Petrovic Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Tampermonkey for Firefox released The author of Tampermonkey, a popular script loader for Chromium-based web browsers, has released a beta port of the add-on for the Firefox web browser. The browser extension is only compatible with Firefox 46 and newer at the time of writing (the current stable version of Firefox is version 44.0.1). If things go as planned, Firefox 46 will be released to the stable channel on April 19, 2016. Tampermonkey is a userscript manager which makes the handling of userscripts easier after it has been installed. Just like Greasemonkey, it will pick up installation requests on sites like Greasyfork that act as repositories for scripts. Tampermonkey for Firefox Tampermonkey displays a dialog when you click on an install link highlighting information about the script that you are about to install (taken from the script itself), a warning message about malicious scripts and their potential impact, the includes (the sites it will work on), and the source code of the script. It is a good idea to review these before you hit the install button on the page to make sure the script is not malicious. The script is added to the Firefox browser if you hit install. You manage all installed scripts using Tampermonkey. The extension lists each scripts in its interface and highlights information suich as the supported sites, version, features and links as well. You may use the manager to remove scripts but also to leave comments or visit the script homepage on the Internet (if the information is provided). Another option that you have is to edit a script directly using Tampermonkey. This can be useful if you want to change the supported sites, or change the code of a script directly. New scripts can be added manually to Tampermonkey as well, for instance by copying and pasting script content into the editor, or writing a script from scratch. The toolbar button the extension adds on installation lists several important information including the scripts that run on the active page. The interface opens with a serious delay currently but things like these are to be expected from a beta release, especially one that is released for a new add-on environment. A comparison of the Chrome version of Tampermonkey with the newly released Firefox version shows that both share the same feature set with only minor differences. The Chrome version offers better performance currently though, but that is likely going to change in the future. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asf Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Why use tempermonkey when you have greasmonkey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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steven36 Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 7 hours ago, asf said: Why use tempermonkey when you have greasmonkey? Because once they drop support for XPCOM/XUL APIs if you use user scripts most likely greasemonkey will stop working. This is the future of Firefox ported WebExtensions from Google chrome store. Tampermonkey for Firefox will go final when Firefox 46 goes Final . https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions I guess ill use Firefox 45 ESR for a year and then just Palemoon baby lol. I already have Slimjet that uses WebExtensions from Google chrome store no need for Firefox once it stops supporting XPCOM/XUL Add-ons. . Tampermonkey is a good Extension though i have it in Slimjet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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