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Userscripts.
Userscripts.
When userscripts.
When you browse sites on the Internet you may sometimes stumble upon irritating or irrelevant elements on them.
If you hang out on YouTube a lot you have probably already explored browser add-ons and userscripts that improve your experience while you are on the site.
If you hang out a lot on The Pirate Bay website or visit it occasionally to find a torrent download link that you could not find anywhere else, you may have not
So called userscripts are a great way of adding functionality to a browser that is supporting them.
The video hosting website YouTube back in December 2012 changed the layout of its start page.
We all know that Google Chrome supports some userscripts right out of the box without installation of a third party extension.
As a webmaster and Internet user, I do not like the direction that Google Search is heading towards for some years now.
Google for some time now displays page preview options on Google Search that users of the search engine can make use of to look at a sample screenshot of web pa
Adobe Flash is the preferred option to play video on today's Internet.
When you open the My Android Apps page on Google Play you see all the apps and games that you have installed on your Android device, and the total number of app
A set of screenshots is displayed on Google's Play store for apps and games offered there.
If you are following this blog regularly you know that Google is constantly working on the design of its products.
Greasemonkey is one of the most popular extensions for the Firefox web browser.
Update: The script is no longer working unfortunately.
Update: The script has not been updated in two years at the time of writing (April 2014) and as a consequence, does not work anymore on Google.
Over the past two months or so I have seen a number of Facebook hacking scripts posted on the userscripts.
Userscripts can improve the individual experience on the video hosting site YouTube tremendously.
Facebook fairly recently made a change to Facebook Chat that is irritating many users of the site.
Update: The author has retired the script as CNET has added direct download links to all download pages on its website.
When you search Google you always have the option to open a linked website directly, or to open a cached page of the selected page instead.
Not everyone is seeing the new Google header bar yet that is being rolled out currently.
Update: Google has modified the layout of the toolbar on Google properties.
Update: The userscript has not been updated for nearly two years and is not working right now as a consequence.
One of the not so comfortable experiences that users can make on the Internet are websites where small images or thumbnails are displayed that reveal little to
Update: Tweetfilter has not been updated since 2011 and is not working anymore as a result.
Update: Google has removed the +1 links from Google Search again.
YouTube videos can be posted as links or as embedded media contents on websites.
I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the Facebook sidebar ticker that is now being displaying on every page on the social networking site.
The photos that users upload to eBay are used to populate the search results and category listings.
Thousands of internet users have discovered the joys of Reddit, a web portal that provides users with access to images, underground news and the latest memes th
Update: Google has retired iGoogle.
Friends on the social networking site Facebook are not necessarily only people that you know.
I sometimes forget to look at a link destination before I click on the link in question.
One of the more annoying things on Facebook.
Chatting on Facebook can be pretty handy at times.
Firefox 4 users who want to work with userscripts, small JavaScript programs that change a website's functionality or add features to it, can install the very p
What's the main difference between reading comics online and reading physical comic books? Flipping pages usually takes more time online, the speed depends larg
YouTube recently changed the homepage after an initial tryout phase.