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The original author of Greasemonkey, Aaron Boodman, said this about its creation: | The original author 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 | : 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. | ||
= See Also = | = See Also = | ||
* [[Version history ]] | * [[Version history ]] | ||
==External links== | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey Greasemonkey @ Wikipedia] | |||
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Revision as of 12:08, 2 October 2009
Greasemonkey is a user script manager. It is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
The Greasemonkey home page is: http://greasespot.net/
The original author 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.
