Tweaker alert: Greasemonkey coming to Chrome
Greasemonkey, a Firefox customization tool popular among high-powered Web surfers, is coming to Google Chrome browser.
Aaron Boodman, a Greasemonkey author and a Google programmer who's active in the Gears project, contributed Greasemonkey support to Chrome, and the Google Operating System blog picked up on the change.
At this stage, enabling Greasemonkey requires people to use a cutting-edge developer version of the open-source browser and to launch it with a "--enable-greasemonkey" option set.
Greasemonkey lets people run scripts that modify Web page appearance. For example, back when Google's Gmail service lacked a "delete" button, people could add one by installing the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox then downloading a particular customization script.
Google wants to improve the Greasemonkey support, for example by confining particular Greasemonkey scripts to particular Web pages and letting the browser update its scripts as it's running.
Stephen Shankland covers Google, Yahoo, search, online advertising, portals, digital photography, and related subjects. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered servers, supercomputing, open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen.
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Browsers and extensions,
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Developer tools
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Chrome,
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Google,
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Greasemonkey
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PS -- Where I come from , a "Tweaker" is someone who is addicted to crank/meth ... they usually are found under hoods of sweatshirts, riding a stolen bike with a dog in tow ... I don't know how many of them use Google Chrome.