Posts with keyword: greasemonkey

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The Value of Browser Add Ons

Tue Apr 26 16:04:00 2011

Today a question about the size of the browser add-on market came up and more specifically, what kinds of things people used browser addons for. I spent a little time at AMO to try and find some answers--at least for Firefox. First the AMO statistics site shows that there are almost 200 million addons in use and that number continues to show healthy growth for the last few months. AMO lists over 5000 add ons. The most popular is Adblock Plus with almost a million weekly downloads. I classified the top 100 addons on AMO according to the following
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Greasemonkey and Microformats

Mon Oct 10 11:48:00 2005

Mark Pilgrim's been busy creating GreaseMonkey scripts that read and understand microformats. His goal is an uberscript that can be used to pull microformat structure from Web pages. Mark says: [I]magine searching such a database. And subscribing to your search results as a syndicated feed. It's coming. Within weeks, not years. All the data is out there; people are publishing this stuff anyway. If they publish it just 1% better (with appropriate microformatting), I can get 1000% more out of it. Or do you just use your browser to browse? That's so 20th century. From [microformats-discuss] Re: Educationg OthersReferenced
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