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Greasemonkey Hacks
Greasemonkey Hacks is an invaluable compendium 100 ingenious
hacks for power users who want to master Greasemonkey, the
hot new Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts
that alter the web pages you visit. With Greasemonkey, you
can create scripts that make a web site more usable, fix
rendering bugs that site owners
can't be bothered to fix
themselves, or add items to a web site's menu bar. You can
alter pages so they work better with technologies that speak
a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. Greasemonkey
gurus can even import, combine, and alter data from
different web sites to meet their own specific needs.
Greasemonkey has achieved a cult-like following in its short
lifespan, but its uses are just beginning to be explored.
Let's say you're shopping on an e-commerce site. You can
create a script that will automatically display competitive
prices for that particular product from other web sites. The
possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your
Greasemonkey expertise. Greasemonkey Hacks can't help you
with the imagination part, but it can provide the expert
hacks-complete with the sample code-you need to turn your
brainstorms into reality.
More than just an essential collection of made-to-order
Greasemonkey solutions, Greasemonkey Hacks is crammed with
sample code, a Greasemonkey API reference, and a
comprehensive list of resources, to ensure that every
resource you need is available between its covers.
Some people are content to receive information from websites
passively; some people want to control it. If you are one of
the latter, Greasemonkey Hacks provides all the clever
customizations and cutting-edge tips and tools you need to
take command of any web page you view.
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