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Get Started With Greasemonkey Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that gives you tremendous control over how a page appears in your browser. If you can imagine JavaScript that you wish would run when a site loads, you can make it so. Rearrange a site’s layout, hide annoying elements (ads?), or replace every occurrence of “David Lee Roth” with “Sammy Hagar.” Contents What You Need Firefox web browser Greasemonkey extension for Firefox Intermediate knowledge of JavaScript Install the Greasemonkey Extension Within Firefox, go to the Greasemonkey extension page and click “Add to Firefox.” Once Greasemonkey is installed, you should see it in the bottom right of the status bar. Nothing happened, right? Here, I have a script installed for any URL on the sub-domain images.google.com. In the next section, you’ll add a script to Greasemonkey to see how it works before writing your own. Install a Greasemonkey Script You can find all sorts of Greasemonkey scripts at userscripts.org. Install the Hello World script Floating Menu Code

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More Mashups: Using Greasemonkey to Weave New Features into Web Sites With this blog entry I am continuing the theme of demonstrating tools to help you build mashups. In this case, I will show how a tool called Greasemonkey can be a powerful approach for building browser side mashups. Greasemonkey is a plugin to Firefox that allows a script developer to inject useful Javascript into any web page. This capability enables you to add new features to sites that you do not own. I will show in this blog how you can add a new feature to the dev2dev website, without having access to the dev2dev code. Later, a follow-up blog will show how this same technique can create a feature on dev2dev that includes data from a different web site, producing a true mashup. NOTE: this blog entry was originally posted July 2nd, 2007 on my previous blogging system (dev2dev.bea.com). This is part 1 of a series of blog entries on Greasemonkey mashups. Client side Code Injection with Greasemonkey Greasemonkey is just cool - and I have been having a lot of fun playing around with it.