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: 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://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 = | |||
* [[Version history]] | |||
* [[wikipedia:Greasemonkey|Greasemonkey at Wikipedia]] | |||
Revision as of 14:17, 26 January 2011
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.
