Slashdot Userscript

The funny quote in the footer of slashdot has always held my attention...here's a userscript to make it the title of the window

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Slashdot title quote
// @include       http://www.slashdot.org
// @include       http://www.slashdot.org/*
// @include       http://*.slashdot.org
// @include       http://slashdot.org/*
// @author        fc
// @namespace     http://fc-unleashed.blogspot.com
// @description   the footer quote in the title
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
   if ( document.getElementById ) {
       var footer = document.getElementById('footer');
       if ( footer && footer.getElementsByTagName ) {
           var small = footer.getElementsByTagName('small');
           if ( small && small[0] ) {
               document.title = small[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
           }
       }
   }
})();

Greasemonkey

I recently discovered Greasemonkey which is a really cool idea. Imagine you have the power to pick and choose the content that a website is throwing at you. If you have used the Web Developer you will know a little of what I'm talking about. What basically "Web Developer" allows you to do is control the various aspects of the page that is currently being displayed. For example you can turn off all the images, view response headers and a lot of cool stuff. But, "Web Developer" is limited that you have to manually go use its toolbar.(Like for example every time I have to login into Yahoo Mail I'll go to the "Web Developer" toolbar "Forms->Enable Auto Completion" so that I don't have to type in my email id because Yahoo disables autocompletion on the sign-in form) Now with a "Greasemonkey" user-script which will automatically run whenever I go to Yahoo Mail I'm saved the arduos task of typing in my emailid :). I got so excited that I wrote a few in myself :). Here they are...

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Yahoo Autocomplete
// @include       http://mail.yahoo.com/*
// @include   http://mail.yahoo.com
// @exclude       
// @author        fc
// @namespace     http://fc-unleashed.blogspot.com/
// @description   Enable autocomplete in Yahoo's login page
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
 var login = document.login_form;
 login.setAttribute("autocomplete", "on");
})()

All you've got to do is put this into a file called YahooMail.user.js. You need the .user.js for Greaskmonkey to know that its our special user-script. Then write up a simple HTML page with a hyperlink to YahooMail.user.js (like <a href="YahooMail.user.js">Yahoo Mail</a>). Now, all you have to do is open up this HTML file in Firefox and right-click on the link (if you have installed Greasemonkey) the first item is "Install User Script...", select that and you are done. Now visit Yahoo Mail so that you'll never again have to type out your yahoo id :). Here's another that tries to disable all the targets and javascript popups :)

// ==UserScript==
// @name          Disable targets and javascript popups
// @include       *
// @exclude       
// @author        fc
// @namespace     http://fc-unleashed.blogspot.com/
// @description   General disable targets and javascript popups
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
 if ( document.getElementsByTagName ) {
  var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
  for ( i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++ ) {
   var targetVal = anchors[i].getAttribute("target");
   var hrefVal = anchors[i].getAttribute("href");
   if ( targetVal )  {
    if ( targetVal.match(/^_[bB][lL][aA][nN][kK]$/) || targetVal.match(/^_[nN][eE][wW]$/) ) {
     out = anchors[i].removeAttribute("target");
    }
   }
   if ( hrefVal ) {
    var myRegex = new RegExp("^javascript:[^(]+\\(['\"]([hH][tT][tT][pP]://[^'\"]+)['\"]\\).*");
    if ( hrefVal.match(myRegex) ) {
     var newVal = hrefVal.replace(myRegex, "$1");
     anchors[i].setAttribute("href", newVal);
    }
   }
  } // endfor i
 }
})()