Firefox Speed Up Script is a script for Greasemonkey that combines several tweaks to Firefox core configuration settings with site specific optimizations and various other improvements including blocking of known advertising scripts. The Greasemonkey extension for the Firefox web browser is required to use the Speed Up Script which will automatically become active after installation. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Greasemonkey userscripts can be very helpful in many situations that are regularly encountered on the web. They manipulate elements on a website to either remove, add or change them without the user noticing in the background. There are basic scripts that have been designed for one specific purpose like removing all ads on a website [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Uncategorized

YousableTubeFix is a Greasemonkey script for the Firefox and Opera Internet browser (and most likley for other Internet browsers who support Greasemonkey as well) that changes the layout of Youtube to provide a better experience for the user. The list of features that are packed into the script is extensive and will change the perception [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Opera

Are you a regular Facebook user? If you are you had to cope with several design changes, ads, profiling and privacy policy changes in the past which more often than not have faced strong opposition in the Facebook community. There are several possibilities to change pages and elements on Facebook to undo certain changes to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Facebook, Firefox

We would like to show how to disable the auto focus on text fields of selected websites to complete the series of posts that deal with auto focusing on text fields once the website opens in the web browser. If you open the Google Search homepage by default you notice that the cursor will automatically [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

We mentioned a setting for the Firefox web browser earlier today that allowed the usage of the tab key to jump to the first text field on a website.This is handy on websites with no auto focus on the first text field. There was no apparent way, either by installing a Firefox add-on or userscript, [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Google Search has always been using a minimalistic design. While this serves several purposes like offering distraction free web searching and fast loading times it does fall a bit short for some users who prefer to access additional information right in the search interface. Google Fx is a Greasemonkey Script which means it works in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Search Engines, Uncategorized

You need to click several times on the photo hosting website Flickr if you want to open a full sized photo from a page that is only displaying the thumbnail image of it. The same is true for websites where Flickr thumbnails or images are embedded on. Users who like to open full sized versions [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, The Web

One of the nicest features that the Opera web browser is offering is the so called Scroll Marker. This feature – when enabled – will display a transparent line at every page break of a website to aid the user in navigating it. This is very helpful on websites with huge amounts of texts as [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera