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  • 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: Nov 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Google Chrome To Get Automatic Userscript Support

Until now userscript support in the Google Chrome web browser was severely limited by the fact that the user had to copy the userscripts into a folder of the Chrome profile. Recent versions of the Chromium browser outline what users of the Google Chrome dev releases are soon going to experience as well. Google apparently [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 28th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

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 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

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 2nd, 2009
  • Comments: 14

Automatically Download Files From Rapidshare In Firefox

Users who download regularly from the popular file host Rapidshare usually use a download manager like JDownloader or Cryptload to do so. These download managers provide several benefits over downloading files from Rapidshare in a web browser like Firefox or Internet Explorer. The most important benefit being the ability to queue an unlimited number of [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 16th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

9 Twitter Userscripts

After the success of the IMDB userscripts article we thought it would be nice to write another one that would review some of the best Twitter userscripts out there. Now, userscripts can be loaded into the web browser in various ways. Probably the most popular and straightforward way is to use the Greasemonkey extension for [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, firefox, opera

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