links to duggmirror, Coral and Google Cache plus Waybackmachine.

Wow the list has 9 entries not 8, take the last one as a bonus if you like.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday April 19, 2007 -
Tags:firefox scripts, greasmonkey scripts, mozilla, usability, userscripts

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1. waldwicht says:

   April 19, 2007 at 10:43 pm

   Hey,
   GreaseMonkey doesn’t run on my computer. I can’t install scripts. There was once a way to fix it (by creating the not-existent folder gm_scripts) but it doesn’t work on my side anymore – or I am doing it wrong. Someone got a clue?

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2. Luke says:

   April 27, 2007 at 5:49 pm

   Wow! I really like the Ebay one. The rest of them – I don’t really care that much about.

   Thanks for posting this.

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