I must reiterate my undying love for Greasemonkey and its styletastic cousin Stylish, two indispensable Firefox Addons. They have both saved me countless milliseconds over the years and it all ads up! Basically they take that haphazard version of the web you’re faced with due to poor design or lack of functionality and kick it up a notch… BAM!
One such innovation dramatically improves eBay searches. Usually, they look something like this: you have items with a picture icon but the seller hasn’t paid for “Gallery Picture” so no thumbnail for you.
The script adds eBay thumbnail images to searches by fetching the image from the item page. The result is:
Neat huh? Now I regularly find myself thinking “I wonder if there’s a Greasemonkey script for that” and usually there is.
Other scripts I use:
- Super Linkfier (Greasemonkey) – No more browsing forum and being forced to copy and paste URIs. This makes EVERY URI a link, including email addresses.
- YouTube Automatic fmt=18 Adder (Greasemonkey) – Hack that forces ALL videos to display in high quality.
- Big fonts on wikipedia main content (Stylish) – This one’s self-explanatory.
- Block Facebook Ads (Stylish) – due to constant changes and slew of choice I suggest you search for this.
- Block Gmail adds (Stylish) – ditto.
- Google Image Relinker (Greasemonkey) – Search results link straight to the image, not that annoying frame page.
