That Greasy Monkey

Posted in this blog on June 21st, 2010 by blambi

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For different reasons I have been rather tied up and been quite silent here for a while, fear not that doesn’t mean that I have stopped hacking.

But on to the issue at hand that i thought could have be of more interest to others.

I recently moved back to iceweasel, yea that is rather scary but the other browser I used wasn’t really mature enough yet, sad but true. So what did I do then? Well of course looked into if I could make iceweasel behave close enough to my other browser and also be thinkerd with to behave more like another old timer of mine galeon.

So I installed the following addons:

  • Edit Cookies
  • Greasemonkey
  • It’s All Text!
  • Tabs Menu
  • URL Alias

And I must say I’m really quite pleased, after moving around the GUI a bit and also thinkering quite a lot with the diffrent addons I got something that was a mix of epiphany and galeon with quite a bit of extras.

Not surprising I have already written two rather simple greasemonkey scripts:

  • Privoxy to NetPostive
    Transforms thouse ugly 503 errors of privoxy to the stile and messages from NetPositive (think BeOS)
  • Games Workshop auto country selector
    Since I let my cookies die of when I closes the browser some sites wish that you should select language/country etc so I made this little thing that fixes that for you on games workshops page.

And at last I must say that I really like being able to summon a emacs-client with an text areas text in side it and saving pushes it back to the text area.

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