My favorite userscripts
Sunday, 15. October 2006, 23:09:56
These are the userscripts I currently have running in my 'normal' browser installation:
Inactive scripts, used to be active in my Opera installation:
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Autosizer activates when you use Opera to view an image file, and adds five different viewing modes for images: original, shrink to fit, maximize, fit to width, fit to height. Prime candidate to turn into a built-in feature, if you ask me.
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Google Suggest will add the autocomplete feature from Google Suggest to regular Google search pages. Sometimes helpful, sometimes interferes with entering text.
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Google Thumbnails adds web site thumbnail images to google search results. A bit of harmless fluff (unless you're on dialup), but the thumbs are not always relevant because they depict only the server homepage. This is offered as a Greasemonkey script for Firefox, but it works out-of-the box in Opera as well.
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Linkify text files improves display of text files by making URLs in text documents clickable. Also adds line numbers when you want. To make lines wrap, press Ctrl+F11 (Fit-to-width).
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MyOpera Community Forum Enhancements is a suite of toys that improve various tasks at the MyOpera forums, such as showing attachments inline and adding page numbers.
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Operapedia shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results. Adds links in the article which will trigger new Google searches. This script needs updates frequently, when either Google or Wikipedia make a little change to their site.
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PageRank userscript gives proper formatting for Andrew's PageRank popup button.
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XML tree displays the XML tree for XML documents without style, making it a useful tool for analysing XML files. Also something we could use built-in IMHO.
Inactive scripts, used to be active in my Opera installation:
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Operafy Asa's blog mangles Asa's blog in a funny way, but makes it harder to read.
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No Click to Activate works around the new 'Click to activate' plugin handling. It caused problems reading PDFs for me.
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Link Alert displays icons beside links to specific file types or actions. Nifty. But I rarely need the info, while the icons always show.
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Enhance blockquotes adds clickable links when a blockquote uses the cite attribute, and the blockquote doesn't already contain a clickable link to the cited work. Alas, I don't see many properly marked-up blockquotes on the web. The script recently seemed to mess up an important website, and I saw no reason to keep it.
WIDGETIZE
saito # 16. October 2006, 05:52
Though it's still in an early beta stage and crash my Opera at Gmail, it has great possibilities, I'm sure.
Kildor # 16. October 2006, 12:24
It very usefull with "Cached images" option, and it should be built-in ;-)
http://kildor.gorodok.net/Opera/userJS/CtrlClick.js
scipio # 16. October 2006, 18:32
Originally posted by Rijk:
I like to think one day the script will be finished and Google/Wikipedia will stop editing their code to frustrate us... a bit naive, maybe.
Rijk # 16. October 2006, 20:22
MisterE # 22. November 2006, 20:42