Greasemonkey scripts

Greasemonkey is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser, with which people can add functionality to websites by means of small scripts. For a comprehensive list of Greasemonkey scripts available, visit userscripts.org. For a good tutorial on how to create your own Greasemonkey scripts, check out Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into Greasemonkey

On this page, I will list some of the Greasemonkey scripts that I have created.

Installation instructions

First install the Greasemonkey in your browser, and after restarting follow the link to the Greasemonkey scripts that you want to add. Then, an information bar will pop up with an install button. Click on it and you’ve added the user script to Greasemonkey. You can go to the ‘Tools / Manage User Scripts…’ menu to change which sites the script applies to, and to uninstall it.

The scripts

• Image links inline viewer

  This script makes it possible to hover over links to images to view them inside the same page, so that opening the link is no longer necessary.

  Linked images can be recognised by their links having a red dotted outline.

• phpBB image resizer

  When images are posted in a phpBB forum thread which exceed the page width, the layout can get pretty messed up. This script sets a maximum width on the images. The images are shown in their original size when you click on them.

  Notes that to improve performance, I recommend to remove the default '*' site inclusion match using the User Scripts Manager, and to instead explicitly add the forums you want to apply this behaviour to. Additionally, the default maximum width of images is optimised for a resolution of 1024x768 in combination with the default subSilver PHP theme.