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 for [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Google Image Search is a very comprehensive image search engine. It basically works the same way as the standard Google search with the difference that image thumbnails are displayed as results on the results pages. Additional information like the domain name the image was posted on or the size of the image are displayed on [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google

Users of the Firefox web browser have thousands of add-ons and scripts at their disposal that they can use to extend the functionality of the web browser. This large amount makes it impossible for most users to know all of the add-ons out there which in turn can mean that they miss the opportunity of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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

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

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

Helvetireader is a minimal Google Reader interface theme supplied as a userscript that turns Google Reader into an optimized feed reader that is displaying only the essentials. It was especially designed to view feeds in the expanded view using keyboard shortcuts. A userscript compatible browser is needed for the new interface theme to work. Long [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Google likes basic designs that just works. Take a look at their search engine or Gmail to know what I mean. Now you all know that I do not have a problem with basic designs because I prefer websites to be usable and speedy instead of shiny and slow. Gmail Redesigned on the other hand [...]

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox

If you are using Firefox’s option to save usernames and passwords for websites that you visited to automatically fill them in when you visit them again you might find a Greasemonkey script called AutologinJ useful. I’m not quite sure what the J stands for but this nice little script presses the login button for you automatically which pretty much means that you can lean back and enjoy the show while Firefox logs you in automatically to the website that you just visited.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox