Useful Userscripts

Why would you watch TV in Black and White when you can experience it in colour and high definition? Then why are you experiencing the web as is?

Userscripts.org has thousands of scripts, lightweight Web Browser applications, created by a community of thousands of developers, that enrich your experience of web sites you already use. Firefox users need to install the Greasemonkey plugin to use userscripts.

Here are some of the best userscripts I’ve used.

YouTube Enhancer

This script adds a ton of awesome features to enhance your YouTube. Here is a summary:

Under the player you can select the quality you want to view. Resizing of the video to collapse, wide or 4:3. A Media Controller, i.e. Stop button, Step forward or backward, Loop and a Kill button which stops the video and the streaming completely. Download links for the video. Keyboard shortcuts

Download YouTube Enhancer for Greasemonkey

Facebook Fixer

I previously mentioned a neat Facebook userscript called Facebook Purity that removes all the crap that people share on their wall. Now this plugin adds a load more features:

Big Profile Pictures and Photos, Big Album Pictures, Video Download Links, Load Full Albums, Homepage Customization recently improved, Bookmarks recently added, Localization recently improved, Translation, Age and Sign, Calendar Integration, Keyboard Shortcuts, Re-Title recently improved, Error Page Reloading. This plugin also has the option to hide certain wall posts like the Purity script did.

Download Facebook Fixer for Greasemonkey

Better Gmail 2

Better Gmail 2 started out as a Greasemonkey userscript but has now been developed into a Firefox extension. With this extension you can add useful extra features to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, an unread message icon on your browser tab, file attachment icons, and more:

Add Row Highlights, Attachment Icons, Bottom Post in Reply (Plain Text only), Folders4Gmail, Hide Chat, Hide Invites Box, Hide Labels in Message Row, Hide Spam Count, Inbox Count First, Show Message Details, Show Unread Message Count on Favicon (Bogs), Show Unread Message Count on Favicon

Download Better Gmail 2 for Firefox

One Manga Full Chapter Loader

If you are a fan of manga like me you will appreciate this one. This script will load all the images in any manga chapter for you and makes reading mangas from One Manga easier and faster.

Bookmarks, Page Browsing, Collapsible Navigator, Chapter Browsing, Advanced Manga List Filtering, Manga Description Lookup, Query Status Tracking, Zooming Functionality, Browser Support, Simple One Manga BETA Support

Download One Manga Full Chapter Loader for Greasemonkey

Google Book Downloader

This one is pretty much self-explanatory. Let’s you download books from Google Books.

Download Google Book Downloader for Greasemonkey