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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 2nd, 2010
  • Comments: 1

Google Chrome 4 Natively Supports Greasemonkey Scripts

The biggest feature in Google Chrome 4 was without doubt the built in extension engine that allowed Chrome users to easily install and use extensions. What the developers forgot to mention in the release announcement was that Greasemonkey userscript support was also added to the web browser.
Userscripts are small scripts that change elements on the [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Automatically Reload Websites With Auto F5

It happens sometimes that you are on a website waiting for something to happen, for example a download that should be available on that day or a registration form for a new web service. And then there are times where you want to reload a page because the contents change all the time. This can [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 5th, 2009
  • Comments: None

A Userscript For Better Userscripts.org Navigation

If you have been to userscripts.org before you might have noticed that the website holds an incredible amount of userscripts. You might have also noticed that it is extremely uncomfortable to browse and work with in general. Userscripts are JavaScript code snippets that change elements on a website while it is loaded in the web [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 28th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

9 Facebook Userscripts

Chance is you have a Facebook account. Hundreds of millions of users have one and at least some of them are looking for ways to change the standard appearance and functionality of the social networking website. One unobtrusive way of doing that is to use so called userscripts which can be loaded into web browsers [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

PBTweet Enhances Twitter Experience

PBTweet is a bookmarklet and userscript that enhances several aspects of Twitter by changing or adding new functions to the popular social network. Before we start looking at the features a word about compatibility. The bookmarklet works with most Webkit based web browsers including Safari and Google Chrome. The userscripts are compatible with Greasemonkey [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 6th, 2009
  • Comments: 24

Automatically Buffer Youtube Videos

Many Youtube users do not like the fact that Youtube videos start playing as soon as the video is opened. This objection has several reasons. The most prominent ones are that users with slow connections can experience pauses during playback as the video download speed is slower than the playback speed of the video. Another [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 31st, 2009
  • Comments: 10

Greasemonkey To Firefox Add-On Compiler

Some Greasemonkey scripts can really improve the usability on specific websites. We have reviewed several popular scripts before including Greasemonkey scripts for IMDB, Twitter, 4Chan, Youtube or Google Search. Greasemonkey scripts require the Firefox Greasemonkey extension before they can be installed. Users who want to be notified about userscript updates need to install another userscript [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

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