November 2005
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
11h 9m
English
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Hack #99. Create Greasemonkey Scripts Automatically
Meet Platypus, the graphical interface for Greasemonkey.
By this point, you have seen the awesome power of Greasemonkey to modify pages in myriad ways. But all these hacks have one thing in common: they require writing code. Sometimes that's unavoidable, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to make simple modifications without poking through the DOM or futzing with XPath?
Meet Platypus, the graphical interface for Greasemonkey.
Running the Hack
To install Platypus, go to http://platypus.mozdev.org and click the Install Platypus link. Firefox uses a whitelist to restrict sites from automatically installing browser extensions. If you see a message at the top of the window that says that Firefox has prevented this site from installing software, click Edit Options and add the site to your whitelist, as shown in Figure 12-8.
Figure 12-8. Firefox extensions whitelist
Now, click Install Platypus again, and Firefox will prompt you to confirm that you really want to install it. Click Install, and then quit Firefox and relaunch it to complete the installation.
OK, now you should see a new option in the Tools menu named "Platypus!" Go to any web page, such as http://www.oreilly.com, and then select "Platypus!" from the Tools menu. Since this is the first time you have run Platypus, it will open its help window to show you all the available options, ...
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