Greasemonkey

Hacks 77–84: Introduction Some days I miss NCSA Mosaic. No, really. For those readers who haven't been around the Web as long as I have, let me explain how it was in the good old days. (Good Lord, I can't believe I just said that. I'm only 32. Shoo...

Somewhere along the line, web developers got the impression that it was their Web. Unstoppable pop-up windows and scrolling status bar text were bad enough, but the stupid web trick that really drove me nuts was the way some sites tried to disable th...

com doesn't like Firefox. Sadly, in 2005, there are still many sites that intentionally discriminate against minority browsers. WeightWatchers.com is one such site. The developers think they have "optimized" it for Internet Explorer, and the site i...

A little-known feature of Firefox is the Page Info dialog (under the Tools menu). Most people who try it can't get past the first tab, which displays geeky technical details of how the page was served. But if you click over to the Media tab, Firefox ...

On some news sites, link collections or weblogs, and even web mail programs, external links are wrapped into a frame. This wastes your precious screen real estate to keep part of the original web site in view, usually with additional advertisements. ...

Here's something that annoys me. I click a link to download a file, and the site forces the link to open in a new window. Firefox begins to download the file, but the new window stays around. Seriously, what's up with that? Does anybody actually want...

Most online news sites offer printer-friendly versions of their articles. Such pages usually contain the entire article text in one page, instead of forcing you to click through to read multiple pages. They also leave out the site's global navigation...

It's long been stated that if you put your images up on the Web, there's no real way of stopping people from downloading them and using them for their own purposes. That's still basically true, although one of the interesting things about the new Goo...

Many online newspapers require you to register with the site before being able to read online articles. This registration is annoying, invasive, and a serious privacy risk. (Several newspaper publishing companies have been caught selling their regist...