Gmail and Firefox Just Got Better: Greasemonkey!

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So you probably think Gmail is pretty slick and Firefox has changed your browsing experience. But you can make them better. In fact you can enhance and customize your browsing experience even more. You need Greasemonkey.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows your browser to run scripts to customize the web page you are viewing. This opens up all kinds of possibilities. You can write or customize your own script, but you can also browse the script repository and just load up what other people have done.

I heard about this a while back and saw some amazing things with Google Maps (like a sort of online virtual tour of a downtown area) but that was still quite complicated to implement. Today, I found the one killer script that makes Greasemonkey worthwhile to me, even if I only run this one customization. It's a Gmail Delete button!

I use Gmail a lot, but I don't save every email message as Google would like. This makes my search results more relevant. Gmail lets you delete mail but there's no keyboard shortcut for it and you have to use the drop-down menu... until now.

Get started with Greasemonkey. Make the web your own.

</end infomercial> Posted by Chris on 5/13/2005 01:50:00 PM :: Permalink   
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