Chrome 4 Now Natively Supports Greasemonkey
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in News, Tips
Now that Chrome 4 has been promoted to a stable release, the folks at Google have decided to remind us of the fact that it now natively supports Greasemonkey scripts. Although these are scripts and not full-blown extensions, this allows Chrome to have an even wider variety of features that are able to run in the browser. This was mostly overlooked last week after the stable release was announced because of the promotion of extensions that are now available for all versions of Chrome, which is for Windows, Mac and Linux.
So what is Greasemonkey? It was developed as a Firefox add-in in 2004 and is a utility for using scripts users have created to enhance their browsing experience. Written in Javascript, Chrome’s speedy V8 engine is perfect for this feature because it runs the platform so fast.
Most of the Greasemonkey scripts are small features for websites that can enhance the web experience for a user. For example, many of the scripts that I found on the main site for these, userscripts.org, were for removing ads from sites like Facebook or Windows Live Hotmail. There were also scripts for filling in forms or performing mass actions such as adds or deletes on social networking sites.
We’re going to have to check out some of these scripts before we are able to recommend any of them. If anyone out there has found a useful Greasemonkey script that Chrome users should know about, by all means please let us know by adding a comment. Also, if you have written a Greasemonkey script that may be useful, please drop us a line.
