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The original creator of Greasemonkey, Aaron Boodman, said this about its creation:
The original creator of Greasemonkey, Aaron Boodman, said this about its creation:


: Greasemonkey was heavily inspired by Adrian Holovaty's [http://holovaty.com/blog/archive/2004/07/19/2210 site-specific extension for All Music Guide] and the conversation which ensued after he published it.  There were tons of sites I wanted to create SSE's for, but fully-fledged Firefox extensions proved too cumbersome. I wanted it to be as easy to create an SSE as it is to write DHTML.
: Greasemonkey was heavily inspired by Adrian Holovaty's [http://www.holovaty.com/writing/all-music-guide/ site-specific extension for All Music Guide] and the conversation which ensued after he published it.  There were tons of sites I wanted to create SSE's for, but fully-fledged Firefox extensions proved too cumbersome. I wanted it to be as easy to create an SSE as it is to write DHTML.


= See Also =
= See Also =

Latest revision as of 18:46, 3 November 2017

Greasemonkey is a user script manager. It is an extension for the Firefox web browser.

The official Greasemonkey home page is: http://www.greasespot.net/

The original creator of Greasemonkey, Aaron Boodman, said this about its creation:

Greasemonkey was heavily inspired by Adrian Holovaty's site-specific extension for All Music Guide and the conversation which ensued after he published it. There were tons of sites I wanted to create SSE's for, but fully-fledged Firefox extensions proved too cumbersome. I wanted it to be as easy to create an SSE as it is to write DHTML.

See Also