CNET News: Greasemonkey on Fire | Linux Today

CNET News: Greasemonkey on Fire

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 10, 2006

“Mark Pilgrim, author of ‘Greasemonkey Hacks: Tips & Tools
for Remixing the Web with Firefox,’ gave a talk Tuesday afternoon
at O’Reilly’s ETech Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego to
show off the promise (and peril) of the Firefox Web browser add-on,
which is nearly at its one-year anniversary.

“Greasemonkey is not a car mechanic, but a tool for manipulating
and customizing the design of remote Web pages (without the
knowledge of publishers) when sites are viewed through the popular
open-source browser, Firefox…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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