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Greasemonkey compiler - turn greasemonkey scripts into complete Firefox extensions
by Jason Clarke Mar 31st 2006
Are you a Greasemonkey addict, but wish sometimes that you could turn your favorite GM script into a
full-fledged Firefox extension? Well, you're in luck. Greasemonkey Compiler can take any greasemonkey script as input, and output a completely functional Firefox
extension. I can see this being very useful to allow family members to take advantage of my favorite Gmail scripts
without having to explain greasemonkey to the less technical of them (okay, all of them).
I love the clean simplicity of this service, but I have to wonder; to produce standalone extensions, does all of the core logic in greasemonkey need to be contained in each extension? If I use a number of greasemonkey scripts, theoretically I could be adding a lot of overhead to my browser if I create extensions for all of them. The name "compiler" is a bit of a misnomer given that Firefox extensions are based on interpreted languages, but we can overlook that fact, given how slick this idea is.
Note that the site does not indicate what operating systems the produced extensions will work on. Windows works great - can anyone tell me if this also works for Macs and Linux PCs?
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