http://lwn.net/Articles/128915/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "GreaseMonkey: a two-edged sword". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/129965/rss 2005-03-31T17:48:15+00:00 anton You can turn off background images in Mozilla (and probably Firefox) through<br> Preferences -&gt; Appearance -&gt; Colors: Select "Use my chosen colors...".<br> The only downside I have noticed that you then don't see the IMDB photos.<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/129873/rss 2005-03-31T09:37:31+00:00 alextingle Or just disable it completely for https:// pages.<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/129432/rss 2005-03-29T09:20:02+00:00 csawtell At last, at long last, a way of removing those idiotic background images <br> which make pages well neigh impossible to read. It will do that won't it? <br> <br> http://lwn.net/Articles/129056/rss 2005-03-24T18:37:46+00:00 pm101 I think the problem is fixable. The trick would be to install scripts with appropriate permissions. One that can modify slashdot.org should only be allowed to modify pages on slashdot.org, and not on paypal.com or bankofamerica.com. You risk having a slashdot account stolen, but not much more. Secure sites remain secure. <br> <p> Skimming the web page, it looks like it already has that functionality in place, although it's not clear from the documentation whether it is secure-by-default or insecure-by-default. <br> http://lwn.net/Articles/128976/rss 2005-03-24T07:18:29+00:00 Dom2 <p>GreaseMonkey brings out the full potential for mozilla and friends to be more like Emacs. Very easy to customize by advanced users. I'm totally sold on the idea. <p>I suspect for the most part that it will remain an "advanced user" thing, so we won't have to worry too much about what actually gets downloaded. The UI could make it easier to review scripts that are already installed. But I expect that this sort of thing will happen as development progresses. <p>-Dom http://lwn.net/Articles/128970/rss 2005-03-24T04:40:06+00:00 b7j0c This is an extension I have been pining for. In fact I described hypothetically the "perfect extension" to people months ago...a way of executing user-built javascript (or some other DOM-manipulation language) at sites or url pattersn I specify. Voila! Already I have scripts to remove Overture ads from yahoo pages. I remove the top matter crap from my.yahoo.com. I remove "inside Yahoo" links from Yahoo Search. Next: remove AdSense ads.<br> <p> Many thanks for this excellent tool!<br> http://lwn.net/Articles/128968/rss 2005-03-24T04:05:11+00:00 flewellyn I was going to say something snarky about the "Rewrite Paul Graham essays for better <br> readability", but then I saw the actual scripts in question. And yes, both of them do things which <br> I think Graham's essays benefit from enormously: change the text width, and turn the footnotes <br> into links.<br> <p> I admit, at first I thought it would be some kind of textual munging. :-)<br>