Greasemonkey in Firefox 3

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Greasemonkey in Firefox 3

by Todd Ritter Jun 9th 2008

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.

[via gHacks]

Tags: addons, extenstions, firefox, greasemonkey, script, scripts

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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

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

higgs said 5:08PM on 6-17-2008

What? How? I have several addons that FF3 won't allow.

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