Greased Lightbox: Cool Greasemonkey script

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Greased Lightbox: Cool Greasemonkey script

by Jordan Running Mar 15th 2006

Greased Lightbox is a nifty Greasemonkey (and Creammonkey for Safari) script by Joe Lencioni that I came across yesterday. When it finds links to image files, clicking those links causes the image to pop up with the suddenly-popular "lightbox" effect rather than navigating away from the linking page. Not only is it a cool effect, it makes browsing image galleries and Google Images a lot smoother. It also has extra support for sites like Flickr, Facebook, and Gmail, which is a nice bonus. If I were to add anything to Greased Lightbox it would be some kind of slideshow functionality, but it seems to be under active development so perhaps that's coming.

Tags: facebook, flickr, gallery, gmail, greased, greasemonkey, images, Joe Lencioni, lightbox, script

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Joe Lencioni said 11:39PM on 3-15-2006

Thanks for the link. ALso, just a heads up -- I just released v0.04 which (among other things) adds some basic slideshow functionality with the arrow keys. Cheers!

Bozer Designs said 11:07AM on 3-16-2006

This is also built off the original CSS modifications developed by Lokesh Dhakar:

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

Which is also further expanded upon for customizing here at AlwaysBeta:

http://www.alwaysbeta.com/2006/02/08/building-ab-customizing-lightbox/

Additionally if you wish to see a site that uses this modification actively you can visit an example here (click on the pictures under the 'Stand Out' area:

http://www.bozerdesigns.com

All in all it's great stuff for Firefox users.

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