Greasemonkey in Google Chrome
Google’s latest beta release adds support for Greasemonkey.
Greasemonkey is an immensely popular Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that can make on-the-fly changes to HTML based web pages. This provides for interesting and useful user specific customizations.
Support for Greasemonkey adds another feather in Chrome’s hat. However, things are not all that clean and nice. Chrome does not have a system to add plugins to it. Therefore, users need to do the following to run Greasemonkey scripts:
- Save their Greasemonkey scripts in c:\scripts, beacuse that’s where Chrome is going to load scripts from, and
- Explicitly pass “–enable-greasemonkey” as a parameter to Chrome (This can be done by appending the parameter to the Chrome shortcut)
Maybe Google Chrome should consider creating a way to add plugins and allow Firefox like extensions.
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Stumble it!
Just downloaded Chrome, and it looks awesome. Not as smooth as Firefox, but it can be expected as its only in its beta stage. With the release of the Google internet browser I wouldn’t be surprised if Google released their own operating system within twenty years, and become as big as Microsoft.