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The Greasemonkey Firefox addon that allows you to run site specific JS has been around for two decades [1]. [1] https://www.greasespot.net/2005/03/ https://www
by abdullahkhalids 6mo ago
The Greasemonkey Firefox addon that allows you to run site specific JS has been around for two decades [1].
[1] https://www.greasespot.net/2005/03/ https://www.greasespot.net/2005/03/
- halapro 6mo agoIt certainly is great to have first-party support for such a simple feature. It doesn't have to support the whole GM_ API
- Brybry 6mo agoAnd they even have a name: userscripts! [1] Chrome also used to natively support userscripts back in 2010 [2] but they mostly killed it off [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userscript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userscript [2] https://lifehacker.com/chrome-4-supports-greasemonkey-userscripts-without-an-e-5461675 https://lifehacker.com/chrome-4-supports-greasemonkey-usersc...
- notafox 5mo agoThere's also Violentmonkey [1][2] (which is said to be more lightweight) and Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey has analytics enabled, and is closed source. Here's a comprehensive summary on all three. [3] [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/violentmonkey https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/violentmonkey [2] https://violentmonkey.github.io/ https://violentmonkey.github.io/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26057106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26057106