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Greasemonkey for Firefox

Greasemonkey is a firefox extension that is to JavaScript as user stylesheets are to CSS.

I can’t decide if I’m fascinated or horrified.

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One Response to “Greasemonkey for Firefox”

  1. Ryan Says:
    January 11th, 2005 at 12:07 am

    An interesting thing to do with this would be URL treatment. Hotmail makes all the links break out in another page with a frame. This could re-munge the URLs to not do that anymore. You could use it to anonymize any URLs you click on. You could use it to generate already signed in links to places like the NY Times. You could use it to make Amazon links use your associate ID (THAT’s pretty evil, taking the sale away from the site maintainer).

    I’m pretty sure I’m horrified if any vulnerability of Firefox is found that allows malicious sites to write over the JS that’s used to override pages. On the other hand, I’m fascinated at the possibilities of what you could do with this. So I’d say I’m both fascinated AND horrified.