[ann] Platypus extension for Firefox

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I started using the Greasemonkey exension for Firefox a while back, and
it's really been a help. It lets you install user scripts (js) to
apply to various pages. The scripts can rearrange, restyle, or hide
parts of pages, among other things.

Greasemonkey user.js scripts are available for many, many pages, but
not for a few of the pages I regularly visit. There couple of pages I
have very much wanted to clean up, but I wasn't up to producing scripts
for them.

Now there is the Platypus extension, which lets you edit pages in a
WYSIWYG-ish way. The changes you make are "transcribed" to a user.js
file which can be saved then added to Greasemonkey.

The process is far from perfected. It takes some trial and error to
get pages how I want them, and sometimes the scripts that Platypus
produces just don't work. (If the page's code is a mess, Platypus has
to make some guesses about what's going on.) Also, Platypus currently
has no "undo" function, so once you make a mistake you have to reload
the page and start anew. But IMO it's another big step toward "taking
back the web".

Greasemonkey: <http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/>

Scripts for Greasemonkey:
<http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts>

Platypus: <http://platypus.mozdev.org/>
 
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Greasemonkey: <http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/>
Scripts for Greasemonkey:
<http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts>
Platypus: <http://platypus.mozdev.org/>
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Thank you for sharing this »Q«.
I haven't found out how to make Platypus work : I see an entry in
the page context menu and in the "tool" entry of firefox's menu but
I cannot figure out how this leads to a .js snipplet that could be
injected to GreaseMonkey. (GreaseMonkey is well installed and seems
to work properly with a few scripts).
 
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