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The Greasemonkey home page is: http://greasespot.net/
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 [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.
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Revision as of 22:51, 9 April 2007

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.