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Greasemonkey in Firefox 3
While Greasemonkey, the popular extension for changing the way websites display, might not be currently available via the Firefox 3 addons manager or the Mozilla addons website, you can indeed install a working version from the developer's site. We installed the greasemonkey-0.8.20080609.0.xpi into Firefox 3 RC2 on Mac OS 10.5, and our scripts worked like a charm.In case you're new to the Greasemonkey realm, here are three scripts to get you going:
- Gmail 2.0 Multiple HTML Signatures - allows you to maintain a set of HTML signatures for Gmail that are automatically changed when you select different "From" addresses in your compose mail window. Alternatively, you could use a bookmarklet.
- Digg Add Mirrors - adds links to Coral Cache, Duggmirror, Duggback, and Google Cache to Digg stories.
- Image Host Redirector - redirects image links directly to image instead of intermediate image host page.
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downloadsquad said 6:28PM on 6-09-2008
Don't forget the GMail Macros script, which adds more keyboard shortcuts for GMail. It will literally give you days of your life back.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2432
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Josh said 2:40PM on 6-10-2008
Or, you know, you could have just installed Nightly Tester Tools like me and could have been using GM with Fx3 since the alpha days. ;) And there is a workaround for the official Mozilla site that I found, too, so that you can install non-compatible extensions now and force compatibility with NTT
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higgs said 5:08PM on 6-17-2008
What? How? I have several addons that FF3 won't allow.
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