Greasemonkey started out as an extension to the Firefox browser but it’s popularity grew so large that support has been added natively to other browsers, like Google Chrome. For the unaware, Greasemonkey and it’s subsequent user-generated scripts allow you to customize certain aspects of a web site. They can be as simple as layout adjustment or tweaks, or more complicated embedding of functionality found elsewhere on the site. Written in javascript, the possibilities are about as limitless as you can find in the browser. It’s not hard to see why Greasemonkey has spread like wildfire – there are many sites I just can’t use without a few userscripts enabled.
So how do you find user created scripts? There is a website for that in all actuality, userscripts.org, but it suffers from the same problems as any large repository – it’s very time consuming to find anything, if it even exists! It’s quite likely you are missing out on some amazing functionality available on the sites you visit every day – just because the method of finding new Greasemonkey scripts tends to be organic, like through a random forum post.
Greasefire is an extension for an extension that facilitates a method to easily discovering scripts available on web sites you know and love. First, because it is an extension, the functionality is limited to Firefox, even though Greasemonkey scripts work on Google Chrome. Users of Greasemonkey are familiar with the little monkey icon in the Firefox status bar.
Greasefire, once installed, adds an additional right-click menu option that will display the number of scripts available, should their be any of course.
Selecting this option will launch a pop-up window that details all the scripts available, what functionality they introduce, as well as user ratings and an easy means to install them.
Greasefire is simply a requirement for every Greasemonkey user!
