Greasemonkey

[Michael Costolo]

On 1/1/06, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As kind of a counter-point to the recent discussion on Firefox
> security and what JavaScript shouldn't be allowed to do, I'm wondering
> what anyone here has to say on Greasemonkey.
>
> http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
>
> Greasemonkey is kind of like bookmarklets on steroids.  It lets you
> attach arbitrary JavaScript code to any given webpage.  The key here
> is that you, the *user*, are scripting things.  An interesting article
> on the potential of user-supplied scripting can be found here:
>
> http://www.nivi.com/blog/article/greasemonkey-and-business-models/
>
> That article notes the following things you might do with Greasemonkey
> (in order of increasing anarchy):
> - Insert links to your local library's card catalog into Amazon
> - Insert prices from competitive booksellers into Amazon
> - Insert links to pirated material into Amazon (or Netflix)
>
> While I admit I find the idea of user-supplied scripting intriguing,
> things such as potential security and stability nightmares are keeping
> me away from Greasemonkey for now.  I'm curious  as to what others
> think.
>
> -- Ben "Monkey is a funny word" Scott
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Persistent searches on Google and Google Scholar are particularly useful.
There are also some Gmail tweaks that are convenient (force the use of the
secure server, for example).  All in all I like the idea.  I guess there
were some (big surprise here) security issues a while ago.  I'm not sure how
or if they were resolved though.

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gets elected and proves it.:
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