Now Google Chrome 4 Supports Greasemonkey Scripts

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Slowly,but steadily the best features in Firefox are arriving to Google chrome,  just few days back Chrome 4 was released with support for extensions, where users can browse and install over 1,500 + extensions that are available at official Chrome extensions gallery.

Now Google revealed another prominent feature “Greasemonkey userscript support”  in Chrome 4 browser, that they forgot to mention in Chrome 4 release announcement. Unlike Firefox , without installing  GreaseMonkey addon, user can  get access through  40,000 Greasemonkey Scripts  that are available at userscripts.org.

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How to Install Greasemonkey Scripts ?
Actually Userscripts are instantly converted into extensions, so installing a script is very easy,all you need to do is select the scripts at at userscripts.org and click “Install” button.

How to Un-install Greasemonkey Scripts ?


As the scripts are converted in to extensions, just type chrome://extensions/ in the address bar and click “uninstall” button on the script that you want to uninstall.

According to Aaron Boodman ,15% to 25% of existing scripts available may not yet work with Chrome, but Google is working hard to bring their implementation of user scripts closer to Greasemonkey to try and reduce that number.