Greasemonkey
I finally gave in and installed Greasemonkey for Firefox. I didn’t like the thought of using Javascript written by someone else to modify web pages, but after playing with it for a few minutes the functionality is definitely apparent. My favorite script so far is “Google Reader Preview Enhanced” which enables the ability to view the web page the story comes from within Reader. So now I don’t have to open a tab every time I want to finish a story I just click the link and it opens a preview. The best part about Greasemonkey is how transparent and easy to disable it is. If you don’t want to have any of your Greasemonkey scripts run on a page simply click on the monkey head in the bottom corner of your screen. Rock on developers for Mozilla, rock on!
Tim Seymour lives in Washington, DC. He works as a Systems Administrator for