November 22, 2008

Synchronize GreaseMonkey scripts

I use Firefox on all my machines and I use many of the same GreaseMonkey scripts across my machines too. I modify some of the GreaseMonkey scripts on a regular basis, but there is no synchronization functionality built into GreaseMonkey. I therefore end up with different GreaseMonkey scripts on my different machines.

I have solved this problem with Windows Live Sync. I create a one personal folder in Windows Live Sync and add all those GreaseMonkey scripts that should be synchronized.

In Windows Live Sync I specify the computers I want to synchronize and the folders I would like to synchronize on each computer.

All I need to do is keep sure that Windows Live Sync is running on the computers I want to be synchronized.

November 3, 2008

Are you a Grease Monkey

I just can't live without Firefox. It's not because it's faster than Internet Explorer, Opera, Chrome or Safari, but because there is so many cool extensions for Firefox.

One extension is Ad-Block that removes those anouing adds, another is No-Script that increases the security when I'm surfing the Internests :)

But the best extension is GreaseMonkey, that lets you insert JavaScript code into any webside like GMail or Youtube.

Userscripts
Userscripts is a common description for those small code snippets that is loaded into web pages. You can develop you own userscripts, or choose from thousands of free userscripts, made available in the very active Grease Monkey community.
You'll find most userscripts on userscripts.org.

GreaseFire is a specialized extension for Firefox that finds suitable userscripts for any given webpage.

I'm using userscripts on many different websites like GMail, Facebook, YouTube, but it is on Flickr I find the most useful GreaseMonkey userscripts like:
  • Check Play
  • View on Flickriver
  • Move comment from up
  • Photo Rank
  • Disable photo notes
  • Buddy Icon Reply
  • Refer Comment
  • Easy Photo Post
  • Flickr Follow Comments