Greasemonkey

I'd been thinking not long ago about how many sites don't work with "non-standard" browsers for minor reasons and how it would be cool if there were a way to issue little patches for those sites until their maintainers got some free time/got a clue.

The Greasemonkey plug-in for Firefox looks like a start. I got wrapped around automatically associating patches with sites and ensuring patch integrity/safety. Greasemonkey doesn't do any of that, but it does let you inject JavaScript into pages, and that is really good enough for me.

I read about Greasemonkey first in evhead's post. Sam Ruby's post points to PithHelmet Machete scripts as a Safari equivalent. (I haven't tried PithHelmet, yet, and had no idea it had any scripting built in. I'm in Safari more than Firefox, though, so I'll be checking it out, too.)

Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail discusses the creation of a user script to effectively add a feature to Gmail. Very cool.

I think Greasemonkey will definitely be something to watch.

Comments

[Jeremy Dunck]

There's a user script wiki here:
http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts

Be sure to add stuff there. :)