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Roll Your Own Firefox Scripts with the Chickenfoot Add-On

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 7, 2008

“Any task you perform on the Web can be automated by writing a
script. But you don’t have to know how to use Javascript or some
other scripting language to create your own custom scripts. The
Chickenfoot add-on for Firefox makes it easy for nonprogrammers to
devise scripts that do their bidding.

“Chickenfoot was developed by MIT’s User Interface Design Group.
It’s similar to the Greasemonkey scripting extension for Firefox,
but its scripts tend to be simpler and easier for nonprogrammers to
customize…”

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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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