Greasemonkey scripts for everyone!

[Cristatus]

I found some Greasemonkey scripts, and I thought I should share them with you.

• Categories above buddies: This script places the category list above the buddy list, because some people thought that the new layout was an insult to the old layout, and thought the forums were more important than their friends. -hg403
• Give visited links another color: This script gives the visited links a different color to the unvisited links. -hg403
• Shrink left navigation pane and icons: Some people thought that there was too much wasted space on the left, as well as the icons and headers. That's where this script comes in. It decreases all of those spaces. -hg403
• Fusetalk Hide Avatars: For those of you that don't like the avatars will find this script useful. -evadman
• Fusetalk Hide Smilies: For those of you that don't like the smilies, there's this script to hide them. -evadman
• Anandtech Anchor Script: This script adds a little link to the post so that when you link to a thread, you can refer to the exact post. -evadman
• Eliminate the truncation: For those of you that don't like the long forum names on the left being truncated. -mb
• Prettier Kill Truncation: Essentially the same as the above, but it shows the forum names on the same line. -mb
• My forums link goes to your latest posts: When you click My forums, it shows the favorite posts, and not you last posts, as it was before. This script attempts fixes that. -mb
• Replace the default theme with grey: Replaces the default theme with the older theme's grey looks. -hg403
• Reduce the wasted space in thread/post windows: As the link says, this script reduces the amount of wasted space in the thread window, and the post window -hg403
• Alternate forum row colors in thread list: Alternates the colors in the thread list so that it is easier on the eyes. -hg403

Again, I don't take any credit for these scripts. I've merely found them on userscripts.org .

For anyone that doesn't like Firefox, there is Trixie which seems to be similar to Greasemonkey and works by using the exact same scripts. I have no idea how well they work though, and how reliable Trixie itself is. If anyone can let me know how it goes, it would be appreciated. TIA

updated: With two more scripts, and changed the formatting of the list to show who the authors were.
~*If there are any updates, you can PM me, just in case I don't see this forum, and if any of the scripts have a revision made, let me know as well.*~
updated: Added three more scripts, and edited that the "My forums link goes to your latest posts" now doesn't kill the reply button. If yours does, then download the script again.
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[olds]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: , way up.

 

[olds]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...enterthread=y#26600509

 

[hg403]

Yea I was going to make a post for those later but got sidetracked. Hopefully they work for everyone, it was my first time messing with greasemonkey and css so they can probably be improved on.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

Anandtech Anchor Script - that is most excellent. :thumbsup:

 

[Cristatus]

Hmmm....how the heck do you get the bullets to work on this forum? It doesn't seem to work properly.

Apart from that I have a Greasemonkey request, specific to AT.

I want to get the percentage of people that have replied to the topic, compared to the amount of the people that have read it, in a separate column, maybe next to the views column. Is that possible by Greasemonkey?

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: Cristatus
Hmmm....how the heck do you get the bullets to work on this forum? It doesn't seem to work properly.

You must use the beginning and ending bullet tags, with single list tags in front of each bullet point within those bullet tags.

 

[trmiv]

I can't get these things to install. I've never used Greasemonkey so I installed that. Then I click on the install button and the yellow info bar pops up saying that I need to click the install button since it's a greasemonkey script. I do that, but nothing happens.

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: trmiv
I can't get these things to install. I've never used Greasemonkey so I installed that. Then I click on the install button and the yellow info bar pops up saying that I need to click the install button since it's a greasemonkey script. I do that, but nothing happens.

When you're on the page with the source code: go to Tools > Greasemonkey, and then click the install button.

Some of then don't work with the install button for some reason.

Originally posted by: blurredvision

Originally posted by: Cristatus
Hmmm....how the heck do you get the bullets to work on this forum? It doesn't seem to work properly.

You must use the beginning and ending bullet tags, with single list tags in front of each bullet point within those bullet tags.

Thanks

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[trmiv]

Originally posted by: Cristatus


When you're on the page with the source code: go to Tools > Greasemonkey, and then click the install button.

Some of then don't work with the install button for some reason.

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There is no install option on the Tools>Greasemonkey menu

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: trmiv
There is no install option on the Tools>Greasemonkey menu

I had a few problems installing. I had to shut down every Firefox window, (i.e. a complete restart) then the Install button on each of the pages worked.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Cristatus

• Categories above buddies: This script places the category list above the buddy list, because some people thought that the new layout was an insult to the old layout, and thought the forums were more important than their friends.
• Give visited links another color: This script gives the visited links a different color to the unvisited links.
• Shrink left navigation pane and icons: Some people thought that there was too much wasted space on the left, as well as the icons and headers. That's where this script comes in. It decreases all of those spaces.

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  :thumbsup:
  
  These 3 scripts make the new forums a lot easier to use. I hope someone can write a shrink script for the icons and wasted space in the threads/posts section of the page.
  
  All of these issues should still be dealt with properly by FuseTalk though.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: trmiv
There is no install option on the Tools>Greasemonkey menu

I had a few problems installing. I had to shut down every Firefox window, (i.e. a complete restart) then the Install button on each of the pages worked.

I still can't get it to work. Maybe greasemonkey doesn't work right in Linux.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: trmiv
I still can't get it to work. Maybe greasemonkey doesn't work right in Linux.

You can also drag and drop the files into Firefox, that worked for me. I'm using v2.0.0.4 on XP32.

 

[Evadman]

Sweet job hg403, nice. I was working on trying to figure those out but my JS is lacking. I am going to update my code to use some of your ideas because it is less processor intensive on the xpath expression. You are also one heck of a lurker, with less than 20 posts. I can't PM you because you don't have them enabled. But damn nice job you did

Originally posted by: Cristatus
I want to get the percentage of people that have replied to the topic, compared to the amount of the people that have read it, in a separate column, maybe next to the views column. Is that possible by Greasemonkey?

sure, you just add a column programmaticly. I was going to do the exact opposite to remove the star ratings.

 

[Zorba]

Anyone care to make one that will get rid of the user ratings?

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: trmiv
There is no install option on the Tools>Greasemonkey menu

I had a few problems installing. I had to shut down every Firefox window, (i.e. a complete restart) then the Install button on each of the pages worked.

I still can't get it to work. Maybe greasemonkey doesn't work right in Linux.

Manually go to Tools->Greasemonkey->Install User Scripts.

I can't get the little "Install" tab to work correctly.

 

[trmiv]

Originally posted by: chuckywang

Originally posted by: trmiv

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: trmiv
There is no install option on the Tools>Greasemonkey menu

I had a few problems installing. I had to shut down every Firefox window, (i.e. a complete restart) then the Install button on each of the pages worked.

I still can't get it to work. Maybe greasemonkey doesn't work right in Linux.

Manually go to Tools->Greasemonkey->Install User Scripts.

I can't get the little "Install" tab to work correctly.

The thing is, that Install User Scripts thing wasn't there. The only way I finally got it to appear was to close Firefox, open it, click the install thing on the page, then click the install on the info bar that pops up, and THEN Tools->Greasemonkey->Install User Scripts appeared.

Also, a script that gets rid of the stupid thread ratings would be great if anyone cares to make one!

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: Zorba
Anyone care to make one that will get rid of the user ratings?

I used AdBlock to get rid of them, it'll do for now.

 

[Shawn]

this is great. Thanks so much!

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: Cristatus
I want to get the percentage of people that have replied to the topic, compared to the amount of the people that have read it, in a separate column, maybe next to the views column. Is that possible by Greasemonkey?

sure, you just add a column programmaticly. I was going to do the exact opposite to remove the star ratings.

Well...I have no skills whatsoever, so I need someone else to make it for me. It's just something that I'm interested in, to see the popularity of the thread.

Anyways, anyone is open to code this, if they have any free time. And I'm in no rush, whatsoever.

 

[mb]

Awesome work

 

[pontifex]

so you have to use firefox AND install this greasemonkey thing to get this stuff to work? :thumbsdown:

 

[mb]

Originally posted by: pontifex
so you have to use firefox AND install this greasemonkey thing to get this stuff to work? :thumbsdown:

Is there a problem with that?

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: pontifex
so you have to use firefox AND install this greasemonkey thing to get this stuff to work? :thumbsdown:

Not unless you already have Firefox installed, which in the opinion of many others, is a far superior browser than IE. Don't know about Opera though.

And I'm sure that most people that have entered this thread already have Greasemonkey, and if not, I'm sure they'll install it, because it's a wicked nice program.

I just found something for IE, called Trixie. It seems that with their script, you can use any Greasemonkey script for Internet Explorer. I assume it's for IE7, because it lets you use plug-ins, or whatever Microsoft calls Add-ons. :frown:

I suggest reading the whole page before installing anything, because there are some differences

Of course, if you can't be bothered to do any of this, you can live with the forums as they are, and suffer. But from what it seems, both Greasemonkey and Trixie let you view webpages like you want to, and that's very useful because different people like different things.

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