Do you wish to surf on your personalised Internet? Use Mozilla Fire fox and the Grease Monkey Extension.
Mozilla Firefox, the open source web browsing software application gave its users the thrill of creating their very own personalised web browser. This was made possible with the help of extensions, features, plug-ins etc, which were made available by the numerous enthusiastic Firefox developers who were continually working round the clock to make web browsing a wonderful and peaceful experience.
Most people who were using Firefox wanted to customize the way web pages should look and function. This was made possible with the introduction of the fire fox extension Grease monkey. Grease monkey is actually a fire fox extension, which allows you to customize the look and function of the web pages according to your taste. It uses what is known as “user script†to run on a web page which in turn alters the web page as it gets downloaded .
The Grease monkey Firefox extension has an avid following since it was released on the fire fox website for download and installation. Web surfers who wanted to customize the sites they visited by removing the designs and ads found this extension to be extremely useful. This made it possible for the surfers to get printer friendly ad free stories on news sites with the help from this extension.
Publishers have now reconciled to the fact that users could make some changes on the web pages by adjusting colours, font sizes and other style elements. This web site customization tool gave the user the ability to actually rip and mix the web page elements as they wished. There are hundreds of scripts available free and anyone who wants to tinker on the scripts can do so with the help of grease monkey. Adding a delete button and a saved searches panel helps to enhance G mail with the use of scripts. This is extremely useful when making searches repeatedly. Instead of having to type the searches over and over again, all the user has to do is create a custom search in the Grease monkey extension and click on it when ever a particular search is needed.
The Grease monkey extension lets you make changes in the pages, which you download with the help of added bits of DHTML or user scripts to change its behaviour thus allowing the user to alter the style of the web page. All this is done without the knowledge or cooperation of Web publishers. Cyber thugs found using the grease monkey an excellent way to create mischief on people’s computers. But all this did not deter people from using the Grease monkey to surf the net as it gave the users the freedom to modify pages for better or for worse.
Anyone wishing to surf the internet and wishing to customise their WebPages could do so with the help of hundreds of user scripts which are available on popular sites eg.http://userscripts.org. You can write your own scripts with help from diveintogreasemonkey.org. However, a word of caution should also be sounded to those using grease monkey
It has been brought to the notice of Mozilla Firefox community that using grease monkey extension some cyber thugs have managed to add malicious programs to some web sites which can cause considerable damage to unsuspecting web users when they download the web page. Being aware of this small problem, the grease monkey extension feature can be utilised and enjoyed by the users of Firefox.
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