Greasemonkey Hacks

Chapter 1. Getting Started

Hacks 1–12: Introduction

The first thing you need to do to get started with Greasemonkey is install it. Open Firefox and go to http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org. Click the Install Greasemonkey link. Firefox will warn you that it prevented this site from installing software, as shown in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1. Firefox, requiring you to whitelist sites to install extensions

Click the Edit Options button to bring up the Allowed Sites dialog, as shown in Figure 1-2.

Figure 1-2. Allowed Sites dialog

Click the Allow button to add the Greasemonkey site to your list of allowed sites; then click OK to dismiss the dialog. Now, click the Install Greasemonkey link again, and Firefox will pop up the Software Installation dialog, as shown in Figure 1-3.

Figure 1-3. Software Installation dialog

Click Install Now to begin the installation process. After it downloads, quit Firefox and relaunch it to finish installing Greasemonkey.

Now that that's out of the way, let's get right to it.